Cashing Out from Mturk to Your Amazon Gift Certificate Account

Hi fellow readers,
For those of you who are interested in using Amazon's Mturk Gift Certificate Feature I decided to post a little tutorial on how to go about cashing out from your Mturk Earnings balance to your Gift Certificate balance. Your earnings balance from Mturk are instantly credited so you can start spending your gift certificate balance right away!
To see a bigger screenshot, click on the image.

This first screen shot is my previous gift certificate account balance (also Mturk earnings!)

Below is the screenshot of my Mturk dashboard. You will be clicking on Account Settings to access your current balance and the screen in which you can choose to cash out to your US bank account or Amazon's Gift Certificate Account.

As you can see, below is the screen in which you can choose to cash out to your US bank account or Amazon's Gift Certificate Account.
You are going to click on the link highlighted on the screenshot.

For security purposes they ask you to enter your password and then you just sign in.

Next is a window which shows your Mturk account balance. You may enter how much money you'd like to transfer from your Mturk account to your Gift Certificate account. I choose $53.50 to even out my $30.50 figure. Next from the drop down menu, you choose where you would like the money to be sent. I choose Amazon.com gift certificate balance and hit Transfer.

They then ask you to confirm that you are doing this transaction, so you have the choice to click on Yes (if you want to proceed)
or No (if you are unsure about proceeding or want to cancel the transaction)
Next you'll get a screen which tells you that your transfer has been initiated and it shows your current balance in your Mturk account.Now, if you once again sign in to your Amazon Shopping Account and check your gift certificate, it is instantly credited and as you can see it added my two transactions together and I now have $84.00USD in my gift certificate account to spend. Without using a penny from my own pocket!

I hope this tutorial has been of help to some of you.

On that note, have a good day and good luck with your Online Money Quest

Roxanne

Incomebux.net a scam?!

I had stumbled upon a Pay to Click site earlier in the month of June and I decided to give them a try because they had a low payout...$1USD. The first thought that came to my mind was, "Hey if it's a scam it wouldn't take me long to find out." At the same time I went around the internet looking for reviews on this site and most of them came back quite positive so this made me feel confident that this site wasn't a scam. I even read a blog where someone got paid 3 times by them...all small amounts just a bit over a dollar.

Well I had started clicking and actually forgot about the site for about a week or so during the month of June but was still able to reach payout before the end of June.

I requested a payout of exactly $1.25USD on June 30th and they gave me a message saying I'd have to wait 1-14 days before receiving the money. "That's fine" I thought. They also stated they would check for fraudulent clicks and that was fine by me. I didn't do anything wrong and I had no referrals, I got there on my own! I kept clicking happily till July 9th! I tried logging into the site and it gave me an error message that my account was disabled. I dismissed the situation and of course it was resting on my mind a bit but I had important work to do and could not bother myself with such a small situation at the time.

I came back online today and finally did some more research this time looking for anyone else who got their account suspended and I found some evidence that incomebux.net wasn't as rosy as it first seemed to be. They had lots of complaints of people not getting paid and the site disappearing and of course, others who have suddenly had their account disabled too.

That sucks! I never thought I'd be caught up in one of these sites. I wasted precious time when I could have been making money on another site that I am SURE pays me. But that is okay, at least I can inform you all first hand so you guys won't waste your time on this site. This is the purpose of my blog, to provide you all with genuine paying sites.

Alot of PTC (pay to click) sites don't seem to last very long. But Clixsense and Wordlinx have been around for years and they always pay and don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon! They serve ads all through the day so if you are on the computer you can always keep checking for new ads.

Well, I am disappointed to add incomebux.net as a scam site on my list, but this is my personal experience with them and if you are someone who has gotten paid by incomebux.net I'd love to know!

Have a good day everyone and remember it takes cents to make dollars.

Roxanne

Proof Of Payment: Second Mylot Payment and Review Stream

So July meets me in the midst of this being my fifth month trying to earn some extra cash online and it is so nice to come home and find in my email inbox a message saying that I have been paid by one of the websites I use to make some spare change on here.

Yesterday (July 9th) I came home to see I got paid $11.82 by myLot into my Moneybookers account, same as last time. Not bad as I just use the site to pass some time being helpful, just responding in what interests me or just to ask for tidbits of information to get personal views from others on the topic. I've also made some very nice friends on myLot too! So give it a try if you aren't already a member.

This is my second payout from Review Stream, as you can see. I got paid $60.88USD within an hour of requesting payout and they pay through Paypal. I earn the bulk of my online money from Review Stream at the moment and it does come in handy at the end of the month. So if you try a new product, write about it and earn some cash back! You can write about anything, as long as you have first hand experience with whatever you are writjng about. They like you to explain your personal feelings about whatever you are writing about. Be sure to read their TOS & FAQ's before getting started. They aren't long or hard to understand. Good luck to you all and I will be putting more updates soon. I hope you all find my blog to be useful.

Have a good one
Roxanne

Utilize Your Resources

So, we all want extra money. But where do we want it? I think the answer is pretty clear!
We want it in our hands, pockets, wallets or bank accounts!

But money which you can earn yet not ever see a dime of in your hand, be of use? The simple answer is Yes!

Now, I have encountered this question a few times by friends who are also looking for potential ways to earn some cash online and I always give them MY train of thought on the matter of using Amazon's Mturk, yet, not being of the USA or India, I cannot withdraw this money. So why do I dare persist? For money I may never get to see...

There is always the possibility that in the future they may decide to implement the check system worldwide or even go as far as to pay through online payment processors! But, if it never happens, then what?

Well, I did not realize the full potential of Amazon's Mturk till my friend's birthday came up recently. I used to use Mturk sparingly and therefore did not maximize my earning potential with them in the first month of using this website.

My second month with them is when the realization truly hit me. They have an option that allows you to withdraw money to a gift certificate account where you can purchase stuff off their website and my friend's birthday was slowly creeping up around the corner. Even though he is living thousands of miles away from me, I had to get him something! We have been friends for over 5 years so how could I forget him or his birthday, he doesn't forget mine!

A thought literally leapt into my head at that moment and it hit me, Amazon. They have some items where you can add a gift wrapping option so it was perfect! I sat for a second and thought about what he may like and I searched it on their website. It came up with over 500 results, each one being just as hard to choose from as the other.

I finally found an item I thought he would like (he loves it by the way!) and in the process found stuff I would like to get myself! Unfortunately, not utilizing my resource on the first month of using Mturk, I did not have enough to buy him the present I was looking at. So, I began...
Everyday I'd make a little time in the evening to do some HITs. I was surprised to learn at the end of June I had accumulated $81 dollars! in addition to my previous month of earnings which brought me close to $100USD total!

I withdrew about $30 bucks to the gift certificate account and bought him a birthday present with no hassle to myself. So the shipping cost just a bit...but so what?! I wasn't going to be seeing a penny of that money in my hand anytime soon anyway!

Now by utilizing this website, I just recently ordered myself a cake decorating tip set I was eyeing for a few months at another website no less (they have a store on Amazon!) A pair of high heels that I just can't find in my country at all.

Now, I have a friend in the USA and her birthday is soon and it crossed my mind to get her a pendant with her birthstone. Well I happened across a lovely sterling silver pendant with her birthstone in and it comes with a chain and FREE Shipping!

So as you can see, this could come in really handy for buying presents or just getting yourself items you want without having to dip into your wallet, weekly salary or bank accounts. No need to pull out that credit card either!

Personally I like this idea, but as usual it is always up to YOU to decide what you believe is good for you and what is not. But I do hope this article has given you some nice ideas and if you have websites with the same potential as this one, I'd love to hear about them.

I'd love your feedback on if you found this article helpful, dull, a waste of time or even if you just have questions, feel free to leave a comment and I will get back to you all as soon as possible.

Remember it takes cents to make dollars.

Good luck with your online money quest.
Roxanne

Earnings Update: June 2008

Good day fellow reader
It is July 1st 2008 here and I am going to post my monthly earnings update to show you that yes it is possible to earn money on the internet. It may not be enough to live from yet but we all have to start somewhere.

Now keep in mind the earnings for June may not seem to surpass my last earnings by much because the last update was done for TWO months (April and May) whereas this is going to showcase ONE month.

I do hope reading my blog would help you along the way and inspire you on your own quest for an online income.

So without further ado, here are my stats for the month of June 2008.

June 2008 Earning Stats

* Review Stream - $60.88 [Status: Paid] ~Need to formally request payment. Paid same day.
* Mylot - $ 11.82 [Status: Paid] ~ Pays automatically on 15th of following month. Paid on July 9th.

* IncomeBux.net - $1.25 [Status: Scam Site?!] ~ Requested payout and is said to wait 1-14 days to receive payout. After 9 days of waiting they closed my account. I wasted my time. I saw other people claim to have been paid but alot of bad reps about this site after some more research. Well my first hand experience...not good!

All site status results updated.


The payouts from Review Stream and myLot would come to a total of $72.70 USD for June 2008.


*Other ventures - $14.00

So this is now a total of $86.70Usd for June alone


My Gift Certificate Funds...

Amazon's Mturk - $81.08Usd for June


Amazon's Mturk earnings are going towards my Gift Certificate Account, since I am unable to withdraw money to my bank (You can withdraw if you are from the US or India - cash in your hands or bank!) for international members you can add the funds to your Amazon Gift Certificate account (like I am doing) to purchase stuff from their website.


If I was able to withdraw funds from Amazon I would be at a grand total of $167.78 USD. Not bad for my fourth month at this.

I hope you guys found this post useful. If you did, I would appreciate some feedback and if you have any questions feel free to ask them.

If you are a beginner to this online earning thing, don't think you'll make it big overnight...it's a case of slow and steady. I learnt this firsthand and quickly (thank goodness) and on that note I wish you good luck on your online money quest...

Remember it takes cents to make dollars

Roxanne