My Awful Experience with Get-Paid.com

I liked the sounds of this website and heard positive things about it from other people so thought I would sign up and give it a try. What a waste of time it has been! In short, the online earning opportunities offered through this site are pretty dismal. I will now go into more detail below.

Offers: This section pays members to complete sign-ups, questionnaires and downloads. I can't say I am a fan of 'paid to sign-up offers' but I did check out some of the offers that paid you to complete questionnaires. Unfortunately, I could only complete two of these questionnaires as all the other questionnaires requested a telephone number. I never provide my telephone number as I have enough telemarketers phoning up as it is! 

The paid-to sign-up offers typically pays members about 200 coins (which works out as $0.40 / £0.25). Considering that each offer takes about half an hour to complete, the pay is ridiculously low.

The questionnaires pay members about 10 - 40 cents. As if this wasn't bad enough, the two questionnaires I completed were rejected so I am not even getting paid for them. I could complain about them but for a grand total of 50 cents it hardly seems worthwhile and I doubt I would get it.

I can't say I tried the downloads because they only pay users about 15 cents per download. For the hassle of installing software and the risk that it may contain viruses, it just isn't worthwhile in my view.

There is an 'Easy Offer' that pays you to listen to the radio. After every ten minutes of listening you have to enter a verification code to confirm that you are actually listening. They then pay you five coins (one cent!). While the pay is pitiful this was definitely the most entertaining offer. You can even choose a station to suit your music tastes. I probably earned about 30 cents through this offer. I should have earned more though but my earnings were obstructed as the website commonly crashed partway through listening. If it crashed you had to refresh the page and the timer was reset. They also had adverts that played. If they were a video advert the radio paused while this advert played. The annoying, invasive adverts and the fact that the radio player commonly crashed were both frustrating and puts one off completing this 'Easy Offer'.

They have a 'Business Cards' offer where you have to fill in blank fields. For example, they will request the Company's email address and you need to type it into the appropriate field. Once again, the pay is very low; one cent for every ten correct entries. I estimate that you could complete ten entries in two minutes if you were very fast. This means that you would earn $0.30 (£0.19) per one hour! It's ridiculous.

On the surface, the 'Daily Surveys' offer is the most lucrative opportunity on the site. They have five surveys that pay you between 45 to 75 cents (25-45p). The surveys take about twenty minutes on average and in one instance it took me about 40 minutes to complete one survey! I am a member of several survey panels and know that you can earn about £1.00 - £1.50 each for surveys of this length.

I waited weeks to be credited. The result was shocking - out of five completed surveys, I have only been paid for one; the other four have been rejected even though I completed them fully. I have completed countless surveys through other sites and have always been paid promptly. I have never had a rejection.

The 'Tasks' page offers crowdsourcing tasks sourced from CrowdFlower. In short, they pay you pennies to complete jobs which are often complicated and time-consuming to complete. This is not my first experience with CrowdFlower; it is present on loads of 'earn money online' websites. I can assure you that CrowdFlower tasks are a waste of time on every site I see them offered.

The 'Videos' page pays you to watch promotional adverts. These adverts can be as long as six minutes though, and for between 0.6 - 1.4c per video, it simply isn't worth the time.

I wouldn't even consider the 'Referrals' offer as I cannot promote this website on principle.

The Toolbar offer is the one I use most frequently. They pay you to search using their Yahoo toolbar. After completing three searches they pay you 50c which is not too bad, especially when considering the other offers available via Get-Paid. After this they pay you one cent for every four valid searches (no duplicate searches and no rapid, multiple searches). This seems okay but it turns out you can only earn 11 cents per day maximum; after this you are not paid for searching until the next day. I have now uninstalled this toolbar because I don't use search engines too much and to earn the maximum daily amount, you have to perform 44 valid searches. Most people, including myself, would have to go out of their way to achieve this and for pennies it simply isn't worth it.

Conclusion:

Overall, I think this has to be one of the worst earn-money websites I have ever been a member of. They pay you very little in exchange for hours of your time and effort. As if this wasn't bad enough, they also reject surveys and questionnaires that you have completed properly. I have earned $3.16 after spending a total of nine hours trying to earn money using this website. I would discourage all readers from signing up to Get-Paid.com, as your time is worth more than $0.36 / hour. There are much better opportunities elsewhere.

The Bottom Line: 

Estimated total amount of time spent: 9 hours

Total cash earned from this website: $3.16 (£1.90)