What should I do with my mylot earnings?
By natalie1981
@natalie1981 (1995)
Singapore
May 12, 2007 8:11am CST
Okay, so I've just been paid today and I'm SO ecstatic. I got around $29.84 because I missed my first payout so it's an accumulation of my earnings for the past two months. I'm just a little torn on what to do with my earnings. If I withdraw it from Paypal, and since I don't have a US bank account, I would have to go through another payment facility, and with their processing fees and the exchange rate, I would probably have around 5 dollars deducted from my earnings.
On the other hand, if I don't withdraw it, I could spend it buying stuff on Ebay, but then there's another dilemma, what would I buy? There's this figurine collection that I'm doing and I'm thinking of probably buying some figurines (See attached picture), or I might buy this cute stuff toy, or probably some appetite suppressants because I'm struggling with my weight loss.
Then I thought of investing it, but where?!!
So you see, what should I do? Withdraw it and have cold cash with me (less 5 dollars), spend it, or invest it? If you were in my shoes what would you do?
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31 responses
@jc_star10 (953)
• Indonesia
12 May 07
First of all, congratulations natalie. That's good. My opinions are you better buying something on E-bay, at least you have nice goodies to remember your achievement in mylot..LOL. If you collecting some figurine, that will be nice. But if i was you, I rather buy some cute stuff toy.
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Yeah, I really want the stuff toy too. Oh wait, I'm going to attach a picture of the stuff toy I want to buy...
@karthik26_89 (376)
• India
12 May 07
Hi Natalie.Congrts on reaching $29.84.Why not do like this?If you have any friend of your who libes close by your house or who is reliable,transfer your money from your account to their's account and then get it out from them.This could be really good.But do this only if you have a reliable friend.If you want to buy in ebay then its always better to buy something which would be very useful.It can be e-books or Cd's or anything which interests you.Good Luck.
@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
12 May 07
The problem is, I live outside the US and most people from my country don't have Paypal, I'm probably one of the few who has one so the only option if I withdraw it is other payment processors who do charge a bit for their services.
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@sunita64 (6469)
• India
14 May 07
Congratulations on your earnings. Well what to buy is definately your choice but don't do as I did I spent some 37.5$ on one programme which has proved to be good for nothing. As per survey scout's list I joined many surveys none of which sends any surveys, so all my money is wasted there.
@lightningMD (5931)
• United States
12 May 07
I was paid 32.17 yesterday. I'm going to purchase a home depot prepaid card with my earnings. We are redoing the inside of our house and every penny helps. I am also close to having enough in my sendearnings account to cash out there to. I've been having fun earning money for our projects.
@serena_wai (970)
• Malaysia
14 May 07
I don't have an US account and to withdraw USD, i will need to sacrify some loss in the currency converting and withdrawal process. If there is anything that interest me in Ebay, i will rather use the money to buy from Ebay and losing the money in the whole process.
However, there are time, when i really wish to have more cash, then i will withdraw them. Normally i will accumulate until USD100 or 200 to call for a withdrawal. ;p
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
12 May 07
I keep mine in a PayPal money market account and I get 5.3% interest each month. I you have to spend it go into paypal.com and there are many, many online stores where you can find everything.
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
I really want to deposit it in the Paypal money market but it's not available for Paypal Singapore and the stores with paypal.com doesn't ship to my country...I think. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
@ricknkae (1721)
• United States
12 May 07
First of all congratulations!
Then if you are planning to invest I would suggest you to be very careful and be prepared to lose it
Althought a great way to make some bucks out of your mylot earnings is the paypal money market account. It yields 5%, which is not a fortune but it's better than nothing and I think it s safer than any hyip thingy or even stock market
Although I heard you were trying to lose weight so maybe you could invest in that great e-book :
http://iamhere2help.mysite.com/whats_new.html
it's full of great tips about healthy habits, a week diet plan with all the healthy recipes, to help more than lose weight but learn how to eat better and healthier and thus keep the weight off
It worked for me, maybe you could give it a try, it's only 5$ ...
Personnally, what I did with my mylot earnings was to upgrade my clixsense account ... so if you have one maybe you could do that too , I already got my $10 back now, and I am waiting for my check next month
Anyways good luck
@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Thanks. As I've mentioned, Paypal's moneymarket isn't available to Paypal Singapore. I'm not really interested in ebooks as much information about diets are already in the internet for free. And yes, I've thought about upgrading my clixsense account but someone here talked me out of it because I actually don't log in that much so I probably won't be able to get my money's worth. Besides, they only pay with checks and I don't think I can cash US checks here in my country.
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
I want to however, there are no options for me to invest using paypal. Most investment programs on the net are either Hyips or only accepts e-gold.
@ydiwan (448)
• India
12 May 07
ok i think i have the right idea my suggestion would be invest it some e-gold scheme it has been running good and i know people who have converted jus 1$ into a few hundreds so my suggestion would be to surf some e-gold investing sites and deposit the money and invest with them and this again just an advice the final call is ofcourse urs all the best and happy spending
@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
@ Rabi, Unfortunately, Paypal Singapore doesn't offer the money market option. I've already heard about and was interested, but I just couldn't find the moneymarket option in my Paypal account so I concluded that it's probably only available to US citizens---as always. LOL.
@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
LOL. Sorry, Ydiwan, I commented on the wrong response. Well, I opted to have my payment sent to my Paypal account and E-gold is having trouble right now and most of the e-gold scheme out there turns out to be a scam. Thanks for your input though.
@4cuteboys (4099)
• United States
12 May 07
I was paid $34.64 yestarday and I bought dinner for all of us :) I would have done it anyways, but since Dinner was $34 I figure that was the mylot money! I was on appetite suppressants for awhile, ugh, hated it!! But out of the scenarios you provided i'd spend it on ebay! I love ebay!
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Yeah, I already made up my mind to spend it on Ebay. I'm surfing the site to see what's good. BTW, what appetite suppressants did you use?
@lovelyladydancing (1016)
• United States
12 May 07
Step away from the appetite suppressants! They are bad news! If I were in your shoes I would wait and put in more money in your paypal and buy stuff on ebay :) Also you can write for associated content and pay you through paypal too and you can get even more money :) Sign up under me:)
http://www.associatedcontent/join.html?refer=2695
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Thanks, I'm already a member of associated content, however, I don't think they pay anyone outside the US so that's sad news. I've made up my mind and I'm going to spend it on Ebay. Wish me luck hunting for bargains. :)
@HallaGulla (45)
• Kuwait
14 May 07
k0ngr8Zzz..... :)
if i were y0u then i'll wait f0r s0me m0re m0ney and then i'll but my "IMATE JAMin"
:D
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
15 May 07
Already have that, I even sold it to my brother. Right now I have a Dopod 818Pro. I wanted spend my earnings for the monthly installments of a new laptop but I don't think I'm that much into laptops right now.
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Sell it? Why would I sell it? Thanks for the response, but I think I made up my mind by just buying something on Ebay. I would probably get my money's worth by just shopping rather than have 5 dollars deducted from my hard earned money.
@praveenjena (1304)
• India
21 Oct 07
you could just save them. or make some online purchases. or buy something for to your near and dear ones. and also if you want then you can donate a bit too of that.
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
12 May 07
If u invest you gotta be prepard to loose it all. all investments can be a risk =)
I usually spend it on ebay. I surf around looking around and I always end up finding something That i want and cant live without *lol*
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Yes, I probably would spend it on Ebay. I mean I have to get my money's worth and I don't think I really like the idea of having 5 dollars of my earnings go to someone else's pocket so I'll probably surf around ebay and see what's good. THanks.
@jurazg (409)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
12 May 07
You cash is pretty big. Well done!!! I am not US citizen so I can't use Paypal so easy, I mean I can't get in my bank account. I use e-gold but now there are some problems with it for which I hope will not exist anymore. I have only 5,6$ in my earnings, although I would like to write more, but I can't cause I really don't have spare time.
Now if you want to invest on internet, PayPal will be a problem. There are not so many PayPal investment sites that you can use. I know for one very good e-gold. It is please-invest.com (http://www.please-invest.com/?ref=JURAX12). They give me daily profit from 1-6% and looses are very rare. I haven't got any for 9 days. I have invested 1$ and now I have 1,70$ in about 15 days. Imagine what could you do with your money. You could get more that 1$ a DAY. Good luck if you want to use e-gold.
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
I think please-invest has been marked as a scam site. And with the problems e-gold is encountering nowadays, it would probably close down soon.
@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
13 May 07
Thanks, but it's rather too late. It's already Mother's day Here and I already got her a gift. So I'm probably buying something for myself at Ebay.
