Gifts are purchased with the website virtual curerency called Moolah.  Moolah can be purchased for cash through paypal and can be converted back to cash via paypal, the current rate of exchange is 500 moolah to US$1.

When you purchase gifts for cash you are substituting the moolah purchase for a direct cash purchase at the same exchange rate.  Cash purchases or moolah purchases go towards funding the costs of running the site - these moolah/Gift purchases through paypal are a very small contribution to our revenue, we pay out considerably more money to members who earn moolah than we receive at present.

If you wish to send a member "money" rather than just a gift you can send a moolah Gift Voucher and the member who receives the gift voucher may convert that into Cash via Paypal once they have the minimum cash out level of moolah.

Hope this helps

Thanks for your messages, I am going to send this message so the question gets to visits the day time activity page and someone may know there......

I am not 100% but i think Minti the site gets the cash payments we put in for gifts. but you get the $ from writing articles and surveys and invites of friends.

Larustyka,

I get them but I don't know why.

I think you can purchase some too.

I seem to get points for writing articles that I can use as Minti cash.

I'm quite confused. If you find out more about them, please let me know.

Warmly,

Jean