Cash Duck - From Kira's Blog...

[Schachteles]

Staying put..

To answer a question I have gotten several times already today: No, I am not planning on closing CashDuck.

The GPT world is not what it was six months ago. Traffic is way down, there are a lot fewer offers that pay a lot less, and there's a lot more fraud causing a lot more problems. This is very disheartening to me, and even more so that traffic went WAY down when I announced the recent changes with the check policy and payment schedule. There are a great many people who want offers to stay around and to be able to continue to make money, but are not willing to support sites that enact policies aimed at helping to sustain the GPT industry.

This is part of the reason that I am opening up the new shopping site this weekend - new blood needs to come to CashDuck, because the old sources just aren't what they used to be.

I won't put on a happy face and say that running CashDuck is easy these days. Despite having a lot less traffic, I seem to have more users with problems, more prizes to mail out, more administrative issues to deal with than ever. My office is a humongous mess, as I've been trying desperately to catch up with the day to day issues of the site while still working on new things, bogged down by time away and illness. Things definitely need to change, and I don't know what I'm going to do - but for the time being, I'm not going anywhere.

 

[bartleby1]

Awww - I really feel for her. She sounds very frustrated. I have only done cashduck for around 2 months, but she seems like she is trying her best to run an honest program and is getting dragged into the fraud issue because of other bad eggs.

Kira, if you are reading this, I wish you the best of luck with your program! Keep your chin up!

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

I feel for her, too. I get the impression that Kira is trying her best to make things work for her site but she's caught in the middle between users who want to see the money before they do anything more and advertisers who want to make sure that they're getting what they pay for before they pay for it.

I know that DD17 is still waiting for her PhotoStamps purchase to be approved. It's been almost 2 months and it's still listed as "submitted to advertiser". And the June cash out won't be going out until July 31 or later. DD says she's not going to do another thing on that site until she sees something in return for her efforts. There are probably quite a few members of CD who are thinking the same way.

Here's hoping that it comes together soon for Kira. I think that if she can get past this hurdle, CD stands a good chance of being a longlasting GPT site.

 

[M 'n C]

Oh its not sounding too good for her. I hope she can pull through this. I have to admit since there aren't very many freebies over ther I haven't really been doing anything. My balance is at a measley $1.20 right now. I'll have to go check and see what's been added.

 

[Schachteles]

There isn't very much there...and less and less are crediting of the freebies...at least for me. I keep checking. You wonder if she will pull out too...though I would hate to see it. But then you wonder how many sites will close before the end of the year in order to not have to pay out the "hefty" prizes that they offered for the highest earners, you know?

 

[M 'n C]

I'm not too familar with all the gimicks with other sites but I would think Kira would pull through since she did spend the money to go to the summit that SR just went to. It sounds like she's actually dedicated to making her site better. i think though that she might have to develop her own script at some point so that she can escape the shiftcode nightmare.

 

[Schachteles]

That is kinda what I was thinking too...that she would change the script...you would think that in the end it would be worth it. It is too bad, she was so successful and all of a sudden nothing, we think about how much that extra $$ hurts our pocketbooks, think of hers!