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LF ways to earn money online to pay for subscription
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Post by
Ndragheta
I'm looking for ways to earn enough money online to pay for my wow subscription. I'm hoping to do this in 1-5 hours each month. I've had some experience with surveys in the past but I never seemed to get enough that I qualified for and paid anything.
In my searches online, I have seen options including freelance writing/blogging, having your own website/blog where you use google adsense, being an affiliate aka advertising specific products on your site, and becoming a youtube affiliate/partner. None of these seem to be viable for me as they assume that you'd have a website/blog/youtube channel with decent traffic.
So have you come across any good survey sites or other ways to make enough money online to pay the $15 subscription?
Post by
donnymurph
Play Diablo 3. Farm. Sell expensive items on the real money auction house.
Post by
Sas148
Play Diablo 3. Farm. Sell expensive items on the real money auction house.
At present that would still have to be sent to a Paypal account if he wants to use it for his subscription. And then from there into another account if Blizzard doesn't accept Paypal as a payment method (I'm not really sure if that's the case or not since I haven't pursued that payment method before).
Honestly I think the easiest way if you're able is to just offer to mow a neighbors lawn, shovel snow, walk a dog, babysit, rake the leaves, help clean up a pile of trash or other junk... those are almost all easier to accomplish than making money online.
Post by
Interest
Play Diablo 3. Farm. Sell expensive items on the real money auction house.
At present that would still have to be sent to a Paypal account if he wants to use it for his subscription. And then from there into another account if Blizzard doesn't accept Paypal as a payment method (I'm not really sure if that's the case or not since I haven't pursued that payment method before).
Honestly I think the easiest way if you're able is to just offer to mow a neighbors lawn, shovel snow, walk a dog, babysit, rake the leaves, help clean up a pile of trash or other junk... those are almost all easier to accomplish than making money online.
You don't HAVE to send it to your Paypal. If you keep it on the Battle.net wallet (or whatever it's called), I THINK you can draw money from that to pay for your subs.
Post by
Atik
Or, if he is old enough, just get a proper job, possibly parttime, and just work for your money.
Trust me, overloading yourself with so much freetime makes it all less enjoyable and desesitizes you to relaxation.
It feels a LOT better coming home after work and kicking off your boots. And that feeling when you get your paycheck is amazing.
Post by
Interest
Or, if he is old enough, just get a proper job, possibly parttime, and just work for your money.
Trust me, overloading yourself with so much freetime makes it all less enjoyable and desesitizes you to relaxation.
It feels a LOT better coming home after work and kicking off your boots. And that feeling when you get your paycheck is amazing.
I agree with this =).
Post by
gnomerdon
Or, if he is old enough, just get a proper job, possibly parttime, and just work for your money.
Trust me, overloading yourself with so much freetime makes it all less enjoyable and desesitizes you to relaxation.
It feels a LOT better coming home after work and kicking off your boots. And that feeling when you get your paycheck is amazing.
finding jobs r hard.
Post by
Sas148
Interest, you can't at present pay for subscription time with your Battle.net Balance.
Post by
Interest
Interest, you can't at present pay for subscription time with your Battle.net Balance.
Really?
That's...pretty lame.
Post by
Sas148
They did say that the plan to work a way for that to function but no announced ETA or anything.
Right now if you go and check out your subscription you'll see it's still based on the old format even though the Management page had an over hall a long time ago they never changed anything in regards to the subscription pages or functionality. My assumption is that they'll need to completely update that whole part of the process in order to link it into the new Battle.net Balance.
Post by
Ndragheta
I'm a graduate student right now and I'm legally required to not get another job while I'm in grad school due to a form they make you sign. The reason I want to earn it online is that I have generally 2-3 hours a night where my wife falls asleep and I stay up. It's pretty much the only time I have to myself so I can't really go mow the neighbor's yard. I'm hoping to use some of that time to earn enough to pay for a subscription. Should have clarified that better.
Post by
Rystrave
How about selling stuff on eBay? It does cost money to list things, but the profit you can gain off the items pretty much just pays for it. Yeah, you have to have a Paypal account I think (back in the day you could accept checks and nothing else) but over all it's a good source of income for extra coin.
I went through all my vintage t-shirts, old sweatshirts, and old toys and made about $700 off it all :) The only annoying thing is figuring out how to ship and whether what to charge for shipping or to not charge at all.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
There is a community of bloggers that do nothing but review products and host giveaways of products. They don't actually write anything else, and every post is about the Snuggie, an Amazon Gift Card, a box of chocolates, or whatever else they have to giveaway that week. They get the products for free, and their winners get the prizes for free, because the companies want the free advertising. They all use the same program to tally up the giveaway entries, rafflecoptor or something like that. I'm pretty sure a lot of them use free blog-hosting sites like blogspot.
The way they make money, is they sell advertising space. The way they get an audience, is they get connected to the other 10,000 blogs out there that do the same things, and people who do nothing but hang out all day online and look for free stuff enter all the contests. I imagine it's somewhat lucrative, or else they wouldn't do it. I can't imagine $15/month is hard to pull, and you'll probably get a lot of free stuff to boot. I haven't done it myself, though- I am only involved in this scene as a person who works for a company who sponsors these giveaways for the nearly free PR. But it's an idea.
Alternately, you could enter all these giveaways and try to resell the stuff online, but I don't know how often people win these things.
Post by
Ndragheta
@ElhonnaDS
That sounds very interesting. I started looking into it but I'm getting hammered with search results for people offering the giveaways on their blogs rather than someone explaining how to start doing this. I'll keep looking and trying different search methods.
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