Will you still be writing reviews for Ciao...

Is it? They are not paying? But will they pay the earlier sums of money or not? Or are even that money is gone? I am still to read that info. on Ciao. But its hard - quite hard to belive tht they are not paying per review. OK. There work was to popularize the site, and its not wrong with anyone. But not paying for reviews and not paying for the hard work does not make any sense to me, atleast. But then, how are they going to keep the site going? They might surely have developed some other plans to keep Ciao going. Are you an active member there? Will the Ciaoers receive there money or not?

Ciao.com has a good traffic. I'm glad I was in Ciao and will continue to write if my friends will still be there to rate my reviews. I love reading their comments about my reviews if they like it or not, and in that way I can improve myself. I want to write and share to the world my opinion. It's like here in myLot. We only get 1 cent or a little more than that for this comment/discussion, but we are still here. What's the difference?

*sigh* i haven't made up my mind yet. not as much as i had been anyway.

In the meantime, I have to stay and to wait for another up dates since I have still my unclaim earnings which is more than $10. I do not know if my earnings will be affected by this new policy but I will still remain active in order to know more how the new policy works. I monitored my performance of earning every now and then when I am in Ciao. I've seen that all were reflected and increases according to my activity. I do not know these coming days, after the release of the new policy, how does the activity be computed and be compensated. If I found that the site is no longer beneficial to stay, then, I have to leave.

I plan to continue writing reviews on ciao. Hopefully this new system will weed out some of the copiers on the site and there were a lot of them. I have always enjoyed writing my reviews and we will still be paid on our ratings so as long as you write a good review and have friends who rate you then you should be alright.

I'm not going to stay because I don't write good enough to qualify for premium fund. So I'm going to find a new site that pays for every review.

i am a member of ciao but i only spent like less than an hour there because i just checked it out and i have to admit that $1 per review enticed me from the beginning but i really find it hard to write reviews for them so i left and decided that ciao is not for me...i am loyal to mylot even if it pays less because i am having fun in here...where in ciao it is more of a task...so now that they are not paying the more that i stay away from ciao..its really not for me.

If they are not paying per review, then how are they paying now? I have seen several discussions about Ciao and how you get paid for reviewing products and services, but now that I see this discussion, I wonder how people are getting paid at this service. I haven't joined as of yet, and am on the fence now that you state this. Please tell me how they have their pay structure now that they aren't paying per review.

This is indeed such a sad news; particularly for everyone who are members of that site. I personally admit that I'm also a member of Ciao. But I don't get to visit the site often. As I've previously mentioned in other discussions here, I still don't own a computer set so I'm only relying on the company's computer assigned to me here in the workplace. Needless to say, I only have a limited opportunity to surf the internet and earn online at the same time; due to the fact that internet access for personal purposes is strictly prohibited in the company. To date, I have four to five reviews made in Ciao and naturally, I still haven't reached the minimum payout of 5 dollars. So, if they have decided not to pay these reviews, I guess I'll have to terminate my irregular visits to that site. I just feel sad that I personally have lost one online earning opportunity; specially during a global economic crisis. Aside from this, I'm afraid that the company I'm working with for more than four years now is in the process of dissolution and perhaps by next year, I will be displaced from my job. So, I have no other choice but to double my efforts in earning extra as long as I still have my job now. I guess for a lot of people here including me, it will be best for us to concentrate on legitimate sites like mylot. Good luck and happy holidays.

That's a very bad news. Because I just start to be active in Ciao. Now this new rule discourages my activities in Ciao. Right now my balance is USD2.99 in Ciao. So I still keep writing reviews as I hope to reach the minimum payout so that I can request to pay. Hopefully they will change the rules again. I love China

Although several friends urged me to join that one, for some reason I never did, and now I feel pretty good about that decision. I don't like it when programs change rules in the middle of the stream.

Hello aseretdd, I am not a member of this site but I heard about it from many members here. I am not sure whether I would like to try or not. I lost interest in all sites except MyLot. When MyLot announced that they are no longer using Moneybookers as a mode of payment, I have been thinking on how I can get my payment here as I never tried Paypal before. Even if it is not a big money most of the time, it is still money. It is not my first priority though but I thought many members who depend on Moneybookers only will disappear slowly. I was wrong. MyLot can still garner a lot more members. So, if you have interest in that site beside money, I think you should stay for a short while... maybe?

I am a member of Ciao.com for more than two weeks now. Since I enjoys the community, writing reviews and posting comments, I did not notice how hard it is to reach the minimum payout. I just saw on my earning are than I am over it. I think, if you enjoy what you are doing it will be easier for you. Let us accept that businesses do have strategies. Sometimes it is okay but most of the time not. Just enjoy and money will follows.

I'll stay. That's for sure. I've been paid three times by ciao and I have faith in them no matter how they change the system. I love the site since the beginning and enjoy so much fun in it with the ciao community. I love writing reviews and reading others' so that's the only reason I have for staying in ciao. Thanks.

I write, but very occasionally. Also some days back as the pay per review amount has reduced, I have also reduced my working with CIAO! Thanks for this nice topic!

It was not a wise decision on the part of Ciao to totally forego of the per review rate. I mean, 99% of members are there for the money primarily -- you erase that reason and people will drop off. I am so sure of this one. There will be a dramatic fall of activities in ciao. However, all of these changes are already expected. I am not surprised of these changes at all. I am just annoyed that they have not waited the end of December for the implementation of the changes occurring now.

I requested a payment yesterday and I logged into and found that there is an additional $2.xx balance in my account. I was loyal to the site and worked diligently everyday there. Indeed, I am not really sure of how to work at ciao anymore, but I think I am going to write 1 or 2 reviews there and explore it a bit. But I definitely won't spend hours to work there anymore.

I never signed up for this site, but I know that alot of people on mylot were also signed up wit Ciao. I am now happy that I chose not to sign up with them and to keep working for the review site that I have been writing for a long time. I feel bad because it seems that the site painted a great picture of what they would do for their writers, then decided to change it up. No doubt this change was to save the site money, but basically the site lied to you all from the beginning, and I dont think thats ok.

I am not staying for sure. i am extremely disappointed in the downward spiral the website has taken. And they even tried to deceive us by saying that we can earn more with the new changes when it's pretty obvious that we all earn less! Oh well. At least I already earned money from them for almost 2 months of work. Had I know this would happen, I would have posted like crazy while they still paid a dollar per review.

hey guys do u know when they pay you .acc. to site they pay once a month only but when.... plz let me know