I'm in the minority here. I've been able to cash out every month by spending a reasonable amount of time working the site each day. I have exactly two referrals who earned me $3 each. By doing all the normal daily activities and attempting to qualify for all of the daily surveys every day, I've been able to cash out for 10 consecutive months so far since I joined, averaging $28.30 a month. I made one credit card purchase for a pair of Yoshi knives, but that's it.
How much do you have to average each day to cash out every month? Here's how I figure it for a 30-day month:
The DCE and PTC give you $.02 and $.15 respectively and the $3/mo forum posting bonus gives you $.10 a day. The $1.00 bonus for posting a screenshot of your payment gives you about $.03 a day. The search rewards aren't working for me lately, so I'm not going to count those. Lets see, that means by doing all the regular stuff each month, I can make $.30 a day.
In order to cash out within 30 days, you've got to average 83 1/3 cents a day. Let's round up to $.84. Subtract $.30 and that leaves $.54 you've got to make working the site each day. The videos, the weekly contests bring in at least $.04 a day, which leaves $.50.
You can make some of that with offers, but besides new offers, most of us have exhausted that option. That leaves the daily tasks and the daily surveys. The new and improved daily tasks are doable but I still find them time-consuming for the compensation offered, so I do a few from time to time but I mostly rely on the daily surveys. By attempting all of them at least once, maybe twice in a day if I have the time and the motivation, I manage to qualify for at least one almost every day and my demographics are nothing special. I do take advantage of all the tips from other members in the forum. I don't spend all that much time on them either, say 45 minutes to an hour if I qualify for one and 30 minutes or less if I don't.
To give myself the best shot at cashing out every month, I cash out as soon as I'm able. That gives me a few extra days at the end of the month to build up a cushion for next month's cash out. That's my game plan in a nutshell. I am $5.59 short of my next cash out as of today and I foresee no problem cashing out in February. Call me a maverick.