What do you find the most frustrating about online earning?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (180412)
United States
April 3, 2018 1:37pm CST
I think for me it would be sites that were once pretty good, that are now terrible. It seems like some sites that once paid well are now awful, and are barely worth participating in. I have seen it happen time and time again. It seems like very few sites stay the same for the long..they will inevitably decline and either stop paying or become so bad, that it isn't even worth being on any more. I have seen it time and time again. Some sites seem roughly the same mylot for one..but many sites right down the tubes. What bugs you about online earning?
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
4 Apr 18
@JudyEv I totally agree with that!
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
3 Apr 18
Mine is the same as the others - you can't trust them. Even the ones you think are trustworthy can't be trusted. There are precious few that can be and I think myLot is one of them.
If I had all the money I have lost from sites disappearing and not paying out, I could take an extended vacation!
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
4 Apr 18
@snowy22315 Most of them have paid me, but I've been doing this for a long time and the failures add up! 
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
@peavey I have one site that I was on years back that has a 50.00 payout and they owe me 29.00. I need to try to get that..maybe if I ask nicely..
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
3 Apr 18
Luckily, I have been paid eventually from most of the sites that owed me money..but it upsets me that they aren't good anymore.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
3 Apr 18
Sites that keep changing the rules annoy me. Around a month ago I joined a few but you never knew what to expect from day to day as every time you logged in something would be different, either the pay had gone down or they would reduce the number of posts you could do in a day.
I also belonged to a site which paid quite well but took a long time to send the money. It took 6 weeks before I got paid.
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@Icydoll (36717)
• India
3 Apr 18
@sprite1950 I heard about ayuwage .it's frustrating to wait to get paid for the work we done :(.
Yeah some forums keep on changing rules..I'm not into forums much.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
3 Apr 18
@Icydoll I used to be into forums. I tend to think of MyLot as a forum but it's more a social networking site
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
Awww RIP Bubblemews maybe it is good I didn't get involved.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
@LadyDuck Yes, I can think of a few sites like that. Most of them are started with good intentions..but their profits arent what they had hoped so they take it out on the users.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
4 Apr 18
@snowy22315 In the beginning they paid all the users and the earnings where good. They cheated in the last few months of the life of the site.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
4 Apr 18
I think the worst is not knowing what is going to happen to the site. It is amazing how well mylot has done as compared to any other blogging discussion site. there have been many that barely last a year and then mylot still stands. People just throw themselves at anything that they think will earn them money fast and that is probably the most annoying thing about earning online. Is the get rich quick people. They are the ones that kind of kill the websites, the spam and not care about anything other than earning.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
Yeah, honestly, I am pretty surprised about mylot too and it's longevity when many similar sites, Gather and Sidetick to name a couple have fallen by the wayside. I think they tend to have a more devoted crew..or people who liked them, left and then came back.
@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
It is hard to find good places that pay more than a pittance.
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@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
4 Apr 18
@snowy22315 It really is. It's not easy.
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@Marilynda1225 (82704)
• United States
3 Apr 18
What bugs me is the little bit you earn and how much time you have to invest.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
3 Apr 18
That is very true, about most of the sites.
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@akalinus (43173)
• United States
3 Apr 18
I hate when they change the rules in the middle. I hate that they fold without paying or when they just come up with some ridiculous excuse for not paying. I hate activities that do not credit. Then they give some excuse about third parties and we aren't responsible for things going wrong. Well, when we do the activity, they jolly well get paid for it plus they keep our share of the pay also.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
3 Apr 18
Yes, I have had that happen too, and then they act like it is a bit deal to pay you fifty cents or whatever..like anyone would bother to lie about that..it is rather insulting.
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@akalinus (43173)
• United States
4 Apr 18
@snowy22315 It is insulting. They say it in fancy terms and expect everyone to agree. Well, I think it is just so much baloney.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
Yes, when they don't fix what is wrong is a pet peeve too.
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@sallypup (60976)
• Centralia, Washington
4 Apr 18
@snowy22315 Its crazy cause it makes the site this side of not being useable. If they really want folks to use the site they'd keep it viable.
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@Courtlynn (67085)
• United States
3 Apr 18
this is only the second site I've been on.. bubblews was the first..
It obviously changed, and stopped paying some people.. then disappeared.
which I hated.. and made me iffy on joining here.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Apr 18
That is what happened to me. Even MTurk has drastically gone downhill. That's why online is too precarious to count on for real earnings.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
3 Apr 18
Yeah, you really can't even if they are good for a few months or a year..9 times out of 10 they will go downhill.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
@lovebuglena not big ob mturk although i made aboutbthat much ob there too.
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@lovebuglena (44504)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Apr 18
@JohnRoberts I've done some HITs on MTurk. Made under $1.30 in total and have not done anything since. I don't seem to be into it. Or I find some task to do but after previewing I think I won't get it right so don't try it. That's probably bad on my part because then I lose out on making some pennies.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
3 Apr 18
Oh yeah, and some sites if you are not active for a certain period of time..deduct the points you have earned..NO Thank you, I would never go back to a site that did that!
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
4 Apr 18
I can never take granted that the site will pay or not. It is not a good feeling.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
5 Apr 18
Even if you get a few payments from them, no guarantee it will continue. Some of them feel they need to change things and they get screwed up..and aren't user friendly any more.
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
5 Apr 18
@snowy22315 I think it is really hard to make a living from online working mostly because it needs a lot of effort and the payment habits as you've written. It is rather some pocket money, we are happy if we get it.
@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
Yes, and then there is the whole "You don't qualify" thing..after you have been on it for 20 minutes..
@rakski (122214)
• Philippines
4 Apr 18
nowadays, you cannot know the reputation of the sites if they are legit or not. There are a lot of sites that says they pay but in reality, they not.... how do we know if the sites are legit, that is always a bigger question. If they are legit sometimes the pay is too little but the efforts that we made are too much.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
I always go for ones that have been around for quite a while, or that real people not fake reviews say are good.
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@lovebuglena (44504)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Apr 18
One thing I hate about online earnings is how long it takes to reach the minimum. I never reach it in a month's time. Even on mylot where the minimum is pretty low I can't even reach that in one month. Pathetic. I also hate it when it seems I've put in a lot of time on a site and the earnings are super low. Doesn't seem worth it. And then there is the worry about whether I will get paid or not and if I will ever reach the minimum at all.
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@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
5 Apr 18
Yeah, it is tough with sites that have a high payout threshold.
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
4 Apr 18
I get into them, work my butt off , get paid once or twice and then they close down. That irks me.
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)@snowy22315 (180412)
• United States
4 Apr 18
As much as I have been online..I don't know how I missed that site! I wish I had known about it.
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@YrNemo (20255)
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4 Apr 18
@snowy22315 You were unfortunate! Some received a few thousands of dollars from the few years they wrote for that site. The owner of the site could be very bias, he paid promptly to those he felt were good causes (people who told the world they were very poor, from poor countries, or must take care of poor old mother father child etc.). New members always got good money for a while. The owner was a funny guy.
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