Beer money with CashPirate and some tips
Hi guys. I would like to share my experience with CashPirate, how it works and some helpful tips.
For the impatient, just enter my referral code “PZOURI” at sign-up to get $0.5 bonus.
Firstly let me say that I was introduced to CashPirte by a friend who had already been using the app for quite some time. That meaning he had cashed out around $100 for around a year of using CashPirate. That said, during that year he had some referrals to help with that(more on the referral program later).
So I started using the app around 2015 and I used it for around 6–7 months before I got banned, but more on that later :D
During that time I successfully cashed out around 40 bucks to my friends’ PayPal account (because I did not have one back then) and he paid me back in cash.
And we come to the first advantage of CashPirate:
- You can use one PayPal account for cashing out as many CashPirate accounts as you can!
Now you might wonder “How is this allowed?!” and that brings us to the second advantage of CashPirate:
- You can have as many CashPirate accounts as the number of different Android/iOS devices you have and of course you have to have different emails for registering the different accounts.
Let’s say you have 3 Android devices lying around — that means you can make 3 different accounts to earn coins with and then you can cash them out to a single PayPal account.
Sidenote — all of this is explained in their FAQ so you can check it out yourselves, if you think that I am pulling your tail :)
Let’s continue..
Third advantage:
- Registration in the app is super easy! You just need to enter an email address and a password.
The other thing I would like to explain is how exactly CashPirate works, because once you understand that, you will also understand some of the restrictions that are imposed on the app usage.
The idea of CashPirate is revolving around paying for app advertising. That means that there are two sides to the idea: people who pay for their apps to be advertised and people who download the advertised apps and earn a part of what the app owners paid for it’s advertisement.
Let’s start with the people who create apps and would like to popularise them.
Imagine that you are a Application developer and you create an app for the Android OS and you would like to take it off the ground once you upload it to the Google Store. You could send it to your friends and get their positive feedback. And then what? You have to wait for other people to find out about your app (most likely not). Or you could pay a service like CashPirate to spread your app around their platform for the region that your app targets.
For example you create an app for Missing or Lost pets in your local neighborhood or for your whole city, or the whole country! Then you can pay for example for 1000 downloads of your app from people from your city for example (if your app targets explicitly your city, because it will not be useful to people outside your city). You are paying for potential users of your app so you wouldn’t want someone from the opposite side of the planet to download your app.
Here we get to the first CONSTRAINT you should avoid if you don’t want to get banned by the CashPirate team from using the app, and believe me they do not think twice about that sort of things and they also do not give second chances! More on that later.
- You are not allowed to use VPN services while using CashPirate because the people who pay for their apps’ advertising, they target a specific region and VPN’s violate that right.
That being said let’s take a look at “US”, the people that use this app to earn some small additional income (for small Ebay purchases or whatever :D).
The CashPirate app provides the ability to install applications on your smartphone and earn coins for that. These coins can then be redeemed as US dollars via PayPal, a mobile recharge, a facebook gift card or a Prepaid Virtual Visa reward. There are several types of requirements that have to be met so that you receive your coin reward. The first requirement is to just Install & run, the second is to Install & run the app for 30 seconds, the third requirement (and usually the highest paying one) is to Install and keep the app for 3 days, and the fourth is to Install & reach some level of the app to get paid.
- There is also the option to watch a video for a small amount of coins.
- There is the possibility to complete surveys for coin rewards.
By installing apps you can find something useful for you or you can just delete them right after you complete the app’s reward requirements.
There is this thing about different regions getting different amount of apps because different amount of apps are advertised in different regions. This is why you have to be fast when you find an app available for download as there is a quota for the number of downloads.
Now to tell you how I got banned from CashPirate..
Most of the time I was using the app from my home WiFi network or my mobile carrier’s network, however one day I noticed that at work I started getting a lot more apps for download and a lot more expensive than the ones I was used to getting so I got greedy and started downloading those apps even after I learned that we were using a proxy server at work which made it seem like I was in Germany. About 2 weeks later I found that I was unable to log in to the app and after contacting the CashPirate customer service they told me the reason why I was banned… I was not mad because they were in their right to do that and I had to wait to buy a new smartphone to be able to start all over again(as you can have only one CashPirate account per device)! I already made $2.5 which is awsome and I have to say that I learned my lesson!
The customer service is very helpful and always responded if I had any issues with the CashPirate app or the apps that I download via CashPirate. So you can expect the same and I recommend that you contact them if you have any problems with the app :)
Now is time for TIPS!
- Tip 1 — you can refer your friends and increase your earnings. You get 10% of the coins earned by every 1st Level referral and 5% of the coins of every 2nd Level referral
- Tip 2 — after you have referred your friends you all can create a group chat where you can notify each other every time one of you stumbles upon an app and if all of you are situated in roughly the same region it is very likely that your friends will find the apps available to them as well and all of you will earn more like that.
- Tip 3 — as I already said you can use as many devices as you can and you can refer yourself with each one to increase your earnings. Update (Oct. 2018): the CashPirate team introduced new rules making this tip invalid. Here is a screenshot from the app:
- Tip 4 — you are lucky if you are living in the USA or Germany or any big country as there are a lot more applications available for download to you as the application markets are bigger there.
- Tip 5 — enter a referral code when you sign in so that you can get 500 coins as a bonus in the beginning, however keep in mind that these 500 coins are distributed as +50% of the first 1000 coins that you earn.
1000 coins in the app equal $1.
So far I am very satisfied with the experience CashPirate provides and I can recommend it to anyone!
Be careful with the networks that you connect to, before using CashPirate!
You can install CashPirate from:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ayet.cashpirate
And you can enter my referral code “PZOURI” at signup.
Good luck!