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[Mean Queen]

Thats terrible about the prize money tax hit! Are they kidding? I wish they would have told us that from the beginning!! I could have been saving the 40%!!

DH wasn't too happy when I told him. I already freelance and we learned the hard way we were supposed to be paying taxes quarterly. Now we're going to get hit with a payment for 40% for Expo too! I guess I will be saving the rest of my Expo payments just to pay taxes for my freelance work and Expo itself.

 

[jessica52877]

I have had several rejections due to "invalid link" and the items were in their database. Every time I question this I get the same response from expo: "We are currently looking for ways to improve our database by making it easier to search for products, making it easier to find products, and including a wider selection of products. We apologize for every inconvenience you experience while we make these improvements."

So I finally had enough and sent them a "not so pleasant" e-mail this past week and told them how unfair it is that I take the time to look in their database before I review something and once I see it is in there then I do a review. I told them that it is not fair and it is very time consuming and I just don't appreciate it when I take the time to give them quality reviews every month and I have over 1000 views each month. I got no response. . .

I'll probably be the first person ever to get kicked out of expo!

I've sent some not so pleasant emails this week too, from mine and DH's account. I thought i was going to be the first kicked out! So far i just keep getting stupid responses back, they'll change the denial reason sometimes or come up with something, if they answer.

DH got $88 bonus and I got $44. He only made $113 last month so I am happy about that. I can name all his bonus videos I am sure, all the ones that weren't dvd's!

 

[Ladysunflr]

Did anyone else get a December bonus payment??? I just got an email from Paypal saying I had 55.00 from Expo, I went to check it and it says "this is your well deserved bonus for all of your wonderful videos you made for us in December. You were paid 11.00 for each video that qualified for the bonus".
Just curious if everyone got this. YIPEE!!!! Wish I'd had made more in December now!
Lesley

YES!!!!!!! I just got 77.00 transferred to my paypal!! I wonder which videos they liked or how they determined the winners..

 

[Mean Queen]

Yes I got 33.00!! Minus the 40% for taxes!!!!!!!!!

Woo hoo! Thanks for the heads up. I checked mine and I got $77 for the December bonus. I didn't even do a lot that month, but I did take extra care to do good ones once I learned of the bonus. I mean, I brushed my teeth on camera! Guess it all paid off.

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

I got a $44 bonus!!


Not too happy about the 40% tax thing!

 

[jessica52877]

I wish I had known about the bonus in Dec, I learned about it a few days ago. I would have just done less DVD ones. We brushed our sons teeth on camera! LOL!

 

[WDmommyof4]

I joined expo tv but never posted a video, I guess I am scared of being seen on camera. I really need to start doing it though, because I could use the extra money. If we do reviews of the restaurants etc from Disney, do we have to be on camera, or can we just be talking about it behind the camera. I am going by myself with two small boys, and they can't work the camera, so this is the only way I could do it. Thanks for any help!

 

[carmie3377]

I don't know if I believe the 40% or not. I posted the following on the expo forum when the topic was first brought up there:

Okay, I'm not an accountant so i could be off. However, I have been doing our taxes for the last 14 years. I reviewed a 1040 form for 2007 and the instructions and this is what I come up with. "Other Income" is listed on line 21 under "Income". Form states to see page 24 in the instructions, which I did. Yes, prize winnings are listed there, but so are other incomes, such as reimbursed expenses, ect. Anyway, if you add your expo earnings to line 21, it is included in your total income on line 22. Then, after subtracting some of your deductions from your total income, you arrive at your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) on line 37. You then take your AGI, subtract your standard or itemized deductions, credits, ect., you arrive at the amount you are taxed on. You then fall in a certain bracket and you pay the amount depending on whether you are single, married, ect. I saw nowhere in the form where you pay 40% specifically. Maybe if you where in that bracket due to other income.

Anyway, from what I see, we are not taxed 40%, even if it is reported as prize winnings. Again, I could be wrong. However, had I not read this post, I would have done my taxes the way I stated above and would not even thought twice about the possibility of paying 40%.​

Once someone does their taxes, could they please update us. As soon as we have our W2s I plan on doing mine and I'll keep y'all updated.

 

[carmie3377]

DH and I got a total of $176 for bonuses! YEAH

 

[kandeebunny]

I got $77 in bonuses...I didn't even know I was eligable...it was quite a nice surprise!

 

[MomofCKJ]

I got $165, very happy! My final payment for our Disney trip is due 1/25 and this helps alot!

Allyson

 

[PatriciaH]

I got $11 in a bonus payment and I was happy-lol. What video types was it for?

 

[Ladysunflr]

We are all winners!

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

As some of you may have noticed, this thread has been edited to remove all of the user ID names from the posts.

After discussing the matter among moderators and webmasters, it has been decided that the posting of ExpoTV usernames is a form of soliciting referrals (which is against the DISboards rules). Rather than deleting this whole thread (which has some otherwise useful posts on it), I've chosen to go thru the posts individually and removed the IDs.

Please feel free to continue discussing the program itself. However, we do ask that you do not post your IDs anywhere on the DIS. If you have an ExpoTV ID in your signature, please take a couple of minutes to edit it out.

Thanks for your cooperation.

 

[Maliki2]

Who got Dec bonus payments and how much? $88 here!!!

 

[team weasel]

I got $88 too!

26 videos posted and 8 of them were picked. Not bad for a newbie!

 

[punkin413]

i supposedly got $33 for bonus payments but i just checked my profile and i don't see it listed in my earned money yet. is that something that's listered separately?

 

[TNKBELL]

i supposedly got $33 for bonus payments but i just checked my profile and i don't see it listed in my earned money yet. is that something that's listered separately?

It's not listed in our earnings at all. The only place to find it is in your paypal account and the email that expo sent out. It says in the email that it will not show on your earnings page. I was confused by this as well, until I went back and reread my email.

 

[Maliki2]

Anyone notice some problems over the past few days? I have three videos that have been pending for a few days, I uploaded a couple just a few hours ago and approved within a hour. Now my total views have gone WAY down over night...said I only had 6 views, I have been averaging around 50-150 a day. I checked this morning and 6?!? I find it hard to believe It went down that fast so quickly. And with the video problem something is going on.

 

[Maliki2]

Weird just checked and it showed me up to 50 and now 173 views for last night. LOL