Earning some money from doing surveys : true or false

[PYLee]

as title, anyone done it before ?

[Graham]

I haven't, but to be honest I wouldn't trust it.
Half of the time they want all of your info and to sign away your firstborn child, which they probably sell to other companies for advertising.

[LZY_EYE]

From what I have seen of the Aus based ones is that they target certain groups.

I signed up to a couple ages ago via my hotmail to be careful, and to tell you the truth I hardly ever got surveys to complete.

[Blakey]

its false, yes you can make money, very very small amounts of money. sites will send you competitions and survey that you have to fill out forms wasting your time, some surveys can take up to 2Hrs to do. and if you just click random things and do it quick you don't get the points for doing an untruthful survey. competitions you will never actually win anything, they make you enter your email account, then spam you with useless SH**.

its basically free advertising for the competition starter constantly cause now they have your email.

All in all. its a big waist of time a 2Hrs survey can get you 20c if your lucky.
a small survey can get you 0.02c

and you will never win any of the competitions as most are fakes.

so you will have to accept alot of spam to have next to no chance to win some crappy item, or spend the rest of your like making 10c an hour doing surveys?

but its up to you.

[spunkybob]

you will find more money walking down the street in half the time.

[LZY_EYE]

At one of my old jobs, I used to get called by survey companies for tech related surveys.

Thats was pretty cool, one paid $50 for a 15min survey. Plus I was on work time, so got paid my hourly rate too!!!

[Chubb]

I had a phone call from dell the other day to tell me that they are sending a gift voucher for BigW, apparently I did a survey for them a while back thing is I don't remember doing it.

[tadz0rz]

My mum actually got paid to do a survey in a shopping center. They paid her $20 or something. Cant remember what it was for though lo.

[tjoz]

You can earn money somewhat but takes time. I have one, I just stopped doing them but they keep sending them. One I get points for for any survey I do (ranging from 5points for participating up to as much as 800 for completing). The points get accumulated up, once you get over a 1000 points you can cash it in for US dollars. I think I have enough for about US$350, may cash it in when our dollar shits itself again..

The other one I have is AU only, that one you get money in but it builds up and you redeem it for gift vouchers of your choice.

[The X]

as title, anyone done it before ?

What type? Internet surveys or the physical walk into an interview room and give your opinion on products as part of pre-market scoping.
The later would be more worthwhile than internet surveys.

[tryg]

Its all a crock, offering you entry into these copetitions for a survey response. I never enter a competition, unless they have national permits, with state-by-state registrations... easy way to spot the fake ones. (you can easily check on the bona fides of competition permits on each state government's gaming body site.

[PYLee]

k , so to sum it all up , surveys are a waste of time

thanks for the feedback , thought i could do something when i'm online lol

[cyssero]

Not all crock, but the remuneration is quite poor for the time you spend on them.

BUT. If you have time to kill, want to procrastinate, or hell, just like answering questions it can work. I've made a couple of hundred from www.pureprofile.com , I hardly consider it an earnings but I started it when I was much younger and had plenty of free time. I don't do it as much nowadays of course, but it's definitely not a scam and very straight forward.

There are millions of scamming survey sites, anything that offers things that seem to be too good to be true usually are. Pureprofile is straightforward, you do this survey, you'll get $3 if you finish it. If you don't qualify, you'll get $0.15. Watch this beer ad on YouTube and get $0.15. Click this link for $0.10. Simple stuff. No refer 5 friends, get an iPod (*plus sign up for free 30 day trial, credit card required). It's legit.

I wouldn't advise it unless you have nothing better to do, but it's not bad for a bit of pocket change every once in a while.

[bye2u]

as title, anyone done it before ?

What type? Internet surveys or the physical walk into an interview room and give your opinion on products as part of pre-market scoping.
The later would be more worthwhile than internet surveys.

I've signed up for one of these like 2 months ago and only recieved one email since then.. was like a taste testing thing i had to go for a couple hours for $90..

My friends done a few taste testing ones from the same company and recieve $100 or so each time.. each test took him like 2-3hours...

[LZY_EYE]

My brothers footy club used to do it for extra coin... Can make quite a bit of money if you have a group