Bullet version for the ultra-busy:
- Method is feasible
- Not going to retire on this method
- Has some good side-effects
Full thing with details:
Introduction:
Easy money. Everyone wants it because who doesn't want money and not have to work for it?* So a lot of people advertise or have videos that you can make money with little to no effort like watching YouTube videos (you can see where this is leading). And there is a method to the madness for some of the videos out there and that is what I investigated for this week's installment of the Financial Guinea Pig.
For starters, if you google "make money while watching youtube videos", you will get quite a lot of hits. It seems that once one person puts a video out, there are a lot of other content creators that follow suit, so to dig around and find the original video post is a little difficult.
The Selection:
I went with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1K600lOb0I. Why? Well, the creator (Thomas Garetz - channel @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYaox4Q1xIXdLoOtdKPOQQ) seems nice enough, describes what he is talking about pretty clearly, and cranks out a good amount of content. He also doesn't come across as pretentious like some do by flashing large amounts of cash or posing by a Lambo (arrogance is a great repellent for me...).
Also the video seems to be towards the front end of all of the "watch videos make money" run. By no means first, but also no where near the end.
The Method to the Madness:
To make this work, you have to use two different websites: addmefast.com and playerup.com. The short description of how this works is a person earns points on addmefast.com and then goes to playerup.com to pawn them for X amount of dollars. The example that Thomas G uses is to sell 200 YouTube views that will cost 1,000 points on addmefast.com for 20 bucks on playerup.com. For more details you can go to his YouTube video and watch the step-by-step.
Thoughts about addmefast.com:
As for earning points on addmefast.com, it isn't too difficult because you are watching YouTube videos. you can also listen to SoundCloud songs, follow Instagram users, and like Facebook posts among other things. I eventually put in orders for views and it worked like a charm. When I put in an order for followers, the majority of people would click follow and then unfollow to get the points but I didn't get the followers, so that was not worth it.
Thoughts on playerup.com:
Following Thomas G's instructions, I was able to do everything that was required. However, with more and more videos on how to do this, there are more and more users, which the supply and demand side of things totally washed out any profitability for me. Plus there are some users promising 20,000 views for $20 - well beyond the paltry 200 views that I would offer for $20. The other thing is I couldn't figure out how to delete the post once I wanted to walk away from it, so I had to mark it as sold.
What's in it for me?
At the end of it I came to two conclusions: 1) making money on it was not worth it for me (in fact, no one wanted to pay me $20 for my 200 views). 2) I got some worth out of it because the points I earned to get views, I set it up so people would watch a video my son uploaded and he was completely stoked to see that people were watching it.
Totally my opinion and nothing else:
If time is money, then you are going to be burning a lot of time to get worth out of this one. If you have that much time to burn, then it could work for you. If you are a gamer, then playerup is worth exploring. If you want to trade likes, views, or followers, then addmefast is a good one.
If you are unable to get a job for whatever reason, this is totally online, so it might be an option.
Mid-week, I will have one more 'easy money' post and then we will move into jobs that require more than just watching a video...
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The Ratings:
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*As for easy money, a theme that runs through many financial threads is that if money comes easy, it leaves easy. I don't think it has to do with the method of getting money, rather the ability to appreciate its true value.
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