So a friend of mine told me about 2 weeks ago that he found a great way to make some extra money in his spare time by read emails. I did not believe him until he showed me the $40 bucks he had made the two weeks before. So, I decided to give it a try. BrightSpot.tv does a similar thing where they pay part of your GameFly account when you watch their videos so it did not seem too far fetched. I signed up with the five sites he recommended 10 days ago and so far I’ve made $46.73 and a $25 gift card for Chili’s/Macarroni Grill. I’ll give you a brief overview of each site and how to get the most money out of them.

MyPoints
This doesn’t pay you actual cash like the other 4 sites do, but instead you earn points that you redeem for gift cards. I quickly earned enough points to get a $25 gift card fro Chili’s/Macarroni Grill, but a large part of it was from bonuses that are a one time deal when you first join. I suspect my next gift card will take longer to earn. Most days I get 4 or 5 emails from MyPoints. In addition to getting points for receiving emails you can also earn points by signing up for free offers. Personally, I’m not doing any sign ups, but some of the them do seem pretty decent if I was interested in those services. So, you may want to just take a look at the sign up offers. They also offer points for shopping on the web sites listed on their page. If you were already looking to buy something online through on of those sites you might as well at least get some extra points for the shopping you were going to do anyway.

InboxDollars
So far I’ve made $17.48 with InboxDollars. $5 of that is a sign up bonus that everyone gets when they join. I get 7 or 8 emails a day from them. They also have offers where you can make money for signing up for different services, but the nice thing about there is you know exactly how much money you’re going to make for each one. Personally I’ve not signed up for any, but the one thing InboxDollars does offer that I’m taking advantage of is they pay you $1 for each survey you complete. When I actually remember to go take the surveys it seems like they have 3 or 4 available a day. Sure it is not much, but most of them take just a couple minutes and they make for a nice diversion from the actual work I’m suppose to be doing.

SendEarnings
SendEarnings is an almost identical clone of InboxDollars in terms of the site layout and design, but I can live with that since I’ve made $9.55 with them so far. They offer $1 per survey like InboxDollars does, but they seem to have slightly less surveys and emails since I’ve not made as much with them yet. I did sign up with them a couple days after InboxDollars so that is probably part of the reason I’ve made less with them.

Hits4Pay
Unlike the previous sites Hits4Pay only has the pay reading emails parts, but none of the surveys or other offers. So far I’ve made $12 with them. The adds in the emails are a lot lower quality than the other sites are, but I’m still getting paid for them so I’m not really that concerned about it. I get about 8 to 10 emails a day from them.

Deals ‘n’ Cash
Like SendEarnings this is a clone site as well. Deals ‘n’ Cash looks just like Hits4Pay, but with slightly fewer emails. I get maybe 6 to 7 a day from them making me $5.78 so far. Not a lot, but since I’m already getting the other emails I’ll stick with them and let it add up over time.

So, as you can see none of these sites are not going to make you rich, but an extra $40 every few weeks is no to shabby.