The top .50cent post has been open all day.
No one wants to spend time writing a 100 word post to advertise on their blog for a cheapskate.
Hmmm, ok, maybe too harsh a word. But I wonder what the other bloggers are thinking.

Nearly every evening at 9pm there are fresh opportunity listings. You can count on being glued to the computer for a bit because all the bloggers are trying to snap the open ops.
Usually by 9:02, if you haven't managed to grab an op by your good graces or by your good cable speed (forget dial up and dsl, we'll beat you out every time), by 9:02 and you haven't grab one for yourself, you'll see a sea of grey.....'all spoken for.'

Here, you see the first el-cheapo is still open all day, and the other one is still open as of 9:25. Sure, we can add up a little change here, a little change there and get some gas money. But that is what they're counting on. You can see, one of the .50centers is at least only a 25 word post....reasonable. It only takes a minute to post a 25 word blurb for pay. I have grabbed several of those myself because it's easy and it is money that does ad up, eventually.

I am hoping the other bloggers are thinking along these same lines, "If we all hold out, and none of us give in to the measly scraps their throwing our way for (but they want our valued written word out there on the internet on our own blogs) - they better get the hint that they better step up the offer!

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I have slacked off on trying to grab as many paid posts as I can, but times are tough and I better get back in the groove.
Buuuuut, I have noticed a new trend the past few days. Looks like advertisers are scaling back on their paid offers.....hmm. Used to be you could count on a minimum of a $5 payout. Now, check this out, they're going as low as 50cents! bummer

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Learn something new everyday.

Today I learned, never leave the house between 5-6pm. Unless you don't mind missing out on a wad of paid opportunities.

Gimme a break, I'm a little extra cranky this evening. Ya, waa waa waa for me, right? I've been up since 5:30 this am. Ok, I'll shut my pie hole now, that's nothing to bitch about.

But I have been surfing all the live long day and juuuuust when I step out front for about 5 minutes to talk to a neighbor, I come back in to find the paid opportunities list fully populated and my chances of grabbing mass population, zero. No, I'm a liar, I did grab one. Phew! $5, and I'm laughing all the way to the bank, suckuh. Laughing so hard, I'm cryin'

At least it was an interesting talk, hmmm, something to scratch my noggin about. This neighbor person is actually my auto mechanic. He works out of a big shop/barn here on the property, rents it part-time for extra room to work on big-rigs.

Anyhoo - I can't gossip about him, cuz I like him dearly, but it was an interesting, revealing and touchingly sensitive and personal story he was sharing with me. I feel truly honored when people open up to me like that. I feel trusted and needed, a friendly shoulder to lean on. He's a good guy.

Anyway, I had time to spare since I missed all those umpteen opps, I found myself another gem of a video. I laughed so hard, it (almost) made losing all that money worth while. But not really, I've got bills to pay. This took my mind off my worries . . . . . I should share it with my mr.mechanic.
Enjoy this vid, from Fatawesome

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

[image: goog'd & found, courtesy of automechanicblog]

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I did rush through this latest post, to find more paid opportunities that had opened up on the listing, but I was too late to grab them. So, I wandered off for a minute to read around on some news.

Had that gut feeling again to check the listing not more than a minute after I had just left that page and wouldn'tcha know it?! Another paid opp and another 'just miss.'

I know it is just luck of the draw. It's not as if I literally can sit here all day (even though sometimes I do) and click that damn page every couple minutes to grab the opps. But it wouldn't be as frustrating if I wasn't so limited to the selection. There's a whole slew of other opportunities on the list that, apparently, I am not qualified for.

It's a vicious cycle. You join ppp to get paid, then your page rank goes down the crapper and you aren't presented with as many opps because your page doesn't score high enough.

It's too soon for me to give up on what little extra money I'm getting out of it. I'll keep plugging away at it. Somedays I really want to heave=ho the whole computer through the window. Man, that would feel awesome!

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Another minor dilemma with ppp. I grabbed a paid opportunity and reserved it, only to discover it was virtually impossible to do the job.

Reviewing the job posting, the advertiser never mentions WHO they even are. I would think that would just be common sense; as long as you're writing up a description on how to post the paid advertisement, mention who the heck you even are and what website you're promoting.
That was issue one.

Being familiar with the system now, I know I can scroll down the page a bit to find a required 'anchor text' with a url hyperlink. Ok, I can just see in the url what the website is. Um, whoever created this job listing didn't even put the correct url. That hyperlink takes you right back to ppp.
That was issue two.

Since there is a limited time to complete and submit the opportunity, I didn't want to wait for email feedback through the contact ticket process. I wanted to call and speak with a live person asap. I hit PPP's contact page, and one of the choices is an icon of a cute little telephone.Directly under that cute little telephone pic states, "Find out how to contact a service representative via phone or postal mail." Click on that link and BLANK.
That was issue three


Having seen this a million times before, websites/companies that make it nearly impossible for you to reach a live person; I decided to google PayPerPost and IZEA, the parent company.

I got some random number off some random "manager's" link, glorified write up about himself on the IZEA team. 1 866 514-1680 An automated teller comes on the line anyway, so that's good. I really didn't want to disturb some poor chap that had nothing to do with the issues. I was able to hit "3" for customer service and a very nice lady listened and was understanding. She let me know the company/website that was the advertiser for that particular opportunity and I was able to complete the post (here).

She was surprised to learn the telephone/contact page was blank. She checked it out for herself and let me know that she would contact the appropriate person to fix that. (a couple hours later, now, it's still blank) But I'm not really bitching about that, I know fixes take time sometimes.

It's just a bummer that so many software and other little glitches keep popping up with PPP. Hey, at least they really do pay and I'm making some money! $$ :-)

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Just sent off a 'criticism' feedback form to the powers that be at PPP. This happens a few times a week and I am really perturbed by it. An opp that appears available, but when I click on it, I get this error message, " Sorry, but you do not meet the opportunity requirements."

There must be some simple software query/formula to plug in that if I truly do NOT meet the requirements, the opp should not appear -OR- when it appears available to me - LET ME DO THE F'N OPP!

This isn't even the actual snapshot of what JUST HAPPENED AGAIN. This screenshot I grabbed the other day, and was going to blog about it then, but then I nixed that blog idea, because I thought it was too petty. No big whoop, it's their stupid software deal.

Now, after the lamo weekend I had with ppp, and the slow-start Monday, only to be TEASED; now I AM going to blog about it. I need to chill, my heart is beating and my head is pounding.
Why do I let stupid little things get to me? Because it's just that, it's STUPID that they can't fix a stupid little software program. I don't tolerate stupidity well.

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