OhMyDosh review: A legit money maker?

Are you looking for a website that gives you ‘free money’ for completing offers and free trials? Then OhMyDosh might appeal to you. Let’s take a look at how the site works, how much you can earn and whether it really is worth your effort.

OhMyDosh

Looking for a way to make some extra money from home? Well, I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of offers advertised, but the trouble is telling the legitimate money-making schemes from the scams.

Even though I have joined many apps and sites offering free money, I’m naturally a sceptical person, so there are a lot of offers I avoid. However, for the sake of my blog, I have been trying out more and more ways.

I was recently contacted by OhMyDosh through my webpage, asking me to take a look at a great new way of earning money. I could not turn down some extra cash, so I thought I would give it a go.

I saw plenty of reviews spring up about how good this site was within a week of it going live. The issue was, it took at least a month for OhMyDosh to pay out on their offers, so I wasn’t sure how genuine or legitimate these reviews were. That’s why mine came out a little later than others. I couldn’t really say it was a great money-making site if they hadn’t actually paid me, could I?

What is OhMyDosh?

Simply put, OhMyDosh is a way to make extra money from home by signing up for services and trials that are free or come with a small fee.

It is more commonly known as a Get Paid To site (GPT).

Is OhMyDosh safe?

Although a relatively new site to the internet world, the company has been operating a very similar website called 20 Cogs for many years. You will also find plenty of positive reviews on Trustpilot.

OhMyDosh is owned by Technology Submission Limited, a British company based in Kent and incorporated in 2002.

How does OhMyDosh work?

Companies want you to try their products. They often think that you’ll be hooked and a customer for life once you try it. So, to get their product “out there” they offer financial incentives to people or companies who encourage you to sign up.

For example, Amazon may pay a fee of £3 for every customer OhMyDosh gets to trial Amazon Prime. Once OhMyDosh receives the money, they pass it on to you. At least some of the money.

When you complete a purchase or sign up, you should receive an email from OhMyDosh soon after. As long as everything runs smoothly, you should receive payment into your account within 45 days.

Making money with OhMyDosh

Once your account is set up, you’re ready to start making money. On the left-hand side, you’ll see a list of categories to choose which will start you on your way. But before you do, you must ensure you have all you need. I recommend you do the following before you complete your first offer.

Create a new email address

Always essential if you’re signing up for new services you don’t plan to keep. Although the companies that OhMyDosh works with are genuine, the more times you share your email address, the more likely it is to be lost or sold. That could mean receiving lots of email spam, which can be a pain when sorting out your inbox.

Consider a new mobile number

Some offers, especially those that involve signing up for lottery sites, will need your mobile number. Like email, you open yourself up to more spam the more you share your number. A good option is to purchase a cheap PAYG SIM from a company like giffgaff.

Create a spreadsheet

Or notes on your phone. If you’re signing up for trials, the chances are that when the trial ends, you’ll be moved to a full membership which can be quite expensive. And you don’t want to be losing money. So, make sure you take a note of all your trials you have and when they end so you can cancel in plenty of time.

Categories on offer

So, there are plenty of ways to make money through OhMyDosh and they fall into the following categories:

Hot offers

The most popular offers on OhMyDosh at the moment.

No Spend

Although you’ll earn less from here, you don’t have to pay out a penny. These could involve signing up for a new cashback or survey site.

Paid surveys

Surveys can be a great way to make extra money with little effort. Although, this isn’t the site to do it (see below).

Lightning Payouts

These don’t cover a specific category, although tend to cover surveys or lottery sites. However, whatever your task, you can claim your money in 3 working days once you reach £10.

High Earners

Here, you can earn between £10-£50 just to complete one offer. Most of these are gambling or bingo sites or require you to switch your energy provider.

Bingo & Gambling

This category speaks for itself. Most of these offers pay well but also require you to deposit into gambling sites.

Bonus Bundles

OhMyDosh combines several offers together and pays you slightly more. The only disadvantage is that you must complete all the offers before qualifying for the payment.

Utilities and Telecoms

These can be very big money earners and OhMyDosh pays quite well. But you can find better offers elsewhere. For example, you’ll earn £25 for switching your electricity and gas to Octopus Energy. But if you use my Octopus refer a friend code, you’ll earn £50.

Finance

You’ll find a mixture of insurance products or incentives for signing up for some new financial apps. These include the likes of the savings app Chip and GoHenry, an account for children. Although they are free initially, there are charges for continued membership.

Health and fitness

These offers mainly involve earning cashback when shopping at various stores like Boots and JD Sports. Although useful, you can often find better cashback deals elsewhere.

Entertainment

Plenty of offers, mainly for signing up to TV channels, such as SKY TV and Amazon Prime. Some cashback is available from shopping too.

Trials

Most of these offers are free and require you to sign up for a service for a short period. Many of them are food and drink offers or financial apps.

Friend referrals

OhMyDosh has quite a refer-a-friend scheme. For every friend you refer, you’ll receive £5 when they cash out. Plus, your friend receives £1 for joining. Also, one referrer is chosen each week to win a £50 prize.

How much can you make with OhMyDosh?

I managed to earn over £25 (it should have been £30, but £5 was declined) in less than 30 minutes for a cost of £2. This included free trials with NowTV, hayu, and Audiobooks. The trials I had to pay for (Which and Football Pools) paid £17.50 between them. However, with Football Pools, you have to set up a Direct Debit and be quick to cancel it before they take extra money from you.

Once you hit a minimum of £10, you can withdraw your earnings straight into your bank account or via PayPal.

OhMyDosh surveys

OhMyDosh introduced its own survey section. Now, I’m a big fan of surveys; they can be a decent way to earn an extra income without too much effort.

The issue is that some survey sites are far better than others, and OhMyDosh certainly falls into the terrible category. Most sites pay between 60 pence and £1 for 10 minutes of your time.

This one doesn’t get anywhere near that. On average, you will earn around 15 pence for 10 minutes. That works at just under £1 an hour. Let’s be honest, that’s pretty insulting and I hate it when companies try to take advantage of people like that.

Take a look at my top-paying survey sites if you want a far better income.

My experience with OhMyDosh

There were quite a few offers available when I joined. Some are completely free without any hassle, such as 50 pence for a SIM card from giffgaff. The site is a great way of earning a small amount of money in a short period of time.

But small amounts of cash aren’t what we’re all about and there are opportunities to earn even more by completing surveys.

There is a daily prize on offer. One random member will earn a £10 ‘Daily Dosh’ reward. Although you do need to claim it, so it could be easily missed.

OhMyDosh offers quite a generous referral scheme. If friends or family sign up through your link, you receive £5 when they cashout £10.

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Any downsides?

You have to remember to cancel a lot of the offers, otherwise you will lose money when they start charging you. Six of the accounts I signed up to could be cancelled through their respective websites, whilst one I could cancel over email.

You also have to read some of the deals carefully. One offered a free Graze box plus £1.25 cashback, but clicking on the link offered me three boxes for £1.99. That would have meant losing a small amount of money. And don’t forget, I’m only here to earn.

Another drawback is that it is supposed to take 45 days before the money hits your account. I found that all my earnings took longer than that, and I’m still waiting for some after 90 days. Plus, one of my trials for £5 failed to pay out. I couldn’t find out why, and I wasn’t even sent a notification to let me know.

The surveys aren’t really worth doing. On average, they pay around 30 pence for 10 minutes, which is far less than most other survey sites. Although I did earn 50 pence from one survey, which had three questions, so it’s not all bad.

My OhMyDosh review conclusion

So, is OhMyDosh worthwhile? You can certainly make some decent money in the short term. However, I couldn’t find many new offers after a few weeks. And from what I can see, most of the offers aren’t exclusive to OhMyDosh. In fact, I found most of these offers available on Swagbucks, and some paid more and the money would be available sooner (4300 Swagbucks is equivalent to around £30 in Amazon vouchers).

This is certainly a site worth considering but only expect to earn a decent amount every few months or so. You must also be prepared for some offers not to pay out. I know we shouldn’t, but I have come to terms with accepting it now.

OhMyDosh

Edited May 2020

After two years, I decided to return to OhMyDosh to check my account. Two of my offers are still marked as pending. Although I submitted tickets, nothing seems to have moved on. And opening and submitting a ticket isn’t the simplest process either.

For a gambling offer you need to do the following:

Please provide 4 screenshots. 
           1 – Your account page showing both
                 your and the retailer’s name.
           2 – The time and date of your deposit
           3 – The time and date of the play history.
           4 – Your welcome e-mail with the time and date you received it clearly visible

Edited 2024

Still nothing…

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