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Re: Anyone ever use the survey site MyPoints?
The best survey site I've found is Prolific Academic. They prequalify you so you don't get kicked out of a survey 20 minutes into it. It's probably the best deal in terms of hours spent per dollar since you get paid for just about every survey you take.
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Re: Anyone ever use the survey site MyPoints?
@Vanessa I haven't heard of that one before. I recently started doing one called You Gov and it is similar in that it gives you surveys that you can actually finish.
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Re: Anyone ever use the survey site MyPoints?
I used Mypoints for a while but it wasn't as fruitful compared to other popular survey sites. Eventually I stopped using it.
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Re: Side Hustles
i'm just beginning reselling. i do deliveries for postmates. i have signed up for ejury, but i can't remember my password
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Re: Side Hustles
I try different side hustles at all times I keep 3 or 4 going to allow me more money to pay down my credit card balances. They have gotten out of control and some of them even got closed on me. After having 5 years of perfect payment history those credit cards overwhelmed me. I do adult CNA work for a disabled family member. I do the errands and the shopping part. Transportation to Dr appts. I am on disability so I need to limit any money I make. I was doing secret shopping and could make up...
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Re: Side Hustles
I can never get an app approved except for the fraudulent jobs that want to pay you out of the program. What type of work did you get so far?
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Re: Instacart
What is the payment like, do you have the commercial insurance and or charge GST/ state, provincial taxes?
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Re: Instacart
@rtms77 They pay by direct deposit into your linked bank account, or you can cash out instantly for a small fee directly to a debit card. As far as I am aware, they do not provide any type of insurance. What type of insurance you need would probably be a question for your auto insurance company. You are responsible for your own taxes with Instacart. Because you are considered a sub-contractor, you get paid the full amount and then have to pay your own taxes.
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Re: Instacart
So I did Instacart for about 3 1/2 years and this is my review. It’s an easy way to make extra money on your own schedule similar to other gigs such as Postmates, Uber/Lyft, etc. As others have mentioned don’t expect to get rich on this job. My first two years I was making an extra $500-$1000+/month but it’s slowed down since then dramatically. I slowed down over the past year. This is due in part to the pay going way down due to saturation of too many shoppers on the platform/fluctuations...
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Re: Instacart
I’ve worked Lyft, Uber, Postmates, Uber Eats, a food delivery service called Caviar (similar to Eat24 and Grubhub), and yes, Instacart. In evaluating them, I compared the average money I made (including tips) to the time spent actually working for it (not just time spent using the apps, which can be misleading). It came out to: Lyft, $26/hr; Uber, $25/hr; Postmates, $17/hr; Caviar & Uber Eats, $15/hr; and Instacart, $12/hr. Those numbers can be a little misleading, because they don’t...
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Re: Instacart
I've been doing Instacart for about two years. My honest review: + Schedule flexibility. + No people (just groceries) in my car. + Most people tip well, especially on rainy days. + DEFINITELY rounds out the budget - cash-flowed a trip to Disneyland two years ago and I've paid down $8000 in debt over the last year. + I commute over an hour to my primary job, so picking up a batch or two on my way home makes my commute (gas and tolls) tax deductible. + I make enough from my primary job to not...
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Re: Instacart
Very interesting reviews. I use Instacart to have my groceries shopped and delivered, and have thought about working with them when I get a car, but I thought more seriously about it... NOT!! I don't do my own grocery shopping!! LOL I like having the groceries delivered, but my shoppers/drivers tend to shop neighborhood stores. Normally, I would not. Some are very inexperienced as shoppers and what you get may not be exactly what you ordered. Food prices are too expensive (can't take...
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Re: Instacart
Since I started delivering for Instacart some time ago, they have implemented something in their app that allows you to pick up any extra orders that people scheduled to work can't do. Since then, I have never scheduled myself for shifts but rather just picked up any orders that I had time to do. I really like the flexibility this allows and it means you can choose to do delivery only orders or do orders that include having to shop for the items. This way, if the distance for delivery is too...
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ON A CONTINUING BASIS, YOU SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR, AND TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY LAW: A. SECURING AND PAYING FOR WORKER'S COMPENSATION INSURANCE; B. SECURING AND PAYING DISABILITY INSURANCE, HEALTH INSURANCE, AND/OR OTHER SIMILAR INSURANCE; C. SECURING AND PAYING UNEMPLOYMENT OR OTHER SIMILAR INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS; D. SECURING AND PAYING ALL NECESSARY LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR YOU AND ANY PERSONNEL; E. SECURING AND PAYING FOR AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE IN COVERAGE AMOUNTS CONSISTENT WITH...
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Re: How I Became Debt Free As A Stay At Home Mom
That's so cool! Where do you usually find the pre-owner designer clothing?
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Re: How I Became Debt Free As A Stay At Home Mom
Thanks! estatesales.net can be really helpful for this. You can buy in as large or small a quantity that way. Additionally, writing to consignment stores in your area and asking if they would be interested in selling any items in bulk that haven't sold and the original donors/customers have surrendered, can be a wonderful way! Obviously, garage sales too.
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Re: The Best Industries and Companies to Find Work From Home Jobs
You can add Rev Transcription to number 8! I have done transcription work through other companies and they pay decently and have an efficient platform for the actual transcription work.
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Re: How I Paid Off My Student Loans By Selling on eBay
eBay is a great place to sell things and earn extra money. I have been selling things on eBay since I was 14.
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Re: How I Paid Off My Student Loans By Selling on eBay
What types of things do you sell and how do you come up with how much to sell them for @Moore Income ?
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Re: The Best Industries and Companies to Find Work From Home Jobs
Thanks for the recommendation, @Kirsten! That company checks out on GlassDoor, so I updated the post
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Re: Publish your eBook on Amazon at No Cost
Wow! I am a new Author. I was line editing my 1st Book. Playing it all by ear. To me for me to see your post is so Heaven sent to me. Thank you! For sharing this info. This motivates me so much to get threw. I bought my book cover. I need to increase my word count. I will be ready to submit by Feb. You dont understand how inspiring this is!
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Re: The Best Industries and Companies to Find Work From Home Jobs
@Adam Work from home jobs can indeed sometimes be to good to be true. One need to be so careful these days. Quite a bit of hype going on, which is nothing but hot air and empty promises. Although I'm not quite familiar with the mentioned sites in your outstanding post. I have however worked with sites like Upwork, Guru and Freelancer. But job applications get approved based on your resume. Mostly online writing and social media jobs.
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Re: Publish your eBook on Amazon at No Cost
Thank You! This is going to be very helpful to me.
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Re: Publish your eBook on Amazon at No Cost
I'm humbled by your kind words, and glad I could help. You may also have saved a bit of money by designing your own book cover. And I'm going to give you access to the tools I use. For image editing from social posts to presentations, info-graphics and even book covers. You may want to check out Canva (just search your browser for the keyword) which I have been using for a few years. But you may also want some royalty free, high definition images. Which you can access unlimited free...
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Re: Publish your eBook on Amazon at No Cost
Only a pleasure, glad I could help. Check out my other reply, for access to some image editing tools and royalty free image downloads.
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Re: Publish your eBook on Amazon at No Cost
Awww thank you. I just Graduated from ohio media school on 12/17/18. The day before I started my own Online Beauty Supply Business. A fellow student of mines told me about Canva to make my own flyers. This is so exciting and so blessed. God is directing my steps. Leading me to good people to help steer me in the right direction. You had to be a part of his plan for me. I cannot thank you enough! On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 11:06 AM The Penny Hoarder Community < [email protected] wrote:
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Re: Publish your eBook on Amazon at No Cost
@Deon Christie this is wonderful information, as I too, would like to begin working on my content for my first book. It is so hard to get started and I’m nervous that my material will be lacking and/or fluid enough to attract and keep an audience, but after all of that stated, it is my dream. Your added resources will help in moving the train along. I wish I could afford a ghost writer, lol. Thank you for your valued info.
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Re: How I'm Making Money on Poshmark
Sounds like you are doing a great job! I don't sell muchmuch clot but I have personally sold things on both eBay and Mercari. eBay is great because they have such a huge audience, but it does take a bit of a learning curve and the fees can be a lot. Mercari was a great place to sell until they suspended my account randomly will no explanation. I tried to get them to unsuspend me but they never would.
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Re: The Best Industries and Companies to Find Work From Home Jobs
A lot of companies are making it possible to work from home. Especially with the the generational shift in our work force. I personally work for a company that was very traditional, but since I do digital marketing, I could do it from anywhere. I moved to be near my fiance for 6 months before we got married and since my job didn't want to lose me, they made it possible to work from home. Now there is someone else in the company who works part time from home. Sometimes, all you gotta do is ask.
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Re: How I Paid Off My Student Loans By Selling on eBay
for a new comer like me...how should i approach the shipping aspect of e-bay...more specifically, do you own a scale to determine postage? trying to map my mind around the whole process. thanks everyone!
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Re: How I Paid Off My Student Loans By Selling on eBay
@Carlos Ortega I personally do a lot more estimating. I do however have a scale which I use sometimes. I generally charge FREE shipping so I just try to estimate a number into the price. One thing you can also do is if you are selling a similar item that other people have listed, if you go to their item and click on the "sell one like this" link, it will copy the weight and dimensions that person has set. This is not always accurate but you can get a ballpark number. For the most accuracy I...
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Re: Apps to earn rewards and cash
I just tried out Get Upside the other day. It is not available in my area but I was traveling so I figured I would give it a shot. But every time I tried to upload my receipt it would fail, and since there is a time limit, I wasn't able to get my reward. Not a great first time experience. I just started using a newly launched app that gives cashback for purchases with many big retailers and in the future they are introducing more local ones as well as a cryptocurrency that you will also...
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Re: Apps to earn rewards and cash
@Moore Income Sorry to hear about your experience with Get Upside. I haven't had that issue. I signed up for Dosh but haven't used it yet.
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Re: Apps to earn rewards and cash
@Ana the cashback is not that much honestly and you have to have $20 before you cash out but most cashback sites have a minimum. I have had the most success by referring other people.
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Re: How I'm Making Money on Poshmark
I have sold some on Mercari. I like Poshmark a little better and maybe because I’ve used it. I like that I don’t have to deal with the shipping cost part. Since I first posted, my sales are up to $525. $260 is from the box I bought for $300. I still have a few high priced items from my Amazon returns box and still am on track to at least triple my money.
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Re: Apps to earn rewards and cash
What’s the name of the cash back app you are referring to in your reply? I would like to try it.
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Re: Apps to earn rewards and cash
@KathyH18 are you referring to the one I am talking about? I will send you a message with details.
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Re: Apps to earn rewards and cash
Kidazzler, super easy and I love the idea of building a kid friendly searchable database. We don’t launch until March, but my current potential monthly earnings is over $1500.
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I use CoinOut, Fetch, Receipt Hog, and Dabble apps for easy peasy $. I'm also using several mystery shopper apps and have been successfully paid. Referrals would be appreciated and returned. Just send a message or FB message for links. Thanks
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@Janna Johnson I haven't heard of CoinOut or Dabble, what do those do? Feel free to send me a message with more info.
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A lot of the cash back apps don't seem to require you go to the app before shopping. You just link your credit card, forget about it, and when you happen to be at that store, use the credit card. I have Dosh. I got $5 for signing up and just got 2% on a Sam's Club purchase. There aren't that many offers in my area, and some offers aren't available from my local franchisee (Dunkin Donuts, for example, is listed, but my local Dunkin isn't listed as a local merchant.) Swagbucks has some shop...
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We did some work with Shopkick (I work at The Penny Hoarder) and I couldn't believe how loyal their users are -- they have a serious fan base! People who use it absolutely love Shopkick, so much that they sometimes spot each other at stores. Something interesting I didn't expect was that a number of the people we interviewed use the app not only to earn/save money (by earning kicks and redeeming for gift cards) but also to lose weight, because the app motivates them to walk a lot.
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Re: How I'm Making Money on Poshmark
I sold on eBay for year, and then the fees finally got me. I had to stop. I still have half a room of inventory here and then some. I've been given several different sites to sell these things on, but I've heard from some friends of several new sites. We thought of selling them through a fund-raiser for my sister for her bills in her fight against breast cancer. Her daughter knows many wealthy clients in their area, and they've said that some of the items I have they are looking for. Always...