My CashCrate sign-up story
June 25th, 2009 | by mbhunter |I saw that Five Cent Nickel recently received his CashCrate check. I didn’t earn quite as much as he did but I do remember reaching the $10 threshold including the signup bonus in under a couple of hours, without signing up for any free trials that I might forget to cancel. Not too shabby. (The payout threshold has since gone up to $20.)
The reason I signed up initially was because I heard on Plurk that Bible Money Matters had his car broken into, and had a bunch of rather expensive stuff stolen, including an iPod, a camera, and a GPS receiver. Not fun. Well, I signed up for CashCrate through his referral link, and he got a kickback of whatever I earned, and whatever my referrals earned as well.
I got paid, and he got paid. What’s more, the bounties I received for signing up for some newsletters and the like were the same as if I had signed up directly with the site. And my referrals get the same deals I get. Works out for everyone!
I got the check, bought some General Tso’s, and forgot about it.
Recently, I ran across an application called RoboForm. It’s been around for a decade; I checked on archive.org. It’s legit. Some of the functionality is duplicated in Firefox but the real value is that it can fill in sign-up forms pretty much instantly.
There is a free download. There’s also a pro version that I haven’t had need for yet, though it does give you the ability to have multiple users and more than two separate identities. The Firefox plugin is good. I entered pertinent information that survey sites would ask me for (name, address, zip, e-mail address, phone, etc.) once, and then with a single click of a toolbar button on a sign-up page, the form would be filled, and I could get on with life. Roboform makes mincemeat out of these forms.
So, that’s my CashCrate story. Had I had RoboForm I would have made payout even faster. The free version has been quite a time-saver.
3 Responses to “My CashCrate sign-up story”
By Best CSS Gallery on Jun 26, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for sharing this
By Mikael @ Retire Early on Jun 26, 2009 | Reply
I’ve been using Roboform waaay back and it works great. Today I’m just using FF as I believe that the free add-ons are doing much of the same stuff and enough for my needs.
By PeterM on Jul 29, 2009 | Reply
I’m just checking the RoboForm site. I like the portable RoboForm2Go RF which can run from USB key without any installation. Thanks for the link.