Do you join a new site which has not yet done payouts ??

There was a pefect example last year of a site which started out with every intention of scamming its users. I will check and see if I can find some dicussions about it and link them back here. The whole of this interest talked of nothing else for months - first with everyone saying that it was the best site of the century and you were a no-one unless you joined and then the same people called it a scam site It was sad but at the same time very interesting to watch and there was a huge lesson to be learnt too!

that's a nice point there, it has to start somewhere.......and i agree that we tend to stall our efforts a bit unless someone gets paid !!!! have a nice day !!!!

Hi, well I don't agree, a site without a forum looks very suspicious as that means if you have any queries the only way you could get is solved is by sending them support tickets, and who really knows when they will reply, forum is quick and also you get lots of proofs there from earlier posts........I am currently working with joy-network and i must say i am very happy there as I am a active member of their forum as well.........

Ciao, is only the second place that has ever really paid out to me. I was only with Ciao for a few months. I was not making a whole lot, but it was going up each month. If they didn't cut us off like they did, I think I probably would have hit $30 last month. The only other site that I has ever paid me is Squidoo, but that one does take work. It has taken me a while to hit over the $20 threshold over there though. For a while, I was only making less than $10 a month. The real money through there is through affiliate sales, which I have not really managed to get to many of. With Ciao and Squidoo, I was starting to make $50 a month. Its still not a whole lot, but something. I had seen Sharedreview some months earlier. I actually didn't know everyone else was going to go over there. I'm going to give it a few months to see if it really pays. I had heard that they were in hiatus so maybe in a couple months, we will see some money from them. Most of my reviews in some manner are going over to squidoo or hubpages. From time to time, I do write articles on ac, buskia, and helium. I try different things to see what works. I have thought of trying to create my own review site with wordpress. I have everything that I need to make one including the whole social network and voting abilities. Still nothing will ever take the place of ciao. If SR, don't work out, I will be trying that.

It's 'Esmeralda' here - I also joined Shared Reviews along with you two and many other of our Ciao friends, only to find that I wasn't making any money from my reviews and then realised that no-one else was either. They entice you on their front page with the hundreds that their members have supposedly made, but the reality turned out to be altogether different. It's really a disappointment, as it seems like a lively and friendly site. They did issue an announcement a few days ago to say that they were going to start paying again (apparently they did pay in the past?) but ONLY to the TOP THREE REVIEWS in each category. So, that can be as simple as only paying whoever got the most buddies to vote for their reviews, not whoever writes the best quality reviews - it's a system that's just so ripe for abuse. It was a total shame to lose Ciao.com, as I too was making good money there. I write for Ciao.co.uk, where I've been for three years and which is a good site, but you can only join it if you live in the UK and have a UK bank account. Well - you can JOIN it if you don't have a UK bank account, but you won't be paid! They do not use PayPal like Ciao.com did. We're now getting lots of the scammers and abusers from Ciao.com joining us at Ciao UK and posting their garbage there. They're all getting deleted by the Ciao staff as soon as they start posting plagiarised reviews and gibberish, but the few who do make it to the end of the month will get a big surprise when they try to cash out and it asks for their UK bank account details! LOL.

Dragon, and you get 50% of the top ones you voted for too. The 50% is split too. I am not going to go out and write a whole bunch of reviews until I see that its worth it in the long run. On top of it all, if we do get paid at all it will be a couple months at least til I see any money. Those cheater did ruin it for us all though. Bing is no replacement. I don't need to buy things to make money. I have another site that I can do that on. They really should have limited ciao.com to certain countries in the first place. Now a lot of us are looking around trying to find the right community for us.

Right, even i dont mind giving out my e-mail adress at the most.......but i have come across sites which require you to give them complete residential adress, some stupid questions and to top it all they want to call on a toll free number and get your account validated.....ofcourse they do it for security reasons, but i guess no security should go overboard......