$10+ a day Neobux Challenge 2016

Kantankrus_Mare

Arghhhhhhhhhhh:mad: Im so mad with myself!!

There's me banging on about the rise in costs to extend refs after 750 and what do I do?

Add another 15 refs because I saw that green referral button and pressed it without thinking.

Two minutes later it hit me.........I was supposed to be waiting till after the promo.

Oh well ......I suppose in the big scheme of things it wont make that much difference.

Maybe those extra 15 refs will make me my millions :rotfl:

Hope everyone is being more diligent than me and got lots of funds to use in the promo due at end of week.

GromitFan

:rotfl: Ooops KM

Oh well, what's done is done. Hope that they are earning you money.

I've not bought any more - too many to extend within the next few weeks to even contemplate. 102 needing extended before beginning of June. :eek:

Have been trying to save what I can in the hope the expected promo arrives. Almost at $27, but obviously that wont even do half of those soon needing extended.

Did manage to win $0.50 in adprize yesterday, though hadn't won anything in absolutely ages. Fingers crossed for more wins. Could do with them.

Thread seemed to have gone to sleep for a bit, so hope everyone else is doing good and managing to control any urges to buy, buy, buy :cheesy:

GromitFan

The promo we've been expecting at the end of this month is now live.

"Today our 10th year begins officially.
We're saying goodbye to our 9th year - which was our best year ever in every way - and entering what already promises to be a better one.

Let's celebrate:

Renewal discount on referrals for all memberships:
30 days: 8%
60 days: 13%
90 days: 20%
150 days: 27%
240 days: 32%

Discount on Golden Membership purchases and / or extensions:
Golden $15 discount = $75

Discount on new Golden Pack purchases:
Emerald $5 discount = $285
Sapphire $5 discount = $285
Platinum $15 discount = $475
Diamond $15 discount = $475
Ultimate $30 discount = $860

Discount on Golden Pack renewals:
Emerald $5 discount = $265
Sapphire $5 discount = $265
Platinum $15 discount = $430
Diamond $15 discount = $430
Ultimate $30 discount = $770

The promotional period will end on May 5th at 17:00 server's time."

Kantankrus_Mare

Yay :j So I have emptied my account once again leaving me 0.80c.

Managed to extend 93 referrals which leaves me just 5 with 50 days remaining and then I have none that need extending till 72 days.

So now my long journey to 1000 refs and Ultimate.

The plan is:

Rent 10/15 refs per week extending them for 240 days as I go along.

Add $1 a day to my Ultimate account which at the moment stands at $213 (Once I have reached 1000 refs I will increase this amount to hopefully reach what I need by New Year)

I will extend 1 ref per day to 240 days to try and keep ahead of myself.

Of course this all depends on funds available but things can be tweaked.

Hope the promo has helped everyone else and would like to hear your future plans!

GromitFan

Hi KM. :hello:

Had been meaning to reply for ages, but somehow never quite found time until now.

Well done on having saved as much to manage to extend so many when the promotion started. Guess you easily managed to also extend those other 5 as well during the promotion.

I managed to get 37 in total extended during the promotion. (28 at beginning and 9 whilst promo was running).

Now got 65RR still needing extended within 30 days. Should be tight, but I think doable, just!
After that I wont have any needing extended until beginning of October.

I'm currently sitting at 250RR, so I think my current plan once I've got those 65 extended is to try to reach 500RR by October and then have a break from buying to make sure I've got all RR extended for a decent time. I reckon it will take me the month to get the 65 extended, so wont be buying any extra right now. Hopefully I can start buying RR at the beginning of June. That should then give 17 weeks until October. Therefore if I buy 15RR for 16 weeks and buy 10RR on the other week that should take me there.

Of course though I may want to check promo dates, etc to alter exactly how I go about things, but think the buying 15RR each week from June onwards is definitely my rough plan.

What date are you hoping to reach 1000RR?

Points-wise, I'm at just over 8000, but guess as I've got Golden until August 2018, I'm less watching that these days and as long as those mini-ads keep coming should easily get another year Golden long before it's due.

Hope everyone else is doing good.

Kantankrus_Mare

Hi Gromit.......not having any to extend till Oct after doing your next 65 sounds great!! Gives you a good breathing space to head towards 500 refs.

Not sure when I am planning to reach 1000.........sooner the better and then I can concentrate on saving enough for Ultimate and I need to look back at the early part of this thread for a link that I put in a post. I vaguely remember it saying something about staying at 1000 refs when you first reach Ultimate until you can renew all your refs for 240 days .......:eek: This saves a heap load of money with the price for renewal going up again at 1001 refs.
Dont think I could extend them all twice but I get the theory of it so will save as much as I can and extend as many as I can till I move forward.
I do feel that Im waffling somewhat :rotfl: but will see how it goes.
Rented 20 last week and can invest $10 earnt from other sites from paypal in the next few days and $10 from clixsense in a week or so.
Its good to have plans.

GromitFan

Well, don't think there's any way I can manage to extend all those 65 RR for the 240 days I'd hoped. I did manage to extend 25 already, but tomorrow I've 20 needing extended and looks like I'll be $3 or $4 short to manage to extend all 20 for 240 days. I'm likely to be facing the same next week when I've another 20 needing extended.
So, now I'm debating whether to extend as many as I can for the 240 and do the last few just at 15 days, which would be enough time. Or the other thing I'm thinking is perhaps to extend 15 of the 20 for 240 days and then the remaining 5 for 90 days. Reason I'm thinking of the 90 days is that I know that's where break even point is for having the AutoRenew turned off.
Or suppose my other option is to pay for the last few of each 20 using points. Think probably that would be fine to do if we continue to get as many mini ads as we've been getting, but obviously there's no guarantee. Right now I'm at 12,004 points and golden until August 2018.
Extending for 240 days costs $1.12 or 1493 points.
Probably swaying slightly towards the mixture of 240 and 90 days (or maybe even the paying for the last few with points which I've just thought about) as then I could start with my plan of buying 15 more RR weekly in just over a week's time and surely I'd be able to extend those few that I did for 90 days when the next promo appears.
Decisions, decisions...

KM - Did you manage to find that link about staying at the 1000 RR when you reach Ultimate and extending all for 240 days? Sounded as though it would be potentially useful reading.
How's things going with you? How many RR do you have now? And how's your ultimate pot?

Kantankrus_Mare

Hi Gromit..........sorry for late reply. Have just got back off hols. Been to Lake Garda for three nights and then a 7 night Greek cruise so had a break from neo.

My daughters friend clicked for me while I was away but she missed two or three nights. Not a major problem but now I need to get my head back in gear.

What did you decide to do with your renewing dilemma?

I may have the same issue soon. While i want to increase refs all the time.......I am conscious of the fact that in about a months time......I have lots of refs that will need renewing. Will just go for 15 I think when my next slot comes up which will take me to 850. Then I think I will just go for five a week till the next promo, which I havent got a clue when it will be lol, and extend as many as possible.

GromitFan

Hi KM :wave:
Your holiday does sound lovely. We went to the Italian Lakes just over 3 years ago in our campervan. Not Lake Garda though - We were at Lake Como, Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta. Would love to go back some time. And the Greek cruise sounds lovely too. Crete is the only Greek island which I've been to; really hope to go back one day, but guess the cruise let you see a lot of Greek islands.

My extending dilemma? Well, when I was posting just over a week ago, it wasn't actually that bad. I actually managed to have enough funds to extend all but 1 of the 20 for the 240 days, so in the end I decided to extend 19 for 240 days using money raised in neobux and then pay with points for the final one.
Yesterday though, wasn't anywhere near as good.
I had 20 needing renewed around 10am this morning, so I didn't dare wait until this morning in case I forgot. Anyway I was a long way off with those. In the end I only managed to extend 5 of them for 240 days. The other 15 - I extended 14 of them for 90 days and had just enough money to extend the final 1 for 150 days.

My averages and recycling seemed to be going well until end of May. Then for some reason my averages took a nose-dive. Hate it when that happens and I'm not doing anything different. Just hoping I manage to get it to pick back up again soon.

I've only got one RR to extend later this month, then 14 at the beginning of September. And from beginning of October for a couple of months there's a steady stream of RR needing extended (roughly 10-15 per week).

Anyway, now I'm about to start thinking of stepping over the 250RR and buying more RR. Originally I'd been thinking of buying 15RR per week with an aim of getting to 500RR by October. However in the past few days my mini-ads have pretty much vanished, so now not sure if 15RR would over-stretch me, so now thinking of perhaps 10RR per week and seeing how that goes, though obviously would take me a good while longer to get to the 500RR.

Although from a neobux perspective I wish the mini-ads were still there, in another way I'm quite glad they aren't as there's loads I need to be doing away from the computer this month, so at least neobux shouldn't distract me quite as much as normal.

Anyway, good to hear from you KM and hope you get things running as you want with neobux.

Kantankrus_Mare

Looks like you have it all under control Gromit and I wish you all the luck with starting to increase refs. You sound like me being cautious not to over stretch yourself. I would be gutted if I had to ever let any refs expire through trying to move on too fast.

Just rented my 15 refs which takes me to 850.

Bit of a quandry now though. After another 4 weeks I have a steady stream of refs that will need renewing for a few months till it calms down a bit again so not sure whether to stay static and save like mad or rent just 5 a week to move a little closer to my goal each week.

I hate seeing that rental button and not doing anything with it.

Will probably go for the 5 a week option.

Greek cruise took in quite a lot of places. Montenegro, Corfu Town, Athens. Mykonos and Kefalonia.

Our first time cruising and it was with Royal Caribbean. Would definitely cruise again but not with the same company.
Drinks on the ship were extortionate and with all the other hidden charges that they are shoving in your face all the time, makes it an expensive trip. A bit too americanised for us as well.

Italy I could definitely go back to though!!

With a bit of luck...........by the time we can afford to go on holiday next year.......I will be Ultimate and happily go away knowing I have a bit of passive earning going on at home.

Thats if everything goes to plan of course.