Last month I performed an experiment to show how much money a person with little time and no referrals could make on CashCrate, a great Get-Paid-To site with a good reputation. Basically, I spent one hour every day for a month filling out surveys on CashCrate to see how much money I could make.

There are lots of reviews out there about CashCrate most of them highly recommended the site. I joined back in May or June and starting following all the little tips and hints that other articles told me would improve my chances of having offers confirm. While it only took about an hour to fill out enough surveys to earn the $10 minimum cash out, it took a few days for those offers to confirm through the companies. From about four or five hours I received a check for about eighteen dollars.

The basis of CashCrate is the same as all of the GPT sites. You fill out surveys from companies doing market research and the company pays CashCrate and CashCrate pays you 75 free offers. Also, I had no referrals so didn't receive any money that way.

The results of my Project were a bit mixed. I earned about $19 in all throughout the month. I had problems with many of my offers confirming at first. I emailed the people at CashCrate and they replied (very quickly too) that there is safeguards in place to ensure companies confirm when they are supposed to. I also asked for a better explanation of "participate in survey". The offers that said this were the ones that most often didn't confirm. Come to find out, I wasn't doing them right and that was why they weren't confirming. Once I corrected the situation, they did indeed confirm more often.

As I said, there are a lot of articles/reviews out there about CashCrate and many of them have some misinformation. The tricks that used to work have been discovered by the companies and no longer work; for example using a phone number that isn't your primary home number and using a gmail address as a "different" email address every time. As long as you complete the survey the right way and answer the phone for surveys that require it, you should have most of your offers confirm.

A couple of things I learned were that you need to complete the whole survey until you get to the point where you are asked to spend money before continuing. If you get to a page that offers "gold offers", open the offers for a minute or so (you don't have to actually complete them) and then close the page. Don't get discouraged. It does take some time but the rate you make for each survey is high compared to other GPT sites. Also, there is a very helpful group of people in the forum who post what offers confirm for them so you have a head start to knowing which offers to complete first. Lastly, offers don't confirm very well over the weekend and holidays, so if you start off on one of those days, don't worry if your offers don't confirm right away.

Understandably, the best thing about CashCrate is the referral program. Most important to me is that the site is really worth your time for the amount of money you can make on your own. I only did the free offers although there were some trial offers I would have like to try (many related to hobbies I have) and there is a very special feature to CashCrate called the daily survey. The daily survey allows you to complete two surveys each day worth 80 cents each. That's a guaranteed $48 a month if you do both every day. So you don't need to feel like you are referring a bad product to anyone. Additionally, CashCrate offers a wonderful two-tier program, which starts by giving you 20 of second level referrals and rises as you refer more people. The forum is friendly; the owners are friendly and honestly concerned about providing a well-constructed and beneficial Get-Paid-To site. It is very refreshing to find people in this business who aren't just out for themselves.

CashCrate is a great site if you enjoy GPT sites. I highly recommend it for anyone out there who is a member of a lot of these sites, who has a large number of people to refer to, or is willing to do the recruiting work to make the referral program work for them. If you are interested in checking this GPT site out, sign up here.