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I know, I know, the title may sound like nonsense: shopping is about spending money, not earning it. Well, a few new Internet services are about to shift this paradigm.

I don’t say you will earn a fortune but if you are trying to live a frugal life, every penny counts, right? So here are 3 cool ways you may have never heard before to earn money by using your shopping expertise and experience:

Earn by Answering Shopping-Related Questions

IMshopping is a cool website that invites to ask and answer shopping-related questions. If one desperately needs an answer, he or she can post the question to “Paid section” and that’s where all the fun begins.

You are free to register as an expert in any shopping niche and reply to questions in your area. If you also want to earn cash by answering question, you should keep an eye on Answer For Money section. Here are the terms:

• You answer a question from the section and the community is voting for your and other experts’ answers.
• The user who receives the vote for the “Best Answer” after three days wins the cash.
• In case there is a tie, the money is split.

Now, as for the payment terms: you can request money withdrawal as soon as you earn minimum $40 and the cash will be sent to you in 30 days after that. Payments are made via PayPal, so they are pretty fast, secure and smooth.

Earn by Sharing Cool Deals and Coupons

Buxr is the community of bargain hunters where each member can share deals and coupons, as well vote for deals and coupons submitted by others. What makes it stand out from the crowd of other coupon codes sites is that Buxr pays its members for hunting and sharing best deals.

This works as a competition (which makes the selection of deals on the site really high quality by the way). There’s a daily and a monthly competition and here are the terms for each:

Daily:

• Members are awarded $10 for submitting the best online deal of the day and/or $5 for submitting the best in-store only offer.
• 24 hours after the deal is submitted, the best deals are selected by Buxr stuff based on the community votes;
• In addition to the daily prize, the winners will receive 5 points each towards the current Monthly Contest.

Monthly:

• Members are awarded between $100 and $200 cash for winning a monthly prize.
• To win, just participate! Vote up good deals and vote down bad deals. At the end of the month Buxr stuff will announce the winners and losers. If your picks match the picks by Buxr team you win points good towards our monthly grand prize.

Payments are sent within 7 days of the winning announcement through PayPal.

Earn by Sharing Your Opinion on the Purchased Product

This is actually not new: you can earn money by reviewing products you have once bought. However, despite being not new, this one actually needs to be covered because there’s plenty of scam in this area. Be sure to write reviews for a trusted service, always check before wasting your time on any paid-reviews service.

Here is one I tried myself:

Epinions.com rewards its members with so-called “Income share” which basically means, if they make money as a direct result of your review, then you make money too.

The Income Share program rewards writers who contribute reviews that help other users make decisions… The Income Share pool is a portion of Epinions’ income. The pool is split among all authors based on how often their reviews were used in making a decision (whether or not the reader actually made a purchase).

Payment terms: U.S. residents can redeem when they have a balance of at least $10, and non-U.S. residents can redeem when they have a balance of at least $100 Payment are done via check (which means you are going to wait about 6 weeks to receive it).