Are Paid Surveys a Scam – Free Paid Survey Reviews

I took a $2 survey for Greenfield Online today. The survey took me about 15 minutes to complete. It was the first survey that I had qualified for from greenfield online in a while.

Today I had several offers from global test market.

One of them was for a 500 market point series of surveys. Unfortunately I did not qualify for it, it would have been $25.

I did have another paid survey offer from Global Test Market for a 75 point survey. This one took me about 20 minutes. Now I have 930 market points in my account and it will only be another survey or two before I can cash out for $50 from Global Test Market

I have been a member of American Consumer Opinion (ACOP) for about 2 months and a week. They are completely free to join and accept a wide variety of demographics. They do not send as many surveys as some of the other companies but they have the highest compensation per survey sent. So far I have received 3 surveys from them: one for $5 one for $7 and one for $10. They do not waste your time with any sort of sweepstakes entries or surveys that take like 20 minutes and only pay $0.50

The surveys they send tell you about how much time it will take and how much they will pay you for it. The ones I have taken were all around 10 or 15 minutes. With each survey they send they also put you into a random drawing for money, but I pretty much only take the surveys for the cash.

Another cool thing about American Consumer Opinions is that they don’t really have a member’s area or anything. Once they send you a survey, you take it and in about 4 weeks you will receive a check in the mail for that particular survey. They do not have any sort of cash out or redeeming points or anything, just a check for you when you are done.

Overall I would say that this website is one of the best, you will not spend much time taking surveys with this website but the time you do spend will be the most profitable based on the money/time spent. I highly recommend joining

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This websites tends to flip back and forth between good and bad in my eyes. I will say that it is more of niche survey website. Most of their surveys tend to be geared towards young adults and teenagers. This is actually really nice since they can be ignored by some of the larger survey companies, but it means that some of the older members won’t get too many surveys. Like many survey websites, they have some nice features but a few annoying ones you’ll have to get used to.

The good is actually pretty numerous. They primarily offer paying surveys and don’t flood your email with contests. Their surveys also tend to be a little less tedious than some of the ones sent out by their competitors. The topics usually deal with politics or entertainment, meaning that you can voice opinions on your favorite televisions shows and earn money for doing it. They also pay for several of the profile surveys, which means that you will earn a little bit just for joining. Their payout system is probably the fastest snail mail system I’ve seen. I believe I received my check in just about a month. Finally, they get some really nice surveys from time to time. This is actually how I received a survey which led to a $75 teleconference.
The only real annoyance to me is that their surveys aren’t always worth your time. Specifically, they often use a twisted contest form. A survey can sometimes pay from $2 to $5. You won’t know until the end. This makes it much harder to differentiate between the good and the bad surveys, since you never know when you’ll be the lucky ones to hit the bigger payout.

Overall, they are a really nice site that deserves your signup. You just have to remember that your success on the site may depend entirely on getting lucky or falling into a good demographic.

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I have been a member of Greenfield online for about 2 months and 2 weeks. In total I have so far made $11 taking paid surveys with them and have been paid by them. I have received many paid survey offers from them ranging in value from sweepstakes entries to $10 for a single survey (luckily one of the few I qualified for). Most of the cash paid surveys pay about $3 and are sent to you several times a week.

Their program is completely free to sign up for and once you are a member it is really easy to get used to using the website and finding your way around. There are usually an abundance of paid surveys that you can take, but I decided to pretty much only take cash paid ones that are sent to me in an email. If you have an abundance of time you can login daily and take paid surveys. The paid surveys most often take about 20 minutes and each one they send you has a time estimate of how long it should take, but most often these are more time than it will actually take you. I would say all in all it took me about 45 minutes to earn my $11. But if you count surveys that I didn’t qualify for, going through emails, surveys that were sweepstakes that I didn’t win ect… then it took about an hour and a half, which would still amount to between $7 and $8 an hour just sitting at my computer in my spare time.

They send a lot of surveys that are simply sweepstakes entries but these are easy to just skip, or take if you are interested. They also send a lot of cash paid surveys, but I did not qualify for many of them. I believe that you can cash out whenever you want and can choose to get paid via paypal (like I did); I also think you can get it sent to you via a check.

After I made $11 my first day with them I requested payment and was paid within a couple of weeks via paypal and it was the full amount with nothing deducted for fees.

Overall I would say that greenfield online is definitely not a scam and is easily a website that would be worth joining. It is completely free to Sign up for Greenfield Online

Today I did a 50 points survey for global test market that took me about 4 minutes to do. At this rate I would be making about $37.50 an hour, if they had and unlimited amount of surveys to send and they were all this short.

I have a little over 800 points and am getting really close to the cash out point

I had an Invite to take part in a $7 paid survey for ACOP. I started taking the paid survey and about 3 minutes into it I was informed that this was just a screener for the real paid survey and that I would find out in a couple of weeks if I actually qualified to take it.

Looking back at the email it did say that it was just a screener, so it was not like they were tricking me into taking it.

I have not written on here for a couple of days since I have been a little busy with other things. When I checked my email I had about 3 cash paid surveys from greenfield online. One for $5 one for $6 and one for $1.

I decided to take the two surveys for larger amounts, but unfortunately they were not on topics that I was particularly familiar with so I did not qualify for either of them.