Are Paid Surveys a Scam – Free Paid Survey Reviews

I didn’t post anything about American Consumer Opinion for the past 10 days because I had nothing to post about them.

They don’t have much of a member’s area on the website, and you can only take paid surveys when they email you. I got my first email from them. It was for a paid survey that would take about 2-3 minutes and it was for a sweepstakes entry. They said that if you won anything in the sweepstakes they would send you a check.

The survey took about 2 minutes to complete. From the things I have heard about them American Consumer Opinion sends survey out pretty infrequently but they usually pay pretty well.

Today I got another email from inviting me to take part in a survey. Nothing special, just another sweepstakes entry.

Today I requested payment from Greenfield Online, I had $11 in my account. They said it would take about 6-8 weeks for the payments to process and then I would receive the $11 I earned from taking surveys through paypal.

I earned $11 my first day taking paid survey from Greenfield Online and have not made any money since, just sweepstakes entries.

I took the survey that I was unable to take yesterday from Survey Savvy. I Answered one question then was told I did not qualify.

I have $1.50 more in my account than I did the last time I checked, I don’t remember taking any surveys worth $1.50, but it was probably from several weeks ago so I don’t think I should remember it. They take a few weeks after you take a survey for it to show up in your account.

I’m up to $65.75 lifetime account total for Survey Savvy

I had not received anything from Ipsos Survey Panel in about a week. Today I got an email from them inviting me to take part in a paid survey. It would take about 20 minutes and pay 8 point, not that I had any idea what that meant, and I would be able to take part in an instant win game.

I started taking the paid survey and it only took about 10 minutes to complete. When I was done I played the instant win game and lost. I went back to their website to figure out what the points meant but I had no idea how to log in. Their points program was run through another website, I hit the “forgot my password” button but it said that my email address was not in their records. I have emailed their customer service, also run through another website, and am awaiting their response.

My email address is obviously in their records if they have been sending me paid survey invitations.

Today I had two emails in my inbox from Greenfield Online

The first one was for a $5 survey, I started taking it and in about 30 seconds was informed that I did not qualify to take it. I was however granted another entry into their sweepstakes.

The second survey from greenfield online was for a sweepstakes entry, I took this one in about 30 seconds and did not qualify for the sweepstakes but as with all surveys I was given another entry into the “consolation sweepstakes.”

My balance is still $10 I can cash out whenever I want but I am waiting to be paid the money from the other surveys.

Update

Shortly after writing this I received another invitation for a $5 survey from Greenfield Online that I did not qualify for.

Today I got an email from Survey Savvy inviting me to take part in a paid survey for them. This paid survey would pay $1 and take about 15 minutes.

I started doing the beginning questions, the ones the ask to see if you fit in their target demographic, and then was informed that I had taken the maximum # of paid surveys I could take in a given amount of time. This paid survey was not through Survey Savvy program it was through another one, and this one overlaps with several of the other paid survey sites I am a member of so that is why I think this happened, I wonder how long it will be before I can take paid surveys again.

Today I got an email from Survey Savvy inviting me to take part in another survey. This one was for $0.50 and said would take about ten minutes. I clicked the link in the email and started taking the survey. It took me about 20 minutes in total and asked a lot of questions that were similar to ones I had already answered. My account should be credited with this 0.50 in about 4 to six weeks.

The last couple of days I have not really had anything to report about them. Today I received a $5 survey from them that I ended up not qualifying for. Greenfield Online sends me paid surveys almost every day I would say about 1/2 of them are sweepstakes entries and the other half are for money. They tell you which is which so if you are only interested in cash you can choose what surveys you complete.

I guess they are done giving one of the surveys I completed because I now have $10 credited to my account and took a screen shot.

Thats not how much I have earned from them so far with Greenfield Online, I think I have earned 13 so far but they pay you when they are done giving everyone the survey, and they said that could take around 4 weeks.

Just signed up with My Survey.

Their sign up was pretty simple and didn’t involve much redundancy. They pay their member in points that are redeemable for cash. Just for signing up you get 10 points. 1000 points=$10, so I guess you get .10 for signing up. You need to reach a minimum balance of 1000 points before you can redeem your points for cash. But you can redeem your points for other prizes. The least expensive thing also happens to be 1000 points and that is a tote bag. In addition they have other prizes such as watches, gift cards, music downloads, various mp3 players, a bunch of other small gadgets and even kitchen appliances.

I took my first paid survey today also, it was worth 25 points and took 2 minutes to complete. Then they had another survey for me that was worth 10 points, this paid survey took about 1 minute to complete. So as of one day, assuming I make it to 1000 points, I have made 45 cents in about 3 minutes.

I received an email from Ipsos Survey Panel inviting me to take part in their latest survey. It was for a chance to win $100 dollars. The survey was 1 page long and took maybe 1 minute to do.

I tried to log in to my account to take more but I still don’t know how to log in. Then I went on their normal page and started taking surveys. They have you fill in your email address at the beginning so I think I am getting credit for the paid surveys I am taking, but then I went back and just filled in a random email address that I was sure didn’t exist and it still gave me the survey even though the email address I put in was not a member