1. TUTORIAL:If you have never completed an offer before, visit this great, detailed tutorial with pictures and samples:
http://www.cashcrate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2229Otherwise, read on.
2. PRIVACYWhile completing offers, you may be skeptical about giving your Home Phone #, your email address, and most importantly, your Credit Card. While it is against Cashcrate's rules to provide false information when completing offers, you CAN sign up for your own 'Spam' accounts, which is not false at all.
Phone Numbers: You can sign up for your own internet phone line at
http://www.privatephone.com/. When completing offers, you can provide the number you receive instead of your home phone, and if the offers requires you to listen to a voice message - Probably never, then you can log in to your private phone account and listen to your messages. (The reason you would want to do this, is to prevent telemarketers calling your home.
Email Address: Obviously, when we provide our email address on offers, we receive spam, junk, and bulk mail. Simply create alternate email addresses so you can enter those instead of your main emails. The top sites for quickly creating these spam 'designed' email addresses include:
http://dodgeit.com/,
http://tempinbox.com/, and
http://mailinator.com/. This is obviously a must-do.
Credit Card: This is the one that every single person should do. Instead of giving out your Credit Card number, you can easily get a Visa gift card! It works exactly like a credit card, except it has a set amount that you choose. (as low as $20.00) This ensures, that if you, in a rare case, run into a company who declines to quit charging your card, or just an ugly case, they can only get so much. The best place to get a gift account OR a gift card is
http://www.simon.com/. All you do is purchase the gift account (You only need a gift account for offers, because they give you all of the same information a regular credit card would have) wait 5 minutes for an email, and then go back to the website and "Pick up Giftaccount" with the information you entered at purchase, and the information you received in the email.
3. TipsThese tips will increase your offer completion efficiency and help ensure the confirmation of your submitted offers.
Cookies: Cookies, being the number one cause of offers not confirming, simply must be cleared in between each offer. Why? Because companies track you through cookies, and for more than one offer from the same company, you need to clear them so you can be tracked again correctly, and so your offer will confirm. (Companies tracking you with cookies, or clearing your cookies are not harmful to your computer in anyway, in fact clearing them makes it run faster.) I know that clearing your cookies in between every offer can be a hassle, so to make it easier, you can do it incredibly quickly with a single click if you download ATF-Cleaner. It is 100% free and 100% virus/spyware/adware free.
http://www.atribune.org/content/view/19/2/ (This clears cookies for Explorer, Firefox, and Opera only.)
Email Recycling: Again, companies with more than one offer on the list track you with your email address as well, and if they already have that email in their database, then your offer will not confirm. Simply create 10 or more email addresses from any email provider, (The ones listed above are recommended) and change them up among offers. The more email addresses you have, the less of a chance you'll submit the same email to the same company twice.
Information: Make sure the information you enter in the offer is 100% correct, if the company receives any fraudulent information, and they have their ways of knowing, then your offer may not confirm.
Types of offers: Offers with the following descriptions have easier requirements than you think!
-"Participate in the Survey", Without Questionarre (Usually 60 cent or less payout): These offers only require you to provide your information, (usually on the first or second page of the "Survey") once it seems like the offer has taken you into an infinite loop of "Yes", "No", or "Skip" offer pages, then you can exit that window, and submit the offer, and it should confirm. Even though you only have to submit your information, I always do the first 5 pages of these types of offers to be on the safe side.
-"Participate in the Survey", With Questionnare (Usually 65 cent or higher payout): These offers will ask you to fill out your information, and then require you to do a 3 to 5 minute Questionnare. You actually do have to complete this, but you only have to go until it says "Done!" or "Congratulations, you've been entered!", even though there may still be questions below the "Done!" or Congratulations!..".
-"Complete at least the first two pages": Obviously, you only have to fill out the first two pages. Most offers will tell you things like "your almost done!" or "last page", you do NOT have to keep going after you complete the first two pages.
-"Fill Out the Form": These offers are usually from $0.75 to $2.00, and you actually have to fill out the pages, and like the Questionarre offers, you only have to go until it says "Done!" or "Congratulations, you've been entered!" even though there may still be questions below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: On all of the free offers above, in the forms, questionarres, and providing information, you only have to respond to the sections that have an ASTERISK " * " next to them, all other questions/sections are optional and do not need to be filled out.
Roboform: Roboform is a very helpful 100% free, spyware/adware free program that lets you fill out a form with the click of a button. (Incredibly helpful when filling out surveys.) To view a tutorial on how to quickly set it up and get it working, visit this thread:
http://www.cashcrate.com/forums/show...light=roboform4. QuestionsSome frequently asked questions are not listed in the FAQs, so I thought I'd answer them here, at least in more detail even if they are answered in the FAQs.
What does 'Pending' mean, what is the difference between pending and earned, and when do they reset if they don't confirm?When you submit an offer, it is then sent to your pending earnings. Pending means that Cashcrate is verifying that you have completed the offer and all of it's requirements. It can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to two weeks for an offer to confirm, however most of them are confirmed within a day or two.If an offer stays pending for two weeks, it is automatically removed from your 'Pending offers' list, and is added back to the 'To Complete' list. If you are 100% sure that you completed everything required for the offer, cleared your cookies, and used a different email address, and the pending offer did NOT confirm, then you should send a support ticket here:
http://www.cashcrate.com/support.phpWhat are cookies?Cookies, in short are just temporary internet files that allow the website to track you visiting, so if you already have one from that website in your temp files, that company can't track your visit.