Double payment bonus

I take back everything I said about the Ciaobots being stupid.

Have you seen this announcement

"Dear Members, we are happy to announce that during the entire month of February the earnings for reviews with a 1, 2 and 3 pound symbol will be doubled. The bonus payments will be displayed in your Member Account as the February Bonus Special. The First Opinion Bonus and the Partner Programme earnings will not be affected. "

Clever sods. Watch dooyoo slash their payments by a half and react by doubling payment. Wahay! Brilliant tactic.

However, I'd like to know what the 'not affected' means in respect to the FOB - does this mean that a £££ review first review will get 4p a hit (double the normal level) or 6p (double the normal plus the standard FOB) or 8p (double both the normal and double the FOB)?

It certainly makes Ciao writing look more attractive than normal.

Shite reviews will still get the huge payouts for diamonds though, so it means nothing.

Have to get churning!

Didn't they do that at some point last year for a whole month? Summer I think it was. Didn't inspire me to post more.

Luckily I held back a review on an item I suggested (was added within 6 hours) - actually I just haven't been bothered to write it. There's more to life than writing reviews - double 1/2p or not.

Minnitee wrote:

Didn't they do that at some point last year for a whole month? Summer I think it was. Didn't inspire me to post more.

Yes but the difference is that now dooyoo slashed their payments so the Ciao offer is more attractive than it was last year.

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

Shite reviews will still get the huge payouts for diamonds though, so it means nothing.

Sh*te in who's opinion?....Yours I take it....How many diamonds did you personally earn at Ciao then, or is that a leading question?

In the opinion of many people that have posted on the subject of diamond winning reviews on various forums over the years.

I wouldn't go so far as to call them 'shite' but certainly I think it's been much debated and generally agreed that the diamond reviews are far from being the best and some really aren't great.

very diplomatic.

Mine were ace though

Wow I wish I knew this I would have done a few more reviews this month. Ah I guess there is time for another one soon.

You still have a big chunk of February left. Go for it.
And Ciao are quite fast with suggestion approvals at the moment.

I suggest they get better staff in!

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

I suggest they get better staff in!

I can see us having to wait forever for that suggestion to be listened to, lol.

I've noticed that the books I am in the pipeline of reviewing don't get any financial reward, so that's a bit annoying....

Yep I noticed that two reviews I wrote did not qualify for any reward, same thing happened last summer as well when double payment was in place.

Ciao's tendency to stop payment after the first few reviews is really silly. If the intention is to give consumers balanced opinion, you can't stop paying after the third posting (or whatever the criteria are). I find airports and airlines particularly annoying in that respect - many of the reviews are 5+ years old and nobody will write new stuff that actually brings the info up to date because Ciao make the categories non-paying.

Another easn why from a reward perspective Dooyoo has an advantage, apart from SC every category is treated the same.