Well, I am 15. I have my own bank account and everything. They say you have to be 18 to get a check, is that true? I don't see why I can't cash it, or have my parents cash it for me under my name. I would use theirs, but neither of them trust the internet with their social security number. But to me its google, if anything happens they would know and I don't think anything would go wrong.
Why not try something where you don't have to use Google? Be creative and think of other ways to make money. Get people to buy ad spots, sell things online, offer your services. You can do pretty much anything online and make bank if you do it right. What other options will you give yourself?
It is true, you need to be 18 to enrol in AdSense (well, get paid anyway). I think it's something to do with being too young to enter into the agreement from a legal point of view. Could be wrong.
Use your parent's, brother's, or sister's name who's in legal age to open an account. I actually have a friend from Canada who's doing this, she's 16 and she's earning $600-$700/day from adsense.
I don't want to use an alternative, I have several ideas to make money off of the dl firefox or other google products.
That would be my question, you have to input your social security number, but to cash the check, I thought you could cash any and if not i thought my parents could sign for me. I didn't think there were special checks that make it to where only an 18 year old can get it.
It's against the rules to signed up underage but they aren't going to track down 1 person. I have Adsense and I put it in my brother's name and I use my bank account. I'm in Canada so I didn't need any Tax information.
I'm an international customer so I don't need to provide tax information, I just have the account in my name and when the cheque arrives I'll just cash it in my bank account. They'll never find out.
I'm also an international publisher and had an adsense account when I was underaged, and I had it under my name and cashed the check at the bank too. They didn't have a problem with it :/ No tax info required here either.
well, as I said they don't want to, and I am in the US. Well, maybe I can use my info set the payout rate to something high like 1,000 and in a few years when I turn 18 I'll have a large sum of money coming my way.
I show adverts for a friends site who is underage, and then we split the income from his channel 50%, were both happy.
the problem with that you see is when taxes come and you make enough to where you have to pay for them, he will pay none and you will pay for it, so your spliting like 50% / 30-40%
What country are you in? My kids get cheques. Not Adsense ones. But they do get cheques in their name and there's never been a problem with depositing them into their bank account. We're in Australia.
Ah well. He'll be needing that Tax Information. And unless a family member wants the burden of extra bookkeeping, accounting and paperwork he's gonna be out of luck in trying to use someone elses name and bank account. I think if he should just concentrate on sites with quality and original content, and building up the traffic, so when he reaches 18 he'll hit the ground running.