Note: If you are visiting this blog for the very first time then I suggest you first read few previous posts. You first need to know about few things before you read this article [like: where to get free online jobs and how to make money at such sites. What is GAF and what is gold membership]. I suggest you come to this post after reading about the mentioned topics.
Normally I just tell people to upgrade to gold membership [as soon as they earn $12 at GAF] and the reason is that gold members can place bids on 150+ projects. Actually this [150+ number] is not the exact amount of bids that one gets after he or she upgrades to gold membership.
In this post, I will tell you the exact amount of bids that you can place on different projects at freelance sites [if you upgrade to gold member ship].
Possibility number one:
[You have just joined GAF and this is your first month, and you have not completed any job, that is: you do not have any ratings]:
If you are a new member at GAF and you have not completed any project. Then if you upgrade to gold member then you will get 150 bids that you will be able to place on 150 different jobs at GAF.
Possibility number two:
[You are a one month [or more than one month] old member but you have not completed any job that is: you do not have any ratings]:
In this case, you will have the basic amount of bids [which is 150 bids] plus after every one month of your member ship at freelance site, you will get one extra bid. For example:
If you are two months old member [after 60 days of member ship] [type of member ship does not count when we calculate the duration of a person being member at GAF. For calculating this duration, it does not matter if you were a gold member or normal member in these 60 days], then you will have,
150 + 2 = 152 bids to place on different projects.
Another example:
If you are one year old member [after 360 days of member ship] [type of member ship does not count when we calculate the duration of a person being member at GAF. For calculating this duration, it does not matter if you were a gold member or normal member in these 360 days], then you will have,
150 + 12 = 162 bids to place on different projects.
Possibility number three:
[You are a one month [or more than one month] old member and you have completed jobs at GAF. That is: you do have ratings at GAF]:
Then you will have the basic 150 bids plus the per month bid increment plus the bids which are equal to the number of ratings that you will have at GAF.
For example:
If you are two years old member [after 720 days of member ship] [type of member ship does not count when we calculate the duration of a person being member at GAF. For calculating this duration, it does not matter if you were a gold member or normal member in these 720 days] and you have completed 150 online jobs at GAF [that is: you have 150 ratings], then you will have,
150 + 24 + 150 = 324 bids to place on different projects.