Complete offers to get paid?

I would be very wary of any site that tells you you need to give them money first before you can start making money with them. Also, if you are looking at sites that ask you to "fill out offers" with other companies in order to make money, you might want to stay away from them all together. These sites are looking for people's identity information, location, and buying habits. You'll be put on lists for spam and all sorts of consumer databases, and you may even see an increase in the number of telemarketers that call you. So be wary! ~Wyrdsister

The only ones that I have any experience in is from joining survey sites. I had earned a total of $20 from one site before they closed up. I am presently a member of another. While they don't pay for general surveys, they do pay when it is a survey on a particular idea for a product. Then they pay again if you decide to have a sample sent to you to try, & then after trying it, you take another survey to give your opinion.on the product, as well as that free sample. I had joined through other paid-to sites & got money from that to reach the minimum payout. The only other thing I have done in the past was buy CD's from the Tower Records site through one of those paid-to-shop sections of a paid-to site. That also helped me get to a minimum payout. I can probably go on & on about how some of these things work, but in short, some of these online stores will pay that paid-to site, that you're a member of, a small percentage of what you bought through that. Then that paid-to site will give you a small percentage of that percentage they got. In this case, while buying through the internet costs less than buying from a conventional store (even when you add shipping charges if there's no offer for free shipping), you do get a slightly further discount overall.

If they ask you to complete an offer then yes you have to do it to earn either money or points. The only one I do that has something like that is MYpoints. I get points for just reading the emails but if I want more points then I have to complete the offer or join something. I don't join anything and my points go up slower but I've cashed them once and got 4 gift cards worth 25 dollars. I'm on my way this year on getting larger amounts on the gift card.