Sounds great, doesn’t it? To get paid for voicing your opinion while you are at home, doing it at your own pace without being stuck on the phone for who knows how long. The thing of it is, it isn’t all that it is cracked up to be on their pitch page.
Who really wants to spend 30 minutes filling out a survey for $.50? Do you want to have to fulfill offers that cost you money, even if it is a free trial? Do you want to enter your credit card however many times to pay for shipping and handling on that free trial? Do you want to have to keep track of the time limit on the free offer and then cancel so you don’t end up with a recurring monthly bill?
To even make a decent income on filling out surveys, you have to be subscribed to almost 20 different sites. Then, you are wasting time filling out pre-requisite questionaires to find out if you even qualify to take the paid survey. You can easily spend a 40 hour work week filling out surveys and end up being paid less than a minimum wage job.
A lot of the survey sites recommend you go ahead and fulfill offers when the reward is something you want, like a laptop computer or if it is something you can turn around and sell on eBay. Again, you are running into the problem of spending money to get the item and then turn around and pay to sell it.
Admittedly, for some people it is worth it because instead of paying $400 for an iTouch, they pay $200. There are even some sites advocate paying others to fulfill the offers required to get the item.
Some sites are on a reward/points/prize basis. You get points for filling out a survey, so you can eventually turn those points into cash or for some product that they offer. There are even rewards of getting entered into some sweepstakes for filling out a survey.
Do you want to fill out credit card offers so you can get paid to do it? This one is trickier because you have to think of what is going on in your life. Things to think about are whether or not you plan on re-financing a loan or getting a new one. Every time you fill out a credit card application your credit profile has the log of the inquiry by the credit card company. If there are a lot of inquiries or you are opening the card to turn around and close it, it all shows up on your credit report and you are sending your credit score into the toilet. Also, if you do open a credit line and then close it that credit card company is keeping track of that stuff too. If you do that multiple times with one company, they consider it fraud and you’ll find yourself cut off from the survey community.
In case you couldn’t tell already, paid surveys aren’t something I recommend, but it is certainly “different strokes for different folks”.
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