#17 by Darkstar2 » Sun Apr 30, 2017 19:24
Proudly earned almost $4k last year here alone, and almost $11k total. The difficult situation is not limited to ClixSense. The issue is ever growing amount of people looking for work vs. work available to do, creating job dilution rate growing at an alarming rate. Same applies for surveys, quotas running faster and less surveys. But yes I have observed the survey trend go down - more scams, less quality surveys / offers and of course the situation of CrowdFlower infested with fraudulent task authors handing out flags for no valid reason and a crappy, poorly managed company that cannot offer decent support to its contributors (I mean CF) - the amount of decent tasks have gone down ten fold, and finding qualifying surveys is harder. Of course is CS to blame ? NEVER. I blame the greedy cheaters and scammers of CrowdFlower who think of their damn selves and who contributed to ruining the platform - having many good task authors / requesters leave (and I know at least 4 of those, as I have done work for them). Then came Rainforest, which was a good money earner for many - they kept accepting too many new members until the job dilution became so high, most people are struggling to get decent numbers, whilst those who joined new are getting high 2 figures daily earnings.
So 2 things contribute to a decline in earnings on GPT
1) Increasing interest to the money making niche creates a higher member base, which increases job dilution with it. Sadly, job offer does not grow at the same pace as job demand, so the dilution % eventually gets to an unhealthy level. This is what's happened with Rainforest and many tasks, surveys, etc. The demand is growing expontentially, but the offer is declining.
2) Cheaters, scammers, fraudsters trying to cheat GPT owners by any means, task authors, etc. Which results in less tasks, more strict measures affecting everyone, and lower pay rate for surveys ,lower pay rate for tasks.
Before blaming CS and GPT site owners people should use their heads and think !
Some people are trying hard to cheat by any means in order to put food on their table and support themselves, even if it means engaging in criminal behaviour online or STEALING from others. Sadly, this seems to be the case with a large percentage of the crowd - so what does this mean for the future of GPT ? 1) Less surveys 2) Less tasks 3) lower pay rate 4) less offer 5) more demand. and the vicious circle continues.
Think about the requesters who use the crowd for tasks. If they could count on a QUALITY crowd, they could do the same job with LESS units and pay MORE money. Now, they have to publish to a bigger sample, consequently, paying a lower rate for work.
People don't understand that a happy customer = repeat customer, if a customer gets sh*tty results due to greedy bloody scammers online, why the bloody hell will they keep up with this ? They will either **** off somewhere else, OR they will simply publish to a bigger sample base which means less pay per unit !
So 2 things to consider - more people but not necessarily more work (higher demand than offer) + more scammers and cheaters. Not helping the industry.
I am deeply concerned of the GPT industry if it will hold up for the next couple of years or if it's on a steady decline heading for collapse.
It seems to me like HYIP and BUX will make a comeback. This is what people like. Put their money in HYIP scams and BUX bots ponzi scheme business - it's all a business of thieves stealing from thieves in the end.
Sad ! once it falls down everyone falls with it, including those of us who have worked our arses off and earned our money honestly, but what can we do, the abusers are always on top of things and the honest blokes are left behind.
Cheers