Have you ever hoped you could get paid for doing something simple? Review Stream may be a hidden gem that neither you nor I knew much about previously. However, with a little research I’ve been able to learn a little more information about ReviewStream.com. I will be the first to admit that this website does seem rather confusing and it does take a little clicking around to understand what’s going on. Here’s what I’ve gathered:
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Basic Concept of ReviewStream.com
As you probably guessed, Review Stream is a website that pays you to write reviews. They don’t accept fake, poorly written, or obnoxious reviews. They actually only want reviews on products that you have actually used in the past. After all, their motto states “real consumers real experience.”
Pay of Writing Reviews
Honestly, this was the trickiest part for me. I had to dig pretty deep to find this answer. The FAQ section on ReviewStream.com states that the rate is subject to change at any time. So, you could write a review on two different days of the month and get paid different amounts. When I signed up to write a review, you can see what the pay was via my screen shot. Just keep in mind that the FAQ says that it’s clearly subject to change.
Type of Reviews that Need Written
There are multiple products listed on the Review Stream website. I saw quite a few baby items that needed reviewed, all the way to electronics. There are CDs, movies, and even canned goods that need reviewed.
Other Ways to Make Money with Review Stream
I noticed that there were a few other ways to make money with Review Stream, although they seemed a bit confusing to me. You can get paid through “votes” which means a Review Stream reader can vote for your review. Currently Review Stream is paying 10 cents per vote and you have to reach a minimum of $5 to be paid via PayPal this way.
Another way to be paid through Review Stream is by something known as bulk rate. In my opinion, this doesn’t pay nearly as well as writing a regular, well thought out review on Review Stream. This next part is straight from the Review Stream website explaining how bulk rates work:
“Sometimes we receive reviews that don’t match some of our criteria. In these cases we are still ready to buy it, but we’ll pay you the bulk rate for it. After you have written your review on the Write Review page, you’ll have to decide, if you’re ready to get paid at the bulk rate for your review. If yes, check the bulk price box. If not, don’t check it. “
Review Stream Pays Via PayPal
Review Stream states that you will be paid to the same website in which you submitted a review from. Please make sure your email is signed up for PayPal or else this could affect you getting paid. You can see the amount you’ve earned through the control panel in your account on Review Stream. Keep in mind that your account has to reach a minimum in order to be paid, and according to Review Stream that minimum is based off of what they paid you, by 10. (If they paid you $5 for a review, times that by ten, and $50 is the minimum you need in order to be paid.
What do I think?
Review Stream is not very clear. If I was trying to earn money quickly, this would not be the best avenue. While the pay of a single review seems to be great, the overall process of waiting to get paid sounds a bit obnoxious. Call me old fashioned, but I don’t like to beat around the bush when it comes to getting paid. Tell me what you will pay me upfront and then I can decide whether or not that price works for me.
I’d love to hear your opinion of ReviewStream.com and if this website has played a role in your success as a work at home professional.
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Thanks for the review Jess! I was thinking about trying ReviewStream but I’m like you. I don’t like having to dig around for a long time just to find out how I’ll be compensated.
Oh my gosh! You weren’t kidding about “Not very clear.” I dabbled with Review Stream several years ago and it was clear and easy to use, no complaints. This version is a mess and not at all user friendly. I’m clicking around going in circles trying to figure out how to get anything accomplished. How on earth do you even get a review started?
I’m a bit confused, I stumbled on the site just yesterday and it seems pretty straight forward to me. I easily started writing my first article. I guess it’s harder for those that knew the old website. But it took me all of ten seconds maybe. They seem to pay a lot more than other places, and they are just reviews of products, I mean if you want to be paid 50 dollars for your review on tampons, yeah, you’re in the wrong place. But I don’t think people should honestly value product reviews so highly. I’d be fine with getting 7 dollars on a product review. I’ve got so much makeup products, I’d make a killing.
SO confusing. There’s so much information that you have to read between the lines.. what happens if you don’t meet the minimum payment requirement? …is it just ‘oh well’? It seems pretty sketchy, I wouldn’t even want to link my Paypal account.
Hi there,
I just started earning Money with reviewstream. I needed just 5 minutes to find out how it worked and so I started. It was really simple and when I sent the Review in it only took 2 days for them to publish it and give me the Money. There are 6 ways to make Money and yes the pay varies a lot but you get paid the Price it was at when you submitted the Review.
I think it is a good way if you don’t mind waiting for them to look over the Review and publish it. I already earned more than I do with my 9 to 5 Job just by submitting Reviews. And the good part is, I can do it in the evenings, send the Reviews in anytime and still go out and go to work.
Sorry for the long comment. Just wanted to let you know my experience with reviewstream.
The thing with any “side work” like this is I do not expect much. this company is consistent, they have stayed around and rarely do people complain about getting paid in general. They have to be able to make money to pay the reviewers and I think the bulk rate is just fine for 5 or so minutes of my time on an honest review. I type around 70WPM so I am probably not the norm on that but I just spent an hour look around my house for products, wrote 9 reviews and if I make the bulk rate of 1.59 (current) on all of them I will be happy with the 14.00 or so dollars for an hours worth of work. I figure at that rate, I could spend an hour a day writing reviews and I would happily accept an extra 400 a month- hey that’s my electric and water and cable all wrapped in one! If i really wanted to push myself and do another 9 reviews a day I could almost cover my Mortgage instead!
Vana,
It seems you are looking for pie in the sky to me. You wrote 9 reviews, then want to “look around your house” for 9 more items, etc. Do the math Vana. Do you really think you have enough things to pay your mortgage?
I have to agree that review stream is a little confusing on how it is set up but not horrible.
When looking at a new site like this, I go to the FAQ first and take a look around. It is frustrating that they do not have a standard rate of pay but understandable that they will pay based upon the review that is submitted and that the rates fluctuate, as many things in life do. However, below the current rate it does tell you what they have been paying for reviews of different kinds in a time line so you are able to see what the trends are for reviews at that time.
It looks to be that you can review anything and there is also requests for reviews, that you can get to on the same page to write reviews, which you can go through to see what you may have already and review it honestly.
Currently I am waiting to see whether or not my two test reviews that I did will be accepted which I did on two that were requested. Depending upon the outcome I may do more since a few minutes of work to review what you already have for a few dollars is not a bad way to earn some money.
I wrote reviews for Review stream AGES ago. Probably seven years or so. The site was unattractive, but relatively easy to use. Reviews were only paid $2 at the time, but reviews were more readily accepted at the full pay rate, as opposed to their current process. I made a LOT of money doing this. A lot. I easily replaced a part-time job and was one of their top reviewers for over a year. I recommended it to everyone, and shared it on every social media platform. However, they started to auto-reject my submissions (which they were previously consistently accepting) so I skipped out for a bit.
A few years later, I revisited the site to earn a little extra cash, and it was entirely revamped. What a nightmare it is now. God forbid you post a profile picture, because they wont let you change it or remove it, claiming that it was uploaded to their site and they own it. Due to the increase in full rate pay, far less reviews are accepted at the full rate, understandably, but it also made the site practically useless for most, with a $50 minimum pay out. I think bulk rate was only $.50 at the time, for reviews that take 20 minutes to write, in most cases… because they auto reject reviews that are too short, and have actual people reject reviews on products they feel are outdated, or reviews that are too vague… though try to ask them what isn’t vague, and their answers are more vague than the reviews are…. It’s ridiculous.
The owners are absolute jerks. At first I thought it was a language barrier issue, but no… they are just relentlessly awful. So let’s hope you never have to contact their “support” for everything. I couldn’t figure something out on the new layout, and wrote to ask them about it, and they called me stupid. Nice, right? Oh, and let’s not forget that you will be BOMBARDED with email notifications whenever someone votes for a review you wrote or asks a question on a review you wrote. I contacted their “support” to inquire about being removed from the mailing list. They made it clear they paid for my review and I was of “no more use beyond what I submit”, so I told them that I’m not being paid to answer questions and would like the emails to stop. They have refused to remove my email from the mailing list. I’ve just had to mark everything from them as spam.
Is it legit? Yes. Will you actually get paid? Yes. Will you be condescended to and insulted by their staff? If you ever contact support with anything other than glowing praise, yes.
Hey Krystal, you hit the nail on the head. They’re a terrible site that spams people with emails and I can’t even get my picture removed. My only saving grace is that it’s not very identifiable and I didn’t use my real name.
People listen to what Krystal says before you start writing for them. I was a “top reviewer” on their site and now I can’t get my picture removed or get them to remove me from their mailing list.
I don’t know I find them a huge scam and suspicious people.
They get very suspicious of their users when they churn out reviews fast, like 4-5 a day. (But this is very normal; we would most probably use more than 5 products in a day)
They start to ask you to resubmit every single review that isn’t image based. They are so afraid you’ll cheat them with stock images, that they need you to be taking more photos. Most text based reviews are rejected for this reason. (It happened to me and my 2 other friends using the site).
Even when I am writing about a cooking sauce. They need me to use the image base template which requires at least 5 images, so I ended up taking photos of the bottle from 4 different angles and the content inside … The readers aren’t idiots, they don’t need 4 angles to know about the product! It is ridiculous.
One of my friend who is more dilligent in writing is nearing his minimum withedrawal already and then the nightmare starts! They start to reject all of his reviews and I mean ALL!
Everything he reviewed on, ranging from movies to phone accessories to game applications all got rejected for ambiguous reasons. All his text based reviews were rejected because they want him to use the image based template, even it is just about a portable fan.
His movie reviews were rejected because of lousy image quality when they’re much better than some of the photos on the site.
I don’t know, it just seems like a scam because they readily accept all our reviews when we started and start to nitpick when we’re so close to minimum cash out amount.
It’s just very obvious to me – they’re not eilling to pay.
A group of people with poor command of English reviewing and rejecting reviews.
They don’t trust their users. I’ve been asked a few times “Did you make the pictures yourself? Please take unique photos.”
Contacting their customer service is asking for insult and humiliation. “Useless” and “lousy” are their favourite vocabulary.
They’re a waste of your time and effort.
People, why do you believe this company MUST buy from you?
They buy what they believe is valuable for them. You usually act the same way, don’t you?
The buyer is always right. Do what is the best for the buyer, if you want to sell. These are the basics one should study, before starting an e-commerce. Otherwise blame yourself.
I don’t think they HAVE to buy anything. I tried it and I have found out that they are very picky about the reviews. I’ve tried reviewing candy bars (and they don’t want those reviews). I’ve tried reviewing some movies (and they don’t want those reviews, either).
Reviewstream is a scam. In the end, even if you do manage to get a payout or two, the cons far, far outweigh the benefits. Writers are rarely ever paid the regular rate, and they force them to upload personal pictures on the site which they refuse to remove when you decide not to write for them anymore. Also, they refuse to remove you from their contact list, so even years after I stopped writing for them I am still getting the messages that fill up my inbox.
For those saying that the company doesn’t have to buy your review, why is it that after being one of the top reviews for a long time, all of a sudden, when I started making too much money, they started rejecting my work? I always read those stories on the net, but didn’t believe it after it started happening to me. Notice that there’s also no address for where the company is located on the website? That alone speaks volumes. There are many more reliable, anonymous and legitimate ways to make money online without having to sacrifice your soul for a measly few dollars. You were warned.