QUOTE(nightdancer707 @ Jul 27 2004, 07:15 PM)
True speaking from all the more experienced PTR users. If you want to join a program with about $50 minimum payout level, you can't expect to reach the payout easily. "Easy to reach" in terms of a PTR newbie would mean a time period of 2 weeks up to 3 weeks, preferrably. There are such sites, but none, that would be honest paying ones.
Let me give you a small example, Zain:
You have, let's say, found a site, that has a payout of $45.
After spending some time in this program you discover that it's earnings are really fast.
You will reach the minimum payout level in your personal earnings after, let's say, 20 days (assuming you don't have referrals).
Now, this would mean that you earned $45 dollars in 20 days. In other words, $2.25 dollars in 1 day.
Let's assume, that you clicked about 40 paid links sent by that PTR, and from these clicks, you earned the $2.25 each day. This would mean, that each click (paid link) was worth about $0.05625 in average. So let's say, you clicked 5 mails worth 10 cents and 35 mails worth 5 cents each day.
So in total, after these 20 days pass, the site owes you:
$10 for the clicks you made in a total of 100 10cent mails
$35 for the clicks you made in a total of 700 5cent mails
Now look at the page "Advertising" for this site and find the place where a "10 cent mail to all" and "5 cent mail to all" advertisements are offered. Look at the prices of one 10cent mail and one 5cent mail.
Let's say that a 10 cent mail costs $7.00 and a 5 cent mail costs $4.00. So this means, that when people bought the 100 mails worth 10 cents and the 700 mails worth 5 cents, during these 20 days, the site got:
100*$7+700*$4 = $3500.00 dollars from selling these ads.
And it owes you $45. They earned $3500 dollars from selling these ads, and they have to pay you $45 for clicking them. Looks like they really CAN pay since their profits were so high - seems GREAT, doesn't it? WELL.....
Now look at the number next or below to "Total members". What does it say? Let's assume, it says, in modesty, "4200". So the site has got 4200 members by the day you have reached your payout level. Let's say that when you first joined, it had 3500 members. Let's assume also, that not all of these members are active, let's say that only 1000 members are as active as you and can also reach the payout in 20 days, like you did.
This would mean, that by the time you reached the payout, at least 1000 other members have already reached payout before you did. Meaning, the site would have to pay $45000 to them as payouts, but, including the ads you've clicked, the site has sold and sent out a total of maybe 150 1cent mails and 1000 5cent mails, let's say, within 30 days, including the 20 days you've been a member for. So, the site has sold ads for
150*$7 + 1000*$4 = $5,500
but they owe their members already at least $45,000. How can they pay all of these members? Okay, let's say that some members didn't reach payout, because they redeemed for ads. Let's say about 100 members from those 1000 who reached payout, didn't actually reach it and redeemed their earnings for ads. So that leaves us 900 members to who the site owes $40500 for a period of 30 days, but has only sold paid e-mail ads for $5500. Let's assume the site is lucky and has also sold banner impressions, top and bottom sponsor ads, some gold memberships, side links and weekly best recommended ptr ads, all for a total of another $2000 during that 30 days. So, the site has gotten a total of $7500 for the sales of the ads. But it owes $40500, which means that even if he did as much payouts as possible, it would still owe $45 to 743 members at, or, a total of $33000 dollars. Where would the site take this money? From their own pockets? Not likely.
The owner of the site has calculated all this before and knows he could not pay with such advertising prices (which are actually fairly high) and such rewards for each paid link sent to members. So he is pulling a scam by running this kind of a site and has no intentions in paying members other than the few first ones reaching the payout, just in order to gain popularity and have some more future for this site - in other words, earn some more money.
So if you've read this reply throughly, you'll understand why honest fast earnings sites with $50 payout and more do not exist.
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holy gomoly you worked it all out