TheCoilist
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Felt like ranting about my work / jobs....Join if you want to!
So, I do freelance photo/video and I am also a stay at home dad... and for the past few years I have also been a professional reviewer for products and companies.
I like everything I do... but lately, I have been acquiring too much stuff being a professional reviewer. They send me a list of items and give me a number of how many items I have to pick from that campaign.
I am often left with products I can't use personally. I have a TON of clothes all of very well known name brands, and they come new with tags so the prices generally average between $50 - $100 per shirt, pants are just as expensive. Then the appliances and other crazy items I get to test.
I don't know what to do with it all! The stipulations of the terms of service is that I can not sell the products afterwards, and there is a very fine line on what I can do with them while I have them in terms of making any revenue on them. I could maybe try and make YouTube videos with them to get some sort of income, but again it's a murky area in the terms.
Soooo... being a reviewer is fun, get a lot of cool items for free, but there is no actual money or spendable payment involved. Payment is the product. If I totaled the value of the items at retail costs that I have received over the past few years it would be in the over $10k easy. But I have too much stuff around the house now! Portable air conditioners, TV's, deep freezers, all kinds of stuff!
What to do with it all!!!
So, I do freelance photo/video and I am also a stay at home dad... and for the past few years I have also been a professional reviewer for products and companies.
I like everything I do... but lately, I have been acquiring too much stuff being a professional reviewer. They send me a list of items and give me a number of how many items I have to pick from that campaign.
I am often left with products I can't use personally. I have a TON of clothes all of very well known name brands, and they come new with tags so the prices generally average between $50 - $100 per shirt, pants are just as expensive. Then the appliances and other crazy items I get to test.
I don't know what to do with it all! The stipulations of the terms of service is that I can not sell the products afterwards, and there is a very fine line on what I can do with them while I have them in terms of making any revenue on them. I could maybe try and make YouTube videos with them to get some sort of income, but again it's a murky area in the terms.
Soooo... being a reviewer is fun, get a lot of cool items for free, but there is no actual money or spendable payment involved. Payment is the product. If I totaled the value of the items at retail costs that I have received over the past few years it would be in the over $10k easy. But I have too much stuff around the house now! Portable air conditioners, TV's, deep freezers, all kinds of stuff!
What to do with it all!!!