How To Earn £120 A Month At Dooyoo (A User's Guide) (Hints and Tips in General)

Member Name: kenjohn

Product:	Hints and Tips in General
Date:	27/12/07 (413 review reads)
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So you want to make yourself a very handy and tasty £120 per month (plus) here at dooyoo without too much effort on your part, or having to be glued to your computer monitor 24/7? Easy peasy, so it is!!

As most members will be by no doubt aware dooyoo recently changed the method they employ to reward reviews by members posted here on the site. You now receive a massive 500 dooyoo miles (50 pence) for every single "premium review" you post. (Up from zero!) For "premium review" read a review on any product or service that is over a meagre 150 words in total length!

Unless you are some sort of illiterate moron who has never mastered the primary school basics of reading and writing, (in which case you wont be reading this anyway!) this 150 word review is something you can achieve *VERY* easily. Pick a product or service you want to write about. (Films, DVD's, and Internet sites are usually a good bet) Now simply churn out a review with a minimum of 150 words, think up any title that takes your fancy, and then hit the "submit" button. Provided the review isn't plagiarised (copied) from another source, and provided it isn't total, unintelligible gibberish, you've just earned yourself 50p.

Now simply repeat the exercise another 7 times in rapid succession. (It shouldn't take you too long!) Voila. Mission accomplished. You've just earned yourself £4!
Repeat this very simple exercise for the next 30 days (if it's a 31-day month you can even treat yourself to a day off) and you've just made yourself one of the easiest £120 you'll ever rob. (Oh sorry. Slip of the keyboard. I meant earn!)

To make things even more attractive if any other dooyoo member just happens to click on any review you post (I say "post" and not "write" as to write something actually implies some effort on your part) then dooyoo will become even *MORE* generous, and hand you over a further 1.5 pence every time this happens.
Don't concern yourself about the ratings your review receives. You know, those silly little buttons at the bottom of each review that state "very useful" down to "not useful".
It doesn't really matter a damn how other dooyoo members rate your review, as there's no stipulation or requirement on the part of dooyoo for a review to be rated either "VU" or "U" in order for you to be paid your 1.5p per read! In fact, another member doesn't even have to rate your review at all in order for you to get your extra 1.5p. This extra 1.5p is simply an added bonus on top of the £120 you'll have already earned for the reviews you've posted.

Oh, and whatever you do *DON'T* be tempted into wasting your valuable time by actually reading and rating any of the other member's reviews. You wont get paid anything extra for doing this (apart from maybe a few extra 1.5p's) and your time will be *FAR* better spent typing out your next 150 word masterpiece that will earn you a further 50p. Again, there's no requirement or stipulation on the part of dooyoo that you *HAVE* to be bothered reading and rating someone else's review in order to get paid your £120.
By the way, a Category that you should avoid like an outbreak of the bubonic plague is "Speaker's Corner", as dooyoo have decided they don't really want these reviews cluttering up the site anymore, and so *WONT* pay you your 50 pence posting fee.

Here endeth the user's guide on how to simply and easily fleece dooyoo out of £120 each and every month. Pretty sad isn't it, for a site that used to pride itself on the quality of its reviews, and which treasured and cared for its good writers.
Now all a half decent writer can look forward to here at dooyoo is (maybe) an extra £1.50 if they happen to write what the dooyoo Guides or dooyoo staff think is a "Crownable" review. But it's getting to the stage where it's hardly worth the effort anymore, not when dooyoo seem to value abysmal reviews more than they do reviews which are well thought out, presented and written.

As you have probably gathered from all of the above, I wouldn't be the greatest fan of the highly vaunted new payment system from dooyoo.
Now maybe the dooyoo opmeisters have oodles and oodles of cash they simply can't wait to part with. Or maybe some eccentric millionaire has stepped in to supply them with limitless funds to more or less give away for free. I don't know. What I *THINK* though is that this new payment scheme is fiscal suicide on the part of dooyoo, and that if they don't quickly come to their senses and realise that it simply isn't financially viable then the site I have known and loved for the past seven years I've been a member will very quickly disappear into a money pit.

Oh, and just as an experiment, the review I posted before this one (about the movie Apollo 13) was a wee "experiment" on my part. It's 686 words long, (*FAR* longer than the minimum 150 words) took me about 10 to 12 minutes to write, and I deliberately didn't read or rate much after I had posted it, but simply went off to work for the day. Six hours or so later it has earned me 89 pence (and counting). This is my 50p for posting it, and 26 dooyoo member reads at 1.5p per read. (In fact, it's more than that as dooyoo are still paying the old 3p per member read over the Christmas period, but you get my drift.) It's also rated as "very useful" even though if I was rating it myself I wouldn't give it more than a "useful" rating. (But hey. Each to their own. This review *ISN'T* about how people rate) The real point is that whatever the rating the review is *MORE* than adequate to qualify for the new 50p payout, and it required absolutely minimal effort on my part. Surely that can't be a good thing?

This new payment system will prove to be the death of the site if it isn't revised. (And sooner rather than later)

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© KenJ Dec 2007

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Summary: The new payment system could kill off the site.