- David C. Bond won $ 47,000 last year by answering art questions on the Justanswer platform.
- It is paid between $ 7.50 and $ 11.50 per question and aims to answer around 20 per day.
- Independent concerts like Justanswer have become popular because people are looking for additional income.
While David C. Bond is developing a longer -term career project, he does a concert work that exploits his art expertise.
Since the beginning of 2023, Bond has worked for Justanswer, a platform that connects users to questions to experts Who can try to help. Many of the questions he answers concern the value and authenticity of art and antiques. In 2023, he won nearly $ 43,000 and last year, he earned just over $ 47,000. He said that the concert is a lot of work and that it was difficult to develop his income, but that he provided a flow of precious income.
“Justanswer is simultaneously fun and frustrating,” Bond, 61, Business Insider.
In the past two years, Bond has been paid between $ 7.50 and $ 11.50 per question, a rate set by the platform. Bond said that fluctuations in its remuneration rate – and the lack of growth in the rate of remuneration over time – have been frustrating.
Justanswer told Business Insider that payments vary according to factors such as geography, the field, prior success to help customers and supply and demand.
Bond is one of the many Americans who recently turned to independent concerts to increase their income. In recent years, the price increase has weighed on the portfolios of many people, and a slowdown in hiring has made the task difficult for many individuals To find work or move on to more paid work. Consequently, some people have turned to concerts like Uber and Doordash to help pay the bills, while others have found independent work which do not force them to leave their home – including the resale and the service of ‘Online surveys.
Answering questions can be a full -time job
Before joining Justanswer, Bond worked as a real estate processor in the art of the freeman auction art service | Hindman. After that, he and his wife had a hair salon that also sold art. They sold the company in 2015 and moved from Philadelphia to Seattle to be closer to the Bond family.
Becoming an expert from Justanswer is a process in several stages, the company told BI. After submitting a request, a person’s identification information is examined and subject to a third -party verification company for authentication. Bond said he had to contact Freeman | Hindman – where he had not worked for more than a decade – to confirm his previous job.
Once approved, a candidate is placed on a waiting list until the platform activation team determines that it is necessary, depending on factors including the interest of customers. For Bond, the entire request process took a few weeks.
Bond estimated that it spends about six hours a day, six days a week, answering people’s questions – its goal is to answer 15 to 20 questions per day. He said that most of his time is devoted to the revision of art or similar antiques, sharing these comparables with customers, then providing an estimate of the value of a part using comparable and His expertise.
He receives a wide range of questions about art and antiques, but he said that his customers generally adapt to one of the two categories: people who inherited something and “treasure hunters”. The two groups are looking for an overview of knowing if they have something of value.
“I must tell them what it is and how much I think it’s worth on the secondary market and everything else,” he said.
To use justanswer, customers must register for monthly membership, which includes membership fees at around $ 5 and costs between $ 30 and $ 125 per month, depending on the type of expert they look for.
Admittedly, Bond said that he regularly heard customers who are surprised that they were invoiced for their questions or registered in monthly membership in the platform. In addition, there are hundreds of complaints on the Better Bureau website, many of which are linked to business membership program.
Justanswer told Bi by e -mail that customers are invited to enter their credit card information before receiving an answer to their question – and receive clear details on monthly cost and monthly cancellation of the platform .
In the era of AI tools like Chatgpt, Bond thinks that his expertise is always worth value.
“A Japanese plate from the 17th century resembles a reproduction of the 20th century to a machine, but I can look at it and see characteristics that make one different from the other,” he said.
Have you used Justanswer or another side busty to increase your income? Contact this journalist at jzinkula@businessinsider.com.
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