I get so many emails from you guys asking about the various things that I do to bring in a few bucks here and there. My buddy Kai over at Smart Couponing wrote a fabulous in depth explanation of one of my favorite programs–Inbox Dollars.
What is Inbox Dollars?
- Basically they are an online membership club that pay the members for participating in online activities like reading emails, taking surveys, sometimes even playing games. The membership is free to join and each member receives a $5 bonus just for signing up.
Is it legit?
- yes they are 100% legit, lots of people get paid from them every month. But you do get lots of emails from time to time, therefore try not to use your primary email address for this, just read all the instructions carefully, and you should be able to make a few bucks in no time. Another thing to watch out is all the offers they present you, they do pay you cash back when you shop through some of their networks, but I find that it is not as good a deal as I thought, maybe just a few, but I usually just stick to reading emails or taking straight forward surveys.
How much can I earn from Inbox Dollars?
- First of all, they pay you $5.00 just for signing up, it really depends on how much you work (reading emails, taking surveys, etc etc). Getting paid for a few bucks a month is pretty easy, but I also personally know some bloggers who made $30-$40 a month from inbox dollars.
Ways to earn from Inbox Dollars:
- Read Emails: They pay 3 cents for each email you click on.
- Survey’s: They pay $1 for each survey you do each day.
- Trial Offers: They pay around $0.50 to $1.50 when you sign up for their survey programs, free new product reviews and trial offers, etc
- Play Games: Some merchants will pay you to try and play their new games and get your opinion on it.
- Invite Friends: They also have a refer a friend program
This program will not get your rich, I see this as snack money for myself, and I basically just do the emails and surveys, I don’t do the trial offers cause I hate reading all the terms and conditions (yes you do need to read them all before entering any trial just in case if there’s any catch).
Thanks so much Kai!! I am totally in agreement with Kai in that I use my sign up email address rather than my primary email address in an attempt to keep my inbox clean. I can usually request a $30 check every month or so. So– no, you will not get rich…but I will happily add it to my entertainment budget to help my funds stretch a bit farther!! If you are interested go HERE to join Inbox Dollars and start earning too!
do they always ask your personal info for the surveys… and if so is that safe.
Is there a secret to getting $1 per survey? They are offering 50 cents per survey now.
I have not had much success at all with inbox dollars. I joined last August and with my $5 sign up bonus I have a total of $10.56 and I only get .02 per click. Granted I don’t do any of the surveys or offers because I mostly see ones for .25 or .50. I still click on the paid emails because it only takes a second but I figure at this rate in 2 years I can cash out! LOL
I’m not having any success either. Although I just signed up yesterday, everytime I try to take a survey, I don’t qualify and it seems like I go through so much just to see if I qualify. Any hints?
Also, I’m also only seeing .50 surveys as well.
I only see .50 surveys too.
Every time I click on surveys in my email, I never qualify, after 5 minutes…it’s frustrating that they don’t give you anything for your time.
There is also a $3 processing fee. When I went to cash out at $33 minus $3 fee, they gave me an offer to earn up to $40 in the next month and they would waive the $3 fee.
You can also earn $.10 for ever coupon you print and redeem.
It took me a years to get total $30, so I click to request for check a months ago and saying my check will be processing on Aug 2nd… Waiting for 2 months to get a check, well, now near 1 months. But anyway, you will get another $5 but can’t be gold membership till you get your first check and they said next check be faster. so we will see.. might take a years.. LOL Also email click is .02 cents and still is..
I make about $50 a year with inbox dollars, but I always make sure to purchase my Entertainment book from them (which usually gets me $9.00 US) and i try to do whatever shopping I can thru them, plus I have 15 referrals which usually earns me a little bit of extra cash.
Once you are a gold member you do get your checks about a month faster! I’ve been a gold member for 2 years now.
And then just added a search tool, which pays you $0.50 to download, and you can do up to 5 searchs a day and get paid $0.01 for each of them. Which if you do that every day is an extra $18.25 to your year!
I signed up with them too. Yeah, it’s a slow program like Fusion Cash. I like the grocery coupons though, cause I can give the extras away locally for other ppl to use and I can still get paid on them.
I like doing a crowdsourcing program such as Clickworker.com I make more money with them and faster than any of the offers and PTC programs.
It does seem like everything nowadays is all about consumerism.
I wish InboxDollars would pay by Pay Pal. Fusion Cash and Clickworker.com does.
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