Whoa! Another fee-free $2!

Just got paid for the Nikon review that I wrote! That makes for a total of (.67 + .3 + 2.1 + 2) $5.07. Nice!

Paid $2.40 By Jenny!

I have just been paid $0.30 and $2.10 by Jenny, owner of Crown Royalz Reviewz and FourLuvz Screamz. Crown Royal Reviews is where you put reviews and pretty much anything else you'd like to write; FourLuvz Screamz is for poetry.

The nice thing about them this time was that there was no Paypal fee. I don't know how she did it, but I'm quite glad to have extra money!

The poem I got payment for was about PTCs and her site(s):
"

Featured Poem !

Comments: Looking here
Looking there
Scammed once
Scammed twice
Wondering if the internet is
Only Lice

Sites that pay
Make my day
As they are quite rare

PTCs
PTRs
And their paypal freezes

And here comes along
a promising site
That looks like day
when makes all of the others are night
But the waters are still troubling

Looking there
Looking here
Paid once
Paid twice
Wishing for the formula
To get rid of

The Lice"

Yep. It's featured. She liked it a lot:
"I completely understand your poem! Wow, I hope your not thinking that I am lice. I loved it! Your getting a bonus: for this review you will get .50 cents! rather than .10 ! Nice job! I have been scammed so many times it isn't even funny. But I am trying to create a site that you can ask questions, submit replies or ideas... have a real person for your business partner. I try to communicate with all the writers to ensure that I am a legit person. You wrote about scam, I will send you a payment now, the last of what i have in my paypal FOR NOW until September just to prove to you .. I am not a scam! I love your poem and it will be published!"


"I take that back, this poem is getting $1.30 I already sent you the .30 cents!"


Not a bad amount for something I enjoy doing! I might even go as far as saying it's better than work-online.org.uk, especially since I'm having a hair-tearing time of figuring out how to work with their keywords! I'm considering just finishing the second payment, and then leaving the site:


"We have added another category of story - "insurance".

Some of the keywords in it are very specific to insurance and finance.

Please dont write stories for the Insurance category unless you are able to write a story that is ABOUT the keywords.

Many thanks, Master admin."


Which would have been a good thing is the keywords they started with. One word keywords I can deal with. But within an hour, they were changed to this:
"cheap motor trade insurance, group, insurance, quotes"
That's a four word keyword! And they want you to write about the topic?! I'm thinking that I'm going to do some research on Insurance stuff and then do the last three stories, and then abandon the site. It's become a mental hassle.

(New one) Paid to Review: Crown Royalz Reviewz

Off of a myLot discussion from Jennitasia I came upon a site called Crown Royalz Reviewz. The claims about it were that it "pays you to write reviews on anything you choose", "[y]ou get paid weekly", with "[p]aypal only". Well, not quite. It's a new site and it's actually a tad more interesting than that. Not scam interesting, though. I was just paid a few moments ago; I am accordingly both posting a proof and an evaluation.

firelash was paid within an hour - it was about 40 - 50 minutes after his first post:

1. "man this site looks a lot better than IM report cards...." (4 hours ago, now)

2. "I GOT PAID ALREADY wow thats a amazing...." (2 hours ago, now)

Like firelash, I was paid pretty fast - about 2-3 hours (My submission was accepted at 6:28PM and I'm writing this at around 9:10PM). He submitted ...

In checking the website to remind myself what firelash's reviews were, I've found that it's Under Construction. I believe he submitted a review about a movie, later doing one on Juno. I submitted one on work-online.org.uk (I like it), bux.to (scam), and 7UP (good for ya stomach).

After I submitted my first review, I wasn't sure what to do. It seemed to double as a sign up and a review at the same time. There wasn't anything specific to review, so I made something up and wrote a tad on it. A few minutes later (perhaps a half hour later), I got a message saying that my review was accepted. I responded to this email and asked for details. I then got another email where I was told that my balance was $1.00. So, I figured that I would be told my balance by email.

Responding to that same email, the admin person said to "allow a month for the payment to process". I then asked if there was a minimum cashout or when I could expect a payment to register/go through. My answer: "No matter what your account limit is: You will be paid once per month or sooner! We will have more funds for immediate payments soon!" and "We hope to have the funds for immediate payments very soon. We would prefer paying immediate payments!"

I then asked when the site started: "We just launched today. You are among the first writers. We will pay all writers. If we earn revenue (to pay the writers with that money) then it will stay launched. We are paying all writers with our own expenses right now! We hope to eventually be able to pay with the built up revenue. We hope that it will be a success. But not to worry. You will be paid."

My response to that was,

"^_^ Awesomez! [....] And you're on myLot! Sweet!"

However, her next response was:

"Yes, that is true. I really wanted to keep that on the down low. I just want to create a site that really pays you know. I hope that it grows. I will pay everyone for their work. My cash! LOL"

I wasn't quite sure why she was wanting to keep on the down low, but now that I've revisited the site to see it under construction, it makes a little more sense. However, I'm not sure why she wants to keep her ownership of it on the down low.

Scam? The possibility of scam is there; however, she is paying people out of her pocket, so unless she starts making upgrades a requirement, it doesn't look like it will turn scam. The only possibility I can see for it, in the negative sense, is the site not getting off the ground.

Anyway, now for the proof:

As you can see, the fee was a tad high...