Wow, sorry for the extended absence again. Life (and work) got in the way bigtime in September and early October, and I'm just now getting back and catching up. I had about a dozen posts in draft waiting to be published but I just wasn't able to get back here until today.
The only "big" news of late - and this is old now and most of you probably knew about it anyway - is that my favorite GPT site and one of the community's most trusted and successful, BankRollBucks, shut its doors on September 30th. There was several weeks' advance warning and many of the other GPT/PTC/PTR bloggers posted about it too, so hopefully if you were a member you knew about it - if not, sorry I didn't get around to posting before the end of September!
I'm zipping around to my stable of sites today to see what's what, and going to check out the buzz on what all's happened since I was able to be active, so once I get re-settled we'll get back to normal here again. Like I said, I have a dozen or so posts on draft but I want to make sure all of those sites are still open (LOL!) before posting them, so going around to see about all that now.
Hope you all have been doing well and I'll be back in the next day or two (or earlier) with whatever scoop I find and maybe a new site or two!
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
GPTCashCow Pays Daily Now - Big Changes at Cupid Cash - $5 Cashout at R U Ready 4 Money
A few updates on cool new stuff going on around and about...
As of September 1st, GPTCashCow now pays DAILY. There is still a $3 minimum cashout and there is no longer any signup bonus, but this is really cool.
R U Ready 4 Money now has a $5 minimum cashout and pays weekly (which I think I announced before but since I'm catching up on some of this stuff trying to houseclean the site a bit, just wanted to reiterate that).
OK, there have been a LOT of new changes at Cupid Cash (whew), let me see if I have them all straight (and then I'll have to go revise both posts on both sites and hopefully not miss anything).
First of all, Cupid Cash has now lowered the first cashout for those who sign up after September 1st to $5. All other members continue at $10 cashout except Gold Members at Cupid, who have no minimum. The $5 cashout for new members must be from PTSU/PTC/referral earnings, paid mail and games do not apply.
The signup bonus is now $1 and 1 point (instead of $2 and 2 points), plus one gets $0.50 for first PTS offer completed, $0.50 for first post in the forum, and there will be random login and activity bonuses throughout every month.
Changes to the referral system - instead of receiving $0.25 and a 25 point bonus per referral, you receive $0.50 when your referral completes their first offer, $0.50 when they make their first forum post, and $3 when your referral makes their first cashout. You also now receive a $10 Amazon gift certificate if you refer two members that cashout and/or upgrade in the same month.
There are also now dedication bonuses at Cupid - $1 for three months of active membership, $2 for six months of active membership, and $5 for one year (does not apply to any Cupid member who received a dedication bonus in June 2009). For the forum, also beginning September 1, you will receive $0.50 for hitting 500 posts, $1 for 1,000, $2 for 2,000 and so on.
Whew, I think that's it.
Cupid's a very active site with a lot going on and for those who like to participate in forums and games it's especially good. I never have time for things like that and have never set foot in most site forums, and can barely keep up with industry forums I read daily, so I miss out on most of that type stuff but for those who can spend the time and like forum chat, you will certainly enjoy how active and fun Cupid Cash is.
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As of September 1st, GPTCashCow now pays DAILY. There is still a $3 minimum cashout and there is no longer any signup bonus, but this is really cool.
R U Ready 4 Money now has a $5 minimum cashout and pays weekly (which I think I announced before but since I'm catching up on some of this stuff trying to houseclean the site a bit, just wanted to reiterate that).
OK, there have been a LOT of new changes at Cupid Cash (whew), let me see if I have them all straight (and then I'll have to go revise both posts on both sites and hopefully not miss anything).
First of all, Cupid Cash has now lowered the first cashout for those who sign up after September 1st to $5. All other members continue at $10 cashout except Gold Members at Cupid, who have no minimum. The $5 cashout for new members must be from PTSU/PTC/referral earnings, paid mail and games do not apply.
The signup bonus is now $1 and 1 point (instead of $2 and 2 points), plus one gets $0.50 for first PTS offer completed, $0.50 for first post in the forum, and there will be random login and activity bonuses throughout every month.
Changes to the referral system - instead of receiving $0.25 and a 25 point bonus per referral, you receive $0.50 when your referral completes their first offer, $0.50 when they make their first forum post, and $3 when your referral makes their first cashout. You also now receive a $10 Amazon gift certificate if you refer two members that cashout and/or upgrade in the same month.
There are also now dedication bonuses at Cupid - $1 for three months of active membership, $2 for six months of active membership, and $5 for one year (does not apply to any Cupid member who received a dedication bonus in June 2009). For the forum, also beginning September 1, you will receive $0.50 for hitting 500 posts, $1 for 1,000, $2 for 2,000 and so on.
Whew, I think that's it.
Cupid's a very active site with a lot going on and for those who like to participate in forums and games it's especially good. I never have time for things like that and have never set foot in most site forums, and can barely keep up with industry forums I read daily, so I miss out on most of that type stuff but for those who can spend the time and like forum chat, you will certainly enjoy how active and fun Cupid Cash is.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
And Yet ANOTHER Update!
Wow, my apologies to anyone who was subscribed to my feed via FeedBurner or had been keeping up via MyBlogLog (which was fed by the FeedBurner feed). Apparently you guys haven't read any of my posts in over a week or so, as apparently FeedBurner has been acquired by Google sometime recently and my FeedBurner feed was on hold or something until I Google-fied it. Eek.
I had no idea until I noticed there hadn't been very many MyBlogLog visitors in a while, and then when I went to MyBlogLog and saw that my last noted post was ages ago and then went to check out the feed... ugh.
Anyway, it's fixed now. This probably didn't affect anyone who was using the Blogger widgets to get the feed (which really makes no sense that it wasn't working anyway seeing as how Google owns Blogger too), but everything's A-OK now.
'Til tomorrow, have a good one!
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I had no idea until I noticed there hadn't been very many MyBlogLog visitors in a while, and then when I went to MyBlogLog and saw that my last noted post was ages ago and then went to check out the feed... ugh.
Anyway, it's fixed now. This probably didn't affect anyone who was using the Blogger widgets to get the feed (which really makes no sense that it wasn't working anyway seeing as how Google owns Blogger too), but everything's A-OK now.
'Til tomorrow, have a good one!
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...And Another Update
Most of you probably don't know the difference since I only forward the domain and keep this blog hosted at Blogger on missmoneyhunter.blogspot.com - but for those who were looking for me via the missmoneyhunter.com domain (in which case you found me or you wouldn't be here anyway - LOL), yes, it's currently forwarding to a 404 "page not found" page.
I didn't know it was doing that until someone told me, but wasn't too surprised as I'm in the midst of a bit of a disagreement with my hosting company and will hopefully get that situation sorted before September's over.
In the meantime, if you hadn't bookmarked where are you now, do that. Thanks again to Paul Kinder of Traffic-Splash for the heads up letting me know about it, and can I just tell all you readers (again) that Traffic-Splash ROCKS?!?!?! It sure does. Go surf and rack up some credits and advertise your ClixSense and WordLinx and etc splash pages over there and get some referrals.
Have a nice Thursday, be back tomorrow for sure.
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I didn't know it was doing that until someone told me, but wasn't too surprised as I'm in the midst of a bit of a disagreement with my hosting company and will hopefully get that situation sorted before September's over.
In the meantime, if you hadn't bookmarked where are you now, do that. Thanks again to Paul Kinder of Traffic-Splash for the heads up letting me know about it, and can I just tell all you readers (again) that Traffic-Splash ROCKS?!?!?! It sure does. Go surf and rack up some credits and advertise your ClixSense and WordLinx and etc splash pages over there and get some referrals.
Have a nice Thursday, be back tomorrow for sure.
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Site & Quicklist Updates
I spent the better part of Monday morning and early afternoon cleaning up both sites when I probably should have been doing other things, but in light of all the weekend events in the get paid community, it seemed like now was as good a time as any to whittle the recommendation lists down to things I could be relatively comfortable recommending as a whole.
So both this site and the quicklist have been pared down somewhat. As it turns out, several of the sites that got axed, I had not done a full review of over here yet, but they were on the quicklist and now they're gone - as well as some other sites that just weren't performing well for me anyway. Most of the ones I removed were PTC sites.
Any site that remains in the GPT, PTC, PTR, and Survey Sites listings are ones that have paid me (or one of the owner's other sites has paid me), or I'm well acquainted with the owner and am relatively certain they are paying sites, have paid other people I know, or there's another valid reason I feel they're still worthwhile and will perform okay.
Someone suggested to me not long ago removing all sites from the quicklist that hadn't paid me (or that hadn't had a partner site pay me), but the thing is I'm pretty close to cashout at most of the sites that haven't paid me yet, so that'd just be more work later returning them to the list and they will likely all have paid me at least once before the end of the year.
So all that said, here are the ones that have been removed (besides My Flipper Cash and Cartoon-Clicks, which were removed over the weekend and I posted about on Saturday) and why.
Please do note that just because I have removed a site from the recommendations list, it doesn't mean it's a bad site or there's anything shady going on. For the most part, these are sites I haven't been paid by and just haven't been performing well for me (some I've given a year and a half or more and still not performing well), and/or am not acquainted with the owner, so I have made the decision to remove it/them from the list.
Moonlillys Legend - Member for 1+ years and hasn't performed well. Also had notice a while back site was being sold anyway.
Carousel Clicks - Member for 1+ years and hasn't performed well. There's only been one PTC ad there daily for months at this point.
Cherry Blossoms PTC - Member for 1+ years and hasn't performed well. Note: Owner does have an overall good reputation.
FinancialFreedomAds - One of the few I didn't delete my membership from simply because I hate to give up fully after a year and a half on this one, but frankly most other former members gave up and stopped publicizing it long ago, mainly due to reportedly slow payments and poor communication from the owner, and it was also removed from the Marketing Pond suite of programs some time ago. There have been few, but some, ads for a while now there. I'll keep working it and report if there is any improvement in the future, but I am no longer comfortable recommending this one to others.
EasyAdBucks - Another that has been dropped from the Marketing Pond suite some time ago and has just performed pretty poorly for me. In a year and a half, I'm just now up to $1.30 there and cashout for regular members is $10. This site was also sold in recent months and from the looks of things the new owners have not been very communicative with the membership. There was an announcement on the site from the former owner with many comments from members asking questions and asking the new owners to speak up, but after months no one had (the last I saw anyway).
HoneyAdvertiserPro - Another that had long ago been dropped from the Marketing Pond suite of programs, and a few months ago several of us at GPTBoycott noted there appeared to have been no activity by admin on the site in months. Not surprisingly when I checked today, the site is gone. Moved to Closed Programs section.
Other sites I've removed that weren't performing well and had not yet reviewed over here, though they were on the quicklist:
Owen's Click Place
MyFlipperCashClicks**
Clix.vc
BeachClicks
Stiffy Klix
Baydefeis PTC
AdverCash
**(not to be confused with My Flipper Cash, though it previously was owned by Kelly Gibbs, it was sold to another owner some time ago as was Beach Clicks)
Clix.vc's site keeps disappearing, and AdverCash is another, removed from Global Team Club's suite of programs, that just has performed terribly - I think after a year and a half I had like 40-something cents, and their cashout is an incredible $12.50.
I have also removed PersianPTC from both here and the quicklist, as it is currently on GPTBoycott's watch list (and had performed fairly poorly for me anyway - I was now well over what used to be the $1 cashout minimum, but several months ago they raised cashout to $5).
I also rather inexplicably discovered I had never removed Isabelmarco's Money Maker's entry from the site (I guess I hadn't done it because yeah, they did pay me twice) but that's been rectified now.
I think that's it. The good news is I still have 13 sites to add reviews on that I'm pretty comfortable with, as well as a few additional survey sites that pay, so there will still be something to write about here - as well as managing and reporting payments on the sites that have been on the list a long time!
I also want to add one more thing - I am not an active member of AnythingFree4You because really I just got to the point where I had enough sites to deal with, but I just want to state that Barbara Norris is a good admin and active in the community and any site she runs, including AnythingFree4You, I highly recommend as well. It's just not on my active recommendations list of sites 'cos I have about all the sites I can handle. :)
UPDATE: Well, since I originally wrote (but didn't yet post) this, I have learned that MoneyDreams has apparently closed. It's showing as a "suspended site", which sometimes just means the owner forgot to pay their hosting bill, but I'm told it's been like that for some time now so I've removed it to the Closed Programs list.
I've also removed Revolution Offers from both sites due to not performing well. The site had a pretty rocky re-start after it was sold to the current owner and seemed to be on the upswing, but my balance there hasn't moved in nearly a year and my referrals appear to have all disappeared, so I've removed it from my recommendations for the present.
P.S. Again, I just want to reiterate that just because I've removed a site doesn't mean anything shady is going on or it's a bad site - of the ones that aren't closed, they're just ones that haven't paid me and/or I am not acquainted with the owner, and they just haven't performed very well for me after several months or more. Just to clarify that again so there's no misunderstanding.
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So both this site and the quicklist have been pared down somewhat. As it turns out, several of the sites that got axed, I had not done a full review of over here yet, but they were on the quicklist and now they're gone - as well as some other sites that just weren't performing well for me anyway. Most of the ones I removed were PTC sites.
Any site that remains in the GPT, PTC, PTR, and Survey Sites listings are ones that have paid me (or one of the owner's other sites has paid me), or I'm well acquainted with the owner and am relatively certain they are paying sites, have paid other people I know, or there's another valid reason I feel they're still worthwhile and will perform okay.
Someone suggested to me not long ago removing all sites from the quicklist that hadn't paid me (or that hadn't had a partner site pay me), but the thing is I'm pretty close to cashout at most of the sites that haven't paid me yet, so that'd just be more work later returning them to the list and they will likely all have paid me at least once before the end of the year.
So all that said, here are the ones that have been removed (besides My Flipper Cash and Cartoon-Clicks, which were removed over the weekend and I posted about on Saturday) and why.
Please do note that just because I have removed a site from the recommendations list, it doesn't mean it's a bad site or there's anything shady going on. For the most part, these are sites I haven't been paid by and just haven't been performing well for me (some I've given a year and a half or more and still not performing well), and/or am not acquainted with the owner, so I have made the decision to remove it/them from the list.
Moonlillys Legend - Member for 1+ years and hasn't performed well. Also had notice a while back site was being sold anyway.
Carousel Clicks - Member for 1+ years and hasn't performed well. There's only been one PTC ad there daily for months at this point.
Cherry Blossoms PTC - Member for 1+ years and hasn't performed well. Note: Owner does have an overall good reputation.
FinancialFreedomAds - One of the few I didn't delete my membership from simply because I hate to give up fully after a year and a half on this one, but frankly most other former members gave up and stopped publicizing it long ago, mainly due to reportedly slow payments and poor communication from the owner, and it was also removed from the Marketing Pond suite of programs some time ago. There have been few, but some, ads for a while now there. I'll keep working it and report if there is any improvement in the future, but I am no longer comfortable recommending this one to others.
EasyAdBucks - Another that has been dropped from the Marketing Pond suite some time ago and has just performed pretty poorly for me. In a year and a half, I'm just now up to $1.30 there and cashout for regular members is $10. This site was also sold in recent months and from the looks of things the new owners have not been very communicative with the membership. There was an announcement on the site from the former owner with many comments from members asking questions and asking the new owners to speak up, but after months no one had (the last I saw anyway).
HoneyAdvertiserPro - Another that had long ago been dropped from the Marketing Pond suite of programs, and a few months ago several of us at GPTBoycott noted there appeared to have been no activity by admin on the site in months. Not surprisingly when I checked today, the site is gone. Moved to Closed Programs section.
Other sites I've removed that weren't performing well and had not yet reviewed over here, though they were on the quicklist:
Owen's Click Place
MyFlipperCashClicks**
Clix.vc
BeachClicks
Stiffy Klix
Baydefeis PTC
AdverCash
**(not to be confused with My Flipper Cash, though it previously was owned by Kelly Gibbs, it was sold to another owner some time ago as was Beach Clicks)
Clix.vc's site keeps disappearing, and AdverCash is another, removed from Global Team Club's suite of programs, that just has performed terribly - I think after a year and a half I had like 40-something cents, and their cashout is an incredible $12.50.
I have also removed PersianPTC from both here and the quicklist, as it is currently on GPTBoycott's watch list (and had performed fairly poorly for me anyway - I was now well over what used to be the $1 cashout minimum, but several months ago they raised cashout to $5).
I also rather inexplicably discovered I had never removed Isabelmarco's Money Maker's entry from the site (I guess I hadn't done it because yeah, they did pay me twice) but that's been rectified now.
I think that's it. The good news is I still have 13 sites to add reviews on that I'm pretty comfortable with, as well as a few additional survey sites that pay, so there will still be something to write about here - as well as managing and reporting payments on the sites that have been on the list a long time!
I also want to add one more thing - I am not an active member of AnythingFree4You because really I just got to the point where I had enough sites to deal with, but I just want to state that Barbara Norris is a good admin and active in the community and any site she runs, including AnythingFree4You, I highly recommend as well. It's just not on my active recommendations list of sites 'cos I have about all the sites I can handle. :)
UPDATE: Well, since I originally wrote (but didn't yet post) this, I have learned that MoneyDreams has apparently closed. It's showing as a "suspended site", which sometimes just means the owner forgot to pay their hosting bill, but I'm told it's been like that for some time now so I've removed it to the Closed Programs list.
I've also removed Revolution Offers from both sites due to not performing well. The site had a pretty rocky re-start after it was sold to the current owner and seemed to be on the upswing, but my balance there hasn't moved in nearly a year and my referrals appear to have all disappeared, so I've removed it from my recommendations for the present.
P.S. Again, I just want to reiterate that just because I've removed a site doesn't mean anything shady is going on or it's a bad site - of the ones that aren't closed, they're just ones that haven't paid me and/or I am not acquainted with the owner, and they just haven't performed very well for me after several months or more. Just to clarify that again so there's no misunderstanding.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Got Paid Update #80 - EarnEasyPTR
I love being able to report when a site pays me for the first time. Received my first payment from EarnEasyPTR yesterday for $1.05, about six days after request. EarnEasyPTR is a newer site that opened with much buzz a few months ago, so it's great to be able to say this site does pay!
I knew it would, though, as the site is in the same family as EarnEasyCash and Clickers-Union and the sites have always had a good reputation as paying sites with an honest admin. If you're not already a member, feel free to check out EarnEasyPTR and join!
Click HERE to View Payment Proof
On another note, after my grousing about hoping to make payout at Deals 'n' Cash this month, Phil reminded me that their cashout is $30 (whereas Hits4Pay is only $25), so I guess I'll be waiting 'til next month, but that's okay.
Don't forget that today is the last day of the month, so cash out where you need to (i.e., most general GPT sites). Hope you all had a good month of August!
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I knew it would, though, as the site is in the same family as EarnEasyCash and Clickers-Union and the sites have always had a good reputation as paying sites with an honest admin. If you're not already a member, feel free to check out EarnEasyPTR and join!
Click HERE to View Payment Proof
On another note, after my grousing about hoping to make payout at Deals 'n' Cash this month, Phil reminded me that their cashout is $30 (whereas Hits4Pay is only $25), so I guess I'll be waiting 'til next month, but that's okay.
Don't forget that today is the last day of the month, so cash out where you need to (i.e., most general GPT sites). Hope you all had a good month of August!
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Got Paid Update #79 - YouData
Got last week's payment from YouData on Friday as usual, this time for 13 cents. Every little bit counts! And they do pay like clockwork, every single Friday.
If you missed my initial post on YouData and want to find out what it's all about, you can click here to read it. YouData is available to residents of the US and you must have a cell phone enabled for text messaging to be able to confirm your registration. Sign up today and you too can start getting paid every single Friday!
Click HERE to View Payment Proof
If you missed my initial post on YouData and want to find out what it's all about, you can click here to read it. YouData is available to residents of the US and you must have a cell phone enabled for text messaging to be able to confirm your registration. Sign up today and you too can start getting paid every single Friday!
Click HERE to View Payment Proof
Saturday, August 29, 2009
My Flipper Cash, Cartoon-Clicks, and Others Shut Down
In light of some information about some apparent deceit and dishonesty on the part of admin Kelly Ann Gibbs that started coming out after her announcement that My Flipper Cash was closing - and the fact that in the last 24 hours since all of this started coming to light, Cartoon-Clicks has disappeared - needless to say, I have removed Cartoon-Clicks from the active list of sites both here and on the quicklist.
Which really the above is an understatement, apparently there was a LOT of deceit and dishonesty, not just some. Including the fact that Kelly apparently never sold Cartoon-Clicks to "Ann", and was paying people from some GPTs that "Ann" owned with her a PayPal account with her mother's name on it, presumably so no one would figure out it was Kelly herself (who was closing My Flipper Cash due to her "health issues").
To make a long story short, all this start coming out after Kelly had initially announced she was closing the MFC site, lowering the cashout minimum to $5, and asking everyone to withdraw before the end of the month, stating that the site would officially close the first week of September and that she would pay everyone their due earnings "as soon as possible".
Within about 24 hours, another announcement was sent out to members stating that she could only pay them 10% of their earnings because some affiliates hadn't paid her for recent (keyword being recent, remember that) activities and so she couldn't pay everybody everything they were due.
Which, naturally, a lot of people weren't very happy to hear. Especially people like this member, who has been carrying a balance at MFC for months that she just hasn't cashed out, and was owed close to $250. So therefore most, if not all, of her earnings due have anything to do with "recent" activities that affiliates had not paid Kelly Gibbs for - Kelly'd already been paid for most, likely ALL of this members activities at MFC - yet Kelly was asking this member to settle for 10%, i.e., $24 of about $245, if I'm not mistaken.
Then all the rest has come out in the past 24 hours and it's just ugly, and shameful.
These are the sites that it's been pretty much confirmed at this point that she owned... though mostly not with her real name (in some cases, her mother's), and in one case had the domain registered with another name and an old address from where she previously lived in Florida:
www.myflippercash.com
www.peaceandlovegpt.info
www.cartoon-clicks.com
www.teddybearclix.info
www.myflippergames.com
www.guitarinfozone.net
www.midnighthits.com
www.iwanttraffic.info
If you were a member of any of these, I'm sorry, but you'll probably never see anything you made at any of them.
I've lost close to $10 from two of these sites now, which another sad part about all that is that probably 99% of my earnings at Cartoon-Clicks were under the ownership of the Ann (no connection) who sold the site to Kelly Gibbs - I just never was able to cash out under that Ann's previous $3 cashout minimum because I got to about 55 cents away, but there weren't any offers on the site I could do further to get to cashout. Then Kelly Gibbs bought the site and the cashout was raised to $10, so.
If you want further information, the whole ugly nasty mess is here at GPTBoycott.
This mess has now sent my earnings lost due to scammy owners shutting down and taking the money and running to over $50. Before I could usually say well, I only lost a couple of bucks here or a few bucks there, but now the collective total is over $50. And the circumstances surrounding this particular incident have me really fed up right now and I'm going to be doing some thinking for a while about who I'm going to continue to promote and support.
It happens. And I'm sorry for anyone currently reading that didn't know and is just now finding out they're not going to get paid.
Anyway. There are good sites and decent owners still out there that I will certainly continue to support - BankRollBucks, GPTCashCow, R U Ready 4 Money and YeeHawClickin, Cupid Cash, Rhino Riches, Ozzys, to name a few, and there are many more, but several of the owners from the above sites are active at GPTB and have been affected by this same situation and I am close to 100% certain they're all trustworthy, and there are more. And then there's sites like MatrixMails, ClixSense, AdPaid, WordLinx, CashCrate, and many more that have been around for years and years and are established, good paying sites.
I don't want to scare anyone off of participating in GPT/PTC/PTR, but this does happen, fortunately there is an at least semi-active community that tries to see that wrongdoers are held accountable as best they can. And there are, again, plenty of good sites out there. Matrix, ClixSense, WordLinx, AdPaid, etc., you can count on getting paid, and it's still true of the majority of sites as well, at least 99% probable in most cases. Just don't 100% count on it and set everything 100% by it and you'll be okay. When the money does come it'll be great, this is just yet another reminder to me to not 100% totally count on it anymore.
P.S. (UPDATE): I also want to add that even though Peace and Love GPT was initially sold to Kelly and Lora Sipple (DollarClickOrSignup & ClickOrSignup), Lora basically gave the site to Kelly and has nothing to do with this mess. Just to clear up any confusion there. Lora has a good and proven track record of being an honest and good paying admin and this bunch of shamefulness should not be held against her as she extricated herself from the site some time ago.
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Which really the above is an understatement, apparently there was a LOT of deceit and dishonesty, not just some. Including the fact that Kelly apparently never sold Cartoon-Clicks to "Ann", and was paying people from some GPTs that "Ann" owned with her a PayPal account with her mother's name on it, presumably so no one would figure out it was Kelly herself (who was closing My Flipper Cash due to her "health issues").
To make a long story short, all this start coming out after Kelly had initially announced she was closing the MFC site, lowering the cashout minimum to $5, and asking everyone to withdraw before the end of the month, stating that the site would officially close the first week of September and that she would pay everyone their due earnings "as soon as possible".
Within about 24 hours, another announcement was sent out to members stating that she could only pay them 10% of their earnings because some affiliates hadn't paid her for recent (keyword being recent, remember that) activities and so she couldn't pay everybody everything they were due.
Which, naturally, a lot of people weren't very happy to hear. Especially people like this member, who has been carrying a balance at MFC for months that she just hasn't cashed out, and was owed close to $250. So therefore most, if not all, of her earnings due have anything to do with "recent" activities that affiliates had not paid Kelly Gibbs for - Kelly'd already been paid for most, likely ALL of this members activities at MFC - yet Kelly was asking this member to settle for 10%, i.e., $24 of about $245, if I'm not mistaken.
Then all the rest has come out in the past 24 hours and it's just ugly, and shameful.
These are the sites that it's been pretty much confirmed at this point that she owned... though mostly not with her real name (in some cases, her mother's), and in one case had the domain registered with another name and an old address from where she previously lived in Florida:
www.myflippercash.com
www.peaceandlovegpt.info
www.cartoon-clicks.com
www.teddybearclix.info
www.myflippergames.com
www.guitarinfozone.net
www.midnighthits.com
www.iwanttraffic.info
If you were a member of any of these, I'm sorry, but you'll probably never see anything you made at any of them.
I've lost close to $10 from two of these sites now, which another sad part about all that is that probably 99% of my earnings at Cartoon-Clicks were under the ownership of the Ann (no connection) who sold the site to Kelly Gibbs - I just never was able to cash out under that Ann's previous $3 cashout minimum because I got to about 55 cents away, but there weren't any offers on the site I could do further to get to cashout. Then Kelly Gibbs bought the site and the cashout was raised to $10, so.
If you want further information, the whole ugly nasty mess is here at GPTBoycott.
This mess has now sent my earnings lost due to scammy owners shutting down and taking the money and running to over $50. Before I could usually say well, I only lost a couple of bucks here or a few bucks there, but now the collective total is over $50. And the circumstances surrounding this particular incident have me really fed up right now and I'm going to be doing some thinking for a while about who I'm going to continue to promote and support.
It happens. And I'm sorry for anyone currently reading that didn't know and is just now finding out they're not going to get paid.
Anyway. There are good sites and decent owners still out there that I will certainly continue to support - BankRollBucks, GPTCashCow, R U Ready 4 Money and YeeHawClickin, Cupid Cash, Rhino Riches, Ozzys, to name a few, and there are many more, but several of the owners from the above sites are active at GPTB and have been affected by this same situation and I am close to 100% certain they're all trustworthy, and there are more. And then there's sites like MatrixMails, ClixSense, AdPaid, WordLinx, CashCrate, and many more that have been around for years and years and are established, good paying sites.
I don't want to scare anyone off of participating in GPT/PTC/PTR, but this does happen, fortunately there is an at least semi-active community that tries to see that wrongdoers are held accountable as best they can. And there are, again, plenty of good sites out there. Matrix, ClixSense, WordLinx, AdPaid, etc., you can count on getting paid, and it's still true of the majority of sites as well, at least 99% probable in most cases. Just don't 100% count on it and set everything 100% by it and you'll be okay. When the money does come it'll be great, this is just yet another reminder to me to not 100% totally count on it anymore.
P.S. (UPDATE): I also want to add that even though Peace and Love GPT was initially sold to Kelly and Lora Sipple (DollarClickOrSignup & ClickOrSignup), Lora basically gave the site to Kelly and has nothing to do with this mess. Just to clear up any confusion there. Lora has a good and proven track record of being an honest and good paying admin and this bunch of shamefulness should not be held against her as she extricated herself from the site some time ago.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Site Closings, Changes, & Other Stuff
It's been a crazy week again here at the end of the month so a few quick things...
Mail has been coming in steadily all week from Deals 'n' Cash and now I'm only 12 cents away from cashout... SURELY I'll have 12 cents worth of mail between now and Monday (knock on wood). LOL.
My Flipper Cash will be closing as of September 4th due to the owner's ongoing health problems and affiliate offers have been removed. Cashout has been lowered to $5 in light of the closing.
Make That Dollar is closing as of September 30th (thanks Danielle for the heads up on that one, I must have missed that in the mess in my mailbox). If you have silver dollars (points) there, they can be redeemed at $0.05 per one silver dollar until September 15th. (I have been a member of the site for a long time but never had a lot of luck there so it wasn't on the listed sites, not for a while anyway. I had it on the site listings at one time but I removed it about a year ago when removing sites that weren't performing well for me.)
Hundred Acre Clicks recently added AlertPay as a payment option. I note I already had that listed in my HAC site listings, so I'm not sure what's up with that, but anyway, it's available now.
DollarClickOrSignup and ClickOrSignup are going from weekly to bimonthly payments. The new payment terms are going to be a little confusing for folks who are used to 15th and/or end of month but hopefully people won't get too confused by the unconventional payment terms - I myself had an unexpected delay a while back when I discovered that rather than "end of month" cashout like most sites, one site required cashout by the 30th even in months that had 31 days.
Anyway, at DCOS and COS, payments will be on the 10th and 25th of every month. Members will need to cash out by midnight EST on the 5th to be paid on the 10th, and the 20th to be paid on the 25th.
Cupid Cash is making some changes but most of them won't be posted until after September starts so I'll report then, though one of them is that anyone who signs up after September 1st can cash out at $5 for their first cashout (instead of waiting for the regular $10 cashout).
Annnnnd I think that's about it. This week is super busy for me so I'm not sure how much I'll be posting before Tuesday, but I still have a bunch of sites to add (mostly PTC) and hopefully we'll get back to that after the new month begins. My main problem lately is so many sites being closed, sold, terms changed, etc., it's all I can do to keep up! See you guys soon.
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Mail has been coming in steadily all week from Deals 'n' Cash and now I'm only 12 cents away from cashout... SURELY I'll have 12 cents worth of mail between now and Monday (knock on wood). LOL.
My Flipper Cash will be closing as of September 4th due to the owner's ongoing health problems and affiliate offers have been removed. Cashout has been lowered to $5 in light of the closing.
Make That Dollar is closing as of September 30th (thanks Danielle for the heads up on that one, I must have missed that in the mess in my mailbox). If you have silver dollars (points) there, they can be redeemed at $0.05 per one silver dollar until September 15th. (I have been a member of the site for a long time but never had a lot of luck there so it wasn't on the listed sites, not for a while anyway. I had it on the site listings at one time but I removed it about a year ago when removing sites that weren't performing well for me.)
Hundred Acre Clicks recently added AlertPay as a payment option. I note I already had that listed in my HAC site listings, so I'm not sure what's up with that, but anyway, it's available now.
DollarClickOrSignup and ClickOrSignup are going from weekly to bimonthly payments. The new payment terms are going to be a little confusing for folks who are used to 15th and/or end of month but hopefully people won't get too confused by the unconventional payment terms - I myself had an unexpected delay a while back when I discovered that rather than "end of month" cashout like most sites, one site required cashout by the 30th even in months that had 31 days.
Anyway, at DCOS and COS, payments will be on the 10th and 25th of every month. Members will need to cash out by midnight EST on the 5th to be paid on the 10th, and the 20th to be paid on the 25th.
Cupid Cash is making some changes but most of them won't be posted until after September starts so I'll report then, though one of them is that anyone who signs up after September 1st can cash out at $5 for their first cashout (instead of waiting for the regular $10 cashout).
Annnnnd I think that's about it. This week is super busy for me so I'm not sure how much I'll be posting before Tuesday, but I still have a bunch of sites to add (mostly PTC) and hopefully we'll get back to that after the new month begins. My main problem lately is so many sites being closed, sold, terms changed, etc., it's all I can do to keep up! See you guys soon.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Deals 'n' Cash - Only 69 Cents Away
Argh... here's one of those times when activities within the "get paid to" industry make you just kinda wanna pull your hair out.
The end of the month is a week away... and I'm only 69 cents away from making my first cashout at Deals 'n' Cash. Well, here's hoping there will be a LOT of mails this week
I got paid by their partner site, Hits4Pay, some time ago, and was beginning to think I'd never make the $25 cashout minimum at Deals 'n' Cash, but they have really stepped up their available ads to view in recent months and my balance increased a good bit in a short couple months' time.
If you're not a member already, these are paying sites and the paid mails are pretty steady - it may take a while, but you WILL get paid eventually (quicker if you promote a lot). Check out Deals 'n' Cash and Hits4Pay today!
The end of the month is a week away... and I'm only 69 cents away from making my first cashout at Deals 'n' Cash. Well, here's hoping there will be a LOT of mails this week
I got paid by their partner site, Hits4Pay, some time ago, and was beginning to think I'd never make the $25 cashout minimum at Deals 'n' Cash, but they have really stepped up their available ads to view in recent months and my balance increased a good bit in a short couple months' time.
If you're not a member already, these are paying sites and the paid mails are pretty steady - it may take a while, but you WILL get paid eventually (quicker if you promote a lot). Check out Deals 'n' Cash and Hits4Pay today!
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