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Kicking Out Some Sites

Unless some changes are made, this will be the last post made here about Scour, KiwiBox, P2S, InboxDollars, and PikaGame.

Scour is completely ditching their points/rewards system. See this post.

KiwiBox is also ditching their current prize system, as stated in this post. (Post URL was removed as the post seems to have been removed from their site, but they no longer have a prize system. This note is being made in this post as of 1/1/2010.)

Points2Shop (P2S) isn’t worth wasting your time on. There are tons of cheaters on this site that receive better treatment in a broken “honor system” than legitimate users. They do send out the prizes, but you’re much better off spending your time on better sites like SimpleGPT or CashPirate.

InboxDollars hasn’t paid me in over a year. They’re legitimate, but with referrals AND offers I still haven’t managed to reach $30 to receive a check. It isn’t worth my time to keep working with a site that hasn’t paid me in so long.

PikaGame showed promise, and with their major layout updates showed even more promise. However, old members got completely screwed over with their new points system., and prizes have raised up excessively in price. It isn’t a horrible site for flash games, but there are other sites out there for that.

I try to focus on the sites that are worth your time AND mine. If you come across a new site and want me to check it out, be sure to drop me a referral link!

Major Scour Updates Coming Soon

“Scour is Upgrading Its Reward System to Include All Countries and Increase Payouts!”

This change is taking place September 1, 2009. Read the post on Scour’s blog here!

9/1/2009 – More Scour updates announced! Scour is completely ditching the rewards system. NO PRIZES ARE BEING OFFERED FROM HERE ON OUT. Read my post on this here.

UK Sites

All of the sites I post are open for US membership. How about sites for people in the UK? Some of them are open for UK membership and some are not. Here is a short list of sites that are open for UK membership. This is only a short list; there are other sites out there open for UK membership. If you’re interested in more information about the sites below please visit the site(s) and be sure to read the posts in my blog here!

CashPirate:

PrizeRebel:

SwagBucks:

Scour:

Points2Shop:

Rewards1:

Scour – Search & Earn

Well, Search & Earn isn’t the exact category that this site may fall under, but it’s a fair description of the site. Scour is a social search engine that gives you points for searching and other actions in the system. You can visit profiles, interact with friends (hence the “social”), and more.

I have been looking for some recent payment proof, but I’ve had a hard time finding any. On the plus side, I haven’t found any negative information about Scour yet either. I have found this on the Scour blog (first payment), but nothing more recent than this. Hopefully I’ll have some proof of my own to post soon!

If you’ve been paid by (or have a bad experience with) Scour, please let me know.

From the Scour FAQ:

Countries participating in the following rewards program include: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, U.S., and U.K.:

- 6,500 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $25.00
- 12,500 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $50.00
- 25,000 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $100.00

Countries not listed above are still eligible to participate in the following rewards schedule:

- 50,000 Rewards Points may be redeemed for = $5

Check it out, and hopefully it’ll be worth our while. At the very least, it’s a pretty nice search engine. It combines results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo, and they even give you the option of filtering which search engine you prefer, and giving more weight to your preferred search engine(s).

Scour – Click here to join!