Are you an honest person?

Did you receive two points instead of one?

I'm honest when it comes to returning some item, but if you received extra points, I imagine it was for a reason. I wouldn't be worried about it. If you really feel the need, you can email them, but I imagine it was meant to be.

Absolutely without a doubt! I have done it before. In fact, I've never in my life came across a wallet or money and NOT turned it in or found the owner. That reminds me. About 3-4 months ago, my partner was cleaning up an apartment for a new resident to move in and found a wallet that had $5 in it and a little kid photo. My partner recognized the kid in the photo as a guy we see around all the time, one he went to school with. Keep in mind, my partner is 25 now and the guy who was once a kid who lost this wallet is around the same age! So he told me he was going to keep that wallet with its 20-something year old $5 bill in it and return it to the guy when we saw him out again. It wasn't a full month ago that we were pulling in CVS and saw the guy. My partner showed him the wallet and asked if it looked familiar. It was really awesome. To get your old wallet, one you had as a tiny child back so many years later would be so neat! Sorry, this discussion just brought that to mind.

I think my partner is a tad more honest than me. Last week, while on our vacation in Panama, me, my partner and my dad went out to Wal-Mart for freaking fishing supplies. These stupid little clear bubble things were left in the buggy and didn't get rung up. They were some fishing things. We spent SOOOOO long in that store that I was already mad and tired, so when we made it to the car and seen that the stupid 2 little 50 cent things were not rung up, I had to yell to keep my partner from going back and paying for the darn things! I was tired and mad. I wanted to get back to the motel and go to the hot tub. Lol.

So the next morning, what does he do? Goes straight in Wal-Mart and tells them to ring him up for the dang 2 fishing thingys! I honestly would've just forgotten about it.

Besides something like that though, I'm super honest. I'm just not the kind of person who could keep a wallet, money or anything at all that belonged to someone else. I will go to great lengths to return someone's belongings. It pays off too. I've had people return money I've dropped when they could've easily picked it up and I''d have never known. I'm usually good with keeping up with my things, especially money. But once about a year ago, I was walking the track in my area and this older couple was about half a football field behind me. I kept hearing them whistle and holler "hey, girl!" So I got scared and ran. Lol. When I rounded the track the second time, the man was standing there waiting. He had found my $40 that fell out of my pocket and went through all that trouble to get it back to me. So, it does pay off to be honest.

However, when it comes to EF points, I don't have a clue how much I earn or when. So I'd likely never notice. How can yoou accidentally get more like that though? I don't think it's possible, so if I were you I wouldn't worry too much about it. The EF system is set up to where you cannot go over so many points, so I really doubt that you're getting off with anything extra. I guess I could be wrong though. I don't know much. Lol. Heck, I don't even know what the daily limit even is.

In most cases though, I'm totally honest.

I'd turn in a wallet or jewelry without question. Money, on the other hand, is a bit trickier. Is there any identification with the money? If there is, I'd turn it in. If there's no way to ID who the owner is, then I would probably donate the money to a charity.

They may have changed the rates for you?

I think it was 5 points, not sure. Just looked up and saw more than I think I was supposed to have. I don't usually pay attention since I am not really on here for points, but I thought it was kinda weird.

How can we tell if we've earned too many points? Are we supposed to keep track ourselves and compare them to the computer tally? That seems like a lot of work over possibly accidentally getting an extra nickel, and I'd definitely trust the computer over my own numbers anyway.

Is there something I can look at to make sure my points are correct?

Point schedule

The above link is the point schedule for EF. Each activity has a daily limit and once you've reached that limit you have the option of turning off the notifier or leaving it on; a third option is to leave it off indefinitely. (Which is what I have mine set to, but most people leave their's on if the chatter on the forums is any indication.)

Generally speaking, a vast majority are aware of what our daily average is on the site. Anyway, there's a page where you can see your earning history. Say you know you wrote two reviews and you only got credit for one, this is where you would be able to determine that information. Or, you know you only started two threads but received points for three - those are glitches in the matrix and need to be pointed out.

Do we expect anyone to actually keep track of that if there is no known issue present at the time? No.

If you notice a huge spike in points - as one of our contributors did this morning (there was an additional 1500 points in their account), send me a message. I can usually deduce the reason why. Most large additions in points are from a club, an article, a video review, or a gift from the admins for being a model contributor.

We can see how many points a user has, how many they have pending, and if any recent additions or subtractions have been made from the account by an administrator. Once all of those areas are addressed, we would then be able to deduce where the error lies.

I always be honest, but i doubt you did, computers are, GENERALLY right

Okay, obviously a random fifteen dollars is something I would notice and question. I was thinking more along the lines of an extra nickel from searching or something. Thank you for explaining.

i tend to trust there system...