Where I am Waiting For Payout (November 2016)

Showcase PTR: There are 18 requests in front of you. Your request for 2.15 is 14 day(s) old.

I had to cancel this request after waiting nearly two months because the program owner can no longer pay via PayPal. She erroneously told me that I could edit the request from PayPal to Payza quote copied and pasted from support ticket

you can change the payout option by going to "edit request" and enter the info for payza. It will not affect the current request.

, but when I did so I got this message:

You already have pending request. Wait untill you get it.

I notified the program owner of the message I received over 3 weeks ago and have heard nothing in reply.

Now my request says this:

There are 34 requests in front of you. Your request for 2.47 USD Payza is 16 day(s) old.

Mind you I do not blame this program owner for the actions of PayPal. PayPal has a long history of shitting on PTR owners, traffic exchange owners, and other GPT sites. A few years ago when I was still a program owner my own PayPal account was frozen for a short time.

I do however blame her for giving me incorrect information about whether or not I could edit the payout request. If you don't know the answer to a question, say that you don't know -- don't just give some answer off the top of your head when you don't know whether it's the correct answer or not.

My assumption at this point is that I will be waiting at least another two months for the Payza payout. The only reason that I am not redeeming for ads and leaving this site is that I have a lifetime upgrade at said site.

As of 12/7/2016 there is a whole new wrinkle with this situation. The program owner owns several other programs and has let the domain for one of them lapse (the domain expired on 11/19/2016, so it's been almost 3 weeks ago). Requests for support at the remaining programs have not been responded to at all, much less in a timely fashion. I personally requested banner urls be changed on November 26, 2016 and nothing has been done.

As for my payout request, here's the current status:

There are 32 requests in front of you. Your request for 2.65 USD Payza (roleysuzyq@yahoo.com) is 31 day(s) old

. In total I have now waited 3 months for this payout.

Where I am Waiting For Payout (September 2016)

Showcase PTR: There are 18 requests in front of you. Your request for 2.15 is 14 day(s) old.

Homestead Mails: There are 3 requests in front of you. Your request for 2.14 PayPal is 32 day(s) old.

Hot Rods PTR: There are 9 requests in front of you. Your request for 2.34 PayPal is 33 day(s) old.

These three sites are owned by the same person.

Life in the (Crappy) Phone Lane

So a couple of months ago I lost my cheap gubmint LOL phone (more like free!) and I went to Safeway to replace it. I should have just waited a few days since the cheap gubmint phone got delivered to my door by Owl Taxi because I had accidentally left it in one of their cabs when they took me home from work.

Even though the phone only cost me $20.00 due to my employee discount at Safeway, it was just about the worst $20.00 I have ever spent, and then of course I had to get a plan for it ($40.00 per month, AT&T phone, ZTE brand).

There are a LONG list of mistakes--all mine, unfortunately, so there is no one else to blame!--relative to ever even buying this phone, and here they are.

1) Going to Safeway to purchase the phone was my first mistake, as they sold only the phone and no airtime cards for it.

2) My second mistake was thinking that 3000 MB of data per month actually meant that I could access the internet using this worthless paperweight of a phone. Oh I can access a limited number of sites, but there is no list as to what sites I can successfully access, so I get good and frustrated trying to determine which site(s) I can actually get to. The only site I know that I shouldn't even try to access is Yahoo home page because Yahoo will kick me clear off the phone altogether so that I land on the power up screen.

3) My third mistake was thinking that the 3000 MB per month of data also meant I could download apps, hardy har har. If you get the idea that I can't download diddly squat, you win the gold star!

4) The fourth mistake was thinking that I could access my email using this phone. I either get "service temporarily unavailable. Please try again." or Gmail refuses to allow me to connect even though my login details are correct. I know that my login details are correct because shortly after I try to login, I receive an email from Google telling me that the login was denied.

5) The fifth mistake was buying a phone with a camera -- yes I can take pictures, whoopty doodle do. I have no way of uploading said photos anywhere because there isn't a removable SD card, there isn't a cord/port to connect the glorified paperweight of a phone to a computer to upload the photos to said computer, and of course I can't upload the photos to Facebook because 1) I can't access Facebook DUH RALPHY and 2) I can't download the Facebook app. All I can do with my photos is send them in text messages to my friends. Whoopty do! LOL. I can do that with my computer and/or my tablet (and I don't have to pay $40.00 per month for the privilege of doing so, since my roommate pays for internet access at home and I can use wifi all over town as well).

7) The seventh mistake I made was discussing the phone with my roommate, who already thinks she is the most intelligent person in the whole damn world especially when it comes to electronics (although she can't even figure out how to use the electric can opener). She wanted access to the phone to 'figure it out for me' since apparently I was "too stupid to figure it out for myself." I don't give her access to anything (phone, computer, tablet, etc) for very good reasons.

Where I've Been Paid (Mid June 2016 through September 22 2016)

June 1-19: $16.98
June 30, 2016: $5.96 (Logi PTC)

June 2016 total: $22.94

PayPal July 2016 through September 22 2016):

July 5, 2016: $15.52 (Clix Sense)
July 13, 2016: $12.32 (Polar Bear Clicks Family of Sites)

July 2016 total: $27.84

August 25, 2016: $12.10 (Laf384's family of sites)
August 25, 2016: $2.61 (Heather Conzett)
August 26, 2016: $8.99 (Clix Sense)

August 2016 total: $23.70

September 6, 2016: $3.26 (Anything Goes)

September 2016 total (through September 22, 2016): $3.26

Amazon Gift Certificates (Mid June 2016 through September 22 2016)

June 21, 2016: $15.01
August 24, $2016: $25.00
September 7, 2016: $10.00 (My Points) $10.00

Total Amazon Gift Certificates 6-21-16 through 9-22-2016: $50.01

Total Received Mid June 2016 through September 22 2016: $110.77

Total Payouts for 2016: $271.41

Total (after taxes) Paychecks from Safeway through September 22, 2016:

January 2016: $793.06
February 2016: $848.00
March 2016: $909.64
April 2016: $800.24
May 2016: $1237.85
June 2016: $1391.03
July 2016: $1070.25
August 2016: $1071.13
September 2016 (through 9-22-2016): $880.37

Total: $7930.44

Not to beat the same old drum about PTR/surveys/GPT http://suellenjillroley.blogspot.com/2016/06/this-needs-to-be-updated-where-is-your.html but in 9 1/2 months I have earned $271.41 from online activities (average of $30.16 per month) while earning $7930.44 at work (average of 881.16 per month). Do the math--a difference of around $850.00 per month every month.

It makes much more sense to concentrate on my brick-and-mortar job than on online activities, because no matter how much I click, surf, take surveys, download apps, etc, I am not going to make an extra $850.00 per month every single month (maybe if I get into MLM but that appeals to me NOT).

In addition, I get paid every week at the brick-and-mortar job whereas you cannot depend on most online sites to pay you even once a month. I waited nearly a year for one site to pay me a whopping (less than) $6.00.

UPDATE REQUESTED....YA HAPPY NOW?

THIS NEEDS TO BE UPDATED !Where is your brain,on vacation or maybe permanent sabbatical?

Just got the above as a comment on a post from September 2015.

My brain happens to be neither on vacation or on a permanent sabbatical. My brain is working damned hard every day, just not on updating this blog or my other one http://www.i-dont-think-so.com/?p=1291

There are posts on this blog up unti December 2015 when I just happened to get a REAL JOB. By REAL JOB, I mean working as a cashier at Safeway for the last 6 months.

For some strange reason, after anywhere from 20-48 hours a week slapping groceries around, PTR and all who sail in her (thanks again for the use of the quote, LOL, Dana Stabenow who writes the Kate Shugak mystery novels) slipped right on down the old priority list.

I've been clearing anywhere from $80.00 to almost $500.00 PER WEEK at the REAL JOB. That kind of makes the $25.00 (or less) to $100.00 per MONTH that I make from PTR, surveys, and other online GPT sites seem almost ridiculous.

But just to keep the above unhappy person happy (although why she/he should care is beyond me) here's a list of the piddling payouts I've received over the last 6 months or so, starting with a post copied and pasted from this very blog.

Who Has Paid Me in October 2015

Gift Hulk: $10.00 PayPal
Hits 4 Pay: $25.00 PayPal
Heather Conzett: $5.53 PayPal
Mars Mails: $1.00 PayPal
Mango Clicks: $1.05 Serve
Shoe Money: $1.00
Sheila Tomkinson: $2.66
Awesome Emails 4 U: $.67
Pinecone Research: $6.00

Total For October: $52.91 (as of October 27, 2015)

Additional earnings in October 2015 equaled $7.00 for a grand monthly total of $59.91

Who Paid Me In November 2015

Pinecone Research: $9.00
Fast PTR: $2.04
Road to 51: $2.00
You've Got Ads: $2.64
Clix Sense: $7.95
Calendar Days: $1.00
Renee Vorbach: $6.31

Total for November 2015: $30.94

Who Paid Me In December 2015

Dream Mails: $2.61
Pinecone Research: $6.00
Amazon Gift Card: $25.00
Anthony Bishop: $4.59

Total for December 2015: $38.20

Who Paid Me In January 2016

St Cash Unlimited: $2.61
Clix Sense: $8.91

Total for January 2016: $11.52

Who Paid Me In February 2016

Pinecone Research: $6.00
Clix Sense: $14.60

Total for February 2016: $20.60

Who Paid Me In March 2016

Mars Mails: $3.00
Renee Vorbach: $7.39
Pinecone Research: $3.00

Total for March 2016: $13.39

Who Paid Me In April 2016

Easy PTR: $5.91
Amazon Gift Cards: $50.00
Clix Sense: $27.77

Total for April 2016: $83.68

Who Paid Me In May 2016

Instant Cash Sweepstakes: $2.01
Clix Sense: $12.46

Total for May 2016: $14.47

Who Paid Me In June 2016

Polar Bear Clicks: $5.22
Clix Sense: $11.76

Total for June 2016: $16.98 (as of June 19, 2016)

So from October 1, 2015 through June 19, 2016 I made a whopping $289.69 from PTR, surveys, and other GPT sites. That would be an average of less than $33.00 per month.

In that same time frame I earned nearly $7000.00 (yes, SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) working at Safeway. This is an average of 1161.31 per month.

DO THE MATH.