Make money with Cash Crate
The truth about CashCrate
I recently heard about this program and thought I would check it out. Basically you get paid for filling out short surveys and giving your email address to spammers.
The sign up is simple enough. It only takes about 30 seconds and once you complete that, they take you to the below screen. Here you select which offers you would like to complete. You click the offer on the left and once you complete the offer, then you click the submit button. Cash Crate then verifies that you completed it and then adds the funds to your account.
All of the offers I have done so far are actually very short and easy to fill out. Only taking about 30 -60 seconds to fill out for each one.
The problem is that it is difficult to tell how much of the offer you need to fill out.
So for example, the “Running Shoes” offer above gives you the below screen…
I think this is all you have to actually fill out to get paid, BUT as soon as you press submit it takes you to this screen…
So, now they are taking you down a trail to get a $150 gift card, which you are going to have to jump through about 1000 hoops and sign up for credit cards and a bunch of other stuff to actually get it.
I wish they would have a screen that says, “you have completed this offer,” but they seem to just try to confuse people into filling out additional offers that were not part of the CashCrate offer.
But like I said above, I think all you need to fill out is that first screen with your email address in order to get your $1.00 for that offer. Others ask you survey-type questions, some want your physical address, etc.
Well, that just sounds too easy
A lot of companies run their businesses completely off of email lists. So, you are getting paid $1.00 to get added to their email list. It may or may not be worth it to you. But I can almost promise you that you are going to start getting a lot of spam in your inbox
How handle this
I have a few different email addresses that I use. One is only given to businesses. So, any time I sign up for anything that I think could possibly add my address to a list I use that address. That email gets hundreds of emails a day, so I only check it when I am specifically looking for an activation email or something similar.
My review of CashCrate
It seems like a decent way to make a few extra bucks. I filled out about 7 offers (they have hundreds available) in 15-20 minutes. It would have been shorter, but I was following some of their deceptive rabbit trails.
After filling out the offers my my account shows that I have earned $2.90 and have $4.40 pending. As CashCrate verifies that I filled out the offers, the money moves from the pending earnings to July’s earnings. They say it can take from 5 minutes to a couple of hours for them to get approved.
They also have a generous referral program, so you get a cut of everyone who signs up from your referral link. I guess I will see how successful that is after I post this article.
I am going to continue using them, but only because I am not going to give them my personal email address.
I would love to hear from people who have used it so far. Is there anything I am missing?
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I just started using them as well, and so far I’ve been able to make enough for the first payout - in only a couple of days of doing the offers in free moments.
Like you said, it can be confusing, but maybe worth it if you have a separate email address set up for this sort of thing.
@Pete
yea, it seems like a great way to utilize a few minutes here or there to make some cash… It could get pretty mind-numbing doing it for hours on end
just got my first check from them this morning in the mail for $14.65
I haven’t started using them yet. But I might set up a new hotmail account just so I can start using them. An extra $20 every so often wouldn’t go astray for me.
I am not sure if I have enough time for it though. I am busy studying, working at a part time job and also being an online entrepreneur with my wealth blog.
I will save the site and come back to it later.
Aren’t you getting hundreds of spam emails from them everyday? I thought I read somewhere they would send you hundreds of spams a day, however haven’t tried this myself so I might be missing something.
Sam
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@tiffanie
That is reassuring. Thanks.
@Sam
well, I don’t give them my personal email address, so the email address that I give them already gets a lot of spam and I don’t use it for personal emails.
But, I haven’t yet noticed an increase. I am SURE it will come, but it hasn’t really started yet. I just dig through that email account to confirm registration for some of the offers that require it.
To be honest I haven’t noticed a ton of emails from them. I know there is a setting so that you don’t receive newsletters and other emails from cashcrate - but you’ll probably still get emails from other companies that you’ve signed up with through cashcrate.
I just did a review of cashcrate on my site as well, and so far it’s done just fine for me - I’ve made $15 dollars now in only a couple hours, along with another $23 pending. not bad for just doing it in some free time.
@Pete
you know the question I am having is… For the pending funds, I wonder if they will ever tell you if you missed a step or that you need to fulfill another requirement to get the money - or does it just stay in your pending account forever?
Ok this is really interesting. Thanks for the info Bob. Will definitely try this out within the week. Will let you know how it works on my end.
Cheers!
Sam
This is a bad idea. To me it looks like an easy way to get scammed, like Columbia House or Amway.
Well, I am not sure… So far I have been making money, haven’t gotten many more emails than before, and haven’t gotten scammed (to the best of my knowledge anyway)
I have joined Columbia House and while they do have some strict rules you have to follow, I wouldn’t call them a scam.
And for Amway, well what are you doing for dinner? How bout you come over to my house, because I have found some products that will revolutionize your life
Good review: these are good points to know. But what about actually getting paid? Are there any other hoops you have to jump through for that? Special things you need to sign up for? Can Canadians participate?
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@Money Energy
Since I just started, I haven’t received a check yet. But I do know at least two people who have received a check from them… I don’t think there are any hoops, but I will update this post if I find any… and I am not sure about Canadians - you probably aren’t eligible since you have great healthcare- don’t you?
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