The Difference Between "old" Ciao and "new" Ciao

Ciao only pays per rates your reviews get. I suppose for people who are social or for those who do a lot of rates (in the hope of a Rate Back), this could be lucrative. But for the rest of us there are alternatives (you'll have to check out if your country/payment methods are available) 1. Associated Content. They like reviews of current and/or cult products, and they can take like a week to approve them. But if you get it approved that's about 3.5$. 2. Helium. If you have a rating and writing star it can be lucrative. Depending on the stars and whether you're the first reviewer, you could get anywhere from .50 to 3.5 at the end of the month (I get about 2$). 3. Epinions. When they have their promos (and they are having a March promo) you can earn quite a few bucks. You can get paid upfront for up to 25 reviews. Depending on the categories it could be anywhere from .75 - 1.5$. Be sure to read the official rules if you are interested (so you can pick the most lucrative categories) 4. Reviewstream. You don't have an official account, and the payout's really high, and it's fairly easy for them to kick you out if you don't take the time to follow the rules to the dot. However if you get used to them and what they want you can easily pull off the 2$ per review mark. 5. Comparedby.us . Fairly new site, they do pay. Their system is a bit strange in that only "real" members get paid. They have this membership system to weed out the spammers and bad writers. Some people find waiting to upgrade annoying, but you do get paid 1$ per review once you reach the 3d and last level. 6. Bukisa. Ok, you don't get paid upfront. However the shared revenue is so high it's easy to earn a lot quickly. You only need about 300 views to earn 1$. That's really not that hard.

Thanks, that list is actually really helpful.

thanx for the information. i don't like ciao anymore as used to when I joined 2 months back for the simple fact that you can earn only on the ratings of your reviews and your review has to be extremely good to be selected in the money pool. I used to like it because i can share information in the form of reviews for the products i know. but now i don't know whether i will get cents for writing a review.

I joined Ciao three days ago and have already made more there than I have made in several weeks at MyLot. On the other hand, Ciao is more like actual 'work' whereas MyLot is mostly laid-back discussion.