'Get Paid To....'

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Just wondering, does anyone here go to those 'Get Paid To....' sites?

I tried a few out, problem is most of offers you needa complete are for US-Only. And if you don't know what I mean by 'Get Paid To...' sites, then check out TreasureTrooper.
 
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WallaceCleaver said:
I like Mypoints. You can just click on the link at the bottom of the email message to receive points, which is great because it doesn't cost me a cent.
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I've been kind of turned off of paid to read email programs. I tried it once, and only made like $2 in a month, woulda been better to make a website in that time :P
 
My old roomate got the free ipod offer, don't know if that falls into the same category.
 
Dave said:
I've been kind of turned off of paid to read email programs. I tried it once, and only made like $2 in a month, woulda been better to make a website in that time :P
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It's just too simple. Click the button .... get some points .... redeem for a gift card. It doesn't take any time at all to click on the offer button and you don't even have to review the site. Just let it load and then turn it off.
 
stanley said:
Aren't all these Get Paid To things a part of some stupid pyramid scheme?
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Not all sites. There are many GPT sites on the internet. And AS/HYIP/Matrix/MLM everything is a pyramid scheme, but PTR like donkeymails aren't that kind. For example, there you need to pay to advertise, but if you look at ads you get paid :D Af course they get a big profit out of it.
 
DaFreeK said:
Not all sites. There are many GPT sites on the internet. And AS/HYIP/Matrix/MLM everything is a pyramid scheme, but PTR like donkeymails aren't that kind. For example, there you need to pay to advertise, but if you look at ads you get paid :D Af course they get a big profit out of it.
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Yea, the viewers would get nothin compared to the site.
 
$5 Submissions said:
Not all of them. Many are REAL. BUT... the payouts are so small most are not worth the hassle.
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Or all the decent offers require you to validate it with a CC. and i don't have one :(
 
Another issue I see with all the "Get Paid To..." sites. They make their money via advertising. However, WHO will advertise knowing that the people are only viewing your ads because they are getting paid? Not a very good model. From an advertisers perspective, at least.
 
$5 Submissions said:
Another issue I see with all the "Get Paid To..." sites. They make their money via advertising. However, WHO will advertise knowing that the people are only viewing your ads because they are getting paid? Not a very good model. From an advertisers perspective, at least.
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I saw one of those Free ipods type sites (Not one of the biggies.) had to shut down because the advertisers where tired of the prospects cancelling.
 
$5 Submissions said:
Another issue I see with all the "Get Paid To..." sites. They make their money via advertising. However, WHO will advertise knowing that the people are only viewing your ads because they are getting paid? Not a very good model. From an advertisers perspective, at least.
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Most of the advertisers end up spamming the users anyways tho, so it evens out :D
 
WallaceCleaver said:
I saw one of those Free ipods type sites (Not one of the biggies.) had to shut down because the advertisers where tired of the prospects cancelling.
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Yep. Even CJ and the bigger programs want publishers to explicitly state whether their traffic is "incentivized" or not.
 
Incentivized offers can pay upwards of $100 for completion. You want to own these sites, not use them to make a couple $ or get a free ipods.

These incentivised offer sites work much like store rebate offers. Stores can sell items for "free" because a certain percentage of rebates will not be claimed. Likewise, incentivised advertisers like video professor rely on recuring billing following their free video they send (simular to girls gone wild.) It is a brutally effective business model.

Besides video professor I wouldn't be too obsessed at if an offer turns the advertiser a profit. Companies poar billions in to television advertising a year with little to show for it. Recently Six Flags spent around $70 million on an ad campaign, the result, sales were flat.

Another example, Vonage. They've spend millions upon millions aquiring new customers. They are one of the biggest spenders online right now, yet they are far from profitable.
 
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