Ciao/Dooyoo payments

Dooyoo pay 3p a member read, regardless of the subject or the rating (or indeed whether or not it's BEEN rated). A crown pays £1.50, unless it's in the Speakers' Corner, in which case it's a pretty picture only.

Ciao, as you point out, pay anything from nothing a read to 2p a read, and doubled for a month if it's the first H op in the category. PF is a mystery to everyone.

Guess which I prefer? I've made a lot more money on dooyoo in a much shorter period of time.

The BIG advantage (besides financial gain) of paying regardless of rating is that revenge rating is (a) less of a problem and (b) doesn't really matter.

Dooyoo are consistently the better payers out of the two. Ciao is very much hit and miss in their payments and the way in which payments are awarded.

I much prefer the way Dooyoo payments are done. I like to save all my amazon vouchers up until Xmas or if I am planning on buying a more expensive item. Dooyoo methods seem to be quicker well from what I can tell from requesting Vouchers. I disagree with the fact that you get 3p per read regardles of what rating.... I have seen some terrible review there and they have all be awarded 3p each time they are rated?

It was all explained on the last forum really. It's about pride really, and wanting to write work that wins crown awards. The people that write reviews which are less worthy will never get crowns.

i think they should both pay out at min of £5 in to a bank account and also they both should have vouchers for amazon andmany more other online shops from £5.

i also think that ciao should pay more for reviews and dooyoo should also have different pay amounts depending on the rating they get.

it's been discussed on the dooyoo threads why the payments are like they are, in that everyone gets money, but only crowns get the good money. As for ciao, since being taken over by Greenfield, I cant see them changing their payments at all.

soundsexciting wrote:

I've had a chap leaving messages telling me all my reviews are copied on dooyoo.

What's his username??? I'll go and annoy him and see if he'll do the same to me.

Actually. I take that back - i found him and you can happily keep him.

Back on topic. I'd prefer if DooYoo let you cash out before you it 55000 miles, but given the choice between Ciao and DooYoo. The latter wins hands down, and for that reason, i'm happy to wait.

That's probably why Dooyoo pay so much better than Ciao - because they won't let you cash out before 55,000 miles.

I prefer the cheque system, also dooyoo is more reliable and gives out more money than ciao.

Why won't Ciao pay out cheques like Dooyoo. I'm not sure of the idea of giving my bank account details over the internet. Has anyone ever had any problems.

None at all with Ciao. They pay fine.

thanks for the that - don't feel so worried about giving my details now.

I think I am the only one who haven't been paid in CIAO UK as I don't have a UK bank account. I have discussed this problem of mine with CIAO and some friends, but it hasn't been solved.

Goodness me, you must have a fortune in there by now. Write for dooyoo and you get paid in amazon vouchers !

I have pretty much the same problem. I got over £50 there since joining in late 2003. It makes one sad, but strangely blasé at the same time. Another reason why Dooyoo is more enticing right now.

Thingywhatsit wrote:

Goodness me, you must have a fortune in there by now. Write for dooyoo and you get paid in amazon vouchers !

As suggested, I opened an account at Amazon.co.uk. But when I do the setting of payment method, I don't find an option of using voucher. Then, what should I do?

You don't open an amazon account. What you do is press the money sign on your dooyoo page, and you get the choice of how you want to be paid. You chose amazon vouchers, and they are sent to you by email.

I like dooyoo for quickness i must say. i also like getting the Amazon vouchers as I have something to show for my review writitng (It's also handy for writitng more reviews on the things you have just bought!1). It's alo great a xmas. I like Ciao's method of payiyng aslong as i forget that i have applied for my money s it is a surprise when i get it

I much prefer dooyoo, it's far more profitable. Plus you can be sure they pay for your reviews!

I don't have much experience on ciao.co.uk but have posted about 15 reviews on ciao Germany. For about 10 of them ciao has changed the pay rate to "0", mainly already after a month or two.

dooyoo pays for all reviews the same amount plus a nice extra for a crown. And if you're active you should reach the threshold of 10 000 miles within a year easily, also if you have some not so active months in between.

Another thing: The premium systems. I will never understand ciao's system, I'm puzzled how the sum calculates I get on ciao Germany and it probably is the same on ciao UK.

I'm very happy with dooyoo way - have been writing on dooyoo Germany as well and you only get Webmiles there (similar to ipoints) - 1000 Webmiles for 3000 dooyoo miles. Also do crowns only give you 500 dooyoo miles extra and they are rarer than on dooyoo UK. (1000 Webmiles are far less than 1 EUR btw).

All in all I'm very happy with dooyoo's paymet system.

sirg0508 wrote:

What can you do with Webmiles? All of mine on Dooyo.fr and .de have expired (didn't have that many anyway) but had no idea what could be done with them!
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You can redeem them to vouchers, stuff for your flat or something for yourself (sun glasses, suitcases...). You basically choose out of a catalogue what you want and can afford.

Just had a look - a 5 EUR book voucher costs 3400 Webmiles (= 10 200 dooyoo miles), a 10 EUR one 6000 Webmiles; so basically it depends on what you want how much your Webmiles are worth.
For 5 000 000 Webmiles you get a four-day-trip to Monaco by the way

Ifind the amazon vouchers great especially for gifts as you can get absolutely everything this year I am going to save them up for a new tv ciao I find you can constantly write and write but unless you have the constant support from other members in rating and commenting and you do vice versa you tend to earn a lot less.