The Earned "Free" Tapas Coin Discussion

@GoldenPlume Golden Plume Comics
Tue, 07 Mar 2017 06:28:19 +0000

@GoldenPlume wrote:

TheAmazingTacoWitch:

Is there any way that Tapas could increase the number of coins received for each ad watched?

Well we watch the national news with one eye on the television and the other on the smart screen, grinding out the coins each night. Or during mass transit. Or while sitting on the throne. (Just don't drop your phone down the commode.) There are lots of times to watch ads, but preferably when you are doing something else because just sitting there and watching ads at $.02/USD a minute isn't really a good use of time. (You can take surveys on Swagbucks that pay better than that.)

We've also found if you click the ads from time to time look over the next page that pops up and then back out, it helps raise payment levels back up. We were able to go from 12 to 40 for a time. It's now back to 12 again. We're taking @CyndiFoster's advice and taking two days off to see if that helps get the payments back up.

Staff has mentioned that they will be adding more coin earning opportunities in the near future but they haven't provided more specifics than that. Given that Peanut Labs has their HQ less than a mile away from Tapas HQ, the chalk is that Tapas will be adding Peanut Labs to the app. Peanut Labs offers surveys for points, in this case they would offer Tapas Coins. The surveys take longer to watch than an ad and you have to be engaged in them to answer the questions accurately but you will get way more coins. Some time ago we did a survey on Purina horse food and in about 10 minutes got 150 points or 1,800 Tapas Coins. Peanut Labs also offers various micro tasks like visit a website on diabetes or smoking to earn some coins (12 to 36) hopefully raising public awareness about avoiding these major costs to the public health system. They also offer points for signing up for stuff but some of the offers are a bit sketch.

TheAmazingTacoWitch:

And not allowing us to tip with bonus coins is a pain too

Bonus coins aren't tippable for the sole reason that it would become very expensive for Tapas if they were. Right now 250 bonus coins seem to be given out on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. That'd be $.20 USD in tippable money, times 52 weeks, times 10,000 creators. That's $104,000! Can you imagine how many creators would make multiple upon multiple accounts just to get all those bonus coins and tip them to their fellow creators? Remind you the "margin" on tips for Tapas is only 15%.

However the margin on premium books and comics is 50%. So those 250 bonus coins being spent on "A King's Daughter" actually only costs Tapas 125 coins or about $.10 USD. They've probably also run an internal audit and determined that a lot of the time more than 250 coins are spent, for example if one episode is 300 coins then 50 coins are either earned or purchased, or those 250 coins go towards a multiple key package. Also, a lot of coins probably expire unused, so the cost to Tapas starts to approach a negligible amount, which is why they can offer bonus coins every week or other week.

At the end of the day Tapas has to be profitable otherwise they would go under, so that is why bonus coins are restricted.

TheAmazingTacoWitch:

but it's difficult to do that when I feel like I have to spend real money to get a good deal out of this

Unfortunately the money has to come from somewhere. Either it comes out of your own pocket or it comes out of an advertisers pocket. Hopefully as more coin earning opportunities are made available there will be one or more that will be more appealing and better rewarding than the current opportunities. Rome wasn't built in a day. Just give it time and Tapas will probably 1-UP itself.

CyndiFoster:

When's the next Tapas tipping event?!

April 1? Given that the bonus coins have to be handed out on March 28th, and as far we we know its a manual process, anything sooner than that is probably unlikely. Just save up for it. "Ren Pillion" is what staff was talking about as being their Next Big Event (TM) after the conclusion of the 50% Bonus Event.