too close...

@sishy7 (27166)
Australia
July 2, 2016 11:16am CST
# 27 I've been reading how myLotters are missing their earning targets by certain amounts... One even mentioned how she's a fraction of a cent short. First I thought it's short for reaching the minimum payout amount - that would be a huge bummer! Luckily it was short of a certain targeted amount but the minimum has been long passed... It got me thinking though... Has anyone come so close to payout but did not quite make it when midnight CST on the last day of the month strikes? If so, how close were you? I wonder if anyone was at 4.9999 or near there by the deadline...
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26 responses
@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jul 16
I managed to reach 99.996 cents one day and thought it was a pity I hadn't made it to a dollar.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
4 Jul 16
I ghave never reached that amount. But I would have wanted a dollar even if I had that.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
3 Jul 16
yes... so close but yet not quite there...
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Jul 16
I've always met my payout, except my very first month, but that's because I started in the middle of the month so didn't have $10 yet by the end of the month. I've made it every month since and the only targets I miss are my own daily goals now. And right now that's only because my computer is causing me trouble.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 .. Now that surely was close..lol
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
5 Jul 16
@vandana7 yeah, on the second $1 month I almost didn't make it because I was away for a couple of weeks...
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
well done on reaching payout every month! the only time I did that was the 2 months they experimented with $1 payout!
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
3 Jul 16
I was almost 2.5 dollars close or far..lol
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 Come on...at least it is half way..lol
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
@vandana7 yeah, but no where 'close'
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
that would be 'far'
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• Valdosta, Georgia
2 Jul 16
That would be terrible to be so close and not make it.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
3 Jul 16
yes, it would... even if it's not like we'll lose it, but it just feels like it should just roll over a bit more to pass all the nines after the decimal point...
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
2 Jul 16
It doesn't really matter does it? It's not as if the amount earned will be lost if you don't reach payout.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
yeah, it's not lost, just super annoying if we end up a fraction of a cent away from payout and have to wait another month to be paid...
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
2 Jul 16
i've since learnt its 7.30 am July 1st for us in India. And I was 4.8 something:)
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
3 Jul 16
oh, you're also close... given a day or two you would have made it... it's okay, you'll just be close to double the minimum amount with your first payout then...
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
@responsiveme that counts big time as far as I'm concerned or I wouldn't be here daily...
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• India
3 Jul 16
@sishy7 I am having fun though..that counts too.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
2 Jul 16
This has probably happened to me in the old days because I never reached payout in a single month, although I doubt if it was ever so close.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
I dont quite remember, but we didn't have the daily breakdown of earning down to 4 decimal places in the old myLot, did we?
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 The earnings were certainly displayed in decimals of a cent, so it was probably about the same.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
2 Jul 16
I passed mylot´s minimum, but I had set my goal at $10. I didn´t make it by far.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 No, I won´t. I will be basking in the sun for 2 weeks in a few days.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
5 Jul 16
@marguicha that's right, you're going on a vacation... have a wonderful trip!
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
you will next month, i'm sure!
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jul 16
I was close this time, but didn't quite make it. But I wasn't super close meaning by a fraction either - I think it was something like 4.10 something. Finally by the 4th, I made it - but I was just able to be here a little longer over the weekend. No worries though if we don't make it by the deadline - at least we never lose anything from it as it gets carried over to the next month. I can be happy next month!
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jul 16
@sishy7 I can shoot for double - it is still very early in the month - but we'll see how it goes time wise. We have another crazy month full of more summer vacation adventures! I hardly notice when it's quiet anymore (here, that is ). I'm too busy trying to make noise!
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
6 Jul 16
Yes, you can... you'll probably double the amount by next payout! Glad to hear you were able to be here over the weekend... I was here on and off but I thought it was very quiet - perhaps with it being a long Independence Day weekend and all...
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Jul 16
that would be sad if you were that close and just missed it. I missed goals the first month here, but that was at old goals, and I had only been here a couple weeks, but I certainly wasn't a fraction of a cent away, more like a dollar or something
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
may not sound like a lot of sense, but I would probably feel better missing payout by a dollar than by a cent let alone a fraction of a cent...
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• Centralia, Missouri
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 it does, as the dollar is enough out that there was no real way, a cent makes you think if only you'd have worked a tiny bit harder you would have made it
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@KristenH (33591)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
2 Jul 16
I was a bit over the 5.00 mark.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
glad you made it just over the $5 payout!
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
5 Jul 16
@KristenH well done! I should be able to catch up to the $6 mark any time now...
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@KristenH (33591)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 Me too. I just barely made it, now over 6.00.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
3 Jul 16
when i opened my wall, my money was $_. 9999; good i was able to reach the minimum
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
glad that you did!
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@teamfreak16 (43567)
• Denver, Colorado
2 Jul 16
This will be just my fourth payout, but I've always been over ten.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
4 Jul 16
that's great! you shouldn't have any problems reaching the $5 monthly then!
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@teamfreak16 (43567)
• Denver, Colorado
4 Jul 16
@sishy7 - I hope not.
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@miniam (9151)
• Bern, Switzerland
2 Jul 16
I have never really had any targets, what l get is what l take but luckily l have been able to make payout every month.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
3 Jul 16
well done! seems that even when the minimum was $10 it's not a problem for you...
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@miniam (9151)
• Bern, Switzerland
3 Jul 16
@sishy7 I joined when minimum was $10 luckily the 2 months, the minimum went down so i managed to cash out
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
3 Jul 16
@miniam .. I can't believe there were months I used to earn as much..lol
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
23 Aug 16
I think if it's like too close they will round it off just like when i was short of .00012 , they rounded it to $9 .
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
23 Aug 16
@sishy7 I think others have posted that theirs is rounded off to the nearest dollar .
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
23 Aug 16
Oh, okay... I didn't know that... I know payments are rounded to two digits after the decimal point. But I'm not sure if to be eligible for payment would be - I mean, say the bank has $4.9999 by midnight CST on the last day of the month, would that be rounded off to $5 to be eligible for payment or would that be carried over to the next month since it's $0.0001 short?
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• Austin, Texas
8 Jul 16
I'm never close at the cut off date. Usually though, by the time it's cut off I have reached the minimum. For me, it takes 2 months to reach the payout, now that it's at $5. When it was $10. it seemed like it took forever! Mind you … I'm not really doing anything different activity-wise. But it seems like I can reach the $5 cash out; whereas it seemed like the $10 was a struggle. I don't know why. Weird!
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• Austin, Texas
8 Jul 16
@DaddyEvil - So you received brutal honesty and proper tongue lashing, eh?
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
8 Jul 16
@cmoneyspinner Yeah, and I think I hurt some people's feelings. (I swear I didn't realize anyone was struggling to make $10 a month! I don't intentionally hurt others!)
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
8 Jul 16
It used to take a lot of people multiple months to reach minimum payout when that was at $10... When myLot shifted it to $1 for those two months, and they gave the explanation that it was because so many people never reached payout, I was shocked! I didn't realize anyone wasn't making payout every month back then! I sure heard about it when I suggested everyone was surely making the $10 every month, too!
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@jstory07 (148701)
• Roseburg, Oregon
5 Jul 16
I do not worry about reaching pay out if you do not make it one month it will be added to the next month.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
5 Jul 16
yes, and if we miss it so close to the minimum, only means next one would almost be doubled the amount...
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
19 Jul 16
4.999 is really interesting .If you can make that much you can easily jump over it.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
19 Jul 16
Yeah... I just feel bad if anyone's total is so close but not quite make it to $5 by midnight on the last day of the month... But then again, it's not like a total loss or anything - simply mean waiting another month for definite, may even be double the amount, payout...
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
20 Jul 16
@sishy7 That's right. Next month it is double. But not land again on the same edge. Lol
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
6 Jul 16
I've made it except when I first joined.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
7 Jul 16
Good for you! You're doing really well on here!
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@thelme55 (79311)
• Germany
4 Jul 16
I have passed the minimum amount by the end of June and it is my first payment from mylot. It would be annoying too close to that said amount you have mentioned but anyway, it will not get lost.
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
5 Jul 16
well done! it's the first of many more, i'm sure!
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