I got my pin number for my ChaCha card today and just successfully withdrew $100 cash. w00t!

Quote :

"Q: Who sings the song that's called Lucy's Song A: I believe you are thinking of a band called Betchadupa. ChaCha later! 70% as "Okay." um.. WTF?"

You needed to add a little more. Something like "The song "Lucy's Song" is performed by the band Betchadupa. It was released in 20##. ChaCha later!"

[Edited on April 2, 2009 at 10:17 PM. Reason : a]

4/2/2009 10:15:02 PM

yea but its still lame

4/2/2009 10:26:04 PM

rules is rules

4/2/2009 10:27:46 PM

eh, are you gonna try to dispute it?

4/2/2009 10:28:57 PM

Maybe. My only thing is like they usually give u QA for bad Citations, improper presentation of the company name, accuracies.... This is the first I've seen that was something they just didn't like.

4/2/2009 11:38:20 PM

I knew I would get a horseshit answer back...A WOW answer would also provide the phone number for the business.

No shit, as I did add the phone number...

obviously they don't read their shit

4/3/2009 10:15:43 AM

40$ in two days, not bad.

4/3/2009 10:25:28 AM

w00t.

Quote :

"We are pleased to inform you that you passed and have been accepted as a ChaCha Generalist Guide. You can now receive real queries! "

now time to go back and do some reading to pick up on some tips and hints from this thread

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM. Reason : ]

4/3/2009 11:36:48 AM

okay so i disputed a score and once again the link send me to a site that wont load. wtf?

4/3/2009 1:57:18 PM

So I disputed the 0% score that posted on the last page and their response was that I got the 0 because i didnt post the full address of the business. I only posted the street address, not the city,state, zip, because the guy was asking about a specific intersection. I even mentioned that it was just around the corner. WTF

4/3/2009 2:05:27 PM

Ansonian & SkiSalomon- you should always give the address when they ask about "where is a pizza hut near this road?" "how late is pizza open here?" "what intersection is there a pizza hut here?" just go ahead each time and give the name, address, city, state, zip, phone num, hours of operation, and cross roads if they have one.
check out this:
http://knowledgebase.chacha.com/images/Formatting%20textChaCha%20Answers%20v1.3.pdf

Keep up the good work Jrb!!!

CalledToArms:: Check out these, they were super helpful for me:

http://forum.chacha.com/showthread.php?t=52455
http://forum.chacha.com/showthread.php?t=58106&highlight=handbook
http://knowledgebase.chacha.com/images/Formatting%20textChaCha%20Answers%20v1.3.pdf
http://forum.chacha.com/showthread.php?t=121619&highlight=blacklist

4/3/2009 2:32:24 PM

Damn, I have only answered like 10 questions in the past 3 days but my total is over $9. My team kicks ass!

Well, at least the 4 people that actually answer questions do.

I just checked my quality rating for last week. Read it and weep, bitches:

Quote :

"Wk Ending Quality Comp. % Queries 3/28/09 99.06% 100.0% 302"

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 3:18 PM. Reason : a]

4/3/2009 3:16:10 PM

I have 3 people on my team and none of been accepted yet, need more..

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 3:28 PM. Reason : ]

4/3/2009 3:17:06 PM

^ I just sent 2 more your way

4/3/2009 3:18:50 PM

I only have three. And only one does anything. The other two are just sitting on their behinds.

4/3/2009 3:27:14 PM

Hey, what email should I put in if I'm going to sign up as a Cha Cha guide? I need me some extra money.

4/3/2009 3:33:26 PM

pm sent

4/3/2009 3:39:06 PM

someone pm me some info.

4/3/2009 3:41:21 PM

I got nobody on my team either, but i dont really mind. Im making about 115 a week now, so ill save the extra 10% for those who only have time to make a few bucks at a time.

I am so behind this week. I need to crack the whip before sunday or I'll be behind at least 50 bucks for my overall goal.

4/3/2009 4:11:38 PM

I have 4 people; however, none of them have been officially accepted yet.


\/eh, I already sent them pms, sorry manbearpig.

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 4:55 PM. Reason : ]

4/3/2009 4:38:07 PM

djeternal gave me permission to recruit on his post.
you should use me as a referral: Swins2004@aol.com.

I only have one on my team, and thats you JRB.

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM. Reason : chacha]

4/3/2009 4:52:09 PM

Yeah, I'm gonna try go to some other forums maybe later tonight.

4/3/2009 4:56:59 PM

I need some referrals

4/3/2009 5:01:55 PM

eh, I'm making you decent money.

4/3/2009 5:15:26 PM

I know you're doing freakin great. I snooze I lose.. I guess.

4/3/2009 5:16:40 PM

What are the rules on cashing out?

4/3/2009 5:20:55 PM

I applied the other day. Got the bank account set up in like 2 days. The card takes 7-10 days to come so I'm waiting on that. You can PAY ME NOW, where they send u a debit card, or u can set up direct deposit to your existing bank. The ChaCha account they set up is active, so i COULD transfer it from that account to my personal Wachovia account, but i'm sure this will cost more than the $2 the debit card costs.

4/3/2009 5:23:36 PM

Is direct deposit free? How much have you made so far?

4/3/2009 5:24:42 PM

The direct deposit is free, but it only goes through on the 15th of every month... well excuse me, "within 5-7 business days of the 15th of every month" according to the Handbook. Also, you have to have AT LEAST $100 a month to do that (which im sure none of us here are having a problem with), or else it carries over the next month until you do.

I chose the Pay Me Now because im horribly broke, and $2 aint so bad to take it out. DJE says u can go to a credit union and theres no further fees for withdrawing. Or I can just keep it and use it as a debit card everywhere. I'd go with the Pay Me Now... do you have AIM you can get on?

4/3/2009 5:29:12 PM

Yep, I have been living off of my ChaCha card all week. The only problem I have had is paying at the pump for gas, so I had to go in and pay

4/3/2009 5:41:29 PM

still waiting on my card

4/3/2009 5:52:42 PM

how do you all format movie times? I have gotten nothing but b2b movie times since I first logged on today and I am hoping I am doing an ok job haha.

question: what time is i love you man playing at imagine novi in nov, MI tonight?

answer:
"I Love You, Man is playing at Emagine Novi at 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, and 10:05pm today. This Drama? starring Paul Rudd as Peter Klaven and Jason Segel as Sydney Fife is 1hr 50mins long and Rated R. Emagine Novi is located at 44425 West 12 Mile Road, Novi, MI - (888) 319-3456. ChaCha again!"

source: http://www.google.com/movies?hl=en&near=Novi,+MI&sc=1&tid=cfaae2b2c9f6cb60

PS i hate when it says I took too long when I clicked right away

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM. Reason : ]

4/3/2009 6:01:11 PM

I usually make sure that I put AM or PM whenever I put times in any answers.

4/3/2009 7:02:47 PM

ah darn, yea I figured you would say that. I guess I have to kind of take off the common sense blinders most of us have. They asked "tonight" and I listed all the movies that had start times from the time they asked until the theater closed, just clarifying PM at the end since they had already stated "tonight" also, those "?" only appeared when I copy and pasted in here, not sure why.

Anywho, i've been a little slower than I thought I would be; my hourly avg was pretty poor the first 2 hours hah. But I'm still getting used to everything. The movie time questions are easy, just take a little time to copy, paste, and format correctly. I still need to read up on some stuff again to clarify the best way to answer certain questions.

For instance, I got a couple questions asking about urban dictionaryesque sexual moves (rusty trombone, plumpkin, and another). How would you answer these?

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 7:38 PM. Reason : ]

4/3/2009 7:23:27 PM

^ I thought it was called a "blumpkin"?

4/3/2009 7:43:19 PM

hell, I dono; they typed plumpkin

4/3/2009 8:04:16 PM

then you would say "did you mean blumpkin?" when they mis-spell stuff. But Arms, I'm tellin' you read those links I posted before. I was like lost in the dark tryin to format and answer stuff, then I read all those and ALL the bad QAs I was getting was stuff I failed to read (formatting, citing, etc) and as soon as I read those i went up to 95-100%.

4/3/2009 11:25:13 PM

Yeah man thanks, I've been reading those throughout the evening(stayed in tonight, so it was an excuse to try this stuff out haha) as I took my first night of questions.

4/4/2009 12:04:20 AM

wow the how search engines work video the guy has a bad lisp

4/4/2009 4:31:35 AM

yeah that lisp was annoying as f*ck

4/4/2009 11:01:08 AM

ugh, gotta stop for now. my ISP is being horrible this morning. Internet has dropped 2x with an active question.

4/4/2009 11:51:24 AM

you know... i've dropped several live questions.. never really saw anything happen... my completion has been 96.9+ since i've started..

4/4/2009 11:52:14 AM

Anybody make enough to actually pay taxes on this? I know you can't discuss it on their forum, but I thought I would ask here. Can you join a team after you sign up, i.e. I signed up a while ago, joining a team sounds fun. Thanks.

4/4/2009 11:54:45 AM

^^join mine

and i think you have to pay taxes if you make over 600? I think

4/4/2009 12:11:59 PM

^^

I would imagine that since you have to fill out a W9, that they would have to at least send you a 1099 each year.

4/4/2009 12:26:32 PM

Okay someone just bitched at me for the last guide giving them incorrect info. What should I have done?

I said "ChaCha is powered by live guides answering your questions, but you do not necessarily get the same Guide each time. My apologies for the last Guide's incorrect answer. ChaCha."

meh... i dunno

4/4/2009 12:57:00 PM

As of now, you cannot join a team if you are already a member of the ChaCha team, but you can start your own.

4/4/2009 12:57:21 PM

anyone need a referral? PM ME!

4/4/2009 1:00:18 PM

^^^Sounds like a good response to me. I'm always tempted to say thank you but i know i'll never get the same person the next time. it makes me a little sad since most of the time the people are really nice

[Edited on April 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM. Reason : carrot]

4/4/2009 1:00:56 PM

Yeah. The person was actually bitching because they asked "who is this player for a HS bball team in wherever" and the answer said "she is a start player who is an important guard for the team!" and they bitched like "she sucks, get your info right she is a ball hog and steals and cheats blah blah and is awful. thanks for the incorrect answer"

i was like.... bitch for real

4/4/2009 1:07:30 PM