Got Paid Update #84 - MatrixMails

Everyone knows by now that MatrixMails is one of my very favorite sites - it's consistently been a good performer, pays quickly, has excellent benefits if you upgrade, and now it's really turning into my top performer among PTC and PTR sites ($76.11 since August 2008). I'm now averaging $20+ cashouts about every two months, which is far and beyond all the others currently in my stable of sites.

To be honest (as I have many times in the past), it'll take you forever to reach payout at MatrixMails if you're a free member (though you'll get there eventually). Upgrading here is well worth it, and the Gold Lifetime membership - which you pay once, and never have to pay anything again ever - will get you into the bigger and quicker earnings, as well as being able to cashout anytime rather than waiting for the $20 mark as a free member. The other upgrades will up your balance too, but the Gold Lifetime is where the really large potential earnings are. If you heavily promote, you'll get more and faster, certainly. Doing PTCs every day, as well as the mails here, really helps too.

This is one I'm really excited to see where things stand this time next year, the next, and so on.

Anyway, as always I'm thrilled to report yet another lightning fast payment from MatrixMails - faster than usual, even - I requested my $22.42 payment on October 19th, and had it the very next day. Awesome!

If you're not a member, this is one of the ones you don't want to miss. Check out MatrixMails today!

Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #83 - DealBarbiePaysFast

Always a fast payment here! I requested payment of $1.00 from DealBarbiePaysFast on October 24th, and had it before 24 hours was up.

If you're not already a member, check out DealBarbiePaysFast today!

Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #82 - BankRollBucks

So sad about my favorite GPT site having closed at the end of September, BankRollBucks. I received my final payment from the site for $1.73 on October 1st, which put me over $100 total earnings from BankRollBucks. Sigh. :)

Thanks to Jennifer for being such a terrific admin and running such a fabulous, honest, and paying site. She's been a real credit to the get paid industry and as always, I'm sorry to see a good one go, but wish her only the best for the future!

Click HERE to View Payment Proof
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Fall Housecleaning & Updates

I just got so blasted behind in September and October that it's taken forever to catch up, but finally I've been able to make all the rounds to see what sites are still up and which ones are gone, catch up on (I think) most of the more important updates on many of the listed sites, and have now housecleaned both here and on the Quicklist to bring things up to date. At least I hope I didn't miss anything important, but I think I got a lot of it!

Things I've done tonight:

SendEarnings & InboxDollars - I've fixed the links everywhere (I think). They changed their link format a while back and apparently I changed the link a couple of places, but not everywhere. Oh well!

I've removed Pirate's Riches & eXtremeGPT since Reagan, admin of GPTCashCow, decided to close them and Blazing Referrals this fall and focus mainly on GPTCashCow, which remains open - as does Smileyfreebies4you, which I haven't "officially" listed here yet but has been on the Quicklist all along. (By the way, Reagan's got some awesome contests going at GPTCashCow for November!)

One of my longtime standbys and frequent paying sites, Ozzys Direct Pay, has rather inexplicably disappeared from the GPT scene this fall, so sadly, I have moved it to the Closed Programs category. I haven't heard anything about what happened there - one day it turned up as a suspended site, and then several weeks later it was just gone.

I also removed DealBarbiePoints, which closed some time ago but for some reason I hadn't moved it to the Closed Programs section yet, and Fishing4Mails, which has never performed very well for me and I got deleted for inactivity again, so I took it off the active list completely. (I will never understand why some owners insist on such stringent activity requirements, anyone who's been around GPT/PTC/PTR long enough knows that people's activity levels will constantly ebb and flow - in any case, I was only seeing about one mail a week from there if even that much.)

I also read that Carousel Clicks has closed, but I had already removed that site from the active list during the last housecleaning round.

Now for some pertinent changes on some active listed sites, that may or may not be old news to you:

DealBarbiePays no longer has payment by check available due to administrative costs and the fact that apparently some checks never arrived for some members. PayPal is of course still available, and payment is also available via Amazon gift certificate and Wal-Mart and iTunes gift card.

SquishyCash has added Wal-Mart and Target gift cards as payment options. (They've also completely remodeled the site again recently.)

TikiTreasure was closing, but then got bought by a new owner who's been very attentive and made some really nice changes to the site, including raising the signup bonus from $3 to $5, and raising the referral level pay by eliminating the third level and raising first level referrals to 20% (second level remains at 5%). She's also added AlertPay as a payment option, and according to a recent mailing to members, is considering changing to weekly payments in January 2010 if activity on the site is good, so that's a nice possibility there.

And last but never least, GPTCashCow changed from daily to weekly payments, as the daily payment thing was kinda a trial run and admin was having a hard time keeping up with the requests. Minimum cashout is $5 and first-time cashouts will still be paid on a Net 30 basis (request by the 30th of the month to get paid the next month).

More news as I come across it - I was caught up on mails and announcements a couple of weeks ago but now I'm behind again, LOL!

I have several payments from the last couple of months to report over the next week or so, and then we'll get into some more (a few anyway) new sites and whatever else comes up as things progress. Stay tuned 'cos now that I'm caught up, will be posting daily again! Ciao!
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Got Paid Update #81 - DollarClickOrSignup

Gosh, I couldn't be more behind if I tried, but I'm catching up! I don't ever want to get this behind again.

First, a leftover post from my drafts, from August - I received payment of $1.08 on August 31st from DollarClickOrSignup. Thanks Lora!

This site changed payment terms as of September 1st, now paying twice monthly. You'll need to cash out on the 5th of every month in order to be paid by the 10th, or by the 20th in order to be paid by the 25th. If you're not already a member, check out DollarClickOrSignup today!

Click HERE to View Payment Proof




New posts coming tomorrow! Hope everyone's been doing well!
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I'm Still Here!

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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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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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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...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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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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