What: Slice the Pie purports to pay you to listen to music and rate it on a scale of one to 10, but the pay is scant and illusive
Expected pay: nominal
Husl$core: $
Where: National
Requirements: A computer and decent hearing
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Slice the Pie Review:
Like Hit Predictor, Slice the Pie purports to pay you to listen to music and rate it on a scale of one to 10. For that they pay you almost nothing. The site requires you to listen to at least 90 seconds of a song to review it. You can review it while you’re listening, though, so let’s say you are insanely efficient and do 40 reviews in an hour. That would likely earn you a stunning $4.
The site pays between 2 cents and 20 cents per review, but appears to pay an average of 10 cents. And, then, it appears that the site tries (or does) cheat you out of even that sorry paycheck. (See reviews, below.) There are so many better opportunities here on $ideHusl.com, we hope you don’t waste your time with this one.
Sadly if you want to listen to music for a living, rotten pay is the norm. However, if you go to job boards, such as Indeed or Glassdoor, you are likely to find music-related positions that will pay a decent wage. In addition, if you have a large Spotify following and love to review music, you can find a better-paying alternative with PlaylistPush. And, if you can write and sing music, Songfinch is worth a try.
What their listeners say:
(From the comments at SurveyPolice):
“The premise is fun. You can review products from an array of categories. Your reviews earn a monetary reward based on your reviewer ranking. I plugged away at this site for a few months and when it finally came time to cash out I couldn’t because the site claimed my birth date was not matching what my account had on file. I thought this was strange, because I have no reason to falsify my date of birth. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t match up. I emailed the site team for assistance and they asked that I send them my ID for verification. Excessive, but whatever. I just want my $10. Shortly after, my account was terminated with the following error message “Your account has been locked because you have been accessing the site through a proxy server which has demonstrated fraudulent activity.” I do not use a proxy service for any reason. I have never attempted to cheat while using this, or any, survey site. I’m confused, angry, and absolutely disappointed in SliceThePie.”
“Oh ! Absolutely this site is scandalous. Just 10 minutes ago I was on the lovely slicethepie and I was happily working away getting so close to my $10 payout. When lo and behold ! All of a sudden I get a notice saying my account is shut down. Closed because I rated too many 10’s. I will never get paid for the work i did for them reviewing and they keep my reviews for free. I was penalized for giving honest reviews.DO NOT TRUST THIS SITE they ripped me off of all my efforts and good trust.”
“I don’t mind this site but the pay out is only about 4 cents per music review and the review needs to be fairly long. Not my favorite site so far.”
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I had no problems with slice the pie. I earn an average of 0.14 per review, though I have been reviewing content on this site for years and have only cashed out a few times. I have never had a problem cashing out on this site. I’m sorry others had that experience.
they pay about 5 cents a review not 14
It depends. If you get more stars the more cents you earn so you and him can be on different levels
Omg .. I’m so fumed right now bro.. countless hours WASTED on those reviews…scammers..and to think I was about to tell a friend to sign up for their shitty service.. when I made $3 I was told I had to make $5 to cash out…. then, when I made $5.. I was told I needed to make $10… also I was born and raised in America.. my responses were well thought out .. my English has never been poor nor were my reviews rushed or bs.
This is true but I have an account I’ve been using since 2019. I write clear reviews with a lot of musical jargon and I use my iphones mic to speed up the process. I can write longer reviews in half the time and I have 5 stars! They pay 0.35cents a review for me currently, we will see how long it last. I have also been cashing out 10$ a day for about a month.
I was terminated for poor English.. I’ve never heard such fxxxing foolery in my entire life
Sites like these should be illegal. They make money by exploiting people. And close their accounts on a whim.
To a degree, it is still really good, but that’s only if you don’t mind earning about 10 payouts before they close your account or make up a technical excuse to not pay you because of some “error” in your reviews.
I would even recommend it to friends, but recently I’m so disappointed by the quality of services, I CAN’T DO IT ANYMORE. I notice that you can’t even find them on social media anymore because people were telling the truth about how awful the site was in the comments.
I just want to delete the app and never look back. I literally cried because they deleted my account at $6 right before I was able to cash out at their threshold of $10. it takes sooo long to make enough to cash out at $10! It’s honestly not worth it.
– Before that, I had an issue where I had already done enough to cash out by their $10 threshold rule on a Wednesday, so I could get paid on Thursday ( their payout day). They sent me an email on Thursday morning that said they were holding my funds because they felt my reviews were not in “standard English”. This is the vague statement they use so you can’t dispute it. I was so upset. I emailed the support team and everything because it seemed unfair and it was still payout day. I was today that they send payments on Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of both those days.
They said I needed to do 10 more reviews to replace the work I had done which already seems sketchy…but I bit the bullet and started to do the 10 just to go along with what they wanted…. I also made sure I wrote these reviews even better. I was able to do 8 whole reviews and then the site said there were no more reviews left…….. mind you, I argued that If I did these new 10 reviews before the end of the day I would still want my payout on the same day. ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY SAID THEY SEND PAYOUTS ALL DAY. OF COURSE, THEY CAN SEND A PAYMENT.
Long Story Short, Here are my Least Favorite Things About the site:
-They strategically make you wait so you can’t make as much per hour.
They make you listen for 1 min 30 seconds before you can even submit anything. I hate this because it does not take that long to review a song. They just do this just so they can slow you down from earning more money and going faster. This wasn’t a big deal at first until the site started to glitch here and there causing me to lose all the work I had done to be able to press submit on a review.
– site glitching
sometimes the site will not work even though you did everything right and you lose all of your progress and have to start over.
– Their algorithm stinks
They don’t want you to be repetitive with certain words or phrases like ” this beat was good or I enjoyed this part of the song because”. which is understandable, but if you are doing 100s of reviews a day with your own thought process, it’s very difficult to pick up a new vocabulary just to appease the website. On multiple occasions, I had to go out of my way to find new types of words just so I could submit the work. Again, this is understandable but at some point, it feels like a scam because it doesn’t matter if you have done 50 reviews or 300 reviews if their algorithm picks up reused phrases or words, they will deactivate your account.
– It just feels rigged to me because they only give about .3 cents sometimes for these reviews…. Maximum I’ve only earned about .14 cents or .20 cents. This is difficult work if they want you to have proper English, spelling, and grammar, not reuse words, wait 1min and 30 per review and write 300 words +
– I always try to review as many as I can to get to $10 and it feels like they purposefully won’t let you get to $10 by saying there aren’t enough songs to review… They just don’t want you at “cash out status” all the time. It’s really unfair. Imagine if you are in college or something and rely on this to make money and they play with your time like this or tell you to have to wait till next week instead to get paid.
I started using this site in 2020 and never had any issues, really enjoyed it, and now I’m very unhappy. Beware.