QUOTE (GRL VenCap @ Aug 13 2002, 06:51 PM)
How does the pay searches work?
You search and when do they credit you?
and
does it make a difference where you search...ie. via the paid searches they send OR on their website?
It works just as their paid-to-click banners. They credit your earnings immediately after the completion of each valid search. I think they allow 8 searches a day (at least that is how they phrased it - there are 8 total banners).
It looks like they credit you the full amount of your searches just like if you are a searchtimes affiliate. For example, if they pay a searchtime affiliate for doing a search for 'viagra' $0.15, you will have $0.15 added to your onedollaremail earnings. It is a pretty good deal if you can get all 8 searches credited for $0.15 each a day. I received my payment of $18 in August 5 and now my earnings is close to $2.5 again. It could have been more if I did more searches myself...
Now, the complicated part is what if you also use searchtimes somewhere else - maybe you do searches when you receive search mails from GPTR programs or through other text links? I think you use up your valid searches in both your searchtime affilate and onedollaremail accounts. Webcashemail is also owned by the same company. They used to have the very same paid search section but of late they had removed it. This is probably due to the duplicate searches they got from members who belong to both webcashmail and onedollaremail.
To avoid complication to seachtimes and onedollaremail (and potentially webcashemail), I won't do searchtimes searches anywhere except through onedollaremail or directly through searchtimes. Please contact searchtimes for official terms (i.e. if they respond to you).