What's The Truth About Online Paid Survey Sites?
By: carib102 | Posted: 24th July 2007
The truth is no, most online paid survey sites are not scams. Although many people feel they are there is a line between which sites are scams and which ones are legitimate. And all it takes is a little bit of knowledge to distinguish between the two.
The Ugly - The sites that want you to pay for their list of survey companies and promise to make you rich if you simply join with them. These sites typically tell you that they have surveys available that you can't find on your own, but this simply is not true. To get access to these "special" surveys they want you to pay a membership fee, anywhere from $39.95 and up.
I have personally joined over 200 different online survey sites and every one of them was 100% free to join. You should never ever pay to take surveys or to get a list of paying survey sites. It isn't necessary at all when the information you need is freely available. In fact, legitimate market research companies are forbidden by law to make you pay to take their surveys. It would provide a bias and they don't want that and neither do their clients.
Avoid any site that wants you to pay for access to its database of survey companies. If a site is telling you you can make hundreds of dollars a day from online paid surveys keep looking, that one is likely a scam. If it sounds too good to be true it very likely is. You will make money with online paid surveys, but finding them is free and registering for them is free as well.
The Bad � It's not really that bad, but I just want you to know that you won't get rich taking online paid surveys. You can expect to make several hundred dollars a month by taking online paid surveys in your free time. I'm pretty sure that most of you reading this could use a few extra hundred dollars every month for doing something as easy as taking online paid surveys.
It also requires a small amount of patience and persistence when you begin taking online paid surveys. This may or may not be bad depending on what type of person you are. Typically you will find that there is a minimum amount before you can get paid so you may need to wait a month or so until you can start getting paid from some survey companies. Not really bad, but it does require some persistence and patience.
The Good � Online paid surveys are the easiest and most risk free ways you can use to make money on the internet. Almost all of the free online paid survey sites you'll find are legitimate. Some of the paid survey companies require that you meet a minimum payout, but that is to keep their costs down and their payouts for surveys higher, it is really to your benefit. Let's face it, many of the online paid survey companies are small parts of offline market research companies. The market research companies will not risk a bad reputation for their business by not honoring their promises, it is illegal and unethical.
As long as you follow these rules you will find that it easy to make money with online paid surveys.
1. Never pay to get a listing of online paid survey sites.
2. Join a variety of sites. Start with 20-30 surveys sites and expand from there as time permits.
3. Be persistent in taking online paid surveys. The more reliable you are the better paying the surveys become.
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