It is NOT easy money. I read a deal blog called Money Saving Methods. Carrie the author outlines a very detailed summary of all the companies who do the deals and exactly how to do them. She had tons of pictures of readers who posted their pictures along with their gift cards, so I thought I would give it a shot.First I read and re-read all of Carrie's instructions. This took about an hour. During one of Charlotte's naps I signed up for all the offers and made a spreadsheet documenting all of it - phone numbers, account numbers, contact people, websites and every piece of info I could. This took two hours. I also set up a new email account to get all the junk - crucial.
After that I just checked up on it every day to make sure to cancel trial memberships when necessary and make sure I was getting credit for all the offers. Within two weeks I had credit for everything and then I just had to wait for the gift card.
Not a bad deal. I did invest $73 in the memberships, trials and shipping charges which included Dr. Suess club books, two months of emusic tunes, free mineral makeup, face cream and jewelry samples.
So, $500 - $73 = $427
1 hour researching
2 hours signing up and documenting
1 hour cumulative email checking
1 hour membership management
1 hour worrying
$427 for 6 hours = $71/hr
I can live with that, since I got some cool stuff and can probably cut some of the worrying out next time since I know now it will work if done correctly...
5 comments:
Wow, I am impresseed that you did all that. It that sounds like somthing I could have done when my kids took naps but now esp with the new baby I'd probably forget to cancel something and mess the whole thing up. You have a real talent for stuff like that. You should teach classes! Seriously
Quite a show. And you get paid to worry too.
Have you sent in your picture with the gift card yet?
Wow. That would scare me to death-- I would definitely spend more than an hour worrying. But AWESOME!
christina i'm so impressed and I seriously need to do something like this with jason in chiropractic school! so it really worked???!!! i want to talk to you about it. i will have to get your number from lachelle! did you know we are in TX too!
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