Helllo Everyone!

I was online browsing when I come across something that says "Get Paid for Taking Surveys". Now to me, it sounds like bulls***, but has anyone ever done that or know anyone that has? And if so, how true is it? I feel that that is only another way for people to scam you.

Thanks guys!

Most are legitimate, the biggies don't pay per survey but award points that can be used to put in for prizes.

The thing is that even if they do pay, its peanuts and generally works out to less than minimum wage.

Yeah.. I just thought that was a little weird. People paying people to take surveys? I was like, "something not right about that".

Not to bring an old post up or anything, but my grandfather takes surveys and they "compensate" him by sending him food products and such, its kind of cool since he is retired, but I would not trust it as a means to survive. :)

That is pretty cool! I guess some of those surveys are good for something. I would be too nervous to do it lol.

What exactly do they ask on the surveys?

Yeah.. I just thought that was a little weird. People paying people to take surveys?? I was like, "something not right about that".

Actually its not that wrong. Getting the public's opinion about things, gauging market trends, doing focus group analysis have all been viable marketing research techniques for a long time. The internet has made doing surveys easy. But people often don't have the time to do them. So some sort of compensation or reward is often necessary.

I used to have a oneclick account-- I think it was called oneclick. I earned like 10$ from there. It was like a few months later though haha!

Wow mud lol that's not a lot at all. What did you do?

Wow mud lol that's not alot at all. What did you do?

Lol you don't get much for surveys...

Oooh this was so long ago, all I remember was clicking on ads and links they would send to me, I guess to create more traffic on that site. And I had to scroll through the site for a while and then rate it.

... this type of uh... "job" won't pay the bills, but it sure will buy you that candy bar you've been craving;)

Generally the surveys are fairly anonymous. It all depends on what they are marketing. I do surveys for NPD one of the larger marketing research firms, and the surveys vary widely.

LOL @ mud

@ Scott - What's NPD?

Hot potato, he gets sent the "free" food in exchange for a survey about the product, taste, presence, that kind of deal.

There is a site called hubpages (http://www.hubpges.com) that you can try to earn some money on if your interested, you publish articles and get ad payouts on them (if you do it for money) I personally do it for the credibility the site gives me.

Oh OK. I'll check it out, but I'm not all good at writing articles lol.

Writing articles is EASY with wikipedia :)

Cayden - I just went on that site and all kinds of different links popped up. Too confusing for me cause I don't know which one to pick. And as I scrolled down, I saw something about scams, and Beware of at home surveys. So I clicked out of it lol

Hubpages.com? I just got on, not a single popup ad, and its not a scam, despite what people say, I personally saw my friends check for $600 some odd dollars, hmmmm, let me look into this further...

Oh I got it lol. I Google searched it the first time. I guess that's why it didn't work

Lol, got to love Google :S

Yeah I know lol.

Unfortunately when you do what I do, that's just about all I do all day, mess with Google

@ Scott - Whats NPD?

Market Research | Consumer Market Research - NPD (http://www.npd.com/corpServlet?nextpage=corp_welcome.html)

Oh OK...

Basically just agreeing with everything ScottGem said. I do surveys for several companies. They are legit. They might pay or give points for rewards. I would never, ever think about calling it a "job." As he said, it doesn't even come out to minimum wage, and that's only even counting the time you actually do them.

You should take the surveys because you want to, because you want to put your 2c in. Now if you're in a country where the cost of a computer game is your entirely monthly salary, it's worth more. But for most of us, you need to do it cause you want to. And any cash or rewards should be looked at as nothing but a small bonus. And you don't always qualify for them. (That will partly depend on demographics. I think I'm in a popular demographic category that closes out quickly. Harris Poll is one that doesn't seem to disqualify you for that reason, though if you answer "no" to "do you own..." it'll skip to the end and you get very few points.)

I've gotten less than a total of about $150 in cash, that's over years. (About $110 is from one place, Global Test Market, and the rest comes in $2-5 increments.) I've got a few nice things with points, mostly recently about $35 in Amazon gift certificate. I've also gotten a pair of binoculars, a cheap cassette player, a really terrible phone headphone set that got pitched. :rolleyes: (Let the points add up and get the better stuff.) But this is all over years, so what's that come out to per month - um, very little. But I certainly don't mind getting the stuff. :D

I'm a member of NPD as well. They only enter you in drawings. I let my points build up there and maybe some day I'll have enough to actually win the lousy $100 prize. Their surveys are a big variety and so are Harris Poll's. But some places tend towards certain types of things.

What is a scam, however, is a place that wants money to send you a list of the survey places.

Well said morgaine :-) Thanks for that!