As the new payout amount will be 5$ - what could you buy with it in your country?

I don't think that its a matter of what this amount will buy, I think that it was a really well received decision that the payout limit has been lowered.

Box of name brand smokes = $3 - $3.5 Can of soda $0.60-$0.70 700g bread $0.85 Milk 1 gallon $2.55 Ice-cream tub 2/3 gallon $3-$4 for plain flavours and up to $6 for flavoured icecream Petrol/Gas 1 gallon $2.50 McDonalds regular size meal $2.25 and supersize is up to $7 Milkshake $1.50 - $2 1 minute cellphone call $0.08 - $0.12 (local only) Internet 4mb/s line and unlimited bandwidth $50 Cheap car $2000-$3000 mid range car - $12500 - $20000 highend car - $25000 + House average size in nice area $115000 Satalite TV $55 All technology is a bout 20%-50% more then other countries. :( Meat (beef) $8-$10 per pound, (chicken) $2-$3 a per pound prawns $7 per pound , Salmon $13 per pound 150g packet of chips/crisps (doritoes etc) $0.90 candy/chocolate bar $0.50- $0.75 And local stuff costs more then imported quite often, stupid i know. Mars bars are cheaper then our local equivelent.

With $5 as the minimum payout, I think I can buy any of the following: 1. a book by my favorite author, 2. an ice cream less than a half gallon, 3. a phone protector or case, 5. lipstick, 6. powder. Even though I can use it to buy something, I would rather save my money in my paypal and just let it reach a higher amount before I withdraw it from paypal.

In Indonesia $5 is equal to IDR 65000. So i can buy hamburgers and fried rice. But, i prefer like to save on my local bank account.

If you're beibg conservative in my country, you could have 3 meals+drinks a day. Enough to live for one day.

In South Africa $5 equals to around R80. With R80 I could easily buy a new T-shirt or a secondhand console game. You could also easily buy two breads and two milks for R80.

It is not the question of earning 5$, but the quality of discussions we are having here.We do get more knowledge by participating in good discussions and money will only come as an added incentive which we should never think too much as it will be going on adding for every discussion we have it over here.More and more people should participate in healthy discussions here

Here you can take the bus for about 16 times. You can buy about 32 pieces of newspaper. You can have a meal in McDonald's.

$5 is roughly around 200Php here and that could be a one day allowance for my son for his lunch and snacks.

Can't buy much with $5.00 here in Canada. I guess you could buy a fancy coffee or a cheap fast food meal. Or maybe 3 litres of milk.

Soso, ein Deutscher. Ich dachte, ich sei die einzige hier.

I save the money earned here.It is only more or less P250 pesos in Ph money.Though small, it's also valuable being earned hardly here.

Lowering the payout limit doesn't mean we should think of transferring them . Because when you reach $5 and pay out ,you have wait for another few months to wait for next cashout. It's a good decision to encourage users to keep on posting before they get frustrated to reach payout limit. I'm from India and $5 equals to around ?330 which I can't buy much.Although it's a handsome pocket amount.