Siestaboy - has to be whipped before he moves! (cashfiesta.com)

Member Name: stmatth

Product:	cashfiesta.com
Date:	23/09/00 (60 review reads)
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Advantages: Cute design

Disadvantages: Needs constant attention, lowest payout rates

The first impression of Cashfiesta is quite favourable: The bar has a nice design, and it has the useful feature of showing counters for your curent points and referrals. And there is the cute Fiestaboy: A (politically incorrect) animation of a stereotypical fat, naked Mexican man. When he walks, you are earning points, but he also has a habit of sitting down for his siesta, so you have to wake him up by moving your mouse over the adverts. Sometimes he walks into the adverts, and then you have to get him back by catching him with a mouseclick.

So far so good, but does it earn you anything? My experience in the last month is not very good. For a week or so, they did not have any adverts at all - they got into some trouble when advertisers refused to pay after cheaters produced artificial clicks on their adverts (apparently, there was a programme producing random clicks all over the bar that was used to catch fiestaboy when he was out walking over the adverts). OK, there is hope that the crisis is over now - at the moment, there is an almost continuous stream of adverts.

However, I find it almost impossible to keep the boy going even when there are adverts. He sits down so frequently and needs almost constant attention: When I write half a sentence for this dooyooo opinion, he immediately sits down, and I have to get the mouse and make him move again. So he seems to require quite a large part of my time and continuously distracts me from whatever I'm doing.

Over the last month, I have collected a total of just under 8000 points - which is equivalent to about 14 hours surfing time, according to the statistics on the web page. However, I have used Clickdough at the same time which logged almost 40 hours - so you see how much is actually lost by lazy fiestaboy having his siesta all the time.

Even worse: With the current payout rate, 1 point is 0.000106 Dollar - in other words, I have earned just 80 cents for a month's usage!
For the same period, Clickdough (which is often slacked off for their low rates) has given me 5 Dollars.

But even if the payrates do go up again, with all the attention that the Siestaboy needs I am not sure if it is worth it. the payrates have to go up considerably to awqrd users for all the clicking and moving that they have to do!

And there is still a real danger that they might just collapse: The market is extremely competitive, and a company like Cashfiesta that was so easily attacked by cheaters will have a hard time convincing advertisers that they can be trusted again. So, I might never see my hard earned 80 cents!

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