Fishy Pennies (archerfish.co.uk)

Member Name: Ludwig

Product:	archerfish.co.uk
Date:	11/04/07 (166 review reads)
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Advantages: Make 5p a day

Disadvantages: Make 5p a day

The one really positive thing to say about archerfish layout of the site is quite straight forward and easy to navigate. There are no nasty pop ups or pop-unders. The site has plenty of advertising that is expected of such a site but they don’t overdo it and keep banners and ads to an acceptable level.

Archerfish is basically a pay to click site. (It is also of course a site were you can advertise you business but here I am only reviewing the earning opportunities for visitors to the site). There are various sections in which banners are displayed for you to click on. The payment varies between a quarter penny and 1p. Earning 1p for a single click is a rare thing however, for most of the time all you get is about 0.25p for a click. After each click a new page will pop up with the ad or webpage of the company. This has to remain open for at least either 15, 20, or 30 seconds depending on the rate of payment - otherwise you won't receive your payment. So you can’t click on all the ads at once - you can only do one at a time shutting down each window after its allotted time before you can go on to the next click. The low payment rate for clicks is ok I suppose - archerfish doesn't profess to be a high paying site but be aware that on a site such as Rpoints you can get 5p for just 1 click through on Kelkoo whereas on archerfish the price is just 0.25p.

There is also an email section where you receive emails to click on. You can choose to have these delivered to an in box or to your own email address. The former is the better option. You can also earn money through referrals but given the meagre sums involved this seems hardly worth the effort. Other features of the site is a trivia quiz section where you can gamble your meagre earnings. There are three topical quizzes each week with three questions each. You're supposed to receive a percentage of the winnings but sometimes you receive nothing or even get less than you bet because archerfish charge a 10% admin fee. There is however a jackpot but I have never won it.

I have been active on this site for only about 3 months and have so far not made the minimum £3 payout. The really annoying thing for me though is the unfairness of some of the competitions which amounts to nothing more then deceit and misleading of members. I was referred by a friend and we have discovered some unfair aspects of the site. There is a clicking competition where you can win extra cash of up to £5 each week, but this is unfair because some people get more opportunities to click on ads than other members. Perhaps certain members are targeted with more ads. I know that at present I get far more opportunities to click on ads and banners than my friend who introduced me to the site. She says that she used to get a lot of ads but now they seem to have dried up. She complained to Archerfish about this but they just said that everyone gets the same. This however is not true because we have both tested and compared our click opportunities.

At present I the maximum I can earn is about 6p a day. My friend however, says she can only make 2p a day because there is hardly anything to click. Even leaving this discrepancy aside I still would find it hard to recommend archerfish - a bit of fun maybe but the potential income from this site is so minimal it’s unlikely it even pay for the energy running costs of your computer whilst accessing the site online!

Summary: Low earning click advert site