I started working for ChaCha in mid-August and have since earned $38.40 that I believe I'll never see. Not that this is a huge amount of money, but I've worked so many hours to earn it.
There are two payment options with Chacha: You can either get a debit card through an internet bank and get your money directly deposited at any time, or you can get ChaCha to send you a check on the 15th of every month if you have at least $100 on your account.
Making only ten cents a question (I go to school and work another job full time, so I don't have enough time to answer 300 questions a week to make the twenty cents a text message), it takes a long time to earn such an amount. Knowing this, I decided to go with the direct deposit option. Doing this, you have to sign up with the bank that ChaCha is affiliated with in order to receive your debit card. I filled out an application and tried numerous times to contact the bank in order to get my account set up, but to no avail. They claimed that they needed documentation proving my date of birth. I faxed them my driver's license twice, which they proceeded to lose both times. On one phone call I was put on hold and never gotten back to, and another time the bank clerk told me to call back later because her system was freezing up.
Due to all of this trouble, I recently decided to try the other ChaCha payment option of receiving a check after earning 100 dollars. Before I clicked the button, I received a warning that I thought very little of that told me that I would have to directly contact ChaCha if I wanted to swap payment methods back to the bank. I wish now that I would've thought more about it.
I figured that I would be able to use my Christmas break to answer enough to questions to earn the rest of the 100 dollars and receive a check, but it seems that now many ChaCha guides are receiving very few questions to answer or none at all (like me). I know this because I have looked in the forums and poured through pages and pages of posts with people stating they have the exact same problem. Now I have no clue how I will ever receive the money that I originally earned. I was hoping to keep working in order to earn some extra Christmas money, and it looks as though that isn't going to work out either.
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