Cashle or Points2Shop? Are They Legitimate or Scams?

So, I recently ran into this site because I was using another survey site called "UTalkBack" and felt that utalkback was severely lacking and I needed something different. If you don't want to read any further, let me tell you this much: Cashle and Points2Shop appear legitimate after about a month's worth of playing around. Here's a referral to their site: http://www.points2shop.com/?ref=ss0luu Other details follow...

It appears that both cashle and p2s are the same site and that the main difference in the two sites are the payouts. They also appear to be available in the US and UK. I'm not sure yet if they're available in other countries. Anyhow, let's look at cashle first. Cashle pays you pennies to a dollar for you to do surveys. At first glance, the surveys seem to be conducted by third-party phishing sites. In fact, most of them are (ie: myrewardsvault, national survey panel, etc). However, there are a couple of surveys that are sprinkled in that are genuinely used for market research. I did one about cars from AmpSurveys today for instance, and look, no spam mails in my inbox yet. I also have to throw in that it took me circa 40 minutes to complete. Not really worth it for $0.50 USD, it's still better to get a job. I can see though that with time, this could be a side-hobby and a tertiary source of income. If I had to guess, I suspect the most you'll get out of this will be a hundred dollars (maybe a couple hundred for those that are extremely active).

So, onto p2s. Regardless of which site you log on to or register with, your information will be interchangeable with the other. This makes life easy, eh? So let's talk payouts. on p2s, you get points for doing surveys. These points can be racked up and cashed in for any item that is currently selling on amazon. 1 point = $0.01 and 10 points = $0.10 and 100 points = $1.00 and so on. You could even get an xbox 360 if you worked diligently on the site. That aside, you have a little more in terms of stuff you can do on p2s. For one, you can play games against other people and score points if you win. Unfortunately, you have an entrance fee which is about half of the total prize fee. The games are also pretty simple and I fear subject to cheats. However, to the best of my knowledge, these two sites regulate cheaters and potential cheaters pretty intensively. However, I still think they fail because I lost about 500 points to just one individual. Apparently, whatever I played, she followed and I wasn't comfortable with that. Still, the games are only a small subset of what's available. And one game particularly, Number Limbo, gives you an opportunity to win a pot of points which could be a couple thousand on the weekends.

Two more things are left to talk about. First, referrals. Yes, you can refer friends and like a pyramid scheme, you can get a higher payout based upon their activity. Financially though, it makes sense and unlike the infamous pyramid schemes we've seen before in the past, these payouts aren't ridiculous and really, they're still just pennies to a dollar. Next, there are "quests" that you can participate in. No additional energy is required as these are things like, "Do 5 surveys in one day" or "refer 5 friends to p2s" and such. The catch is that quests award you "merits" which are different from points. You can use these merits with other individuals as a team in monthly competitions though, and the winning team is then rewarded a prize (points). Still, you have to then start your own team or be accepted into one. Being accepted into one will require a lot of work though as the individuals here are really dedicated to winning.

If you're seriously that interested in it, I suggest you just go to the site and check it out. There's not much difference in being a spectator and registered user other than that registered users actually accrue points and money. That's all for now, I'll tell you more about UTalkBack.net next time. Cheers!