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Surveys, Trials and Offers.

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Oct 2 2013 9:28 AM

   

  Tiresome and tedious as they are, I can't complain, they have funded all of my clubs.Four drivers, three 3 woods, four iron sets, two sets of wedges and four putters.Now they continue to furnish me with balls.

  It is unusual for any of them to pay out within the stated time however, so we have to take steps to ensure payment. Here's my method.

  1. take screenshots of EVERY page of the transaction.( i use windows snipping tool, it's simple)

  2. Use an image host to get url's for each screenshot. ( i use Postimage.org  )

  3. When the stated time runs out and you haven't received the credits, immediately click the support button and report the problem.

  4. Attach all the screenshot url's to your complaint and also a copy of the confirmation e-mail if you got one. There is a checkbox among the offer pages to ensure you get the e-mails.

  Since adopting this method I now ALWAYS get my credits, usually two days after the report goes in.

  I  always treat getting free credits as a game within a game, especially surveys ;0)

  The difference is I win every match now and have the referee firmly in my pocket.

  HAPPY HUNTING!

   

• Games4Ever71 623 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 12:21 AM

  PaulTon:

   

  Tiresome and tedious as they are, I can't complain, they have funded all of my clubs.Four drivers, three 3 woods, four iron sets, two sets of wedges and four putters.Now they continue to furnish me with balls.

  It is unusual for any of them to pay out within the stated time however, so we have to take steps to ensure payment. Here's my method.

  1. take screenshots of EVERY page of the transaction.( i use windows snipping tool, it's simple)

  2. Use an image host to get url's for each screenshot. ( i use Postimage.org  )

  3. When the stated time runs out and you haven't received the credits, immediately click the support button and report the problem.

  4. Attach all the screenshot url's to your complaint and also a copy of the confirmation e-mail if you got one. There is a checkbox among the offer pages to ensure you get the e-mails.

  Since adopting this method I now ALWAYS get my credits, usually two days after the report goes in.

  I  always treat getting free credits as a game within a game, especially surveys ;0)

  The difference is I win every match now and have the referee firmly in my pocket.

  HAPPY HUNTING!

   

  Still not good enough reason to waste all your time on, no matter if you spend all that time and get your clubs. You have to sacrifice your own playing time to earn credits, which means lack of practice. I been on here two years, and that page to earn credits went from good to wasting all the golf playing time. They keep raising new clubs to even higher and higher each new released club. Balls are at there highest prices now, at 700 credits, and will continue to keep raising higher, it will never stop. It is getting to be beyond pointless to even try to earn credits. The offers or trials or whatever you want to call them are full of crapware (malware and spyware). Never do those. Unless you want to spend hours running cleaning software on you computer all day long. I can't believe someone would actually say it is great to waste time to hardly get anything for weeks on end. I rather keep what I have now and just play for fun, than waste any more of my good time on that page anymore. For the people that are not rich, this site is not free. It is called FREEMIUM. Pay to play. If you want to play for free, then you won't go hardly any where on this game. I think I am where I will stay as for buying any more stuff.

  Oh, and all that you say to prove that you actually did those to get your credits, been there done that, and no they do not just believe your emails and screenshots. They still make excuses, and say that you did not do it, and deny your credits. So don't give me, they don't do that. They do and I have wasted lots of times on that free credits page. You have to put all your free time into that page to get really anything good out of the pro shop. The credit system is made to pay to play, and made hard to earn for free credits, and the more people don't like it, the more they make it harder, and higher the prices get. By the time next in March we will probably see prices of over 1000 credits for balls and 6000 credits for drivers, and sets will be 15,000. This site has high price trend, and nothing about deals. Free rentals weekends are just a way for them to make us interested in buying more. This game would be the perfect Windows app game, to pay to play. They already are a pay to play, so it is perfect to be as an app too.

• Chinajohn 1,190 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 1:06 AM

  Not for me, but each to their own.

  I worked out I was getting something like 1c an hour, that is slave level labour! So I don't even do the videos now, I pay 100% cold hard cash for everything. If I want to earn money to pay for this game then I'll go to work and earn a LOT more than 1c an hour.

  For those with no other option, then fine, but can't you find some way to earn money faster than that? And as has been said, every hour (for it's a lot more than minutes) you spend earning credits is time you don't spend playing the game. Even if you let the videos run while you're doing something else you still have to come back to the PC every minute or two to click on the next one.

  Yes you CAN play this game for no cash, but if you do it's most certainly NOT playing it for free!

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 1:18 AM

  I've been here nearly 2 years and I've only spent $30. I also have more than $30 dollars worth of credits at the moment. Surveys and videos take time but if you do them at work it isn't your time. 

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 1:34 AM

  Chinajohn:

  I worked out I was getting something like 1c an hour, that is slave level labour!

  BS!

  Don't cost me a dime to play either and I earn credits while playing and when I don't feel like playing and watching tv....doesn't take any of my spare time or interfere with playing time...saves me a he!! of a lot more than .01 an hour, in fact that figure is ridiculous!

   

• Chinajohn 1,190 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 1:58 AM

  fatdan:

  Chinajohn:

  I worked out I was getting something like 1c an hour, that is slave level labour!

  BS!

  Don't cost me a dime to play either and I earn credits while playing and when I don't feel like playing and watching tv....doesn't take any of my spare time or interfere with playing time...saves me a he!! of a lot more than .01 an hour, in fact that figure is ridiculous!

   

  Fine, that's how you value your time, but time is time, whether you're watching TV playing a computer game or scratching your A$$ it's still time and you could be spending that time playing or earning, if you're not earning money you COULD be therefore when you divide ALL (i.e. 100%) of the time you or your PC spend earning cash / doing surveys then take into account what you get back (remembering all the failed surveys and crashed vids) for me it worked out around 1c an hour.

   

  Edit for clarification: I think you / we are getting hung up on the number I use. Let's leave that aside, hell lets say I'm earning a 100 times less than you, that still means you're only earning $1 an hour. What's the minimum in the USA? I heard $10 (but I may be wrong) I'm willing to bet whatever you're earning it's less than the legal minimum.

  And that's the key, you're looking at  it as saving $x per hour, I think that's the wrong way to look at it, it should be what your earning per hour.

  As an analogy, if you own a security firm, and your staff work 12 hour shifts patrolling the premises. It's normal in such jobs to work 2 hours on 2 hours rest, do you pay your staff for a 12 hour shift or only for the 6 hours they actually 'work'? After all the rest of the time they were just watching TV.

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 3:48 AM

  I'm joining you John!

  Apart from the efficiency argument which may differ from one person to another, it's always depending on the respective home country. USA, CDN in first row, AUS, GB in second, seem to have the best opportunities for all kinds of "free credits". Our countries are far off AFAIK.

  In a nutshell, I value my lifetime a lot more precious than the 1 - 2 $$ which I might "earn" per hour. Lawn mowing would probably be payed better. Furtheron, I avoid the hustle with the bad payment morals which draws the rate down and spoils the fun.

  The $ 0.70 rate of Zong makes this decision even easier...

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 9:54 AM

  Well John, the difference is I don't feel the need to play any more than I do, I do make money with investments and owning a business I built 24/7, and when I did need to worry about how much money I was making an hour for decades I sure as he!! wasn't playing video games period...Wellll, they weren't invented yet, but if they were I still wouldn't have been playing them.

  Now that the money isn't an issue I still enjoy saving the $150-200 I would spend a month here....some members couldn't play without the surveys due to health, some due to  unexpected financial issues and are to old to cut grass, others are on fixed incomes and retired....

  I do agree that if your still in your prime earning time of life, your time would be better spent getting as much as you can, while you can ...

   

  I'm more or less semi-retired to take care of my wife that was disabled, if she wasn't sick I wouldn't be here, my favorite internet game is E-Trade, I'm just killing time here, I must admit I do enjoy playing this game though...

   

  Now your in your prime earning years, you've made it clear you don't play for credits due to financial reasons in your other posts, complained about the pay in China in other posts, and said that you really can't earn very many credits there,  so why would you even be here when you could be somewhere working?

  You point out how petty it is to earn free credits but I would bet money that if they were available to you you would have a "huge" pile of them, anyone who can do the par 3 bug for xp points for weeks on end can't knock people doing surveys, how much did you make doing that...LOL ...That said spare me of any further analysis of doing surveys...

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 10:49 AM

  Very well said Dan.

• Joshnosh 548 Posts

  Wed, Mar 19 2014 11:43 AM

  I normally get credits but Betfair is a scam, wont give me credits wont let me take my £10 out of the account i put in