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Only 5 Hours For Smorty Articles?

February 8, 2008   Filed Under: Finances, Pet Peeves   339 words

EDIT 02/13/2008 12:17AM

It is now written in Smorty FAQ:

How long do I have to write a post after I have accepted it?
You need to complete and submit your post in your Smorty admin panel within 24 hours from you first accepting it

So I guess they were toggling around with timing and decided on 24 hours as opposed to five or 72.

END OF EDIT

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve completed so many offers or what, but Smorty keeps upsetting me. First I realized that after a certain amount of offers, all offers that you accept decreases your Smorty score. I don’t think that counts for anything, so after sending them 3 e-mails, receiving a generic response once, and being ignored twice, I decided to let it slide. I figured they penalize people for doing more posts, which is fine if that’s what they wanna do. When my time is up I’ll just join a different company.

Anyways, today I accepted an offer to find out that I only have five hours to complete it instead of the original 72…which is posted in their FAQ. I’m wondering if it’s: a) a glitch in the system, b) a penalty for having so many posts, or c) their new time limit. The only thing I like about them is that they actually payout every 7 days. The 7th, 14th, and I’m guessing the 21st and 28th. I was surprised when I got my money yesterday since it was a Thursday. I had assumed the payout was Fridays. I assume a lot.

I have noticed that there’s been more offers (and more interesting offers, too) lately such as Cetaphil and ZoneAlarm, products that I have used in the past or still use currently.

The Impending Recession

February 4, 2008   Filed Under: Finances, Pet Peeves, Recession   285 words

I have to admit, all these signs of a recession are getting on my nerves. It’s probably caused by me because I haven’t been working…that relates to no spending. If I do spend, it’s not in the right market. It’s all in school, textbooks, and food. The government needs people to waste their money feeding Target and Wal-Mart $500,000/day per store* on junk goodies such as clothes, dishes that will collect dust, lawn items, and other little odds and ends.

Today I received the third e-mail from HSBC in the past two weeks telling me that the Federal Reserve has dropped rates, and therefore my Online Savings Account rate has been dropped again. It’s at 3.55% (8x the national average supposedly), which isn’t bad, but I just have about $20 in there now, so the more cents I earn per month, the better. And instead the amount is going down. It dropped 0.25% since January 29th. I’m getting pissed off at the Federal Reserve.

I’m typing this from Safari, which I’ve been loving since I downloaded it earlier today. Thanks to Angela for letting me know that they have a beta version available for Windows users! Firefox was getting on my nerves. And Safari is faster anyways, so I figured I might as well use something that I won’t get mad at. Apparently utilities like Firefox and Cutenews can’t keep up with their user’s demands. I couldn’t live with either though, I had to upgrade!

* The Target I worked at in 2005-2006 made around that much per day during the holiday season.

Annoying Things

February 1, 2008   Filed Under: Pet Peeves   113 words

If you want to read a real blog entry, click here. This entry is just to talk about how annoying it is to receive a comment having nothing to do with my site. I just received one asking me to vote for someone in a Site Of The Month contest because “they love my site.” How generic and….desperate! The person didn’t even have the nerve to join mine or at least comment about my entry first.

If that person is you, please know that I do forgive you. Just don’t do it again, because even WordPress recognized that it was spam!

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