Data Entry Jobs: Fusion Cash Review
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Hmm…a philosophical question: do I review the program itself, or the website that promotes (and presumably profits from) the program? I’ll go for a minimalist approach and let you draw your own conclusions, except when I draw them for you with such comments as “Work at home sites shouldn’t promote jobs that are not legitimate.” If I were making such a judgment, you understand. Not that I am right now.
Where to start in my assault on the Data entry jobs juggernaut? At the top. A Google search for “data entry work from home” brings more than 82 million results, the first of which is a jobvertise.com site, which led me to workathomecareers.com, which is prominently displaying Fusion Cash banners. I’m suspicious of banners, so I went for the first sponsored link on the page that mentioned “data entry.” It led me to Fusion Cash.
Here’s what I learned. Though the link that led me to Fusion Cash said, “Data entry clerk needed,” I think it was slightly misleading. If you follow through on the application and FAQs, you’ll see that you’re getting paid to do data entry, all right, but the data you’re entering is your own, and the “forms” are applications to sign up for programs, trial memberships, and so on. To their credit, workathomecareers.com does not try to hide this fact. They spell it out for you clearly enough in the FAQs and “more info” links. So if you have no qualms about giving out your personal info and inviting junk mail to your virtual and literal boxes, and can get others to do the same (they have a referral program), you can probably indeed make some money. Pizza money, probably. Not pay-the-mortgage money.
So I signed up. Here’s how it works. You select offers that interest you (some typical ones are shown in the screen cap here; click on it to magnify), sign up for them, follow the conditions imposed by the offer, and then your Fusion Cash account gets credited for the amount shown in the offer, anywhere from 0.25 to $25. You have to earn a minimum of $25 to cash out.
But I hit a couple of snags. First is this little stipulation in the terms and conditions:
Users must try only those offers in which they have a legitimate interest. If a user is found, in FusionCash’s sole discretion, to be in violation of this provision, his/her earnings will be forfeit and his/her account disqualified.
See, I don’t have a legitimate interest in any of what they’ve got. I am generally averse to marketing gimmicks and consumerism. And this program is consumerism on broadband steroids. I just can’t proceed, knowing I have no real interest in their stuff and that I’ll have to give my credit card info to dozens of companies just to reach the $25 cash-out minimum.
So I’m done. Somebody could probably make some money with Fusion Cash, but that somebody ain’t this body. Anybody wanna buy my membership? Act now! A limited-time offer for
Saw the mention on E Moms @ Home, glad other bloggers are taking notice :).
We’ll be rock stars before you know it. Another nice little write-up here: floodofdollars.com.
Nice..
Right now I’m trying to see how making money with incentive based websites works out and I’m running into the same problem. You need to complete offers for free trials, throw your credit card around everywhere, and then wind up with $50 subscription fees in 7 days. Very risky but people are making money doing it. I plan to blog about it soon.
I just recently joined Fusion Cash, and while it may be too soon to tell, I have to say that I’ve already made 40 dollars, and I only gave out my credit card number for one of the offers…it was for the Blockbuster free trial, which I actually had been wanting to do anyway. You can still make money on fusioncash without giving out your credit card.
Hi Carolyn. How much time have you spent working the program to make those $40?
I started 2 days ago…like I said, I only gave out my credit card number to the blockbuster giveaway and to emusic, because 1. I know it’s legitimate and 2. because I would have wanted to sign up for Blockbuster online anyways. (I was able to locate easy ways to unsubscribe from the emusic trial too….no long phone calls or anything, it was just the click of a button). There are plenty of offers that don’t require a credit card, so you just have to pick and choose…and be aware that not all the offers are safe (duh, you shouldn’t complete any offer that wants your SSN…). As the writer of the blog mentioned, I can’t really see you getting rich quick from fusion cash (i’ll actually probably stop using it after I get paid for what I’ve done), but they’ve got a low cashout of 25 dollars, so it’s completely doable…
I’ll be interested in your overall experience, Carolyn. Please contact me when you’ve cashed out-I think it would make a good feature post on Ive Tried That (if you’re interested). joe@ivetriedthat.com
Sure, sounds good! According to Fusion Cash, I can expect my funds to be transfered to my pay pal account by aug. 20th, so I’ll contact you once I get paid
FusionCash is a good one for a points site but I’ve also found that a number of sites are different in the sense they are “referral sites” as well. You complete an offer and refer friends to do the same. If you’ve got a couple cronies who want to sign up for Blockbuster you can make $40 a pop so that’s kind of good if you don’t want to throw your credit card into the Internet’s abyss.
I’ve worked with ZeroPricetags.com and I have to say I’m pleased thus far. Payment is scheduled for this evening.
I cashed out before the 20 of August and I still have not seen any payment. I asked about it I only got one response since then. Now I have not heard from them in two weeks.
I got up to 24 dollars and they decided to not let me log in anymore….phooie!
To think they actually payed me when I cashed out.
I just threatened them then they paid me. You have to talk to people in the right way. But you may just get kicked out of the chatroom like I did. But you will still be on the site.
I signed up for Fusion Cash, after following liks for Data Entry jobs. I spent a week filling out surveys and trial things - I wouldn’t do anything that required a credit card. My partner, who lives with me, wanted to try it, so she signed up too and put my name down as a referral. When I got to $25 (about 3 weeks later) I requested a cash out, and they immediately restricted my account. When I inquired as to why they responded, 5 days later, with two words: “fraudulent referral.” nothing else. they never inquired as to if the referral was fraudulent or asked for any verification information. they restricted my partner’s account as well (she was 25 cents away from the $25 cashout requirement.
I’m sticking with Inbox Dollars. I haven’t been paid by them yet (I’m due to be paid this week) but I’m still hopeful.
Update! I got up to $25.75 and they paid it to my paypal account on dec 5th….so maybe it is ok..I gave out no credit cards but joined a lot of things that sent email to my inbox now that I am deleting daily…so hey be careful what u wish for…
Fusion Cash is complete fraud.
They have a “Support” section where they supposedly respond to any stated problems you might encounter using their site. (And there is problem after problem, mostly with completed offers not crediting.) Every response you get (and you hardly get any) does not even remotely address your stated problem. As a matter of fact, their “responses” always have nothing at all to do with the reason you contacted support. - And then they tell you that they have already answered you, and ban you from their site.
The head administrator there will not give his name; that in itself is very telling. He is just known as ADMINISTRATOR, and very often throws members out for absolutely no reason at all, even if they have not broken any rules. -
——–Don’t waste your time with this one.
If anyone needs to contact them.
Administrator: Derheim, Tyler
FusionCash, Inc.
PO Box 1081
Santa Cruz, California 95061
United States
714-276-9105 Fax — 714-276-9073
Yeah I cashed out to and got my 25 dollars a few months ago. Now I have 17 dollars cause I had just started back and I am not about to use my credit card anytime soon so I guess that 17 dollars will be there forever. And there were people saying that they were having problems with fusion cash. They probably were. But i did not have any tell you the truth. email me.
Hey I had called that number that guy said you have the wrong number I was like umm excuse me and i hung up. And to mention I have spent hours on that computer on fusion cash trying to make a quick buck. beleive me it is not worth anyones time unless u are desperate for cash more like chump chance.
I joined fusion cash a few months ago and did the whole data entry thing for a couple of days and made 45 dollars and didnt even put my credit card in once. They sent me a check like they said.
I think the whole only register for what u are interested in is just a stipulation to cover there asses if a company tries to sue them or something.
very legitimate site.. Dont listen to this guy he never even tried it..
I was just about to sign up for Fusion Cash and decided to do a search on it to see if there were any reviews about it. I’m glad I found yours. This site would be a waste of time for me. Thank you.
nicole,
your “fraudulent referral” was because you share an address with your partner. it says this in the terms and referrals section. they most likely did that so you can’t make easy money from obvious referrals like partners and roommates (sneaky bastards).
another inconvenience is that you are not allowed to use someone else’s computer or a shared network computer, so you’ve gotta have your own computer.
it also says you cannot refer someone and in any way do a “walk-through” (tell them which offers would be most beneficial to fill out), and you cannot accept a “walkthrough.” i guess you’re out of luck if you happen to pick your offers wisely off the bat.
My roomate had been doing stuff on fusion cash for almost a week. Then one day, a check showed up in our mailbox for almost $4,000. He was stoked. Until, two days later, the check was found to be a fake and his bank account was suddenly almost $3,000 overdrawn.
I will not say that this is necassily the fault of fusion cash, but what I will say is this…
if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I joined fusion cash about 2 months ago and worked up the required 25 dollars. The check did come and i deposited it into the bank. Then 3 days later my bank sent me a copy of the check saying that it had bounced. My bank cahrged me 5 dollars for the bad check and now my inbox is constantly bombarded by emails that will not unsubscribe. BAD DEAL
Thank you so much for all these comments. I am in desperate need of making some extra money and have been exploring second part-time jobs and several other options, such as online data entry.
So thank you, everyone for all your advice and please share any successful stories.
Have a great day!
Cat