Magandang Araw, mga Kababayan!This isn't a promotion nor whatsoever if you ever find it one.
Recently napansin ko dumadami na ang gustong kumita not only by selling but also yung tingin nilang "easy money". Then many already had been posting on Facebook that they earn by watching youtube videos, some even posted screenshots of how much they earn and even blue bills just to prove their legitimacy, but then of course a way to earn referrals as well.
This new app that supports only Philippine Peso is named as
Trendy.
Have you heard of it? Well then here's how their referral and earning system was.
(I've asked a friend na nag gaganon if you would ask me paano ko nalaman haha)At first you need to have a referrer (to register you in their platform), but then what bothers me is that
you must invest for as low as 750Php just for registration. And their mode of payment depends on your referrer kung Gcash, Coins.PH, Paymaya, or Direct payment ang gusto. Then after that mayroon kang tatlong ways to earn:
- Referral - same as kung paano ka nagsimula, just depends sa kung paano mo ipopromote ito para magkareferrals ka.
- Benta ng sabon - I found this funny pero totoo, they letting you to earn by reselling their product as well.
- Watching Youtube videos - you earn tokens that you can convert to Philippine Peso. But then there are two types of membership as well:
- Silver Membership - this costs 750Php. You earn .5 token per video.
- Gold Membership - this costs 1500Php. You earn 1 token per video.
then counted na daw sa earning ng token ang 1min and 30sec na panonood, because videos ranges from 6 to 14 mins long.
How much is the conversion of their token to peso?
They also say na if you are Silver Member, just 250 lang ang fee dahil 500 ay mapupunta parin sayo, as well as Gold member which is 500 naman ang fee and 1000 mapupuna sa account mo.
Well then let's calculate. If you have a silver account and you watched 1.5 mins in an hour straight...
(0.5 token * (3600 (seconds in an hour) * 90 (seconds in 1.5 mins))) * 0.02 (amount of php per token)
Basically, you can watch
40 videos in an hour hence you can have 20 tokens for that. and 20 tokens in php is just
.4 pesos. And if you would have watch for the whole day
(approx. 10 hrs), then you could earn
4 pesos. (yes you've read it right). And if you ever have Gold account, twice lang ang earnings mo in watching youtube.
Then let's calculate those whom are saying
"For a month, ganito kalaki (mostly thousands) na kinita mo!"Silver account earns 4 pesos in 10 hrs per day of watching youtube. Simply multiplying 4 to 30 would give you only
120 pesos! And even having a gold member account that costs 500 in registration (kasi nga 1000 babalik sayo), then you could only have 240pesos.
Now how some earn so much? Simple lang, Referrals. Why?
Each successful referral could give you 250Php. Then imagine being famous, well-known, and respected, then you can gain as many referral as you could have (kasi some of my Facebook friend na professionals are promoting such application).
Now, I looked up their company (Trendy Unlimited Trading Corp.) on both DTI and SEC online and I've found nothing on DTI business name search and SEC business search is unfortunately down at the moment.
BTW, here's images of their membership perks.
All I want to say is to warn that I think with this kind of earnings, they are simply a pyramiding scam. Referrers get to earn, then you earn more by referring as well. But then tingin ko lang yun, lalo na sa earnings na magagawa mo through watching youtube compared sa kung magkano iinvest mo would take you months before mong makuha amount ng ininvest mo.
Worth it? Only if you are successful finding people to refer, or you are good at selling their product. But with what they promote as "Manonood ka lang, kikita ka na?" I think it was never worth a single try at all.