Downlinerefs, the down side.

I had to drop my first direct ref through the site. The problem is, when someone signs up under you, there's no way to garuntee they'll keep clicking, except that they want your credits. Well now I've canceled the contract, lost the commision credits to downlinerefs, lost 4 days worth of credits on the contract, and gained maybe $0.12 in referal clicks. That definitley sours your take view of a system.

On the up side, I did over $10 worth of surveys yesterday!

Dude, what's the deal (conversion rates) ?

So I wanted this site to be a Canadian PTC/Survey guide. And yet, I do all my reporting in USD, what's the deal. Well... it's just easier! That's what most sites work in. Instead of using the currency that only a few sites pay out in as my base, I go with the masses. That way, on the few occasions (like IPSOS yesterday) when I get a payout in CAD, that's the only time I have to see what it's worth in another currency. In this case, the $10.00 CAD was $9.79 USD. It's only 21 cents difference, I could have just pretended and lumped it in, but I wanted to be accurate at the time of Cashout.

Not to mention, most of my online buys will be in USD anyways.

A Gaga bux sign-up from Downlinerefs.

So someone finally took my offer on Downlinerefs.com. 150 credits for 11 days of activity. I thought that was an amazing deal, but it took forever for someone to grab it. I guess since most people are already on gagabux anyways.

So I stipulated in the contract that they should click at least 15 ads per day. I thought that was pretty easy. And yet, the dude is holding steady at 14. I know I'm nit picking, but dang. Oh well, what's most important is if he sticks with it after the 11 days.

My first PTC payout, you wouldn't guess...

Buxism. I joined because it looked well put together. Turns out the site wasn't even live yet. So I forgot for a bit. They send me an e-mail to get us to start the clicking.
So I have what they call Pioneer membership. I was alowed to do my first cashout at $0.10, so at least I know it's legit. I got the first $0.11 in my paypal account instantly. Next cashout at $1.00.
The only real problem is that you don't get $0.01 per click. Some are less, some are way less. But if you sometimes wish you had more things to click when you're bored, then try it out. I'd love to know what non-pioneer standard membership stats are like.

Pending Payments

So JimFred was right. Gagabux won't let me have two pending payments at the same time. I just went over $2.00 for the second time and tried. I guess it's a way of letting people's balances grow and tempting them to reinvest.

I can wait. The next one is going to be huge.

First Aquisition

So you say, “Hey Erik, I thought you were going to tell us about what you do with the money you make. What gives? Have you just been hoarding it? 95 bucks and nothing?”

Well yes, but there’s more to it than that.

The first thing to realize is that my total is just money I’ve “cashed out”. Sometimes it takes a while to get to me. I’ve cashed out $45.71 from Focusline, but the first payment is still up to 2 weeks away from my Paypal account. Also, cheques that come through the mail have to be processed, printed, and then sent alllllll the way to Canada.

Second, I have actually spent some of the money on things related to this venture. For instance my Clixsense upgrade. Also, I bought a You-Cubez cube.

Once you factor both in, I only had $28.08 of hard “in my pocket” cash.

…

Well I just spent $28.00 today! A new member of ComicBookRealm.com was selling his collection and I found some inexpensive comics that I needed. I picked up Amazing Spider-Man 156, 158-9, 245, 410 and Spectacular Spider-Man 80. They are mostly in the 5.0-6.0 rage in quality (except for SSM 80, which is a 2.0), so it’s nothing to write home about, but they do help fill in some gaps.

I just feel bad that I’m delaying my ComicBookRealm Lifetime Membership by about a month. Sorry, DoughBoy!

SwagBucks Surveys & FocusLine

In case you were wondering, they are the same. I pulled up the Swag ones, then the Focusline ones, and both surveys listed were identical. I completed the Focusline Alcohole one, and low and behold, the Swag Alcohol one told me I had already filled out that survey. Also, Swagbucks was going to offer me 125 SBs, Focusline was offering $2.50. Since I get $5 Paypal cards with my SBs (which are 700), then each SB is worth $0.007. So the SwagBucks survey was worth $0.89. What a rip! Even if I get Amazon Giftcards with my Swagbucks (450 SBs), that would be $0.011 per SB. That survey would be worth $1.39.

After all that rambling, stay away from the Swagbucks surveys until they start making up their own surveys or use a different provider... maybe one that we Canadians wouldn't normaly have access to.

PS I'm pretty sure you can do your profile over again for SBs, I'll keep you posted.

PPS I did one of the profile questionaires over again, it let me, and I completed it, but I haven't received any SBs yet.