Helpshare.com: Get Answers or Earn Cash by Answering Questions

If you are knowledgeable (in any subject), you could earn some extra cash answering questions. There is a few different websites that 'connect' you with people needing answers. www.helpshare.com is one of those websites, askers set a price that they will pay for a correct answer, and you only 'answer' the ones you want to.

They have developed a Trust Algorithms™, this is a rating system that all users are subject too; you will have two different ratings, one for asking, and another one for answering. This is supposed to make the asker trust you and your answers, people can leave comments about an asker or answerer that will be visible in their profile, and not all answers are rewarded. The asker must approve of the answer first, this keeps the nonsense answers from begin rewarded. So do a good job, answer it as if you really want to know the answer yourself. Some askers will offer bonuses if their question is answered within a certain time frame and stuff like that. Answerers rate asker's; their rates are mainly to see if they have paid for answers before and stuff like that.

Registering for an account is free. The site is easily navigated, and not to many ads to distract you. For those of you that think they are encouraging kids to cheat on school projects, if you go to the site you will notice that most of the questions open and closed for answers are not even school related, most are for work project. I am sure there is the occasional high-schooler or college students on there buying answers, but at they have to pay for them here and they will get a better answer than if they would have asked on yahoo answers. After a question has closed, regardless if any answers were rewarded with payment or not, it is archived on the website. This gives helpshare.com another use as a "knowledge base".

Founded in 1999 Help Share's mission is to use the internet to tap into the collective intelligence of internet users. You can sign up for alert emails when a new question is posted on helpshare.com. You can even get affiliate buttons for your blog or website that will earn you a commission when a visitor go to helpshare.com through your link and asks or answers any questions. You can also partner your company or website with HelpShare.com to earn even more commissions.

As all ways, make sure you read all their terms and conditions for using the website, and when signing up for any affiliate programs. HelpShare, Inc. 4614 51st Avenue S. , Seattle, WA 98118.

At Student of Fortune, you can earn money-answering questions on a variety of subjects. The set up is very similar to other sites, like HelpShare, etc... except this is geared more towards students. They address the issue of "is this cheating?" in their websites Frequently Asked Questions section. They explain that their 'service' was built to help people, whether they are students or professionals, is it up to the people that use it to do so in a moral way. Student of Fortune encourages answerers to not only answer questions but also show the asker how they got to the answer. Of course, it is not a requirement, so you can just give answers. Student of Fortune considers them selves a research tool, not for cheating. They wash their hands of any legal liability by not limiting the kinds of questions you 'the user' can ask, and put all liabilities on the user ( read more about it in the Terms and Conditions #23). In addition, you must be 18 or over to use student of fortune and they reserve the right to terminate any account for any reason.

Like helpshare.com, at student of fortune you are only paid for answers that the asker likes. You might be wondering "what is keeping the asker from using my answer and not paying for it?" answer: the asker only gets a snippet of your answer, and they must pay to view the whole answer.

Their other moneymaking opportunity is for you to upload completed homework and sell it. To do this you enter some information about your completed homework then, if you are working from a textbook, student of fortune has software that automatically figures out what textbook your answers are for and fills in details for you. You then enter your answers. Than others, needing those answers can buy yours. To me this sounds like cheating, getting one or two answers is not a big deal, but whole pieces of home work.

It is a good deal for the people making money off answering questions and selling homework but the people paying for and using these answers and homework are putting themselves at risk for a double whammy. Since Student of Fortune does not monitor any of the questions or answers content (Terms and Conditions #8), it is up to the person paying for an answer to make sure that an answer is correct or that it is legal for you to use. I am sure that teachers will be trolling this site to see if their students are getting their answers from here.

You can also earn for referring others to Student of Fortune, when your referrals sign-up you will make 5% of what they spend buying answers. You can take it a step further is you are attending a school; Student of Fortune will give you exclusive rights to a website that you will earn 5% commission on what visitors spend on Studentoffortune.com.

http://www.studentoffortune.com/cgi/fees, check out the page explaining the fees associated with using Student of Fortune, and read the Terms and Conditions.
I would not recommend using sites like this to get answers, but if you do, make sure you re-write it, and make it your own to avoid problems.