February 2nd 2015 - Paid to search

February 2nd 2015 - Paid to search

Towards the end of August of 2014 whilst on a paid survey website, I saw a link to a site called Qmee, offering money for searches.  I had never heard of it so started a google search to see what I could on it.  Everything seemed legit so I went back to the Qmee page and started reading what they had to say on their own site.

It's very simple you sign up for an account, which is free.  You then install the simple add-on facility with 1 click and its added to your toolbar and you don't need to re-start your browser either.  And away you go.  I found a helpful article about it on Pinterest that links to a lady's blog page.

As you search for things on gooogle, amazon, ebay, yahoo or bing etc, you sometimes get a narrow box appear on the left hand side of your screen, it looks like this:

These are adverts from companies linked in with Qmee, they all have a price next to them, if you click on them they will take you to that page where you can browse and then go back to your original page.  The Qmee add-on will track that you visited that page and tracks you the amount it said.  If you then visit your Qmee account it will show the amount that you have earned. Sometimes these links stay for a couple of searches and you can get multiple amounts, other times they appear once and vanish.

The prices on the Qmee adds vary from £0.03p upto £1, i'm yet to find anything higher than £0.15p.  There doesn't seem to be a fixed thing that makes it pop up and if sit and "try" to find things it doesn't work either, its as though it knows what your doing.  But when you are doing random searches like at Halloween I was searching for spiders to make my house it a spiders lair it came up a few times.

Unlike other paid to search and paid to click companies Qmee pay out in cash via paypal and there is no minimum amount (YAY!)  they also don't pay out in points like others do.

I wasn't sure last year that it would actually pay out as it seemed to good to be true, and you know what they say if it seems too good to be true it probably is.  But I thought it's money for nothing, so I will give it a try.  From August until 31st Dec 2014 I managed to collect £4.02, which I cashed out on new years eve, and received in my paypal account a couple of days later.  The reason I cashed out was so I could see 1. if it does work and 2. how much I can get in a year.  So far in 2015 I have £1.16 from the month of January.  This isn't a get rich quick scheme by any means, but if you are going to be searching the net for things anyway you may as well get paid a few extra pence for doing so.

I told my hubby and a good friend about it and they both installed the add-on and neither of them have had as many links show up as I have.  So again it shows how random it is.  There are blogs with posts about Qmee all over the internet, with the odd few claiming they have made £40-50 a year through using it, now if they would like to share exactly HOW they managed to get that much it would be nice, but the majority are just a few pounds.

You can also donate your earnings to charity through the site.  Overall I would say if you don't mind the company tracking your data by searches and don't mind adding a few seconds to your time when searching by following other links, give it a try.