Mighty Bargain Hunter

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.

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