How I make about a Euro a day doing absolutely nothing.
By Boingboing
@boiboing (13153)
Northampton, England
October 16, 2015 12:09pm CST
Last year I got so hooked on the easy money at Bubblews (yes, remember those happy days, ladies and gentlemen) that I neglected several of the other sites where I used to be active. One of these was trivago.co.uk
Trivago was a site I used to be very involved with until a rather nasty falling out with one of the senior members seven years ago. I fell out of love with them then and just did a little bit of work now and then. Earlier this year I tried to get engaged again but had some problems with their IT systems and stopped completely.
A few weeks ago I went to have another look, thinking that I might have a few pounds worth of old earnings somewhere in the system. I got quite confused because the site had a big makeover and things were no longer where I expected them to be. I clicked a button to redeem whatever money I was owed, but couldn't see how much it might be. Then last week €230 landed in my paypal account. That's about $260. I was shocked.
So now I pop back more regularly to see how much I'm owed. I'm not doing any work for them so I can only assume the earnings are from people I introduced to the site who are still doing income generating tasks. I estimate that whilst I sit back and do nothing, I'm earning about a Euro per day.
As you can imagine, I'm delighted.
Have you ever found unexpected money being earned on your account on a website with which you are involved?
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19 responses
@topffer (42156)
• France
16 Oct 15
Are you sure that you have not put a link to Trivago on one of your websites ? For what I know Trivago pays their affiliates about $0.45 for any search for a hotel sent to their site, but I don't think that they pay you to refer people ??? I might be wrong.
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
16 Oct 15
No, I don't think it's that. The system used to be that you earned a small percent of the points that were earned by anyone you introduced or mentored. They stopped that earlier in the year and I think there was an outcry so I can only guess that they started doing it again.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
16 Oct 15
congrats 'n happy days fer ya! noperz, i aint got no funds lurkin' 'bout the webber-net coz i don't get out much. passive income's a grand thingy though. i do get a wee stipend come in e'ery year from published works still. those're kinda nice 'n unexpected 's i don't keep track 'f sales 'n such. who'd thunk pennin' years back'd still be spittin' out a few coins e'ery now 'n then?
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
17 Oct 15
Wow, that sounds great. Royalties on published work sounds very impressive.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
17 Oct 15
@crazyhorseladycx were they fiction? how long does it take you to write one?
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
17 Oct 15
@hereandthere some poetry (i know, shockin', eh?) 'n the rest fiction. some took a few years to put together, others jest seemed to magically appear. when i'm on a roll, i can spit out hundreds 'f pages in one sittin'.
@TheHorse (218492)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Oct 15
It was that way with Epinions. Passive income was the order of the day if you had good stuff out there. I think there was a bit of passive income on Bubblews for awhile a well. And there is here. But nothing like a pound a day over a long period of time.
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@connierebel (1557)
• United States
17 Oct 15
Wow, I never even heard of the site, but that's a lot of money to get, especially when you didn't even know they owed you that much!
@allknowing (135988)
• India
17 Oct 15
What kind of work do you do there at trivago. Is it a writing site. Good that you get passive income there.
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
17 Oct 15
It's a hotel comparison site. I used to write a lot of hotel and attraction reviews and add photos but they stopped that years ago. Mostly now it's all about improving hotel listing information and stuff like that. Not really worth joining at this stage but for those of us who were in at the beginning it was a great site.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
16 Oct 15
That's amazing! You must be over the moon. Maybe you should write for them again.
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
16 Oct 15
Unfortunately it's not a writing site and a lot of the tasks are quite tedious but now and then they come up with something I enjoy doing.
@miwa33 (11)
• Guildford, England
20 Oct 15
Have I ever found unexpected money? I wish to God I had...
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
20 Oct 15
I figure it just takes putting your hand down the back of enough sofas.....
@Cronopioenlaweb (7)
• Bahia Blanca, Argentina
17 Oct 15
Well that's wonderfull news! Congratulations
