Read the Fine Print
By Marie Anne
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
United States
January 18, 2009 5:51am CST
Most of us do several different things to bring in an extra buck or two on the internet. There's writing articles, PTC, PTR emails, filling out surveys, completing offers, etc.
I've all but given up on PTCs except one or two that have stood the test of time and that still pay me (that you can find on my profile), but I do still read emails for a penny or two here and there. I use a separate email address for those so it's not obnoxious or invasive, I just click a link and I'm done. I don't even get any extra SPAM from it, which is always a good thing. You don't make a lot and it doesn't happen overnight, but since it's not hard or time consuming, I figure I'll get paid eventually. Oh, there is one of them with no minimum payout and I've been paid there (also on my profile).
Some of the PTR email sites also have surveys and offers and such, but I don't do those. I am a member of other survey/offer sites and usually if you do it on one site, you can't do it on another, so I don't even want to bother. Clicking the link in an email is just fine with me.
Having said that, if you are a member of any of those type sites, make sure you read the fine print!
After clicking some email links this morning I decided to log in to check my earnings balance to see how close I was getting. Not all of them list the minimum payout on the front page so one one of them I went digging a bit and checked out the earnings questions and lo and behold - I found that the minimum payout on SnapDollars is $25, but even if you reach that, at least $15 of those earnings have to come from completing offers and not just from reading emails. I've been clicking there for months and months, only to find that I won't get a dime of it because all I want to do is click from emails!
That lead me to check the rest of the sites that I use and I don't see that any others have that restriction, it appears to just be SnapDollars. I have deleted my account there and taken the link off my profile, but the rest of those that I promote seem to be ok.
Have you ever worked diligently at something and found out that it was wasted effort? Do you always read the fine print?
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19 responses
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
18 Jan 09
I'm glad you brought that up, I'm a member of SendEarnings and I never read the fine print. Those offers are ripoffs that more often than not cost you in time or money. I'll go read their fine print later today, thanks!
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@CRIVAS (1815)
• Canada
18 Jan 09
Wow! Thank you. I am or should say was a member of snapdollars and I only read the emails. I never thought to check the fineprint and I think that was my number one mistake I will definatly be paying more attention to the details. I would love to check out your profile. I am shocked. I cann't believe that is the case.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
18 Jan 09
I read all guidelines and rules for anything I join, but I don't bother with pvt or whatever they are called, the lowest place I work at is here,
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@BarBaraPrz (45511)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Jan 09
Yes, I do check the payout terms before I join any of those sites; just as you found out, there's no sense in doing something that you'll never get paid for. Then there's the ones that change their payout terms midstream, but that's another disappointment... 
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@echomonster (2226)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
18 Jan 09
Amazing...I had the exact same experience with the very same site last year. Actually, I guess most SnapDollars members have that experience eventually 
. I figured that there was no way I could make so much from offers every time I cashed out, and besides I have my own preferred sites for doing offers. It's basically a useless site for anyone trying to build a regular online income. That's definitely the worst experience I've had in that it took me such a long time to realize what a loser of a site it was. Normally I clue in sooner. Of course, I'm more experienced and paranoid now too so another site wouldn't have such an easy time of fooling me.
. I figured that there was no way I could make so much from offers every time I cashed out, and besides I have my own preferred sites for doing offers. It's basically a useless site for anyone trying to build a regular online income. That's definitely the worst experience I've had in that it took me such a long time to realize what a loser of a site it was. Normally I clue in sooner. Of course, I'm more experienced and paranoid now too so another site wouldn't have such an easy time of fooling me. 2 people like this
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
18 Jan 09
yes, i try to. mylot is the only sighti go to so don't have so much to keep up w/like you.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
11 Nov 09
Yes, there are a lot of sites out there that Yes, your Best interest before ever getting your hopes up is to read the small print, and to see what some of the catches are in order to get paid. And even if you know others that are getting paid from the site, that does not always mean it will work for you as well. But if you take time to find out what you need to do on a site to get paid off of it, and you still end up feeling confused maybe it is Best to leave that site alone and move on to something better.
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
18 Jan 09
I try my best to read, or at least skim through, the fine print when joining such sites. But I only joined a couple of others in the past and didn't care for either so now I only participate in one PTP site...mylot. I've seen some people on here complain that they lost some of the earning they were making on here. But they can't get too mad because if they would have read the fine print from the beginning they would have seen that these unpaid earnings will become unqualified when their account has no activity for 3 months (or 90 days). It sucks, but that's part of the terms we agreed to when joining mylot.
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@aminul842700 (861)
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
10 Jul 12
Sucmum, how are you and your family? Once I was your friend but my previous account number was closed and I was away from mylot for long time. Recently I have come back. Have a very nice day.
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
27 Aug 09
I know I usally dont read the fine print even though the only things I sign are for medical papers when I go to the hospital. But it has cost my sister a lot of money since she had to pay $100 for golds gum for not reading the fine print which I dont know why she had to pay all that money when she canceld her membership over a year ago.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
29 Jul 11
My account was inactive for so long that when I logged back in I thought for sure it would have been deleted. But I still have $34.21 account. Unfortunately only about $2 of it is from doing offers so I cant cashout until I do $15 worth of offers. I dont know if I should try to do lots of offers until I reach payout and then give up or if I should just delete my account entirely. Imagine all the emails I had to read to get to $34.21 ugh what a waste of time.
@onlydia (2808)
• United States
20 Jan 09
Well, I didn't for a long time until one night when I was bored and I had not been on in a while. It told me I had been inactive for to long and my account was deleted and ok fine. OOPS. So now I try but sometimes it is a little long. You have a good day your friend onlydia
@aminul842700 (861)
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
9 Jul 12
Dear Friend, how are you and your family? I was away from Mylot for many days and we have no comm. Once my account was closed and I leaft the Mylot. Are you regular here. Please reply.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
9 Jul 12
I left for a very long time too, probably two years or so, and came back the other day and posted and chatted with a lot of old friends.
Then they deleted that whole posting because I asked a question about a problem I was still having with my profile. I give up.
I hope you are well.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
19 Jan 09
Yeah I was a member of snap dollars as well but shortly after I joined I read about that and quit because I knew that I would never reach the $15 needed for completing offers. So now I will go and read about the payout before I join to say me the hassle of joining something just to have to cancel the account.
@ifnalife (323)
• Indonesia
19 Jan 09
I deleted my account too at some site i don't trust anymore. Same as you, Ldyjarhead.
some survey site give me junk email over and over, this really making me sick.
i don't even care if i already have my balance over there, if the cash flow doesn't happen.
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
19 Jan 09
I always read the fine print, I've worked in the legal field for a long time and I'll flip to the last page and start reading the "red hering", its the number 2 font pertenent information that nobody reads.
@moonbeam94 (387)
• Australia
19 Jan 09
I am with SnapDollers and will have to go and have another look now that you have pointed this out ,I don't take up offers only read enails as I understood that once you got to twebty-five dollers ,you got paid. This is dissapointing and I thank-you for pointing this out. cheers.
@murugezh (273)
• India
19 Jan 09
Yes I do reading the fine print, But many of the ways you are following to earn money from internet was amazing thing that you have shared with us. I too want to follow that the way you are doing to earn money.
