Mental
Emails.com
We
signed up with Mental Emails.com after seeing a few forums where people
were happy with the service and recommending it to others without using
their referral link. The sign up process did involve an identical script
to Click For Cense that meant we had to do lots of back and forth
between the site and our inbox to get us registered. Before we actually
signed up we had closer look at the site by going to their terms page to
spot any peculiars but thankfully it turned out to be fairly standard
for this type of service. Their website introduction stated that they
can offer you paid to read emails with a minimum payout of $4.00 and a
25% commission for 1 referral. For advertisers they claim their prices
are insanely low with super high click rates. When we checked what the
ad figures were we saw that the prices were indeed low considering they
are selling 500 ads for $2.00.
Design
& Performance
We
found the design of the site to be a little strange of course given
their unusual theme but the layout however was pretty well thought out.
The earnings area was display in a large central box with many other
options such as referral links, Contests and stats. Because this site is
about paid to read emails we couldn’t really test the performance on the
day of sign up so instead we compared their prices and features to
similar sites. When you look around at their competition in the paid to
read email business, you can see how dated TIB is becoming with their
high payouts and lack of new features.
These
folks have come in at a stage where they can take the best of the sites
that have been published since TIB and combine it into their site. Their
features heavily evolve around advertising and helping web sites promote
as well as their email service. Ad exchange seemed to be a new one to us
where you can add your sites URL into an auto/manual surf exchange. This
means the advertiser can earn
$0.0002
every time their site is viewed after paying
$0.0003 to place your add.
One
feature we found to be a bit odd was the Marvin’s plays room page which
had a selection of cartoons of Marvin which you have to click on to
receive special upgrades to your account. We could see that you can gain
from this area but felt it was a bit patchy on the details of what these
upgrades would be and the design of this game if you will. We find this
area to be a little bit too distracting when all you want to do is earn
money and improve your account without having to guess what’s next.
After all the introduction page promised us there would be no gimmicks
which makes us refer to our banner slogan “show me the money”.
We found
that after 4 days of testing their paid to read emails we had managed to
gain around 100 points but this only gave us the amount of cash below
cash:
0.0241 points: 100
This was
of course a disappointment when you consider that its 1 point per email
so we had to spend a lot of time viewing 100 emails. The result from
those 100 is extremely unrewarding and lousy in terms of pay.
Evaluation
We like
the amount of benefits that feature with this site but still feel it
needs more of a professional design with some upfront stats about not
only your own account but the site stats too. This would help
advertisers make a better decision when it comes to using the service.
The emails did not arrive on the day of sign up which leaves the gate
open on this review for further testing. We are eager to see if we will
be as satisfied as those who were on the forums about it.
This web
site has got potential and looks promising considering the features they
have over the common PTR sites. The low minimum payout of $4.00 is great
start since the payouts on TIB are $20. However after 4 days of testing
it seemed to be fairly pointless considering how much cash they give you
for points. In the PTR area they are just not performing and need to
increase the pay to $0.01 per email. Until they improve this they slip
down from +4 to 0
Mental
Emails gets the updated rating of 0
