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Survey Scams Can Be Avoided

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:00:28 +0000

Learn About Survey Scams

Survey scams sites are a dime a dozen these days. Over-hyped sites promising thousands of dollars a week abound. They make it sound so good just so they can get you to pay them for access to their site. And once you do pay you find that all they are giving you is information that is freely available on the internet, no special advantage and no customer service. You’ve been taken by a survey scam.

Truthfully you can make money on the internet doing surveys, but not thousands of dollars a week like the survey scams sites claim. You won’t get rich doing online surveys, but there are some sites that can provide you with consistent earning opportunities. It may not be the easy riches promised by the survey scams sites, but any legitimate way to make money is going to involve some effort on your part, paid surveys are no exception to this.

I bought into the hype and promises and found that it was wasted money. I don’t want you to have to go through the same experience. It is shocking that some sites want you to pay for the privilege of accessing their “special” database of survey sites. The only ones getting anything “special” are the guys taking your hard earned money. If they really cared what programs you joined wouldn’t they make the information available for free?

Well, now there is one site that does just that and helps you avoid the survey scams. It provides you with free access to hundreds of paid survey companies, all of them tested and legitimate. It doesn’t ask you to pay for access and it doesn’t even ask for your email address to register at the site. The site is Paid Survey Success and it is such a refreshing change from all the other scammers out there.

Never forget one golden rule about making money from paid surveys. You should NEVER have to pay money to access a survey site or to receive surveys online. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to take you for a ride and take your money. You shouldn’t have to pay money to make money. These are survey scams and you can learn to avoid them.

There are a lot of traps out there just waiting to take advantage of the unwary. As someone who struggles to make ends meet in this day and age I find it important to keep what I’ve earned. You can make money on the internet, but be careful of the scammers out there. I have seen hundreds of sites promising instant riches, but not one that actually delivers on the promises.

As I said before, you may not find instant riches taking paid surveys, but you can make decent money. Find a reputable site that allows you to sign up for paid surveys for free and will answer your questions if you have them. Sign up for as many of the paying survey sites as possible. Be consistent in responding to surveys. It won’t happen overnight, but you will see an income develop from paid surveys.

Paid surveys can be fun and interesting as well as profitable. I hope that you are as fortunate as I am to be able to add to my online income in such an easy way. Just watch out for the survey scams along the way.

Paid Survey Scam Warning

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:44:08 +0000

Watch For Paid Survey Scams

While you can find legitimate survey sites there are some paid survey scams out there to be aware of. Please keep in mind that for the most part the paid survey industry is completely legitimate. The problem is that there are some unscrupulous people out there trying to take advantage of those who are uninformed. Here are three tips that will help to keep you away from paid survey scams.

First: Don’t ever pay for membership to a paid survey site. Not EVER! You shouldn’t even have to give away your email address to get access or membership with a site. You can find all of the information you need about legitimate paid surveys for free on the internet. If you need to pay for a list of survey sites it is a paid survey scam. In fact, the market research companies that pay you to take the surveys NEVER ask you to pay to take their surveys. It would make their results biased and they take a very negative stance regarding sites that require you to pay them to access a list of paying survey sites. Even though the sites that ask you to pay for membership may claim to have “secrets about taking surveys” or “special access to member only surveys” that simply isn’t true. Market research companies make their surveys freely available to everyone in the demographic they are targeting.

Second: Don’t ever pay for or give out your email address to get access to a database of paid surveys. This is the same tactic as the above paid survey scam used just to take your money or email address without providing you ANY additional value. It is possible to find out about all of the market research companies that offer paid surveys for free on the internet. If someone wants to charge you for access to a database or requires you to register for access to a database of paid surveys sites click the BACK button on your browser right away! It’s a paid survey scam.

Third: Avoid Get Paid To (GPT) sites that are posing as survey sites. You’ll recognize these because rather than asking you question in a survey type format they will require that you sign up for offers with other companies to get paid. You can make money with these types of programs, but they require special caution and monitoring. Some of the offers they ask you to sign up for will have recurring membership charges buried in the fine print and you can suddenly find that you are being charged hundreds of dollars for products and services you have no need of. If you want to do GPT’s make sure you keep a complete record of EVERYTHING you sign up for and when you need to cancel it before they bill you.

Remember, most paid surveys are legitimate you just need to watch for the few warning signs I’ve given you to avoid paid survey scams. One other thing to remember when you’re trying to make money with paid surveys…

KEEP WORKING IT…IT WILL GET EASIER…YOU CAN MAKE GOOD MONEY WITH PAID SURVEYS…Most sites are not paid survey scams.

Are Online Paid Survey Sites Scams?

admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:53:18 +0000

If you read what the majority of people are saying about online paid survey sites then the answer is yes, but if you know the truth then the answer is mostly no. Read on to find out about the good, the bad and the ugly about online paid survey sites.

The Ugly – There are sites out there that are just looking to get rich by selling you information that you can get for free. These sites typically tell you that they have surveys available that you can’t find on your own, but this simply is not true. To get access to these “special” surveys they want you to pay a membership fee, anywhere from $39.95 and up.

I have personally joined over 200 different online paid survey sites and every one of them was 100% free to join. You should never ever pay to take surveys or to get a list of paying survey sites. It isn’t necessary at all when the information you need is freely available. In fact, legitimate market research companies are forbidden by law to make you pay to take their surveys. It would provide a bias and they don’t want that and neither do their clients.

Avoid any online paid survey site that wants you to pay for access to its database of survey companies. Avoid any online paid survey site that says you can make thousands of dollars a week or hundreds of dollars a day. If it sounds too good to be true it very likely is. You will make money with online paid surveys, but finding them is free and registering for them is free as well.

The Bad – It’s not really that bad, but I just want you to know that you won’t get rich taking online paid surveys. You can make several hundred dollars a month easily though in your spare time and that’s not bad. I’m pretty sure that most of you reading this could use a few extra hundred dollars every month for doing something as easy as taking online paid surveys.

It also requires a small amount of patience and persistence when you begin taking online paid surveys. This may or may not be bad depending on what type of person you are. Typically you will find that there is a minimum amount before you can get paid so you may need to wait a month or so until you can start getting paid from some online paid survey sites. Not really bad, but it does require some persistence and patience.

The Good – Online paid surveys are the easiest and most risk free ways you can use to make money on the internet. The majority of online paid survey sites are quite legitimate. They may have minimum payment requirements that take time to meet, however all of the sites I have requested payment from have paid me. Let’s face it, many of the online paid survey companies are small parts of offline market research companies. They have reputations to protect and are not going to jeopardize their businesses by being unresponsive to the very people they get their data from.

As long as you follow these rules you will find that it easy to make money with online paid surveys.

Never pay to get a listing of online paid survey sites.
Join a variety of sites. Start with 20-30 online paid survey sites and expand from their as time permits.
Be persistent in taking online paid surveys. The more reliable you are the better paying the surveys become.

AW Surveys Review

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:17:06 +0000

*** As of July 15, 2007 I am finding that many users are not being paid as promised by AW Surveys. Many users are being told that they were referred by themselves or similar statements and payments are not forthcoming from AW Surveys. I cannot recommend that you sign up with AW Surveys at this time ***

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AW Surveys is a brand new rapidly growing survey site. Currently they are paying out $6.00 just for completing your welcome survey and from $1 to $25 for every survey you complete after that. I had $26 within 1/2 hour of registering with them!

The surveys here are actually website evaluations and are very fun and easy to do. Anyone worldwide can register with AW Surveys and you only have to be 13 to register with them. Website evaluations shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes to do and they are paying very well.

Payment terms are a bit steep, but with the initial $26 you’ll make right after registration it shouldn’t take too long to hit the goal. AW Surveys requires a $75 minimum prior to payout and they pay either a check delivered via USPS (4-6 weeks for delivery) or PayPal (5 days). Note that there is a service charge for payment via PayPal so it might benefit you to be patient.

Membership with AW Surveys is completely free. They will email you with new survey opportunities as they become available. I hope you enjoyed this AW Surveys review.

Get Paid For Answering Online Short Surveys

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:06:53 +0000

Answering online short surveys is a great way to make some extra money. You may have heard that there is a problem with doing this and that all of the companies that pay you for answering online short surveys are scams. It’s not true, there are legitimate sites out there that will pay you for answering short online surveys, in fact there are many. So, how do you tell the difference between a legitimate site and one that is a scam? There are several guaranteed ways to tell the two apart.

The first thing to consider is if the site requires you to pay money for answering online short surveys. You should never have to pay money to join any paid survey site. The legitimate sites frown upon this type of behavior because it causes a bias in those who are answering the online short surveys. This bias makes their results unreliable and useless. If a site is asking you to pay for a list of companies paying for surveys then it is a scam.

Another type of scam website is one that asks for your email address to get access to it’s list of paying survey companies. Once you register they have your email address and can sell it to anyone they like. You’ll find that these sites often have very short lists as well. It is difficult to make much money for answering online short surveys if you don’t have a large and comprehensive list of paying survey sites.

So then, one of the keys to a legitimate paid survey site is that it is free from fees. If it is the type of site that is providing a list of companies that will pay you for answering online short surveys then you shouldn’t have to register. There are plenty of personal websites and blogs that offer this information free of any costs or registration.

When going to the actual sites that pay for surveys you will have to register. They need some personal information to match you up with surveys. These sites should be from established market research companies that have a history of paying people for answering online short surveys. There are many reputable companies out there that do this.

Look for a privacy page and terms of service. The site should not share your personal information and there should be real contact information there, a mailing address and phone number as well as an email address that you can contact the company at. Sites that have nothing but a contact form on their website are often scams just looking to collect email addresses.

One other type of site to watch out for when looking for legitimate companies that pay you for answering online short surveys are those that are primarily interested in getting you to sign up for other offers. You’ll recognize these sites easily enough once you register. Instead of taking you to the surveys or your profile they will take you through several pages of offers that you can opt into or need to click a radio button to opt out of. These companies are just trying to register you for other programs and rarely have any surveys of their own to offer. They may not be a scam, but they are probably not what you want if you’re trying to make money getting paid for answering online short surveys.

The very best paid survey sites will have other opportunities to get paid besides just answering online short surveys. They may pay you to read emails, to look at advertisements or to sign up for other offers. Note that this is different from the previously mentioned companies in that these companies actually pay you to sign up for offers rather than making you opt-in or opt-out with no compensation at all. You can make a good bit of money very quickly through this type of program.

These are some of the top things to look for when starting to get paid for answering online short surveys. Take your time and look around. Do your research and avoid those companies that want you to pay for their information. It’s easy to make money answering online short surveys if you are able to avoid the scams.