topic Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others. in Get Support

You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Zz — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:09:08 GMT

I spent countless hours helping out in these forums last month just to see if it was possible to even get a cent off my bill by doing this and sacrificing much time better served actually doing something useful for my life and to no avail. Didn't even receive a cent off my bill for helping despite many replies, likes and solutions arrived at. I must be doing something wrong here. Someone wanna enlighten me as to what it was?

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:33:49 GMT

@Zz wrote:
I spent countless hours helping out in these forums last month just to see if it was possible to even get a cent off my bill by doing this and sacrificing much time better served actually doing something useful for my life and to no avail. Didn't even receive a cent off my bill for helping despite many replies, likes and solutions arrived at. I must be doing something wrong here. Someone wanna enlighten me as to what it was?

Does your email address in the community match you email address in your account?

The account email address *could* be different than your log in email address too.

That's the link for the rewards.

At the end of the day though...this is not the best use of your time for money. As the saying goes, you'd be better off collecting bottles for refund. That's real money too.

Edit: and...the $20 is kinda misleading. That's for Oracles.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Zz — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:36:43 GMT

my email is streamlined across all socials

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

popping — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:39:47 GMT

@Zz

You will need time to learn the PM system. With time, your reply will get more brovos when your posts are correct and helping subscribers. Concentrate on providing good quality answer and not more posts.

The brovos to posts ratio for the top contributors is 1.5 and higher.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

ShawnC13 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:00:56 GMT

@Zz wrote:
I spent countless hours helping out in these forums last month just to see if it was possible to even get a cent off my bill by doing this and sacrificing much time better served actually doing something useful for my life and to no avail. Didn't even receive a cent off my bill for helping despite many replies, likes and solutions arrived at. I must be doing something wrong here. Someone wanna enlighten me as to what it was?

Welcome to the forum. It has been said that you can make more money collecting cans and recycling them for a refund and earn more than you can here in the same time. Not to discourage you or anything but 42 Posts 13 Bravos and 0 Solutions probably isn't going to put you at the top of the reward table. We have people that are getting upwards of 40 Bravos a day and probably posting 50-100 posts a day helping out. Really you must want to just help out and if you earn a reward that is a bonus. Stick around and you might be surprised next month. Each month differs in participation level you may have just found one where really high levels were required to make the rewards level.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

mimmo — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:43:12 GMT

@Zz you received the top 25 reward a weelk or so a go. You should see it in selfserve under rewards. If not then you might want to ask a mod to investigate.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Zz — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:51:26 GMT

Top 25 of what?

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Someone_here — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:59:56 GMT

Top 25%, should be worth $2 reward (check under community reward here).

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Zz — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:00:58 GMT

You are correct it looks to appear on my rewards section as a $2 reward but difficult to see why i got it in my account details. sad i had to go this far to find out why that was applied to my account and for what reason but i think we are all clear now and can close up this thread. thanks.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Zz — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:03:01 GMT

p.s. all in all not worth the time and effort to get the $2...just saying in case anyone is wondering...you must literally have no life to apply this to your life every month...there are far better ways to make $2.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Someone_here — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:03:25 GMT

Around the 6th of each month, the community reward will appear in your reward section in your selfserve account.

Then whenever your cycle renew, that reward money will be applied to renewal before your credit card/avalaible funds are debited.

You can also check total reward received for the lifetime of your account at the bottom of your selfserve page.

Great to see you received it!

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Someone_here — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:04:37 GMT

@Zz wrote:
p.s. all in all not worth the time and effort to get the $2...just saying in case anyone is wondering...you must literally have no life to apply this to your life every month...there are far better ways to make $2.

Indeed, it was never met as a way to "make money". I think most people here are aware of that, as suggested by previous comments 😉

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Zz — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:07:00 GMT

yes and i hope anyone who has dreams of striking it rich and winning that $20 reward is crazy to think that after reading this thread. i was here for nearly 20 hours checking in on threads last month. certainly wont have time for that with just a $2 payout but i will occasionally be on to provide help from time to time no doubt.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

ute1978 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:21:46 GMT

@Zz wrote:
p.s. all in all not worth the time and effort to get the $2...just saying in case anyone is wondering...you must literally have no life to apply this to your life every month...there are far better ways to make $2.

Indeed there are. This community was never meant to be a money maker.... The members in this community are here mainly to help others. Some spend hours and hours a day for just a fraction of a cent off of their bill.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

Someone_here — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:27:06 GMT

To be clear, the $20 is only for oracles. Other folks can have up to $15, and for most people up to $10.

To be an oracle, you (unofficially) need to be in the top tier of community reward ($15) for most of the months over a long time, say more than 1 year (probably 2 years). Given this, you probably also need to be ranked as a community mayor (the title/status next to your community username).

You also need a current oracle to "retire", or get less involved and lose his status (or PM to decide there is room for a new oracle), and furthermore you need to be choosen by PM teams/other oracles/the community among other people equally as involved as you.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

stonechucker — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:13:00 GMT

@Zz, looking at your registration date for the community, if it matches when you signed up for service, you may have had the reward rolled into your renewal. This would be shown in your transaction history.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

ShawnC13 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:13:37 GMT

@Zz wrote:
p.s. all in all not worth the time and effort to get the $2...just saying in case anyone is wondering...you must literally have no life to apply this to your life every month...there are far better ways to make $2.

If you are doing this for the rewards then you are doing it for the wrong reason they are a bonus. People can make it work in their schedule. I log in different times of the day, while watching TV at night, when I take my kids to their sporting activities. Just whenever the opportunity comes up and I feel like it I will log in.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

mcs11 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:19:49 GMT

@ShawnC13 wrote:
@Zz wrote:
p.s. all in all not worth the time and effort to get the $2...just saying in case anyone is wondering...you must literally have no life to apply this to your life every month...there are far better ways to make $2.
If you are doing this for the rewards then you are doing it for the wrong reason they are a bonus. People can make it work in their schedule. I log in different times of the day, while watching TV at night, when I take my kids to their sporting activities. Just whenever the opportunity comes up and I feel like it I will log in.

@ShawnC13 Me too. It's a great way to fill a few minutes here and there in between drop offs and pick ups, and other life activities. It's just kinda fun to help others.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

krazykiwi — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:39:01 GMT

@Zz wrote:
yes and i hope anyone who has dreams of striking it rich and winning that $20 reward is crazy to think that after reading this thread. i was here for nearly 20 hours checking in on threads last month. certainly wont have time for that with just a $2 payout but i will occasionally be on to provide help from time to time no doubt.

Hi, I spend a couple hours a day doing other things on the computer and at the same time helping out on this forum. Usually get $10 for that, $2 for autopay and with a few friend referrals you have a $20 month credit. As others mentioned, we do not do it to make money and I would never consider $20 a month off of my bill "striking it rich".

Without helping in the community you can still get $2 for autopay, $1 per friend referral and $1 loyalty each year, so you can still get to $20 without putting in much effort. Even without all the credits, PM is still a cheaper option than its competition for those capable of managing their own accounts.

Helping others is not a priority for everyone, as you pointed out making money for what you do is more important to some. I do not agree with suggesting helping in the community is for "people without a life", not everyone is solely financially motivated in their actions.

I hope you enjoy the service that PM delivers and may you never require the service that the community offers.

Re: You can't obtain $20 off bill by helping others.

srlawren — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:03:13 GMT

@Zz wrote:
there are far better ways to make $2.

@Zz absolutely. This has been stated many times in the past (including at least twice in this thread before you said it), and will be stated many times again in the future.