- Closure of Site: It may suddenly and permanently become inaccessible. The site will disappear with all your earnings that you haven't claimed until now.
- Server Busy! The server may be down temporarily, especially the usual time when you work on.
- Your Account Getting Blocked: your accounts may be deleted (for the mistakes you committed or the rules you violated knowingly or unknowingly. Here too, your earnings will be lost. You cannot do anything.
- Delay in Payment: The employer may keep your payments bending. We may not know when they will make settlements to you. They have forum, but there is no guarantee that you will get positive reply.
- Misuse of Your Personal Data: Your personal details may be stolen and misused. It happens especially when you do survey jobs. They collect information about your age, family members details, salary, etc and at last they would simply say that you are not qualified for the survey. What about the data they collected from you?
- Denial of Payment: Pointing to inaccuracy or in-completion before deadline, they may deny your payment. It happens when you undertake data entry work. They give you image files with errors and ask you to type the same but expect accuracy on the outcome. How is it possible? They give more pages to type which is not possible to be completed within 18 days that they fix as your deadline. Consequently you lose your income.
- Unwanted Offer Mails: You may be annoyed with thousands of offer mails sent by them. Without signup, you cannot login and do online work. Some firms sell your email id to online sources and you are likely to receive so many offer mails among which your important regular mails will be buried.
- Net Charges: Your browsing charges are a burden until you get your first payment.
- Registration Fees: Many scam sites ask you to pay registration charges to earn $1000 and so on in a few days. Surely $1000 can be earned in a few days not by you but by them. You may find such a site a scam one after a couple of weeks, leading to waste of hard work, time, money invested on it. Think twice. Why should you pay any amount? You have to give work on your part and they have to pay on their part.
- Risk to Your PC: Your system is likely to be corrupted by the virus they send along with their software package which you must install to get online work or to earn more points. Sometimes they change your browser settings and track whatever you type, wherever you log in online. Beware of such frauds.
A PTC site is one that pays you for the advertisements you click on their site and view for certain fixed time. You can transfer the money you earned through payza or paypal or any such account and then to your bank account. How to choose the best PTC site is made simple here:
- Year of Establishment : Most of the PTC sites disappear suddenly with all your earnings. They don't give any chance to you to track them or contact them. So, choose only the PTC site which is strongly footed for more than 3 to 5 years.
- Payment Proof: Visit the site and verify the payment proof. Sometimes even the records called as proofs may be false. See the payment date, time, and name of the person and it should be a very recent one(within one week). ( Generally false data are not regularly updated.)
- Minimum cash out: Minimum cash out should be a low one, as low as $1 or $2. Why? At the initial stage, even to earn one dollar, it may take 2 months to you on some sites. Some sites condition that minimum cash out is 5 or $8 that means, your 4 to 6 months hard work. In the mean time, anything may happen. Your account may suddenly be blocked for unknown reasons. Or the site may announce: "We are planing an improved site and wait for sometime for our relaunch"( they may never return back). If you earn 10 dollars per month on one site, transfer at least 50% to your Payza or paypal account and invest the remaining for your further growth there.
- Scope for further growth: A PTC site which has no options for further growth cannot be the best one. If there is no rented referral, you may avoid such sites. Because getting direct referral or adpack without payment is not that much easy. The amount to upgrade your account should be low. All PTC earners may not have blog or website of their own to post the banners of the ptc sites and earn direct referrals. A PTC site may be genuine, but if it has no scope for increase in income, you must avoid it.
- Compare and Assess: Test, assess and find the truth. Just compare your 1 month earning of one site with all other sites on your list and you can find the real value of that site. For example, if you maintain monthly data of earning from different 20 sites, you can find that what one site earns in one month can be earned in another site within 3 days.
- High Paying Sites: If the site offers at least $0.001 per ad.click, it's o.k. If they say $0.0001 or 0.0003, better you can avoid them to save your time. A best site is one that pays at least $0.01 or $0.001 or more. Just search through any search engines and you can find high paying sites.
- Number of Ads: A site must have 10 or more ads. What is the use of having only 4 ads which some sites have. At the same time what is the use of having nano ads 100s in number with payment of $0.00001 that nobody will click. So choose the site that has minimum number of ads that guarantees certain amount of regular income, especially in the initial stage. Once you hold more referrals, even four ads will be enough for you to earn 300 to 500 dollars per month regularly and your referrals will click and earn for you.
- Read the Review First: Before choosing a ptc site, first read the online review of that site to verify the genuineness and payments of the site. Without reading review if you start working on the site, one day you will get great disappointment and all your hardwork, the money you earned and the time you spent will laugh at you.
- Beware of Mini Jobs: A PTC site that merely offers mini jobs cannot be the best site. Most of the PTC sites offer more chances to earn money other than by clicking ads but in some way they would waste your time. For example, a site may ask you click a grid to win a prize. Even after 20 clicks, you will get the same answer "you did not win this time, good luck next time". All sites give you signup offers but with some conditions which, if you violate unknowingly, will end up with the closure of your account with all your earning ending in smoke. You cannot sign up to the same site you have already signed up from the same IP address or with the same details. In a way, these are all, sometimes, tricks used by those sites to make you fall victim.
- No LOG IN Issue: A site which often shows you login issues cannot be a reliable site. Most of the PTC sites are run by money-minded people who in a hurried way build their sites and have more security issues. They never tell you how you can contact them if you have server problems and they never maintain their sites properly. You are likely to get disappointed there one day and so be alert within one week of time you work there. Beware of Online Jobs and read our Top 10 Issues with Online Jobs First.
