Another money making website shuts down!
By Bella
@Bella128 (2471)
United States
August 13, 2016 9:19pm CST
So I signed up for tsu back in 2014, I'm pretty sure I found it through Bubblews... well long story short I just went on it today and was greeted by a message that basically said the site is now shut down!
Well there goes another "bank" that I'll never be able to cash out. 
Have you experienced this before? A money making website that shut down and still has your money that you made on it?! It's sadly not an uncommon thing I'm seeing these days.
I hope MyLot sticks around. It truly is the best website out there right now for making a little bit of extra money. They've been great with payments too. They've always paid me in a timely manner whenever I'm able to cash out.
Have you experienced this before? A money making website that shut down and still has your money that you made on it?! It's sadly not an uncommon thing I'm seeing these days.
I hope MyLot sticks around. It truly is the best website out there right now for making a little bit of extra money. They've been great with payments too. They've always paid me in a timely manner whenever I'm able to cash out.17 people like this
17 responses
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
14 Aug 16
@Mike197602 Of course! It's been really good to me. 
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Aug 16
bubblews and yahoo contributor network both caught me with money I never saw
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Aug 16
@Bellatricks I was a dollar or so from payout, I just think we should have all gotten whatever little we were owed when in shut down
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
15 Aug 16
@Jessicalynnt Yeah it's rather frustrating thinking about how much money I should have gotten but never did nor will because a site has shut down. I
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
14 Aug 16
Luckily I only lost $9 with YCN because about a week before it shut down I made a post in the forums about not getting paid for 14 articles and ended up getting paid the next day. After that happened I took a little break and then the site went down. I do miss YCN though I wish I would have found it much sooner and worked harder on it. It was my first writing website though and I learned a lot from it.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32650)
• Calgary, Alberta
14 Aug 16
Chatabout banned with no reason while i have a balance of 4 dollars.
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
14 Aug 16
It's so sad how many have shut down in the past couple of years. It's getting harder and harder to make money online these days unless you are doing ALL of the work it seems. I think writing sites are just becoming a thing of the past. It's almost like you can only make really good money writing online if you have your own successful personal website. I'm happy with MyLot though and I've been make okay extra money with it AND they've been paying so no complaints here.
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@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
15 Aug 16
I was a Tsu member. However, after quite a long time of work (over a year I think) my bank had only reached the princely sum of about $2.62 or some such. Bubblews left owing me about $10.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
15 Aug 16
I'm on tsu as well but I was never really active. I didn't get to figure out how to earn there no matter how many times I've read their FAQs. Anyway, sad to know that another website is shutting down. Hopefully, they still get to pay their existing clients for sticking around.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
17 Aug 16
@Bellatricks how close were you to cashing out?
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
17 Aug 16
@allen0187 Not at all lol! I only had $14 in the bank last time I checked. Although I did donate a lot of it so... I really don't know how much I earned the entire time I was there.
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@much2say (55318)
• Los Angeles, California
14 Aug 16
I think I found Tsu via B too, but I only signed up for it and never did anything with it. I was on that CPG Gallery, but I took my chances because it was said that the owners had been uncommunicative and not paying anymore just as I got there. I quickly made it to payout, but of course never saw a cent. I believe myLot was the first site I signed up for way back when . . . I'm glad myLot came back and that all is good again (always was that way!).
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
14 Aug 16
Yes! A few members wrote about tsu like last week shutting down.. I never joined there.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
15 Aug 16
@Bellatricks That sounds very frustrating and a long process too!
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
17 Aug 16
@infatuatedbby Yes, it was part of the reason why I really didn't put too much effort into it.
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
14 Aug 16
Yeah I see that now. It is frustrating because it took a very long time to get to the redemption and then when you did get to it you have to wait for them to verify it and then send a check. It was very complicated and time consuming. So long story short a lot of people just wasted a couple years worth of work for nothing because it just was too hard to reach the redemption on there. So you lucked out by not joining!
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@waflay (2737)
• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Aug 16
@Bellatricks That's the problem you work very hard and by the end of it all the site goes down with even your earnings.It's becoming hard to find a legit paying site.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
14 Aug 16
@Bellatricks You did not know TSU was shut down?There were discussions here about this.As for me the site that has shut down with my money unpaid is Persona Paper.I have $10 there.The minimum payout was $20.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
15 Aug 16
@Bellatricks It is good you did not have more in the account there.
@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
14 Aug 16
This has been a very busy month for me. One of my dogs passed away and then we ended up adopting one from the shelter so I haven't been spending too much time on writing sites as of late. I honestly hadn't been on tsu since last month. I just randomly decided to check it tonight an found out it had shut down. :/ I was on Persona Paper but never made any money on it. I don't even think I had a dollar on it.
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@CinnamonGrl (7084)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
14 Aug 16
I think some of them initially promise too much. myLot doesn't try to tell you they'll pay you some exact amount, because they don't know what the revenue will be-- which is much more realistic.
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@lovebuglena (44420)
• Staten Island, New York
14 Aug 16
I have never heard of TSU. It sucks that paying sites shut down or stay up but stop paying. Bubblews is no more and WebAnswers is no more. And I think Triond is gone as well. WIkinut is still up but they are not an earning site anymore. You can still post articles and previously published ones are still there but you do not earn anything anymore. Guess they can't afford to pay writers anymore.
At least HubPages is still going strong though I am not as successful there earnings-wise as I want to be.
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
16 Aug 16
@lovebuglena I just checked and I have 7 and only 1 is featured. I don't ever really go on Hub Pages because all my hubs don't stay featured for too long.
@lovebuglena (44420)
• Staten Island, New York
15 Aug 16
@Bellatricks How many hubs do you have? I have over 200 hubs and my monthly earnings are not high. I don't think I ever went over $12 in monthly earnings. Usually around $6 plus or minus.
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@fcmondez (413)
• Quezon, Philippines
16 Aug 16
@Bellatricks Yes, specially if you worked hard for your earnings. I can be really frustrating.
@LeaPea2417 (37334)
• Toccoa, Georgia
14 Aug 16
I had a TSU account but forgot about it since I never earned anything on it.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Aug 16
They come and go like flies...no great loss when most of them fold.
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@rina110383 (24492)
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14 Aug 16
No. I'm on other sites too but they are not writing sites.
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