Minimum Wage Wealth

Continuing our research into income-generating websites, we present Inbox Dollars.

Introduction:

Inbox Dollars is a revenue generating website that pays users for multiple tasks such as reading E-Mails, taking online surveys, shopping at online stores, playing games, and testing products. Upon signup, you are immediately given $5.00, but how long does it take you to put that $5.00 in your account? Read on…

How You Make Money

As advised, Inbox Dollars provides a large number of opportunities to earn income. Each avenue can provide decent earnings.

• E-Mails. Like Hits4Pay, Inbox Dollars offers $0.02 per E-Mail. These E-Mails are sent to your E-Mail address (unlike Hits4Pay), which can, at times, clutter up your inbox. Because of this, you may want to ensure that you sign up under an alternate E-Mail address to ensure your personal E-Mail doesn’t get flooded with offers. We’ve found that you will recieve between 2 and 3 E-Mails per day, which translates to (on average) $0.40 cents per week. The time it takes to read and be credited for these E-Mails isn’t very intrusive, which is a good thing.
• Surveys are generated quite frequently, and earn you between $0.25 and $1.50 per survey. The advantage of Inbox Dollars over other sites is that they do have a large amount of available surveys to take. However, the earnings from these surveys is far lower than other websites like SurveySavy or OpinionOutpost. If you want to make sure you reach the payment threshold, you would be wise to complete these when possible. Most surveys take between 15-25 minutes, so the EPH (earnings per hour) may be low.
• Playing Games is an unwise investment at Inbox Dollars. Although they advise that you will earn money on playing games, you are required to upload $10 or $20 to receive a matching bonus. Also as they advise, you don’t earn money from playing, only from when you play with your money. This is essentially no different than gambling, which we strongly advise against. Although it’s certainly fine to play their games, we reccomend you stay away from spending money. After all, your here to make money.
• Shopping Online is your best overall bet for making money on Inbox Dollars. Although we don’t reccomend shopping online to earn money back (for that purpose alone), Inbox Dollars does promise a percentage back when you use them as your referral. Typical returns vary between 0.5% to 10% for very specific offers. If you were already planning on buying products on line, then we strongly reccomending going through Inbox Dollars. In doing so, you’ll get closer to the threshold to cash out much quicker.
• Product Tests & Offers are the final way of earning revenue. Some offers request you to try products that you will need shipped to your house. The payouts on these offers are quite high (usually above $4.00), so these offers are quite lucrative to sign up for. Some cases require you to pay for shipping, so be aware of terms and conditions surrounding such offers.

Finally, you can also earn money for referring friends to Inbox Dollars. As with all survey sites, this is always a good thing to participate in, as it’s essentially free money.

Legitimacy:

From a business standpoint, Inbox Dollars is certainly legitimate. Inbox Dollars earns revenue through each action you take – reading E-Mails, completing offers, shopping, playing games, ect all generate revenues for Inbox Dollars. From their earnings, they give you a share (estimated at 50%) of their earnings.

The Fine Print

Like other websites, there is always fine print that can cause issues. How long will it take to recieve your check, and what are the stipulations?

• You must earn $30.00 before cashing out. At $30.00, Inbox Dollars stands as one of the highest generated earnings to get a check. With a free $5.00 signup, you must earn $25.00 to cash out. This may be a tall order unless you are willing to spend time referring friends, taking surveys, and reading E-Mails.
• They require 2 months to process and send your check. The biggest caveat (IMO) with Inbox Dollars is that there is a net-30 stipulation within their rules. Upon requesting payment, it may take up to 2 months to send the check to you.
• You must stay active during this time frame. Should you be inactive by having an invalid E-Mail address or have 10 unread paid E-Mails in your inbox, Inbox Dollars reserves the right to strike your account as inactive. In doing this, you may forefit that 2 month process. It is critical you stay active. You can read the ToS here.

There is good news about earnings:

Once you recieve your first check, your account is upgraded to gold status. With gold status, you are eligible to earn more rewards from Inbox dollars, including extra referral income, exclusive offers, and double sweepstakes offers.

In Conclusion:

Inbox Dollars is a good provider of revenue generation for those interested. They combine the paid E-Mail service of Hits4Pay, the surveys of SurveySavy or OpinionPost, and affiliate offers at a cost of a very high requirement to be paid. If you can stick with Inbox Dollars, it is a good system when used in tandem to other websites. The *best* part of Inbox Dollars (IMO) is the cash back shopping which is useful when you buy products from E-Bay. If you buy $500 on products online from a store you know is legitimate, then you would get $5 closer to the threshold at a 1% bonus.

Review Score: 7.5/10. The pay threshold and lack of high value surveys keep this from being a gold mine. However, it’s better than other services, and certainly legitimate. The key is consistently check E-Mails and do surveys in your downtime.