Pay2Bid is a classic auction scam.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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Get $500 gaming machine for $1 !
$200 deposit required to start bidding. No cash outs allowed. Money only goes one way. 
i remember back when a 2% finder's fee was considered standard for this sort of thing, and that's when it had to be done by a human person with a rolodex
10% is just outright thievery, motherfuckers run an online bulletin board. putting pay to bid tokens on top of that? how do these people just walk around in broad daylight without getting strung up from lamp posts
Why not build it out and undercut them?
i tried it, used up all my connects and only got one conversation out of it where i was competing for rates that are ok in India and even after I accepted that the guy just ghosted me and I couldn't get my connects back. completely not worth it. you are better off doing craigslist computer repair.
I tried Upwork once at the recommendation of a pretty good boss I once had... after 6 months and only 1 failed attempt at getting some simple "do excel work online for other people" I deleted it and went to the local "sell your bodily fluids" building.
Made more money and it felt less draining to do.
Ah! Can't wait for it to be legal to sell blood in Argentina, viva la libertad!
I tried doing MTurk with all the plugins and shit. Did not get many good results. I’ve seen people say “you gotta do 100 or 1000 tasks within a week” and bro I’m not sitting here answering a 30 minute survey for 12 cents lol.
MTurk is something I do every now and again. Its very cyclical though. Both with the tasks offered and my anxiety hitting a level that I can make myself obsessively click buttons for hours a day for a few bucks.
I've been able to get a hundred dollars(ish) in a month doing surveys posted by Universities and Marketing research departments if I spend hours each day clicking through everything possible. But after a few months they dry up and I stop checking the listings. (Probably lines up with grad students schedules). The few actual "help a business do business stuff" are so dodgy for me that it fucks up my Accept/Reject number.
Yeah I’ve made a couple hundred a month doing Prolific. Not bad considering I try my best to do it during company time lol
Prolific? Never heard of that.
You answer surveys for PHD students, researchers, and corporate focus tests. Most of them the time you get few a couple dimes per study. It’s not much but I get to shit while getting paid. Only thing I hate is having to visually confirm my identity because I don’t trust their storage to not be backed.
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this shit pisses me off to no end. i've never paid to bid. oh how i wished we had a freelance site thats not shit like this or fivver.
Freelancing gives me mixed feelings, regardless of platform. I've done small bits of freelance work here and there. It's definitely nice to have the freedom to tell a boss (client) to fuck off or say "no" to a job that's shit. But at the same time it's inherently atomizing and not prone to unionization or other forms of collective action. Freelancers typically have petit bourgeois crab bucket mindset and are not prone to banding together for any kind of social justice, even higher remuneration. They tend to under-bid each other in the hopes of getting more contracts, driving average bids down to the lowest possible amount that one can survive off of.
Fiverr exists.
Fiverr is an Israeli company.
Well then Slap it on the boycott list too. Screw fiverr.