Dec
18
I've been writing about job scams recently. Yes, the "get paid to…(GPT) offers can be scams. Anything can be a scam. Buying houses, cars… anything. But the offers DO pay, if you do it right. Don't try and make a living at doing them. That is where most people are going wrong. Shoot for weekly food money, or your electric bill. An extra 2-3k a year is totally worth it! Certainly more is possible. Here is how:
Don't answer the ones that randomly arrive in your email box. What you need is a place where all these offers are collected in one place, and tested. When they're all collected and tested, it very easy to find which ones to do, without having to figure out if they're scams, or if you'll get paid or not.
Step #1: Where To Go
The place I use that collects and tests the offers is called Tresure Trooper. It worked better than I expected, and I'm please with the customer service. So there is no reason for me to go elsewhere. There are a few other services like it, but I've not bothered to check them out. Maybe I will in the next few months, just because I've had a good experience with something I was totally convinced was a scam at first.
In this Treasure Trooper screenshot, you can see they're alphabetically organized, and it tells you generally what you must do to get paid. Do the offer, and when you see a "Thank you" type message, STOP right there! Many surveys will keep going, but you're then working for free. The payments will show up on Treasure Trooper in a few hours.
Step #2: Get An Email Account
The next thing you need is a specific mailing address just for these offers, because they will spam you like you've never thought possible. There is an offer on Treasure Trooper for "iwon" which gives you 50cents to create an email account. That should be the first offer you complete. It not only shows you how the process works, but you need a valid email you can access, because some offers want you to to confirm completion.
As you can see from the description, if you want more money, you have to give up more information. The higher value ones usually require a credit card, and probably want you to buy a trial period of something. Like, AOL Internet service for example. When you cancel this trial period, you get a refund, and the refund is usually twice what you paid to signed up for. One guy made $422 in a few hours. However, he planned it that way. Not for deception, but an experiment to see how much he could make in the shortest time period. So, be realistic starting out, and shoot for food money…. Actually, if anyone had a software program that reminded them what offers they're supposed to cancel, it would awesome! Wow, great idea, I should make one.
Do maybe 20 minutes of time a day. That way, it takes less time to complete, and it won't feel like monotonus work. I garuntee that if you try and do 50 offers a day, you will last one day! What you need is small consistent effort. Remember, they only pay out once a month, so it doesn't make sense to burst out of the gate, doing a shitload of work, and having to wait a whole month to get paid. Before long, it's the end of the money and a nice surprise that money arrives, which is more motivating.
Another interesting thing, is when you complete an offer at Treasure Trooper, they have a shell game where you can win a prize. It's three clams, and you have to guess which clam has the pearls. You're supposed to trade them in, but oddly, I don't want to part with my horde of pearls. What the heck is wrong with me, they're not even real pearls, damn that's weird.
Anyway, here's a previous posts about how to get started: (scroll halfway down this page)
I need to update this, since I've been paid a few times since then, but here is the older I got paid:
Oh, one more thing. When you get all these spam emails, only respond to the ones that need you to verify something. Don't even bother emptying this email box, unless it's full. They will flood this email address with other offers, but if you follow those offers, you WON'T get paid. They just want to try and get you to do more work, for free. That's why the Treasure Trooper system and others are nice, because you'll know EXACTLY what needs to be done, in order to get paid.
Jeff Knooren has been a professional software and website developer for over 8 years. Working in leadership roles for political candidates, b-list musicians, and fortune 1000 companies.
Comments
9 Responses to “Treasure Trooper”
Do you know anything about this new site www.moneytrooper.com that is coming out?
Check out [deleted] they seem pretty good and they pay.
[EDITOR: If you’re going to give suggestions on other services, please explain and don’t link spam. - Jeff Knooren]
well
don’t sign up for mt.com(moneytrooper)
i tried, and it is exactly the same as treasuretrooper. they copied everything, but the skin is different
even copied mabutu’s trading hut, and the same pending offers, sh!t like that. its fake . i put fake info to register
lol. get a job - it will pay better.
besides, that site is going to be, uh, gone soon. lol
I use Treasure Trooper and it “did it” for quite a while. However, the market seemed really saturated referral-wise. I have about 500 referrals and make payout almost every month with no work, so that’s nice. But for the time that I can invest into it, the money’s really not in it. I now use a program that allows me to be paid for blog posts that I write for them. Anywhere between $5 - $20 (and up into the hundreds depending on PR.) It’s still not great money, but it’s guaranteed payout, I don’t have to wait and wonder which are going to approve. I mean, my blog is only a PR of 1, but with that I can make a good $40 per day in about a half an hour before I go to my real job.
But yeah, I actually wrote a blog article about it here:
http://melbelshebel.blogspot.com/2007/11/get-paid-to-post-in-your-blog.html
Never heard of moneytrooper till now ..
I used Treasure Trooper and made nearly $700 in one year off of them. My highest check was $179. My lowest was $20.
They are not a scam. They DO pay. Its just a matter of getting in there and figuring out what works and what doesn’t.
I am new to treasure trooper. I have about $ 6 in it. I need more info about referrals, whats the best way to get people to sign up? thnx
serendipituous, do not depend on referrals for the main means of generating any income. Best to fill out the offers yourself.
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