ALT-2 Watch out for the Paid Email Scam
Has anyone ever offered you change for a penny? Do you think your bill collectors will take that amount which is less than one cent to pay your bills? I'll wait until the laughter dies down before I proceed here.
I tried many of these sites some time back, and it didn't work for me. I'm not saying it doesn't work at all. But I think the only way it might work is if you view it as a numbers game, and the more mass amount of people you get signed up, and that they get signed up, and so on, and so on, the better you might do. Since many sites initially offered to pay only fractions of a cent, when I tried it, a few years back, (2005 I think) I spent a lot of time clicking and earning very little.
I personally was never able to even get to any of the sites minimum payout levels. The people I sent it to didn't sign up below me. So it became just lonesome ole me, clicking my fingers to the bone. People might not sign up below you when they see the low payouts. Some are just not going to waste their time even signing up for it.
Those who decide to try it anyway, you might want to set it up in it's own separate email account. Some did send me quite a few emails daily. Some web sites gave you the option of checking the new emails on the web site, and not through your email. That requires logging onto your account at the various web sites, and either keeping track of your different user names and passwords, or using the same user name and password for all of the get paid to read email sites.
If you elect to have it sent to your email address you can get a lot of emails from just one sender. Some listed all the emails available to read, on one page, to click through and read, and some sent a separate email for each and every one they wanted me to read. You also can't read or get paid for outdated emails. If they were say a week old, when I looked at them, often that offer had usually expired by the time I did look at it. Then it became time to clean out the email box. It also for me, got rather boring after awhile. Even though you initially indicate the areas you're interested in reading, I tended to get the same ads over and over from the same sender.
I signed up with a bunch of them, at least twenty. I finally concluded I could make more money per hour at my local fast food joint, which was probably only paying minimum hourly wage. There are some sites that don't actually ever pay out at all. It might have been different if I had gotten a number of people to sign up below me, who got a number of people to sign up below them, but that didn't happen for me.
If you still feel you need to try it then look at www.beenpaid.com, and www.GetPaidToBoycott.com, assuming they still exist. They'll give you legitimate sites that actually are paying, and the second lists sites they're boycotting because they haven't paid out, or have gotten a bad reputation as not paying.
You also have to consider the companies are hoping to get a number of people to their web sites to buy their products or services. They may have paid for web site design, consulting and other expenses. Possibly they are paying a bulk rate for so many 100's or 1000's of ads placed with different email senders or on different locations through the web to get people to look at their web site. They're playing the numbers game as well. But you're still on the low end of things by clicking on the ads that you may or may not look at any further, and hoping that you have a number of people who are looking at the ads as well.
That was my experience with it a few years ago, which is not to say it doesn't work at all. Viewing it as a numbers game and getting a lot of people to sign up might have a different outcome for you then it did for me. You might also need to recruit new people, as not everyone who does sign up below you, will stay active with it for various reasons.
If you now find that many have adjusted for inflation, and are now paying something like $5.00 per ad or $10.00 per ad, then let me know and I'll sign up under you.
