Before I start this InboxDollars review, let’s put the facts on the table:
- Inbox Dollars - Get paid to check your email. $5 bonus just for signing up!
- Survey Junkie - The #1 survey site that doesn't suck. Short surveys, high payouts, simply the best.
- Nielsen - Download their app and get paid $50!
- We all read emails.
- We all love money.
- It would be really awesome to get paid to read emails.
InboxDollars promises just that and they even go as far as to make the claim that ‘Money really does grow on trees.’ But just how accurate are these claims? Can you really get paid to just read emails? We wouldn’t call ourselves professional product and program testers if we didn’t give you an answer to these questions.
You can make money, but that doesn’t mean you necessarily will make money.
Each email that you read will net you anywhere between 1 to 10 cents. But these aren’t emails you would normally want to read. They’re advertisements for various programs or products that would result in InboxDollars making hefty revenue if you followed through and signed up for the program. Aside from emails, you can also “get paid” to play games, sign up for surveys, sign up for programs, shop, and search the internet.
What you aren’t told is that you will need to start spending money first and you’ll receive a measly percentage back on your spendings. This is the hidden truth behind their “get paid to” claims.
Take for example, this “Deal” offered for LifeLock. You get paid $20 if you spend anywhere from $120 to $324 for a LifeLock membership.
Okay, sure, this might be a deal if you are actually interested in their service and would like some money back, but for 99% of users this “deal” is completely meaningless.
My Results
I’ve been a member for about two weeks now and I have received 14 emails for a total of $0.40 cents. That’s a little less than 3 cents per email. If we take into account the $5.00 sign up bonus and the $1.00 introduction survey, I will need to read approximately 857 more emails.
At the current rate of 1 email per day, I’m looking at over 2 years of reading email just to receive my first $30 check. I don’t know about you, but I have better things to do than click on an advertisement once a day for the next 2 years just to receive $30.
You make a lot of progress really fast early on, but according to our readers in the comments below and some of the reviews we’ve seen around the web, emails start to slow when you approach the cash out mark.
Even worse, there are reports of accounts getting closed right when they are ready to cash out. We can’t confirm these reports and InboxDollars does reserve the right to cancel your account if you violate their code of conduct.
The Real Source of Funds
At this point, you’re probably asking yourself how could they possibly make money by sending out emails. I decided to look into a few of the programs that are heavily promoted throughout the site. Take for example, eBay. InboxDollars will pay you $6.00 to sign up at eBay and place a bid. Not bad right? Wrong. They’re making anywhere between $25-$35 every time a new user signs up at eBay and places a bid.
Stamps.com is also heavily promoted at a $10 bonus just for signing up for their free trial. However, in the event you forget to cancel the free trial after a couple of weeks, you will be billed $15.99 per month and InboxDollars makes $50.
Stay far away from any free trial offers. That is where you will most likely lose a lot of money.
It sounds like users are getting the short end of the stick while InboxDollars laughs all the way to the bank.
I’ve tried that and I don’t like it.
If you have nothing better to do than to read emails (read: view advertisements) for the next few years, then by all means sign up and get started. I do feel that doing anything at InboxDollars aside from reading emails is a recipe for disaster.
In an extreme case, suppose you sign up for the Stamps.com free trial and forget about your account. In a month you will be billed and in the event that you refuse to pay you can have your account forwarded to collections which could have a disastrous effect on your credit score.
This result could yield hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in damages all for a measly $10.
Personally, I’m closing my account.
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How Does Inbox Dollars Compare?
If you’re looking for a decent alternative, I would highly suggest looking into SwagBucks. I’ve reviewed them a few months back and I’ve actually made money and was able to cash it out. and give some tips on how to quickly start making some money with them.
SwagBucks does pay you to do a number of things, watch videos, play games, answer surveys, but my favorite is that they pay you just to search the web. SwagBucks gets paid by sending you Google’s sponsored results and, as a thank you, sends some of their earnings back to you.
I’ve switched my main search engine to SwagBucks. They are using Google’s results, so you are still seeing the same exact page you’d see if you searched Google directly. But by going through them first, you can earn some extra money.
I highly suggest that you create an account today. You’ll quickly see why I recommend SwagBucks over InboxDollars. Plus, you get a free $5 bonus just for signing up.
SwagBucks Pays: Here’s Proof
I can’t make a recommendation without offering a little bit of proof that it actually works.
Here’s a look at my total earnings so far: 
1 SwagBuck roughly equals 1 penny. So I’ve made approximately $928.78 since joining!
And here’s a peek at my personal cash outs.
You can redeem your SwagBucks for a number of things, but I’ve found it’s best to go for gift cards at places you normally shop. That seems to get you the most value for your “SwagBuck” and if you are as addicted to Amazon as I am, it’s a great way to lower your credit card bill.
That’s right. I’ve been able to make over $900 and it didn’t take over 2 years of clicking links in emails.
The Bottom Line
If you’ve gotten this far, by now you should realize I’m not a fan of InboxDollars.
There are better alternatives out there that have proven track records.
I’d suggest you stick with something else.
Inbox Dollars is awful!!! They get you sucked in the with $5 sign up bonus and then only pay you pennies for the emails they send you. Then they come up with any excuse to not send you your check once you finally reach your $30 which seems to take forever!
I just happened across this site while surfing the net and want to make a quick response.
First not everything is for everyone. We are all different so we can expect that some will like ice cream and cake and some will not. That is our choice.
Personally I think that InBoxDollars is not a scam, unless by scam you mean I am disappointed I can’t get rich doing nothing.
I am a member of InBoxDollars and am pleased with the results. I decided that I was sufficiently impressed with the results that I would become an affiliate this week. Although I am an affiliate my opinions are my own and I do not get paid for telling you what I think.
I have found that InBoxDollars is like almost all the other similiar sites what you make of it. Same goes for anything you do in life.
I just wrote an article on my blog at Penny-Pincher’s Pal about my “10 Top Favorite Things” and InBoxDollars is one of the sites I feature.
You can’t expect to pay your rent with your earnings from InBoxDollars or any of the other similar sites, but it can provide a form of recreation and some additional spending money for very little effort. If you have the potential to make more money somewhere else and that is what you want to do than by all means do it, but there’s no need to trash a legitimate enterprise just because you didn’t get what you wanted.
Good luck and have fun.
FrugalFather
Thank you so much for writing this great article. I’ve been a member of Inboxdollars for about 3 months (maybe more). I don’t know how new is this post but, I want to share some of my experiences: I signed up for Inboxdollars and complete the introduction survey so I made $6 dollars. I kept reading e-mails and completed a few more surveys, after three months I had earned $28 and as a result I can’t access to my account; it seems that the deleted my account because I was about to get my first check.
I’d like to make a clarification of my comments: “I read through many of the post and I have to disagree with many of you. I have not very good experiences with the pay for clicks sites.” This is a grammatical error on my part. I meant to say that I have had very good experiences with the pay for clicks sites. I just joined InBoxDollars a couple of weeks ago and I already have over $33 in my account. I did make a few purchases, but they were such outstanding deals that I could not have gotten otherwise that I was all over them. The $33 is a bonus for me.
Have fun and remember if you want to know about some of the sites and methods I use just shot me an email and I’ll shoot you the info and a referral. The referral is good for you and pays me for my time to help you. Fair enough?
I want to say that inbox may just not be for you. It is great for people who well shop ebay, or some of there other online stores. I have gotten two checks. It does take a while but if you are a stay at home parent then it is great. The surveys are fun and informative. And for friendly helper, Maybe some people are not looking to get rich, and just want a little bit of pocket money. Plus don’t credit cards to the same thing, it pays to discover. Ya with high interest rates. Not ment toward TexasVet, you sound like you got the market cornered, good job.
I read through many of the post and I have to disagree with many of you. I have not very good experiences with the pay for clicks sites. I and my wife and family and friends all participate and enjoy getting miles, money, and gift cards. I do shop at some of the sites and get a percentage back for my purchases, but I do not buy something that is overpriced compared to a local store deal, I use my credit card(s) to get points and miles and even make purchases for family and friends so I can get more points from the portal websites as well as more points or miles on my credit cards. The way I do it is like a triple play. This is a way that I supplement my income in retirement. If you want to know more about the sites I use you can email me and I will send you the info or a referral. Enjoy and have a great day.
Even on a fast speed connection I can maybe read and confirm 4 emails a minute. People your time is not worth 8 cants a minute.
Try mypoints.com They send you emails daily where you get 5 points each, plus if you shop online like i do…you get so many points per dollar or sometimes if you order so much they’ll give you like a bonus. I’ve been a member with them since 2003 and I’ve received about $7,000 from them. Granted, the rewards are in the form of gift cards, but they have numerous retailers that offer rewards, such as Wal-Mart, Target, gas cards, etc. Usually a $50 gift card will cost about 7,000 points. Get the gist?
That is really a scam. Why should I spent dollars then the return is just cents. Thanks for the review at least now I know what should I won’t enter.
I do Inbox Dollars and I like it. Yea it does take a little bit of time and your not going to rich from it but its money and it’s fun. I got paid twice now.
I got a total of $70. No it is not a scam.
Is there any way to find Paid To Click Sites that really pay? In particular, the ones that pay $10.00 per click. I belong to a few, but I do not know their pay records yet: Ten Dollar Click, Fine PTC, Wishmails to name a few. I am always interested in referrals, so if you’re interested, please let me know.
I do Inbox Dollars. I agree that when you just confirm reading the emails and take the surveys, it does take quite a while to accumulate the min for a check. But I also shop on-line with some of their retailers, so I figure if I am going to spend my money anyway, I might as well get something in return. That part does work out nicely.
Inbox Dollars is not a scam. I have been paid by them. I am a member of mostly survey sites however. Inbox dollars is more of a gpt site with a daily survey. It is not my favorite site but I have never spent any money on the site to get to the cash out level. I only participate in free offers and surveys. Someone above mentioned My points. I recently signed up for this program. I have not spent any money on this site either. I have already accumulated enough points for a gift card. It is really easy to rack up points. In my opinion survey sites and GPT sites are fine for some extra cash. I started doing surveys in September 2009 and started receiving checks in October, and every month thereafter. I only participate in about 25% of the surveys I am sent or I would make a lot more. There have been a couple of survey panels I was a member of that I cancelled. I knew people who made money with them. I just didn’t like the sites. I think the people here calling this program a scam just did not like the site, or it just wasn’t for them.
Here are some survey sites that are all legitimate if anyone is interested in trying them out: Opinion Outpost, Valued Opinions, Surveyhead, Survey Spot, Daily Survey Panel, American Consumer Panel, NFO my survey, Synovate, and E-poll.
i was sure thinking of sigining up to inbox dollars, but after some research and a little math sure shows how this site is just a big scam. hell if you like wasting time then go ahead. there my 2 cents.
Peace.
I suspect some of these positive posts of being people working for the site seems like a lot of time to invest just to find out, thanks everyone.
HI
All of you who are beating up on Inboxdollars, i am a member and i like them. I am 78 years old, and i click and delete, and get about 4 emails a day. I know it’s not a lot but i am haveing fun. It only takes me about 1 min and every once and awhile i get a check. I have included a copy of my earnings for your info. I also do some survey’s and also belong to over 50 other paid e mail sites. Which i also get a check every once and awhile, I
spend about 45 minutes a day and it is my funtime. If you look at my earnings i posted and multiply by 50 it’s not to bad . so this old man is haveing a great time and getting checks every once and awhile.
I like inboxdollars
My Inboxdollar earning’s
Payment HistoryAmount Type Status Date Requested Date Paid
$30.03 Check Completed May 09, 2009 May 13, 2009
$97.58 Check Completed Apr 28, 2008 May 07, 2008
$33.20 Check Completed Mar 11, 2008 Mar 19, 2008
$29.00 Check Completed Dec 14, 2007 Feb 01, 2008
$57.16 Check Completed Feb 13, 2007 Apr 03, 2007
Just a note about inboxdollars. They do charge $3 check processing fee, they do tell you about it. It is in the Terms and Conditions section that you agreed to when you signed up. Take the time to read those things when you sign up for anything and you won’t be surprised later.
I have Inbox Dollars , My Points SendEarnings, I love all 3 sites, But there is One Site that I really do want ya to know about . The Site is Called QuickRewards Network, Ther is a No Mininum Payout . If you have 1 cent they will pay it to you in your paypal account. They have different things to do on the site to make money with . There is also another Site I would like to tell you about that is FreeRide.com . They send emails and you click on them to earn points, After a certain amount of points you can trade them in for Gift Cards. These 2 sites are my Favorite , If you would like to be one of my referrals just email me and I will give you a link.
Look everyone this is how inbox dollars works ok! THEY DO PAY YOU! I have been paid twice by inbox dollars working on the third (i joined last year round this time). First rule once you get enough to cash out they charge a 3 buck processing fee so I recommend earning 3 bucks over whatever your cashout desire ie if you want 50 bucks earn 53 then cashout. THIS IS WHERE ALOT OF PEOPLE END UP LOSING THEIR EARNINGS. YOU HAVE TO KEEP ANSWERING THE EMAILS ETC. Once you cash out you cannot stop reading the emails in your inbox or whatever until your check reaches approved and sent status. Which means if you don’t continue to participate up until your check is processed which is about a month and some change after cashout request YOU WONT GET PAID IT IS IN THE RULES READ THE SMALL PRINT PEOPLE! Ok, after you get your first check and blow it :-) you earn enough to cashout again your check comes in a whole lot faster especially if you opted for gold member status with gold member status your check comes hella quick like a week! Now listen you are not gonna get money off the emails alone it takes about two years just reading the emails not doing offers to cashout. So I recommend for the noobies to the survey game to focus on a whole bunch of refferals and do ALL THE FREE OFFERS! Let me explain It used to be that the daily surveys were a dollar a whop then last year it went from a buck to fifty cents. Now if you are a virgin to Inbox smackers then let me talk you through this, a plan of attack mind you. Patience young butterflies! :-)
Here we go:
Do allllll the free offers first! DO NOT DO THE CREDIT CARD REQUIRED ONES YET! DO only strickly the free offers, read emails and do the daily surveys and you will have cashout in no time. Ok heres the catch, you will run out of free offers fairly quickly, thats why I said max them (free offers) out first. Now you have cashed out and your check is sent, DONOT SPEND IT! (unless you have to) take those earnings and invest in either a prepaid debit card, join paypal OR get a separate bank account strictly for survey taking and get a debit card and load your first inbox earnings on it probaly 30 bucks. Now you are ready for the REAL MONEY! BUT! it comes with a cost if you are not careful!
The credit card offers are usually 2-5 bucks to 20 bucks a whop! This is where the paypal or pre-paid card or alternate bank account comes into play cause trust me you dont want to use your real life credit card or bank account for these ventures cause things can get hairy quick. When you do the credit card offers you usually have to use whatever services for free until the trial (usually 14 days to a month) is over then you CANCEL THE SERVICE and or trial before it starts to charge your account or credit card their fee. Sounds easy? well it is if you keep up with the offer expiration dates. So when you do em write em down and their end date cause who wants to be charged 50 bucks for a damn ebay toolkit anyways!
Well in a nutshell thats how to get the big bucks you just gotta remember to cancel these credit card offers after the trial and before they start to charge you, be very very very careful cause it can turn ugly quickly. Well have fun folks. Hope this helped a lil bit.
I just started inbox dollars idk if im really going to get paid im up to 10 bucks though? anyone know how long it takes to get them to send ur check out?
I have been owed $50.00 from Inboxdollars for about a year & they have never paid, even after several requests for payment.
Inbox dollars has worked for me i am on my 3rd check, and they are cashable – you’re just clicking the links, seeing what the e-mail sasy, if you’re not interested delete and move on. So I can do that once or twice a week.
Now hits 4 pay on the other hand is a bust, I joined in 2006, took me until May 2009 to reach $25.00, (and that is with the $10.00 enrollment fee), because they send you e-mails less often once they see you are getting close to a pay out, and on top of all that once I reached the $25.00 dollars they don’t even pay out, because they say my address doesn’t match. I ask them doesn’t match what, I know my address, and after about 10-15 e-mails going back and forth, and still not receiving my check, I finally canceled. Now Hits4pay that’s really a waste of one’s time
to paiddoingsurveys: you are soooooo hott!!! I am in love with your avatar <3<3<3
Have anyone ever tried project payday?
Does anyone know a great paying Legit Mystery Shopper Site?
i just signed up but i haven’t completed filling in my personal address info and stuff b/c i noticed it’s not a secure site. should i be worried about that, b/c i am?
i can make more money walking around the mall picking up pennies that people drop than i can with inbox dollars. plus its a lot more fun than sitting on my ass all day trying to make a few pennies that i may never see and once i find it its mine it doesnt cost $3 to keep it. se ya at the mall
I joined inboxdollars and was active for about two months and i was doing “great”* until i figured out i can earn more by referrals, so i created 3 more email accounts and i sent a referral to all three. I received points or rewards for the three referrals and i felt i have figured out a way to beat them. A few days later i realized my account was terminated due to violation of terms. Apparently a household cannot share a computer or have access to inbox via different accounts. I just wish i got to that first check :( but as many of you here have pointed out, it’s not worth it. Am looking to work on Ebay, at least that pays :(
inbox dollars is a huge waste of time! i have better things to do than read emails for 2 years just to make 30 bucks. do the math people. This guy is telling it like it is!
I joined 3 PTC sites the week of 6/13/09 and am making money from all 3 just by reading emails, no referrals. Now, I am hoping they will all pay also.
Inboxdollars: $5 sign up bonus + $7.40 = $12.40
Dealsncash: $8.65
Hit$4pay: $13.28
All in the past 40 some days. Like I said, as long as they pay, I can’t complain. I also signed up for Revbux and personally think it is a joke. The other sites I joined all pay $0.01 to $0.03 per email I read while Revbux pays $0.0025 per email/click. I would have to read 4X the emails from Revbux to make the same money from the other 3.
I am also trying some online surveys and have joined MySurvey.com. It seems to have potential. Points for surveys vary and 1000 points = $10.00. I joined This past Monday and have 175 points already. I have not gotten any surveys from them since day 1 but I have a brother that belongs and he makes around 10,000 points per month from them. Hopefully I can get to that point soon and find other survey sites as trusted as MySurvey.com.
I really enjoy reading this site, it has tons of good information on it. However I can’t say that I totally trust the programs they recommend. Of the ones I see they recommend cost $29.?? per month. I would love to make BIG $$$ online and realize it may take a lot of time and work, however when I began my “make $$$ online” quest, I vowed to spend NO MONEY. Through many hours of my time researching, it seems that all the information these companies “sell” you is out there for FREE! It just takes TIME to find it, and only working part-time, I have the time to do this. I don’t think the recommended programs here are scams, but I am just very leery of paying to make money. Aside from the cost of a bus pass each month, I pay NOTHING to keep my current job, other than time.
Just my opinion on things though, and am sure there a lots of you reading this that would have no problem paying to make money online, especially if you can make $1,000.00 per month, and good luck to those of you that do! Maybe someday I will get there!!
Thanks for reading and good luck in your quest to make money online!!
I’ve been in MyPoints since Feb 2002 and have earned 12105 points and have enjoyed many $10 gift certificates for the Red Lobster and Olive Garden Restaurants
I hear some many of you complain about inboxdollars and cancel their accounts. Tell me this did cost you anything to set up a account with them!! Why cancel something that is free. You can not say it clogs your mailbox cause the only send a couple emails a day, and they are for a few cents each, there are no timers you to wait for for your earnings to be credited to your account. Yes!! I am a gold member and been several times from inbox dollars, I do surveys and play games. Even if you only made $30 in a year from this company, for very little effort,It’S still free money, I only view the ads once a week and I m through them in 2 1/2 minutes. If you do not have that kind of time to spend on something that was given to you for FREE. Here is one concept people over look and quite before they make in money online. There is no one website that is going to make you tons of cash with little effort. But what if I had 30 sites just like inboxdollars giving me $30 every couple months. Yes!! this is possible do with only spending a hour on my kitchen table every morning, of course, I have gotten good at flying through the ads. So, answer this question if you made a extra $1,800 to $2,000 dollars to spend on christmas every year make holidays a bit nicer!! Cotter web is the company that owns inbox dollars you might be shocked to learn that they have more than one paid to read emails site. Others I recommend are neobux ( pays instantly by by paypal and alertpay) Same day as requested,even for free members. also Hits4pay is high on the list, but remember getting referrals to that site is important, you will have there email address in your downline so keep in contact with them to keep them viewing ads, even help the get some referrals, cause this is one of the few sites that pay you for your referrals referral. 2 levels deep, anther is snapdollars, palmbux, and the list goes on. I have been making money online since 2004 and this is just one of the types of work I do online to give my kids Awesome christmas presents. What would you kid say if they woke up to a new top of the line bike, or computer ect. Just because you took a hour out of your day everyday to view some ads. This not the kind of work that will let you quit your day job, but my boss is not giving me a $2,000 dollar bonus every year.
I signed up for inbox. I did not know that you can’t get any check until you reach $30. I am 59 college educated and white. THEY DO NOT WANT MY OPINIONS. I’m going to cancel
Inboxdollars ruined my credit and put me in debt for $1500. I signed up for an AOL music trial for something like an $8 payment (which I never received). I never even bothered to download the software. I tried to cancel before my trial was over, but AOL music said I sadi to cancel through AOL. So I called AOL who said I wasn’t subscribed with AOL and I hadn’t even downloaded the software so there’s no reason AOL would be charging me for internet service I wasn’t using. I called AOL music again who told me to speak with a manager at AOL. I did so, and the person said my account had been canceled. Well, I still got charged $25 atthe end of the month which made my account overdraw because I was very,. very poor at the time. By the way, never use US Bank. they charge you an extra $7/day that your account is overdrawn. So I called AOL and told them about this and they told me there was no record of an agent canceling my account and that I should call and sopeak with an AOL music manager. I did so, and after the guy proceeded to come on to me for most of the call, he said all woild be taken care of. So I figure it had to be taken of, but wondered why my account was overdrawn so often. I figured it was just because I was 18 and didn’t understand budgeting and such yet. Also, strangely, no AOL charge was listed on my statement – and yet the money was gone, though it LOOKed like all charges were accounted for. Finally I called by bamk’s customer servvice and asked why this kept happening and they said AOL was charging me. I was very mad, and demanded to speak to a senior person at AOL, who convinced me to sigh uop for an AOL email account and keep my “service
long enough to make a claim and hopefully get a refund. That didn’t work, and I was charged for yet anothe rmontyh (It;s been over a year by now). I finally called again and demanded that my membership be cancled and sure enough there was no record of my ever trying to cancel my membership. I decided all I could do was switch banks so they couldn’t charge me anymore. By this time I have a balance of negative $250 that I can’t pay off so I go to cloe my bank account before the debt grows any moe and am told I can’t because I have a “pending charge” which was – you guessed it – AOL! I said I do not authorize the charge, and they said that doesn’t matter, you can’t withdraw authorization ofr a charge or anything like that when you pay with a bank card. I tried to get this issue resolved through my bank. but that didn’t work and by the time they let me close my account it was negative $856. I moved on, because there was no way I could pay it. Then I started recieving paoper bills for AOL. I wrote on it “cancel service” and sent it in. I never heard back, but for all I know they’ve been charging me anyway for the last 4 years.
I’m quite lucky I got a new bank account before my $856 dollar US Bank debt was sent to collection, because once that happened I (and my husband, because it was a joint account) were put in “check systems” which means we could not open a bank account for the next five years, even if we paid off the debt. Thank God they let us keep the account we had!
Somehow the collection agency found me after I’d moved to PA and sent me a leter cheerfully informing me that I was being sured for $1500 for a US Bank debt plu “interest”. Great. Still no way to pay it.
My advice is to stay clear of “free trials” for cash, or any reason if there is an alternative. Refunds are never as easy as they should be.
That’s horrible, Julis! AOL has been a b!*#@$d ever since version 4.0, which is when I cancelled my account and never went back.
I’ve been a member there for about six months, and just broke the $10 mark. That’s SAD. I figured I’d stay involved, though, until I could cash out (free money still, right?)
I’ve had much better luck with true GPT and survey sites.
http://www.paiddoingsurveys.com
I have done the inbox dollars thing for a while and was thoroughly disappointed when I FINALLY got to $30 to get a check and they deducted $3.00 (10%) for a net of $27.00. I will quit after my next check. It’s something, not you sure won’t get rich doing it.
how long does it take to be approve?
Try youdata.com. I joined and have made $7 in 4 weeks. Not much but it is a well developed site. Oh! you get paid $1 for a new recruit. I sell on Ebay and find the you can do almost anything to make $. Love this site and am glad I found it!
My first check was to be processed today for $31+, I requested the check for these earnings in mid-February, since then I had accumulated another $40+ from playing cash games. Today, logged in to see if the first check was processed, my account has been terminated. IT’s a huge scam.
Well, I tried the Inboxdollars site also. It does take a very long time to earn the cash, but I did end up getting a check from it. It was a waste of time though.
I religiously viewed every email I was sent, answered every survey I was eligible for (which weren’ many), andeven made some purchases. The minute I sent for a check, my account was cancelled and I received no check. I also have 3 referrals they did the same thing with. It’s a scam!!!
I signed up last summer with Inbox Dollars and have not had a problem. I find that doing a survey or two a day and reading emails can easily pay over $30 a month. It’s not meant to be a “get rich” endeavor nor is it a dependable income, but it is what I call, “pocket change” for a rainy day.
Just my 2 cents.
Rewards Central (used to be EmailCash) is pretty legitimate. I’ve been there 3 years and have made over $100. About to get a check…
Lol, yeah it took me 3 years to make $100 but hey, it only takes 15 seconds a day to click a web ad, which you close straight away and answer a quick survey. Gets you 5 cents a day. It adds up.
Plus theres the odd email which gets you 5 cents, and the odd survey which gives you 20 for opening it, and if you get accepted you can get quite a lot more. I got 2 bucks for my last one…
Im only a kid, so that 100 bucks will do my good. Might not be worth your time if you’re an adult. But seriously, there are no sites which are gonna give you 5 bucks a day.
Btw, I think it might only work for Aussies…
My 2 cents.
Thanks for doing the legwork and the heads-up. You’ve saved me a bunch of time!
Rose
all of you that are deleting your account after you get your $30 dollars are scamming yourself, you get a gold membership free when you reach $30 dollars and you recieve a little bit out of what all the people who did not join via referrals money, if lets say 500 surveys, 1000 emails and 250 offers are done everyday by people who arent referred by people lets say each survey is worth 50 cents, each email is worth 2 cents and each offer is a dollar thats $250 worth of surveys, $20 worth of emails, and $250 worth of offers, so thats $520 dollars made by people not reffered, and since so many people leave after their 30$ is made or before and get deleted due to inactivity, their cant be too many people who actually have a gold membership, so you could probably get 1-5 cents free every day, may not sound like much but if you did 1 survey a week and got 8 paid emails a week, plus lets say 3 cents a day from people who arent referred, without any of your own referrals you could get a 30$ check in approximately 38 days not counting the time it will take them to actually send your check, inbox dollars might take forever to get your first payment, so if you want to make a fortune online dont bother with it, but for those of you that have already gotten or are close to getting your check, why back out now? the hard part is already done, or close to it but thats just my opinion
i FINALLY read enough emails to earn $30 to be able to request a check. it probably took about 2 years, like you said above. when i requested my check, they took out $3 for a “processing fee”. once i get my check and deposit it, i will be deleting my account.
Inbox dollars may be legitimate but the site refers you to so many non-legitimate companys that you will wish you had never got involved! Your phone rings, email hums and for every 20 surveys you do, you can complete only one. And you only get credited for about 1 in 20 of those, too ! You spend 20 minutes filling out the survey only to get to a question about your age or location that disqualifies you for the survey. Of course, no credit given.
Dont waste your time.
try (FusionCash.com,it like inbox,but they don’t sent out e-mail’s.I’ve cashout twice with them,it faster if you have paypal account.
Wow Jake!!
I’ve been thinking about trying to make some money online somehow, and your post leaves me thinking I could make more money panhandling!!
Way to go thoguh, I applaud your efforts to gain what they promised through the BBB. I googled Inbox Dollars and found this site and am so glad I did. 15 minutes of reading has saved me from wasing a lot of my time.
Inboxdollars IS ABSOLUTELY A SCAM.
There is a link below to prove it. A little poisonous dart called a BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU COMPLAINT..note they argued, but lost.
Yes, the little guy, I’m actually in law school, WON. LOL My first case
http://minnesota.app.bbb.org/complaint/view/57139549/c/avjuu9
Just make sure you carry on with your account and do NOT become INACTIVE before you get that check (cheque to us Limey’s) through the letterbox, or else they WILL delete your account without paying, if you are inactive too long. Read the thread here on this forum for someone that happened to.
It may be annoying, but writing checks costs money because of the time and bank charges, so some sites do charge for this method of payment. It is in the TERMS so you cannot complain it is a scam. It may seem unfair to you, but then you are not the one having to pay out, and spend 10 minutes of your time looking up data, writing out checks, checking things, putting stuff in envelopes, stamping them and taking them out to a collection point and mailing them. If you did, you would want to be paid for that activity I expect. So why not the webmaaster of Inbox$
Did you get free $5 for joining?
This bloke says you should have
onlineopportunity.org/how-to-make-your-first-30-at-inbox-dollars-in-under-an-hour/
Then you are not really losing anything you earned, in fact they still have given you $2 for nothing once they take back $3 of the $5 they supposedly gave you for joining!
I see a lot of people “throw the baby out with the bath water”, consider how hard you worked for the $25 you earned from your activities (other than the $5 for just joining up) and how much you can earn in the future, and rethink why you are resigning.
Personally I would not even start with them, but that is because I wasted so much time with GPT (get paid to…) sites in the past (as webmaster of websitesediting.com) that I avoid them now (except MutualPoints, and Ipoints, the latter being so borderline waste of time that I will resign once I get my £30 from them).
Resign by all means, but do so if the time you save not doing Inbox$ tasks, can be better spent with better paid survey sites.
And there are better ones.
My poorly designed site, and other better ones, will point you in the direction of some of the survey sites that pay well and fairly, and you do not have to pay to join either (avoid sites like Survey Scout for example).
Best of luck