CashCrate.com Review: It’s a really small crate!
Want to get regular scambusting updates? Sign up for e-mail or RSS updates.
I’ve Tried That reader Alfa, who recently profiled our site on her blog, Flood of Dollars, suggested that we take a look at Cash Crate, another site claiming to pay you for trying companies’ products and services. I signed up. Here’s what I found out.
Cashcrate.com functions on the same premise as Inbox Dollars and Fusion Cash: sign up for promotional memberships and offers and get paid a small fee per sign-up. It also has a referral program so that you can get paid for the offers and memberships of people who sign up “under” you.
I like cashcrate better than Fusion Cash just because it is less obnoxious in its promotional graphics and text and because the site is faster loading. You go to the members area and can choose from offers using simple text, not full-on logos like Fusion Cash uses. The screen shot shows only the first nine of many, many offers. The site also warns you which offers require a credit card to sign up for, a nice feature.
I spent an hour taking surveys and signing up for offers at Cash Crate and have earned about $3.50. At that rate, it would take me a lifetime to earn a crate full of cash unless it’s the size of a Tic-Tac box. Cash Crate pays out at $10, so I’m sure someone with more time and patience for advertising than I have could make some pizza money. Good for students, maybe? It could definitely supplement the Taco Bell fund. If you spent enough time with it, you could probably learn to work its system faster than I did and therefore make more than $3.50/hour. If you’re looking to make more than just pocket change, though, I suggest spending your time elsewhere.
Did you read this post with the intention of making money online? If so, you'll want to buy our book about working from home. We teach you everything you need to know about working at home. Click here to check out our eBook, The Complete Guide to Telecommuting. If you liked this post and want to receive updates on the latest scams and resourceful information, click here to subscribe to our RSS feed, or click here to receive daily email updates.
Huge waste of time, they’re bsaically paying you for your referral and if you don’t participate in the programs they refer you to, they’ll say you didn’t complete the offer or some crap.
I wish I got $8 when I signed up for Ebay 5 years ago though, free money’s nice.
I have to agree with you, TJ man. I’m surprised eBay is paying folks to sign up–don’t they already have more members than Hell does?
I got a comment on my blog today recommending CashCrate…I sent them your way :).
I’d be interested to hear what they have to to say. Maybe she figured out a way to work it so that it pays. Maybe she has a bigger crate. Sometimes, size does matter.
Wow, at $3.5/hr it’s hard to justify the time involved. These sites seem to keep appearing, but never lasting. Not sure why they haven’t gotten the idea yet.
There seems to be quite a variety of capital outlay. Cashcrate’s infrastructure is quite a bit less expensive to run than that of Fusion Cash, I’m sure. Maybe these sites make a lot of affiliate change up front, then when readers discover they’re making $3.50 an hour, they bolt and the site folds. It would be interesting to know which ones have been around for a while and how their business model pulls it off.
Thanks for this review, Joe! Although I won’t mind earning $3.50/hour since I’m in a third world country, it’s great to learn that there’s something better than CashCrate. What do you recommend?
If that’s the case, Alfa, then go for it with CashCrate. We’ve tried two other similar programs: Fusion Cash and Inbox Dollars, but I think CashCrate is the best option of those three. It’s less graphics-intensive, so it loads quickly. But read the Terms and Conditions carefully to see if being in another country excludes you. It would be terrible to do a lot of sign-ups only to learn you can’t get paid.
Only if I have more time. Will wait for more reviews of these types of programs.
Probably one of the fairest reviews that I can across in a long time! I been a member of Cashcrate for over a year now! As far as I am concerned, it is one of the better GPT sites online, especially great for US, UK and CAN residents who want to make a little extra income, online, and yes you can make some good money, if yuo are good at getting a downline! I had to do a “W9″ just from the income that I made from Cashcrate! Keep up the great reviews, maybe leave a comment on my blog http://mtf-makingextramoneyonline.blogspot.com/ sure would love you to take a look!
Hi, MTF. Do share how you’ve done it. You must be better at promoting and more organized than I am. I would forget to cancel my trials and then end up with dozens of free memberships I don’t intend to use.
You’re right. Cashcrate does load up faster because it has little graphic. I have to admit I really like fairytaletreasure (FTT) though. As I mentioned before, I made $40 the first month. And now, I’m at $60 (5th or 6th week). ($7 is from referral). I love the daily trivia! It’s really fun. Plus, they keep a history of my offers so that I wouldn’t accidentally do it again on Cashcrate or other GPT site. I see how Cashcrate is simple and just complete the offers and you will (or may) get the credit. if you want to try FTT out, let me know and i will post my referral or e-mail you my referral. I wonder how long has FTT been around? I think it’s only a couple months.
CashCrate is a good site and it actually works- I’ve been a member of their site for almost a year and have received several checks from them… but there are better programs out there. ECashOffers.com is the best one on my list… you get $3 just to sign up so how’s that for your $3.50 an hour?
Yes, that beats my $3.50 an hour (unless it’s one of those loooong sign up forms). When I signed up for one program, I got into an endless loop of “survey” pages, which were really just long questionnaires to determine which stuff they could try to sell me. I did about 30 minutes worth of the screens before getting wise and closing the browser. So it doesn’t surprise me that someone who’s more organized and efficient than I am could make more money with these programs.
I got a tip from this website: http://www.gptlist.com/gptsites.html saying that we would actually only need to do 5 pages of those “endless loop of ’survey’ pages”. i haven’t really tried that “5 pages” rule yet. the surveys i have done allow me to click “skip” or “no, thanks” to move through the pages quite quickly. oh… hee… gotta say this: i won an earning contest on FTT: $3. I had to complete 15 offers. The catch: I actually did 30 offers! So, only 50% got credited. It’s probably not worth the time. But I guess it’s the thrill of winning that $3. ha ha ha…. also, have you ever google “gpt reviews”??? there are so many reviews out there!
I’m sure I did more than 5, and I don’t remember seeing an opt out button. 30 offers to win $3? You must be so, um, proud.
Joe, there are ways to do surveys in an efficient amount of time… none should take over 5 minutes if you’re doing them right. 30 minutes on one survey is unheard of!
Basically, you can make some good extra cash if you read site rules & tips to get offers to credit.
I’d say CashCrate is great but a few other sites will make you more money. Especially if your looking to earn money via referral commissions.
Join XSVCASH at xsvcash.com
This site has more referral levels, more referral bonuses, and on top of that, they have higher paying offers.
Cashcrate.com sounds like projectpayday.com in the “referrals” section.
Cashcrate is great, i’ve got $80 this month, and $566 in the past 4 months total.. awesome site
also, DO NOT TRY XSVCASH!
xsvcash is a SCAM.. i’ve been waiting 3 months for my money on paypal.. also, they keep changing the minimum payout… and another thing is, don’t expect any emails back from them if you try to contact them.. they ignore you
That’s pretty impressive in pay per click money, Wes. How did you do it?
So far my experience with Cashcrate has been positive. I’ve been a member there for about a week now. I was able to generate my $10.00 minimum payout and have my offer payments confirmed in a little over an hour. My first couple of offers like Joe’s seemed to take me through an endless loop of additional offers requesting signups. I did not realize that I had allready completed the original offer that I started and had gone on to another affiliate offer. After learning to do the offers more efficiently I’ve been able to average around $10.00 per hour. So far I’ve made a little over $85.00 and I’ve got about eight hours tied up in completing their offers. I’ve got one referral signed up under me who has been very activly completing offers. Its not a get rich quick method by anystretch of imagination, however it can be a good way of generating some spare cash and the referral program can be quite lucrative.
Well I tried it, and wish I’d found your website before trying it, lol. I made about $22 within a few hours, but it’s been some 2 weeks since then and it’s still “pending”. They “confirmed” $3, which isn’t enough for a payout. So that was a few hours wasted.
I think I’m like you and not nearly organized enough for something like that, anyway. I’d end up paying out money on accounts that I would inevitably forget to cancel before the free trial ended.
Jennifer
PS: I’m loving your site, glad I found it.
Hey thanks for this review. Ok, so I tried it and made a whopping $15.80 after trying it 2 hours a night for 5 nights in a row. Um, that’s comes out to about $1.58 an hour. That sucks.
I should also mention that the hours I spent filling out survey after survey made me want to stick hot needles in my eyes just to end the nightmare. So , yes, small crate indeed.
Great site you have, thanks!
http://www.DebtSmellsLikePoopies.com
I’ve changed my opinion since my earlier post in this Blog. All together I’ve got almost $26.00 confirmed earnings from Cashcrate and, am expecting to recieve those in a check later this month. At the time of my original posting I had an additional $65.00 earnings pending which never did confirm even though I completed the offers correctly. After these offers sat in the pending list for nearly a month they were removed as though I’d never completed them. I would not recommend this or any of the other “Get Payed To” sites to anyone nor will I seek out referrals after this experience. The Cash Crate site has a forum and their members are not allowed to discuss pending offers in their forums. It appears that the reasoning behind this is due to the fact that a very large percentage of their offers are extremely slow to confirm or they never do confirm. This seems to be a common theme among the other “Get Payed To” sites as well
has anyone actually received a check yet?
Ya I have been receiving for a while now. At first your confused and take alot more time doing surveys then you need. But after a few weeks you learn a few tricks of the trade and then your just flying. Email if you need any hints or tips. Take advantage of free money.
I sign up to CashCrate on 5/2/2008 and have made $19 today(5/4/2008). In my opinion it is the best program. I made the most money with this site. Yeah it take some time and effort to make some cash but nothing comes from nothing. I think people need to realize quick rich scheme online are a waste of time. You can make money but dont expect to fire your boss anytime soon. If you are interest in making some gas money or pocket cash then try the site out. Depending on the type of offer you finish you can make at least $5-10 an hour. Referral does help to increase your payout so keep the chain. I join the site from a referral and receieved extensive help getting started from my referral. I will share the same tools and resource provided to me to be successful with all my referral.
Ive tried loads of these type site (survey and what not) the best i can recommend are toluna, ciao, lightspeed, surveyspot, none give you loads of surveys but it you sign up to enough decent ones its good for some extra cash with these sites i get about 3 surveys a day at around £1-£4 per about 15 min survey so its not bad if you know the right sites and only do the ones worth your time.
if any one wants the good sites email me and ill send you some links.
cheers tom
It isn’t cash, but MyPoints has been consistent with completed offers with out a ton of gimmicks for them to get out of paying and receiving prompt gift cards. I have racked up enough points to take us out to dinner every once in a while to or give a gift card as a present. Mostly by just clicking on links. I wouldn’t plan on making a fortune on these sites. After all, they are in it for the money too or they wouldn’t do it. This Cashcrate sounds like a pyramid deal. I also found that the biggest gimmick it to write on a blog how great it is to encourage downlines. Thanks for a decent review.
I just want to thank you for this review!! It saved me a lot of time and money!
I would never be organized enough to cancel all those free trials on time, and 3.50 an hour is hardly worth it.
Thanks again!
I’ve tried CashCrate but my favorite is GypsyJackpot. That’s a very simple and highpaying survey site. I’ve gotten paid anytime I’ve worked at it with no problem.
I have joined cashcrate and have almost $80 in pending and $16 confirmed. I’m not holding my breath for the pending but I will not continue with this site after the 15th. The spam in my email is horrible I’ve had to set up a new email just to get away from it.