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ANYUSERNAME

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Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« on: August 09, 2013, 08:23:45 am »
This change has been awful. I used to not mind FC. Now I dread the thought of it. No search is ever valid. NO survey ever pays the DQ points and I certainly don't get to complete any. Let's not even discuss the offers that never credit. Most sites step up the CS when they make these changes. Not FC. Not even a tiny bit. Very frustrated daily.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2013, 09:10:32 am »
try not to get too frustrated....I am sure in time they will work out all the bugs....in the meantime just be patient and keep doing what you are doing...I also have been having issues with some things crediting as well but you move on.....they will work out the kinks in time and things will be better....I still think FC is the best site around for making money online!

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2013, 01:46:40 pm »
I have been trying all day to make 5 cents, but none of my toolbar searches work. I remember it malfunctioning about a year ago and I basically gave up, but it had been fine until yesterday.  I've been on FC all day and still can't get paid to click.  Radio Loyalty isn't crediting, nothing today.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2013, 05:35:43 pm »
I thought the same thing.  My tool bar was not adding searches, but check my account and was getting paid or credited.  Hope all is better for you.  God Bless

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2013, 10:04:39 am »
I sometimes have to search 3 times for the same thing before I get the message that I had a valid search. Other days, it works on the first try.

Today I only got credit for 1 search when I did 3 again. Oh, well. I wanted to read an article from the other two sites anyway.  ;D

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2013, 10:09:35 am »
Well, I have been logged on here for 3 hours. I've done 12 searches in three hours and I've received one penny. This is not impressive and it's not a good change, FC. The search algorithm is not sophisticated. It's not even efficient. It doesn't even reliably recognize news sites. It's that bad.

It's apparently rigged so that we'll spend all day here doing unnatural searches- you know, one per hour and a half. That's how we all use the internet, right? This search engine at FC sucks. There's not one good thing to say about it,  and it drags down FC with it. Great changes FC.

Someone asked me about this site the other day and when I mentioned the new requirements declined to join. I didn't even tell her about the "sophisticated" POJ that FC uses as a toolbar. She just heard required to complete offers before getting the opportunity for the daily click and bailed

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2013, 06:21:01 pm »
I gave up on the searches after wasting 2 weeks trying to get it to credit valid searches.  It's working again now but you cannot search "normally" on it, you cannot go back to the search results to look at more than one result or it counts you for searching the same thing again in a short time (I think that is how my searches "quit counting" I exceeded their invaild searches.
 
But the Radio Loyalty is easy to earn .05 (I was didnt try it off the bat and I love hearing song from the past!).
and then if there are video's
and shockingly .10 tasks were quick as could be, now I tried one for .01 that was going to take a day to complete.  So I was curious what you had to do for .10.
I am not big on surveys got burned out getting disqualified after 30 min on another site.
I thought the .05 requirement was going to be a problem.  Instead really a good thing.  I have probably had .20-.55 a day more since it started.     

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2013, 08:51:48 am »
I'm not having much luck. DQ surveys- rarely get the penny. Search just sucks. There's no sugarcoating. Just did three searches in an hour-that's right an hour, and two of them counted as searches- Newsweek doesn't count- and I've yet to earn a cent on searching.

Every other GPT site on the internet has a better search tool than FC. Every single one. It's just pathetic.

I keep hoping that today is the day that FC won't be an ordeal, but it never is. Really, nice change!!!! Just loving it if cussing out your computer every single day every time you click on FC is the goal, SUCCESS!!!!!

Seriously, this needs to be fixed. FC's support is worthless- oh we got your ticket and determined we can't fix anything, ever....

Yeah, not impressed. Not at all.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2013, 06:29:49 pm »
be patient, the toolbar searches have just been crediting late.  I did my searches today and did not get credit for them until hours later.  admin told me recently that a lot of things on here are crediting late, but that they should credit.  some may even take up to a week....at least the surveys anyway.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2013, 01:58:01 pm »
Still no improvement. Not impressed at all.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2013, 05:10:22 pm »
yea its all weird now dammit! :angry7:

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2013, 08:58:54 pm »
I agree. I first tried the toolbar when it came out.  But after a few times of trying it, I kept on getting denied...no search is valid. So after a few weeks, I uninstalled it and never went back.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2013, 10:45:00 am »
I found the toolbar ineffective even before the site was changed. I tried it for a short time more than a year ago then uninstalled it and never went back. I'm mostly using radio loyalty to get my five cents. Paid to Click is not as easy as it used to be that's for sure but I'm not giving up.

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Re: Toolbar searches always an ordeal
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2013, 01:46:14 pm »
Well my toolbar just disappeared!

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