Pay2Bid is a classic auction scam.
i remember back when a 2% finder’s fee was considered standard for this sort of thing, and that’s when it had to be done by a human person with a rolodex
10% is just outright thievery, motherfuckers run an online bulletin board. putting pay to bid tokens on top of that? how do these people just walk around in broad daylight without getting strung up from lamp posts
I tried Upwork once at the recommendation of a pretty good boss I once had… after 6 months and only 1 failed attempt at getting some simple “do excel work online for other people” I deleted it and went to the local “sell your bodily fluids” building.
Made more money and it felt less draining to do.
I tried doing MTurk with all the plugins and shit. Did not get many good results. I’ve seen people say “you gotta do 100 or 1000 tasks within a week” and bro I’m not sitting here answering a 30 minute survey for 12 cents lol.
MTurk is something I do every now and again. Its very cyclical though. Both with the tasks offered and my anxiety hitting a level that I can make myself obsessively click buttons for hours a day for a few bucks.
I’ve been able to get a hundred dollars(ish) in a month doing surveys posted by Universities and Marketing research departments if I spend hours each day clicking through everything possible. But after a few months they dry up and I stop checking the listings. (Probably lines up with grad students schedules). The few actual “help a business do business stuff” are so dodgy for me that it fucks up my Accept/Reject number.
Yeah I’ve made a couple hundred a month doing Prolific. Not bad considering I try my best to do it during company time lol
i tried it, used up all my connects and only got one conversation out of it where i was competing for rates that are ok in India and even after I accepted that the guy just ghosted me and I couldn’t get my connects back. completely not worth it. you are better off doing craigslist computer repair.
Dystopian
