I found out about Free UK Pounds via an email I received from Prize Live. (I have a Prize Live account, you see)
So, being the curious so-and-so I was, I decided to join and see what it was about for myself. So far, this is what I know:
- anyone can join, but only UK members can complete offers
- though non-UK members can't complete offers, they can earn money by referring new members (UK members, I'm assuming)
- UK members can also earn by referring
- the referral commission is 10% of referrals' earnings
- minimum payout is £0.01 (via Paypal)
- the first time you request payment, it's done manually by the owner, so it takes a bit of time. I got mine within hours of requesting it.
- after your very first request, subsequent requests are paid automatically. I've tested both processes and it's true (in my experience, anyway). The minute I requested payment, I checked my inbox and the Paypal notification of payment was already there.
- you can only request payment once every 24 hours.
- for UK members: some offers pay in points. Each point is equivalent to £0.01; the points can be converted to cash. Minimum to convert is 1 point.
Proof of Payments...
(I'm not that into GPTs, so my earnings are reflective of that. I avoided doing surveys or downloading stuff. But signed up to a couple of sites, searched on a few others, which was pretty quick and painless.) (Click on images to view larger size)
I've never joined a GPT site in its infancy, so it'll be interesting to see how Free UK Pounds develops over the coming months. As it's an offshoot of Prize Live (which has been around since 2008), I deem that to be a strong advantage to its growth and sustainability. We'll see. For now, the site's relatively quiet, but I suspect it'll get busier as word gets round about it.
So far, So OK...
Free UK Pounds pays. Compared with several other GPTs, it has a very low minimum payout, plus it pays instantly.
Since the site's very new, it only has just over 100 offers for its members to complete. However, saying that, there aren't a lot on its offers list that I haven't seen before on one GPT site or the other. The main difference though, is that this caters wholly to UK members, which some might think is great as some GPTs tend to cater more to US members.
Another pro is the fact that the site pays in pounds. Some people prefer getting paid in pounds as it converts to more in dollars.
UPDATE - 21st Nov: I noticed some offers I'm attempting aren't converting. It goes into pending, then disappears. Also, the admin hasn't been very communicative in the chatbox over the past week or two. Some members are asking questions in chat that admin isn't answering. /// I'm still earning a trickle. I tend to do the ones that take less than a minute to complete - a penny here, a penny there.
Not overly impressed with the comm side of things and offers not converting --- but not hugely disappointed either; I never joined the site believing it was going to inflate my bank balance beyond all recognition.
Conclusion: Zzzzzzzzzz...
As at Dec 30th, and at least for a month before that, not much has been happening on FreeUKPounds apart from offers being posted up (presumably by admin). There's a chatbox, but chat activity is very low. Admin's still unresponsive to questions in chat. Plus some offers aren't resolving. I did two offers recently, which went into pending, then POOF, disappeared into thin air. I'm really not using the site that much anymore.
Verdict: Maybe it'll pick up next year, but for now it's very boring, inactive, with unresponsive admin. What more could you not ask for.
Ebele.
