If you are requesting a small check (a few hundred dollars), mys will pay out in a reasonable amount of time, 2-3 weeks. I just had a payment from them for $75 around 2 weeks ago, and it only took 1 ticket that was answered within 1-2 days. Of course I had first requested the check a month earlier, so well above even the inflated time period mys has now stated for their payment.

I had sent them a few thousand dollars worth or merchandise from amazon back in October. I started opening tickets in middle of November and finally got paid 6-8 weeks after the initial check request. I've been sending them stuff for maybe 3 years, and while they were always slow, they used to pay out within a few days after you put in a ticket (if the ticket request was after their listed processing time of 2-3 weeks). The October purchases were stuff like airpods and apple watches, so I knew I would have zero recourse if mys decided to just not pay.

I was going to totally stop buying for them after my October experience. However, I still had some amazon gc balance left in my account and mys was paying above cost for various amazon devices. I figured those would be safe to buy, since if I didn't get paid after the stated 2-3 weeks, I would simply report the packages as lost to Amazon, and Amazon will deactivate the devices. Anyway, I've used up my amazon gc balance, and won't be sending any more stuff to mys in the future.

I believe mys must have a lot of "friends & family" who buys for them. They send out requests for donations that are clearly aimed at their community. So if you are part of that community, you probably will get paid. For anyone else, I wouldn't recommend using MYS.