New not good changes to sidetick

United States
March 18, 2011 10:50pm CST
I logged in to sidetick to do my paid email and answer the daily question and there wasn't one so I scrolled down and there was an email from Jenny that said that there will be new changes to the site. They aren't going to credit points for the daily email or answering a blog question anymore. Instead they will have contests and we can do offers there. The offers are the same ones that many of us have already done on get paid to sites. My points are stuck at 18000 and I don't know how I am going to make payout now. I commented that they have the right name because the change ticked me off :[
5 responses
• United States
19 Mar 11
LOL linda, I heard something earlier and have not gone up to the site today either because I was so upset upon reading something elsewhere. I did not think about relating the site to my feelings. Good one! LOL I am stuck at 28,000 so I suppose we will never see it, I am going to remove all my profile information because no point in allowing them to earn with my information because I won't be using it any longer. I don't know what is going on with the online sites these day but it seems to be a growing infection all over the place. This now causes me to loose 4 sites this week.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
19 Mar 11
I'm with you my friend. I'm also on $28 but I DID get paid last week after a 3 week wait YAY! I used to get really cranky at the topic saying "Tell me this and say why or why not" and members would write "nice day" or "I don't know". I hope none of those people ever got paid because that's stoopid! I was not credited my points about 6 times over a 3 month period. Even though I reported it I only heard back from them once and I was credited manually at that time. I don't think I have much profile info but I will be removing most of it as you have.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
20 Mar 11
Sorry, that should be 28,000points.
• United States
20 Mar 11
Gosh I had never noticed members actually writing rubbish to complete Jenny's blog. Howe terrible, for all of us who actually took the site serious. Yeah I am removing all by tomorrow and saying good buy to the site. I don't feel I want to continue with a site who continues to punish honesty. I will just look at the loss of my 28,000 as just an ordinary situation and move on to something else.
@foster11 (13)
• United States
19 Mar 11
I have a feeling they'll be losing a lot of members over this move. I have 32,000 points I'm not sure if I'll leave right now or see if I can get my points somehow to get payout. Luckily I got a payout after waiting 5 weeks for it. What are some of the sites that are good at paying? I really just heard about Sidetick by accident.
@asyria51 (2861)
• United States
20 Mar 11
Toluna.com has been good to me. I earn about $20 a month from them. It takes between 2 and 3 weeks to receive a check from them.
@echomonster (2226)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
19 Mar 11
I think a lot of people on Sidetick are wondering how they are going to reach that last payout threshold after the latest change. I'm just a few dollars away from $25 over there...I'm really kicking myself for missing getting my thousand points a few times this month now. From here on out, every point is going to be hard fought for. Unless I get lucky with a contest, it seems like I'll have to try my luck with offers/surveys...but they seem to be really low value. It seems crazy to do a daily survey for just $0.20; I know of a bunch of sites that pay much better than that. The offers pay poorly too and since I have bad luck getting them to credit it hardly seems worth the effort. Personally, I think the site should have reduced the amount paid for commenting on the daily blog before getting rid of it entirely. If I'd been in charge, I would also have varied the sites promoted in the daily message more...it seems like the same biz opps kept being promoted again and again. Lastly, I would have tried to come up with a system that still allowed people to make tickbucks with their content (blogs, photos, etc) but I would have geared it towards attracting search engine traffic instead of internal Sidetick traffic.
@bardgirl (362)
• United States
20 Mar 11
I don't like the changes either. They're making it impossible to earn points. Sure they have contests which I usually find out when it is already too late so only a few are getting points while the rest of us are stuck not getting anything. It sucks because things were going good for a while over there but not anymore. I might pop in every so often to see what's going on but it seems like it isn't worth the effort anymore. Talk about lousy timing for the computer to break which meant I was unable to get on a computer for three weeks. So I'm ticked because I won't ever be able to get to payout again. I won't hold my breath on getting more points. If the goal is to drive people away I think they're doing a bang up job.
@asyria51 (2861)
• United States
20 Mar 11
I am way closer to the $25 pay out, and am really ticked off about it. They are still giving piddly amounts for answering user polls, but not enough for it to be worth it.