Making Money Online with Cash Crate

Cash Crate was perhaps one of my very first money making ventures in the online world. The way you make money online with Cash Crate is by completing the tasks and surveys that they have listed on the site. This could range from taking a survey about shopping to signing up for a free credit card trial to making a purchase of your liking and so on. Some of these offers are free while some aren't, the good news is that you can filter these tasks in many ways - By their highest or lowest reward, by which are free and which aren't, etc.

I have been paid twice by them and then I quit. You might be asking yourself why. Well the truth is that there is a catch to Cash Crate or should I rephrase that as 'scam'? Mind you, they aren't a scam in the sense that they will not pay you. Just because a site is paying you doesn't necessarily mean it is not a scam. It's what you have to be put through in order to get paid by them that makes Cash Crate a scam.

Allow me to elaborate - My first check was about $7 or $8 bucks and I earned it by doing a number of small free offers. My second check was $89 and I earned that one through not only free offers but some high paying free-trial ones as well such as 'Sign-Up for a Free 14 Day Trial with Vonix Phone Service'. This is where things got ugly. Any Cash Crate guru will tell you you're supposed to cancel the Free Trial offers before the trial ends that way you won't get charged anything. Well, I did that and for whatever reason, a lot of those Free Trial offers decided to continue themselves despite the fact that I cancelled them prior to the deadline. Guess what I was left with? Bills that I never asked for. Thanks a lot, Cash Crate.

Another Cash Crate rule of thumb is to delete your cookies prior to doing every single offer as this will supposedly make it easier for Cash Crate to credit you for completing the task. Sometimes, even that doesn't even work. Also, many of these offers will ask you for personal information, now you can fake as much as you want but there's some things you just can't fake like your phone number unless you're stupid enough to go out and buy a prepaid phone just for Cash Crate. I wouldn't. When it comes down to free surveys, forget about it, they have the biggest gimmick of all because A) You can never tell when the survey ends, it will just continue onto a survey about something else without ever indicating you have completed the offer or B) The survey itself cannot be completed unless you choose from one of the NOT free offers within the free survey offer (i.e. it will say something like 'Thank You for Taking the Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi Survey, Please Choose One of the Following Below in Order to Complete' and it will give you a choice between signing up for a college, making a shopping purchase, among other similar offers).

Sometimes, even if you play by all the rules, Cash Crate simply won't pay you period, even after you've cleared your cookies between a hundred individual tasks, it doesn't matter how big or small the reward is, now that is just downright wrong. Cash Crate seems to have a healthy site net worth and overall ranking so I don't see why they would cop out like this. Even if we avoid the offers that ask for personal information, how much money do you think you're going to make? Not $89, that's for sure. Heck, maybe not even $10. I'm not surprised really because Cash Crate has been displaying false advertisement since day one: A big box surrounded by lots of cash. If you expect to make anything close to what you see in the Cash Crate logo, kiss your credit report and your life goodbye.