Ha! In my 20s I was broke as could be in the big city so I spent a good amount of time trying to find side hustles. One of those ratings companies promised me $25/mo to wear a pager-like device that would pick up some sort of silent encoding in recorded music and report it for ratings purposes. It took three months to pay me and the cheque bounced.
Another one of those companies promised me money and grocery gift cards if I scanned the bar codes on my grocery shopping. After a couple of months of getting paid in envelopes full of coupons for products I didn’t want at grocery stores I didn’t shop at, I just stopped scanning. Six months later I got a lawyers’ letter demanding I return the scanner or they’d sue.
