Webperspectives.ca

So this site looked like a joke at first. The profile surveys were incredibly long. The surveys came ridiculously seldom. And when they did, they were rarely for points, but for sweepstakes entries. Not to mention, you can't actually find they available surveys on the site anywhere, they're all started through e-mail.
Once you do finish a points survey, it doesn't even go to the pending column right away. It might take a few days, which really wigs me out, since I'm not even sure now that it didn't hit a glitch. From there, it sometimes takes up to 3 weeks for the points to become earned.

...So why have I been bothering?

Well, when they do send you a points survey, it's rare that you don't qualify. Also, I haven't come across any $1 surveys yet, they are more in the $1.50 to $4.00 range. So all in all, I'm pretty happy with this little-engine-that-could type site.

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!