How To Get Free PayPal Money: 16 Legitimate Ways
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Let’s face it; we can all use a little
extra cash. In this article, we’re going to show you 16 legitimate ways on how
to get free PayPal money.
The best part? Most of these methods
can be accomplished by doing things you already do: watching TV, waiting in
line or waiting during commercials.
With that said, let’s get started.
1. Take A Survey
There are dozens of survey sites that
will pay you real money to take surveys. Just download an app on your desktop,
phone, or other mobile device, build a profile, and start taking surveys.
Survey Junkie
Survey Junkie awards points for completing surveys
– earn enough points and you can redeem them through PayPal, or with gift
cards. You get a 25 point bonus just for signing up, and can earn additional
points for completing a profile, verifying your email address, and even by
taking a tour of the site.
After you complete your profile, you
will be offered surveys designed with you in mind. The more surveys you
complete, the more you earn.
Vindale
Research
Vindale Research pays a cash bonus when you sign
up, offers plenty of surveys to choose from, and pays for other activities,
such as referring friends and posting photos showing your earnings. New surveys
are constantly being added, so you will never run out.
Pinecone
Research
Pinecone Research does things a bit differently.
Once you sign up to join their panel, survey opportunities will be sent to you
by email. You will be paid through your Paypal account, $3 for most surveys
(about 10-15 minutes of your time).
You can learn more about online survey sites by taking
a look at our list of the 25 best survey sites.
2. Get Paid To Scan Your Receipts
Receipt scanning apps pay you just for shopping for the things
you already buy. One of the most popular, Ibotta,
pays you three different ways. Once you sign up, you will receive a $10 signing
bonus when you use promo code qFTVA and scan your first
receipt.
After that, just log into the app
before you shop. Search for offers on the products you buy every day, check the
ones you are interested in, and, after you are done, scan your receipt. You
will receive a credit (dollars, not points) for every item on the list
you purchased.
You can earn money for buying groceries, clothing, home products, electronics –
with 293 supported stores, you will easily be able to earn money by purchasing
your favorite brands.
After your earnings reach a certain level, you may cash out, and
your earnings will be deposited into your PayPal account. Ibotta will
also pay you for items purchased using loyalty cards from participating stores,
and for online purchases through participating sites like Hotels.com, Ebay,
and Groupon.
Trunow allows you to search for special deals in
your area, and to earn cash back on your purchases by scanning your receipts.
You may spend your cash back bonuses at the participating stores, or have the
cash sent to your PayPal account.
Trunow is known for offering deals and
cash back on gasoline purchases, especially helpful if you are traveling and
want to find the best gas prices in an unfamiliar area.
SavingStar works like ibotta, but limits its
rebates to grocery purchases. SavingStar allows its users to cash out after
accumulating as little as $5, so you can get paid every time you shop.
Read more about shopping apps at by viewing the top 10 receipt scanning apps.
3. Read Your Email
That’s right – you can get PayPal money just by reading emails. InboxDollars offers
several ways to earn money on the app, but the easiest is by signing up for
paid emails.
You will receive emails periodically –
just open the email, click “confirm paid email,” and you will be directed to a
sponsored web site. Money will automatically be deposited into your Inbox
Dollars account. When your balance reaches a certain level, you may cash out
through PayPal.
InboxPays uses PayPal exclusively to pay its
members. The site sends daily emails to its members, and pays members to open
and read the emails.
Your account balance must reach $50
before you can cash out, and $25 of that must be earned by completing other
tasks, such as playing online games and completing trial offers.
4. Short Task Sites
In addition to having emails sent directly to your inbox, you
can also log on to sites like InboxDollars and InboxPays and
earn money doing other short tasks. Inbox Dollars will pay you to take surveys,
watch videos, and by answering trivia questions.
Swagbucks will pay you in gift cards or through
PayPal for doing a variety of tasks, including watching videos, signing up for
free samples of products, signing up for free trial offers, playing online
games, and shopping using their mobile app.
You can even get paid for web surfing using their search engine.
For a more in-depth review of short task sites, check out a
list of our top small task sites.
If you want to get out and do some physical work, you can make
some quick money doing small tasks through sites like TaskRabbit.
On Task Rabbit, you sign up to be notified of small jobs in your community.
You may be paid to make a delivery,
help set up a party, put furniture together, or even wait in line for concert
tickets. Think of it as Uber for handymen and jacks-of-all-trades. Payment is
made by clients through the Task Rabbit site, and your earnings will be sent to
your bank account or PayPal account.
5. Online Shopping
One of the best known sites for this is Ebates.
Ebates partners with hundreds of retailers who pay Ebates to send customers
their way. Just pick a store on the Ebates site, do your shopping, and you will
automatically earn cash back for your purchases, in the form of a check or
PayPal credit.
Periodic coupons, double cash back offer, and special sales
allow you to earn even more money. Other sites like BeFrugal and TopCashback will
also pay you for shopping online. Ebates has also begun offering cash back for
in-store purchases, which is great if you are on the road.
6. Read Books
Turn your love for reading into some extra cash, deposited into
your PayPal account. When you join Online Book Club, you can earn money reading and
reviewing books. Sign up for free and they will send you a list of books – pick
one that you find interesting, and they will send it to you at no cost.
After your first review, you will have
the opportunity to get paid for writing reviews. The longer the book, the more
you can earn.
7. Read Blogs
There are millions of blogs out there
competing for attention. How do bloggers entice people to come to their sites?
Many offer giveaways of cash or prizes just for visiting their sites. Most
sites will offer giveaways in the form of a drawing, for which you have to
register for a chance to win.
Nevertheless, it’s free, and only takes
a few seconds of your time.
Who knows? You might learn something new, or discover a new blog
that you want to follow. You can find lists of current contests at sites
like Contest Girl and Blog Giveaway Directory, or just Google “Blog
Giveaways.”
8. Get Paid to Read Ads
Advertisers know that the first step
toward getting someone to buy their product or service is to get people
in the virtual door. In order to do that, they will pay people to view their
ads.
Paid To Click sites connect advertisers
with potential customers by offering a large selection of ads, showing how much
you will be paid to click on each. You won’t earn a lot of money per click, but
each click only takes a few seconds, and you can earn a few extra dollars with
very little effort.
Check out Auwage or Clix Sense, two popular and respected Pay To Click
sites, to learn how to start earning money today.
9. Do Nothing
Yes, you can actually get paid for doing nothing. If you install Smart
Panel on your mobile device or computer, you will earn money
when you sign up, and each month the app is installed. First you have to
qualify by answering a few questions. If you qualify, you immediately earn $5.
Once you install the app, it will run
in the background, collecting anonymous data about your internet usage,
installed apps, and device features. You earn $5 for every month the app is
installed, and can participate in monthly giveaways.
The app will use some mobile data, and
will take up some memory, but the developers assure their users that they will
not even notice that it is running.
There are many passive income apps, all
of which pay you simply for installing them and letting them run. Many pay out
in gift cards, but a few use PayPal.
Another one of these is BillsBoard,
an app that you can install on your phone or other device. Every time you
unlock your device, an ad will appear, and you get paid, even if you don’t open
or view the ad.
Another app called SlideJoy will
show you rending news or ads every time you unlock your screen. You can cash
out with as little as $1 in your account, and can choose to receive your
bonuses in the form of gift cards or through PayPal. With Slide Joy, you will
also be paid for referring friends.
You won’t get rich using passive income apps, but you can make a
little extra money with little to no effort. Using a few apps, you may make
anywhere from $500-$1500 per year. Feel free to check out a list of our passive income apps.
10. Rent Out Your Phone
Yes, you can actually rent out your
phone when you are not using it. Actually, you can rent out your phone’s CPU to
companies needing extra processing power to complete large tasks.
Install PhonePayCheck, and you can be paid whenever your phone
is plugged in and connected to WIFI. When you are ready to use you phone, press
the Stop button.
PhonePayCheck only works with Android
devices, and pays exclusively through PayPal.
11. Make or Receive Phone Calls
If you can’t live without your phone, you might as well be
making money with it. Humanatic pays you to listen to recorded phone
calls from its customers. Have you ever called customer service and heard,
“This call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes?”
You can get paid for reviewing those
recorded calls. Log into the system when you are available to take calls, then
wait for your phone to ring. Listen to a short recorded call and answer a few
questions about the call and its content.
The information is used to help
companies improve the quality of recorded promotional calls. You never have to
speak to a human. Once you have earned a minimum of $10, you can cash out.
Payments are made exclusively through PayPal.
If this type of work really appeals to you, you can make it a
full time job with PointQA. Similar to Humanatic, PointQA prefers to hire
workers who are willing to put in at least 40 hours per week, but the work
schedule is flexible.
If you are a bit more gregarious, you can also get paid to make
phone calls. No, this is not a telemarketing job, although work from home
telemarketing jobs do exist. As a telephone mystery shopper for Call
Center QA, you will be paid $5 to call a business and report back on
your experience.
You get to decide what types of mystery
shopping calls most interest you. You may call for insurance quotes, learn
about debt consolidation, or hear about a new weight loss plan. You can make as
many call as you like, and they promise payment within 7 business days or less.
12. Sell Your Photos
You don’t need an expensive camera to take great photos – you
just need an expensive phone. If your friends are always telling you how
much they enjoyed the photos you shared on Instagram or Facebook, you can make
some extra money uploading and selling them on sites like Foap.
It’s pretty simple – you upload a
photo, they put it in their gallery and offer it to their customers. If it
sells, you and Foap share the profits, 50/50. Foap also allows you the
opportunity to make even more money by joining Missions.
A Mission is a specific task in which
specific types of photos are required. If your photo is chosen, you can earn up
to $2500. Payment is made through PayPal.
Increase your potential income by uploading photos to more than
one site. Shutterstock reaches millions of potential buyers,
and gives sellers the opportunity to upload video and music content as well as
photos. When your content sells, they take a percentage and pay you the rest.
You may be paid in a variety of ways,
including PayPal.
So you’re not really into taking beautiful, artistic photos, but
you love to share your everyday activities with your friends on Instagram
or Facebook. You can become a trend spotter with IconZoomer.
This is an app that you install on your
phone or mobile device. Once the app is installed, you will receive periodic
instructions to take photos of certain things. You may be instructed to take a
picture of your meal at a restaurant, the outfit you just bought, or your
friends (with their permission, of course).
You receive credits for every photo you
take and upload. Unlike photo selling sites, IconXoomer is not looking for
artistic or high quality photos – they are looking for photos that document
everyday life. Earn enough credits and you can cash out through PayPal.
13. Teach English Online
Even without any teaching experience,
you can get paid to chat with people who are learning to speak English. Several
platforms allow ESL students to spend time talking to native English speakers
to improve their conversation skills.
Through Cambly, you can log in whenever you have some free
time, and make yourself available to receive calls. You are paid for each
minute you spend chatting with a client. NiceTalk offers
a similar set-up, but prefers applicants with teaching experience.
Both companies pay their tutors through PayPal. Higher
paying English tutoring jobs are available to those with a bachelor’s degree
and/or teaching experience. For example, VIPKID matches
English tutors with students around the world for more formal ESL training.
VIPKID tutors can work when they are
available, and can earn more per hour, but are expected to follow lesson plans
and provide a more structured learning environment. With VIPKID, you interact
with your students through Skype, and can work with your students on a
long-term basis.
14. Sell Online
Get rid of those old cell phones, tablets, and computers by
selling them through Gazelle, Trademore.com, or Itsworthmore.com.
These sites and others like them make
it easy to sell you devices. List your item, get a price quote, ship the item
(they usually pay shipping for you), and get paid through PayPal. Gazelle even
has drop-off kiosks where you can turn in your device for immediate cash.
You may make more money listing the
item through Craiglist or LetGo, but the process is much easier through
Gazelle, and you don’t have to worry about meeting with a stranger.
Swappa is a site where you can list your phone,
computer, wearable device, laptop, or video game for sale. Unlike Gazelle,
Swappa doesn’t buy the device directly from you – they provide a platform to
connect you to potential buyers and charge a small fee to the buyer.
Payments are made through PayPal, and
are verified before you ship your item.
If you have other items to sell, online shopping platforms like Shopify and Ebay allow
you to sell anything on a one-time basis, or set up a virtual store and make a
full or part time income from online sales. If you’re the creative type, Etsy is
the best known online selling platform for handmade and vintage goods.
15. Invest
Acorns is a unique program that allows you to
invest small amounts of money every time you use your credit or debit card.
When you use a linked card, you can round up the purchase price of
anything you buy with the card to the nearest dollar.
The extra change will go into your
Acorns account, which is then invested in stocks, bonds, or other types of
investments, depending on the level of risk you prefer. Acorns also partners
with certain retailers who will pay cash back, or “found money” when you shop
with your linked card.
You may transfer money from your Acorns
account into your PayPal account at any time. The basic Acorns account is $1
per month, but is free to college students.
16. Earn Money Directly Through PayPal
PayPal offers its users a PayPal MasterCard with 2% cash back on all
purchases made with the card, added to your PayPal balance. The PayPal eBay
Extras MasterCard can be used on purchases through PayPal and eBay, and will
pay rewards on eligible purchases.
Final Thoughts
With a little creativity, you can earn
extra cash in your PayPal account just by doing the thing you usually do. The
apps and websites listed here are only a fraction of what’s out there. Pick out
which money making activities interest you the most and check out the sites
listed here or search for you own.
We hope you enjoyed this list on how to
get free PayPal money through 16 legitimate ways. If you see something that’s
not on the list and should be, let us know in the comments below.
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