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**Ondubz** · 07-12-2005, 05:10 AM

Greetings,
I am a new member to this forum (Yes Sir!). I have a question about PaidSurveysOnline.Com. Does anyone care to share any knowledge on them. They claim to pay out at most @ 2000 a month for online survey's. Has anyone tried doing survey's online before, are they worth the time and effort? Overall is Paidsurveysonline.com legitamate and can i trust them with my $40 dollars to get started with them? Are there paying online survey companies online that dont require this fee or am i being charged by a middleman? Any response will be highly appreciated. Thank You.

**dk40k** · 07-12-2005, 10:23 AM

Hey, I have done those online surveys where they pay you.. Honestly, they are not worth the time and the effort. They are typically a 10-15 minute survey which sometimes do not even pay you because of your location or you do not qualify for some reason or they pay very little. Also, I would not even join a paid surveying program if they make you pay, that just seems a bit scammy to me. This way they can make more money (that is the main reason they have the site up). But even if you do register and do some surveys, trust me you wouldn't be making about 2 grand a month.. That was maybe one person or even just a fake person (they can claim anything online, seeing that they have no legal statements or documents on their site). Those actual paying surveys don't even payout alot unless your lucky and find a very good one. But usually they send out only 1 survey a week which pays average $1-$5 per survey, the longer the survey the more the value. But I may be able to make more then that just asking my friends for money :P Overall, I suggest you not to trust those, especially PaidSurveysOnline.Com because it does not look like a well established site.

**Ondubz** · 07-12-2005, 04:47 PM

Thanks for the Information..

**TheNetCode** · 07-12-2005, 08:42 PM

He is exactly right. If you want to try doing surveys for products or even sometimes cash you should never pay for it. This is due to the fact that they are being paid by the manufacturer to test that product and that same company will pay you also. There are a few good ones out there. If you really want one that is reputable and has been doing market research for years than here is a link to one that I have used before and have first hand experience with how well they are run. http://new3.mysurvey.com/

Good luck

**Ondubz** · 07-13-2005, 02:02 AM

Thanks dk40 along with TheNetCode. I will check out your link TheNetCode. Your gaming site, dk40 is really nice. I know its a hot type of website because my nephew loves those types of websites. How long did it take you to build it and do you have to know computer language like HTML to build that type of website and how did you get the rights to have all those games on your site I've seen them elsewhere too. Excuse the rambling.

**dk40k** · 07-13-2005, 09:43 AM

Well I built it longtime ago as a hobby it took only 1 month to get well established. Also, I used HTML but it isn't that hard if you have like Frontpage or dreamweaver. Also, the games are from around the Net, I try and find the best and most fun games.. You can usually use it freely because most of the games contain a link to the maker of the game so it wouldn't really matter if you use it. But if they ask you to remove it then you may have to.

**claguev** · 08-16-2006, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ondubz

Greetings,
I am a new member to this forum (Yes Sir!). I have a question about PaidSurveysOnline.Com. Does anyone care to share any knowledge on them. They claim to pay out at most @ 2000 a month for online survey's. Has anyone tried doing survey's online before, are they worth the time and effort? Overall is Paidsurveysonline.com legitamate and can i trust them with my $40 dollars to get started with them? Are there paying online survey companies online that dont require this fee or am i being charged by a middleman? Any response will be highly appreciated. Thank You.

Hi
I was a mug and signed up. I am yet to receive my free survey worth $25 that they promised let alone any other survey. It was a big mistake. When I think about it why should I pay someone to then give them my IP and time for free!

**php4life** · 08-21-2006, 07:53 PM

I looked at PaidSurveysOnline.com along with others like SurveyScout.com. I found it odd that you have to pay to see their list of survey sites. So I looked for free survey sites on google. After looking through several of them, I liked Priceless Surveys the best. First of all, it's free. Second, it shows a small description of every survey site in its database so that you can simply read the description and choose to sign up with the ones you like. Just try it out for yourself at Priceless Surveys

- Never pay for anything. Everything should be free.

**The Critic** · 09-08-2006, 08:16 PM

You don't have to pay or give anyone your information to find sites that send out paid surveys. Survey Critic has lists and reviews of many well established sites and new content is added regularly. You aren't going to be making $1000s per week or month, but you do typically make $10-20+ per hour for you time.

**autoecart** · 09-10-2006, 05:08 PM

Most paid surveys either say that you dont qualify for some reason or pay you in coupons and discount cards for other merchants and the ones that do pay only pay like 15 cents a survey

**The Critic** · 09-10-2006, 10:11 PM

That's not true. Doing surveys is kinda my thing and I have yet to recieve coupons or discount cards as an incentive. It isn't hard to make over $100 per month taking surveys.

**omarabs** · 09-12-2006, 07:14 PM

I agree with critic, I and my wife make money from paid surveys, focus groups, as well as mystery shopping.
it doesn't happen overnight though, you know nothing is easy! you need to apply to a lot of survey sites to increase your chances of getting more jobs.
I joined SurveyPolicy.com - Paid Surveys and mystery shopping cost only $14.95, you get an awsome list of paid surveys, mystery shopping, focus group, free business cards, form filling software to save time filling registration forms.

**carjamlangley** · 09-17-2006, 04:56 AM

But are you going to gain long term wealth on such a project? I highly doubt it. I would stick to creating high quality websites and learning as much as you can about how to do that right...SEO, becoming PPC savvy, etc.

**dkbook** · 09-20-2006, 10:46 AM

Hi, my wife has been completing all sorts of surveys for months now. Vast majority come up with "Do not qualify" after spending 10 min. answering often dumb questions. She has earned a few dollars and some free samples, but it has not been worth the time and effort. Would be better to spend the time finding and promoting drop-ship or clickbank or similar links. Good luck, we are still working on it.

**isource** · 09-20-2006, 05:54 PM

I actually have access to Paidsurverysonline. It is of course a list of survey places, putting ads on your car etc. Also useful software to use.
If you're wondering about the fee, it can be decided upon very simply.
For example, with my website www.grantsforall.us, we offer the largest grant directory on the net, thats guaranteed. Now sure, you could spend months of your time researching the free publicly available websites and grant offices to obtain your own information. Or you you could pay a small one time fee to have it all given to you. In my experience how ever, everybody wants free stuff, and wants people to do it for them.

Cheers.

**The Critic** · 09-21-2006, 08:33 PM

Taking surveys is mostly for people who don't already have a website that's making tons of money, but even if you already have one paid surveys will get you more money than you would have had anyway. If you aren't making at least an extra $100-150 per month you either aren't trying or you aren't looking in the right places. A hardcore survey taker could easily double that (or more) using just a handful of sites. And I've always been of the opinion that you should never have to pay for information that you can get for free just by Googling, especially after all of the bad things I've heard about some of those pay sites.

**enjoyyourlife** · 09-24-2006, 10:28 PM

I agree with most of the comments here. I found a site that list over a hundred survey companies on it. Although I did attempt to do them they were all free to sign (I signed with about 20 over 2 weeks) up with. My expierence was upon finishing them I was told to purchase something at the end to qualify---where is the logic in this? I wanted to do it for money not pay out more then what I was going to be paid to complete the survey.

Some of you mention you were getting paid--Do you have to purchase at the end to qualify, if not can you tell me where these sites are?

**The Critic** · 09-25-2006, 03:09 AM

See, that's the problem with trying to find legitimate sites. There's so much fine print to comb through that it simply takes up way too much time and you end up signing up without reading everything carefully. We've all done it. You should never, ever have to give anyone your credit card to participate in a genuine market research survey.

The ones that make you pay for the privilege of taking the survey are actually paid offers in disguise. When your card is charged the company that you signed up with gets paid affiliate marketing fees and then passes a portion onto you. For example, a company may pay out $30 per sale to their affiliate partners, and the "survey" company may give you half of that.

If you want links to legit sites check out the link in my sig. There are some reviews of some of the more popular sites and some country specific master lists. You might also find the Tips and Basics pages helpful.

**jason_bristol** · 09-25-2006, 06:13 PM

yeah 'critic' I read pretty much everything on your website a few days ago. You have a good site there. After reading through your site I will be signing up to a few to see how it gos. I'm just getting my head around paypal first. As you sugested on your site, some of the serveys will pay through paypal.

thanks

**The Critic** · 09-25-2006, 08:38 PM

Thanks, that's always nice to hear.

If you have any questions about Paypal (or anything else for that matter) send me an email or PM and I'd be glad to help you.