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Has anyone ever offered you change for a penny? Do you think your bill collectors will take that amount which is less than one cent to pay your bills? I'll wait until the laughter dies down before I proceed here.

I tried many of these sites some time back, and it didn't work for me. I'm not saying it doesn't work at all. But I think the only way it might work is if you view it as a numbers game, and the more mass amount of people you get signed up, and that they get signed up, and so on, and so on, the better you might do. Since many sites initially offered to pay only fractions of a cent, when I tried it, a few years back, (2005 I think) I spent a lot of time clicking and earning very little.

I personally was never able to even get to any of the sites minimum payout levels. The people I sent it to didn't sign up below me. So it became just lonesome ole me, clicking my fingers to the bone. People might not sign up below you when they see the low payouts. Some are just not going to waste their time even signing up for it.

Those who decide to try it anyway, you might want to set it up in it's own separate email account. Some did send me quite a few emails daily. Some web sites gave you the option of checking the new emails on the web site, and not through your email. That requires logging onto your account at the various web sites, and either keeping track of your different user names and passwords, or using the same user name and password for all of the get paid to read email sites.

If you elect to have it sent to your email address you can get a lot of emails from just one sender. Some listed all the emails available to read, on one page, to click through and read, and some sent a separate email for each and every one they wanted me to read. You also can't read or get paid for outdated emails. If they were say a week old, when I looked at them, often that offer had usually expired by the time I did look at it. Then it became time to clean out the email box. It also for me, got rather boring after awhile. Even though you initially indicate the areas you're interested in reading, I tended to get the same ads over and over from the same sender.

I signed up with a bunch of them, at least twenty. I finally concluded I could make more money per hour at my local fast food joint, which was probably only paying minimum hourly wage. There are some sites that don't actually ever pay out at all. It might have been different if I had gotten a number of people to sign up below

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