by Guy Mann

Created on: March 21, 2009   Last Updated: March 24, 2009

Looking for information about CashCrate? This CashCrate+review will tell you everything you need to know about CashCrate - is it a scam? How does it work? Is it worth your time? Can you really make a lot of money online from it? Read on to find out!

CashCrate is highly publicized online, mainly because it offers a generous referral program which rewards people who get other people to sign up for and use the site. So on the one hand, most of the articles available on the subject should be taken with a grain of salt as their reviews are likely just trying to sell the program for the referral money. But on the other hand, the referral business is where the majority of the money is to be earned so it's tempting to join just for a piece of that pie.

CashCrate is a site that pays people to complete trial offers. The offers are essentially paid ads that ask you to do certain things, usually the objective is to get you on their e-mail mailing lists so they can get their money's worth by spamming you with ads. There are also free trial offers where you sign up for a free trial of a product or service and get paid for it, although you will have to cancel before the trial period ends or you will be charged for it. Be wary of the offers you are filling out as some of them will ask you for your credit card and continually charge you for a service until you cancel them. The free offers don't typically pay terribly well, so using the site as intended isn't a very profitable endeavour. They also take a long time to complete and are fairly tedious. In my opinion, the majority of them are simply not worth doing - they consist mainly of pages asking you to sign up for other services. The best offers are the ones that only ask for you to sign up with their websites, such as SurveySpot, and e-mail newsletters. There are quite a few of these, and they pay fairly well for the small amount of effort that they require.

CashCrate also offers surveys for you to complete for $0.80 each. You can take up to two a day. If you do the math, two surveys every day for an average month adds up to $48. It will be up to you as to whether this is worth it or not. The surveys tend to be quite long and can take as long as 45 minutes to complete. Whatever the case, dedicated survey sites tend to pay better for shorter surveys.

Overall, the best reason to join CashCrate is for the referral program. The rates you will earn for referring someone are fairly high, however there is no guarantee for success. The key to making money with CashCrate is successfully referring others to work under you. It is basically like a giant pyramid scheme - The people on the top make a lot of money, the people on the bottom make nothing.

In my opinion, CashCrate may not exactly be a scam, but it is a poor way to make money online and is therefore not worth your time. Beware of this make money online website!

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