A Quick Guide to Getting Started with CashCrate

One of the easiest ways to make a bit of cash online is through survey and GPT (Get Paid To) websites. Many allow kids as young as 13 years old to participate, so these options are great for those who can’t yet drive to a regular job. They’re also great for students with some free time on their hands or for stay at home parents who want to earn an extra few bucks.

The 1st service I’ll review is called CashCrate. CashCrate is a site where you get paid to complete offers and “surveys”. I use the term surveys loosely because they only take a few seconds/minutes to complete and it’s just a bit of personal information. Best of all, you only need to be 13 to sign up.

Sign Up

The sign up process is extremely easy. All CashCrate asks for is your name, email address (yes, you can give them your real one) and home address.

Completing Offers

Doing the offers isn’t hard, but it does take some practice. So far, I’ve only done the  free ones so those are the ones I’ll talk about here.  To select only the free offers, click the down arrow next to “Show” and select “100% Free” Then click go.

From the list, select an offer.

A new window will appear. Sometimes, other windows will pop up. These are almost always ads. But go ahead and let them load, just keep them minimized.

For most of the offers you just need to complete the 1st two pages. Usually the 1st one just asks for your email address. Then the second asks for your mailing address. You do need to give an actual email address, but do not give out your main address. Make up a new one at Gmail, AOL Webmail, or Yahoo. You will receive tons of emails everyday to this address. But remember, it’s technically not spam because you gave permission to be emailed.

Some of the offers have a few pages of yes/no questions. You need to click “Yes” on one of them. But don’t worry, on the next page you’ll be able to cancel. This process takes a few minutes.

You’ll know you’re done when you reach a page like this:

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Or you’ll know you’re done when you are presented with a page that says something like “Complete 2 Offers Below to Claim Your Gift”. There is no gift and CashCrate will credit your account without completing those offers.

Once your offer is complete, you can click “Submit” back at the offer listing page. Note: You don’t have to do this, the money will be placed into your account regardless, but this is a helpful way to keep track of which offers you’ve already done. After a few minutes or hours (sometimes days) your account will be credited.

Payment

All this work would be for nothing if CashCrate was a scam and never actually paid. Well I can tell you that CashCrate does indeed pay out.  To get paid you just need the following:

• A mailing address on file
• A minimum of 20 dollars in your account
• Time

CashCrate sends out checks once a month for the previous month’s earnings. If you earned $50 dollars in November, you would receive a check around the end of December.

Here’s some proof of payment:

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Referrals:

Once you’ve been  on a site for a few days and gotten the hang of doing offers, you’ll probably start to hear a lot about referrals. A referral is someone who signs up under you. You get a percentage of every offer they complete. This does not change the amount of money they receive. Referrals can be especially helpful for those under 18, since many of the offers say that only 18 year olds qualify.

Without a doubt, referrals are how many people make most of their money. I would say that offers by themselves can get you 10-100 dollars per month. But all the people you see making a few hundred or even thousand per month have gotten a bunch of referrals to sign up.

Tips:

Every few offers, clear out your cookies and cache. You can do this in FireFox by clicking Tools>Clear Recent History. Make sure “Cookies” is checked. Click “Clear Now”. This will help you get more offers approved. Many offers are run by the same company, so a lot of times, they will only pay out one time. Clearing your cookies, along with using new and different email addresses prevents them from knowing you are the same person.

When filling out offers, never give out your real email address. Make up a new one through Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. Tons of spam will be sent to whatever address you give in the offer.

Use accurate information. I haven’t noticed any increase in the amount of junk mail I get. I did notice an increase in phone calls though. I put a stop to this by asking the people who called to put my number on their do not call list.

Check out the forums. There are a ton of people that hang out there and are willing to help you. Plus, there’s a large section of payment proofs here. Checking out this page keeps me motivated.

Finally

CashCrate is not a a get rich quick scheme. You actually will not get rich doing these offers. But you can make a little extra money on the side. And some members make around $1000 dollars per month, so it’s possible to make decent money, but you won’t be living off of your CashCrate earnings.