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Posted By: Josh In Response To: "Get Paid To...."almost anything is a scam (Bill Carton - the Roadie)
Saturday, 15 April 2006, at 5:07 a.m.
Hi, I was just surfing around the Internet and found this thread taking place here. Ironically, you've been to gptboycott.com. If you've spent time there, you'll recognize me by the same username, Josh, over at that forum.
You're absolutely correct most "paid to" sites out their are scams, frauds or at least flawed so deeply that they'll never make it. There are a number that pay, but even many of those require some sort of fraud to actually bring in the money.
Are there paying ones that also run themselves legitimately? You bet. Is it worth the time to find them while sifting through all of the good and the bad? Well, that really depends on the person.
If you're thinking of how much you're earning on an hourly basis, it's probably not worth your time. Even if you were sticking to the good ones without needing any research, you'd never pull over a dollar an hour in the longrun, it's just not the same as a job.
If you have extra time, and just want to earn a little money with it, then it's a more viable situation for you. The truly worthwhile sites (of which there are few, but they do exist) are much more than a means of earning money. So much emphasis is put on earning money that people always seem to forget how their payments are covered: by advertising. The best sites out there are the ones that give you a penny to watch an ad, and the ads actually show you a unique product, an exclusive sale, a niche-type website, or something similar. If you catch my drift, in a good model, the penny would be worth far, far less than what you might find advertised.
That's my take. Glad I found this discussion!
Take care.
Josh
> Just discovered a site that discusses "get paid to..." scams:
> http://www.gptboycott.com/
> It's one fatal flaw is that the site assumes there **HAS** to be some
> non-scam operations out there. I believe there are none.
> If there are a couple of non-scam ones, it's certainly a waste of time and
> brain cycles to wade through the 99.98% of them that are crap.
> Same thing with HYIP and Forex.
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