Cash Crate – an easy way to make some extra money
In a recent post I talked about how I was able to make some extra money using cashcrate.com, and how you can do the same thing. This past month, my first month using the service, I made $27.63 just by filling out surveys, and by referring new users to the service. Not bad for something that doesn’t take much time!
In my review of the service I didn’t get very detailed on how to setup your account and get started earning money, so I thought today I would take moment to walk through the process in a little more detail for those of you who would like to give it a shot. Don’t worry, it isn’t very hard and you can be earning your first dollar within minutes!
Getting started with Cash Crate
Here is a quick step by step guide to getting started earning your first dollar using Cash Crate.
- Get a new email: First, sign up for a new free email address at a website like hotmail.com or gmail.com. You will be getting a ton of email after signing up and filling out surveys, because a lot of what you’re doing is getting paid to get on someone’s mailing list. An example email you might set up could be “cashcratesurvey@gmail.com”. Make note of what your new email address is.
- Sign up for Cash Crate: Sign up for Cash Crate by clicking on this link. It will take you to a page where you’ll be asked for your basic information including full name, email address (use your new one) and a password. Once you click on the “Join!” button as shown in the screenshot, it will ask you for your mailing address as well so that they can send you your payment. Currently payment is made only by check – sorry – no paypal!
- Start making money by filling out surveys and accepting offers!: Once you’ve signed up for the service you can start making money right on the first day in a couple of different ways. First, you can fill out surveys. Just click on the link on your dashboard that says “complete offers” and it will bring you to a page where you can start filling out surveys for cash or for points (points can be redeemed for rewards like Itunes gift cards, Starbucks cards, etc).
On my first day using the service I chose to just complete the “cash offers”, that were 100% free. Those offers will pay out a certain cash amount (which it will show under the “payout” heading) and don’t require you to pay anything up front. Other offers may have higher payouts, but they may require you to use a credit card to sign up for a trial offer, or to pay for a month of service (like one available netflix offer). Offers can be as simple as filling in your email address (once again, use your newly created email), and as complicated as filling in several pages of survey questions.
One thing that I’ve found extremely helpful in completing offers quickly is using an autocomplete form filler like Sxipper or Roboform. Basically what these programs do is automatically fill out the forms for you so that you don’t have to manually enter all of your information every time you fill out a survey or trial offer. Just make sure the information it is entering is the correct information because sometimes it will fill in the wrong information.
Once you’ve filled out the survey or or completed an offer, just click on the “submit” link in the Cash Crate window next to the offer you completed. Your submission will then be added to “pending” payouts, and will be verified. If you didn’t complete enough of an offer, it will be rejected, so be sure to fill it out completely.
Some of the other offers include offers that allow you to get payouts for clicking on a referral link when shopping. For example, I took advantage of a deal through Vista Print that allowed me to get 250 free business cards (with my blog name/url on them). All I had to do was pay shipping. The shipping cost about $5.75, and my payout from Cash Crate was about $5. So for 75 cents I was able to get a big box of business cards that I can hand out to people I know, and leave at store bulletin boards etc. Not bad for a little bit of blog publicity!
- Earn money through referrals: You can also earn money at Cash Crate using referrals. For every new user that you refer to the service, you’ll get paid a small amount for surveys that they fill out, as well as getting a $3 bonus when they complete enough surveys to reach their first $10 payout. If you have a blog you can promote the Cash Crate site and link to it using your personal referral link. You can write a post (like this one) explaining the site, and referring people to the service. Once you get enough people referred to the service the payouts can be quite nice!
Let’s review
So there you go, a quick and easy way to earn a few bucks.
- Sign up for a new email address for spam emails (technically not spam since you’re signing up for them).
- Sign up through my referral link.
- Complete offers.
- Refer other users.
- Watch the money roll in!
If you have questions, or problems, feel free to contact me through the “contact” link at the top of the page.
Leave a comment and let me know what your experience has been with Cash Crate, I’m interested to know!
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I don’t know about Cash Crate but I do know about RoboForm! I actually love the RoboForm software myself. I use it all of the time and it takes all of the menial everyday tasks that I have to perform on my computer daily and shortens them extremely! What once took me fifteen minutes to complete now takes me only one second because RoboForm does the same task with just one click. In fact I wrote a Report about a lot of RoboForm’s capabilities for use that aren’t even touched on in the User’s Manual for RoboForm. You can get that Report here:
http://www.booksbonkers.com/TheRoboFormReport!1.html
Sometimes this link gets broken and puts you on a 404 error page. If that happens, then just copy and paste the whole link above in a new web browser page.
I have been struggling with Cash Crate recently. I have over $50 sitting in the waiting to be reviewed bucket. I am not sure what is going on lately but nothing is getting moved over to the other category. Do you have this problem? Not sure what I am doing wrong.
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Yeah, I’ve had this problem for a little while. Eventually they moved over or were denied because I hadn’t gone far enough in the survey or signup process. It did take a while for some of them though.
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I am still waiting to get my first check from these guys… when I get it I will be convinced… but for passivefamilyincome, I had the same problem and I came back a couple weeks later and most of the money had moved over – you just have to make sure you press the SUBMIT button after you complete the survey…
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This cash crate website concept reminds me of alladvantage.com that came out around the year 2000. Does anyone remember that? They were defunct within a couple of years. Let’s hope that cash crate lasts longer.
I keep seeing all this cash crate hype, it seems that the way to make real money is the referrals.
@Kelly – In that way it is pyramidalish like the surf for cash sites.
Do you think that the actually survey provide any type of ROI on your time?
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Hi all!
Cash crate does work…I have been “doing it” since July and here is what I’ve made each month: 13.30,19.35,14.20,26.65,36.50….
They changed one thing recently, you must have 20.00 in your account every month to get the payout, otherwise your money will roll over into the next month. It’s a good way to make a little extra money, I don’t do referrals at all just the free offers and an occasional survey. A bit of advice, you must open a new e mail addy for around every 4 or 5 offers you complete…and clear your cookies after completing each offer! This really helps a lot!
HELLO EVERYONE. I AM A NEW MEMBER AT CASHCRATE AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT SHOULD BE THE FIRST STEP I TAKE. WOULD APPRECIATE ADVICE.
THANK YOU
To get started, after you do all the stuff above, I would start by doing a few of the cheap .25-.50 cent offers. The surveys usually aren’t too hard, and are usually pretty good about moving from pending to the earned income. Good luck!
I have filled out many forms, got to the phone number box and it said invalid for sip code. I am using K7 for an online phone number. Anyone know how to get around this?
I definitely recommend cashcrate, I have used this site several times and I have made a pretty penny out of it.
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I am waiting for pending offers and they haven’t gone through in over a week. Is this usual or did I do something wrong?
I’m sure you’re doing nothing wrong, some offers take longer than others to confirm. If you’re patient they almost always go through. Good luck!
CashCrate has come a long way in becoming a place that anyone can make money. As long as you dont expect to get rich joining cashcrate can be a great opportunity.
I am an english user of cashcrate and was wondering if they still send money to english users and how long would it take ?
“The Happy Rock August 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Do you think that the actually survey provide any type of ROI on your time?”
Happy Rock raises a good point. is it worth the time? As anyone calculated a $/hour or something?
PS: Just found the blog, nice work!