Getting paid to take surveys?

annk85 · March 2013

I see ads to get paid to take surveys all over the internet. They seem too good to be true so I'm a little hesitant to try it out. Has anyone actually done this before and are there sites that are better than others? How do they work and how do you get paid?

hesakeeper · March 2013

I don't know about any other site but Pinecone Research -- You get paid $3 for each survey. I prefer to receive checks in the mail (ha, I know, it's only $3 but I usually deposit them when I have other stuff to deposit) but they also have the option to deposit into your Paypal account.

Pinecone Research is legit AND they've sent me products to test before - one in particular is a food item that I actually now see in stores, which is cool.

LarissaB · March 2013

I have to second Pinecone. They can be somewhat tricky to find a link to sign up for and I've found that lately the amount of surveys have trickled off but I enjoy them because not only do you get paid but occasionally get products to sample. The other site I've had better success with lately is Value Opinion. They pay you in gift cards, I choose Amazon and was able to get a $20 GC in about 3-4 weeks with the amount of surveys they were sending me.

polooo27 · March 2013

Me and my wife have tinkered with them. Here are some of my experiences.

Swagbucks - internet search. You search for things just like you would on google. You can earn swagbucks and redeem them for giftcards. I spent maybe 30 seconds each morning doing this and would earn maybe 10 bucks a month. If you refer people you get their points up to a 1000 and that can really add up (I referred myself when I did it using a different e-mail address). That's probably how you've heard of people earning big (pyramid scheme) The search engine is pretty lousy though and I don't do it anymore.

All others - You would spend 3 minutes just to find out you didn't qualify for a survey. Then when you did you would spend the next 30-45 minutes answering the same questions over and over again to earn a few bucks. It was pretty annoying.

There is one survey site my wife uses that she somehow got invited to it. I couldn't do it and she couldn't invite me. She got paid maybe a quarter when she didn't qualify for a survey so it wasn't a waste and the pay for what she did qualify for came out to be $5-$10 an hour for her time.

I'm going to try pinecone based off of the last two posts. That seems intrigueing.

amsweet25 · March 2013

I have tried a few survey sites, I have never done Pinecone Research but I have heard good things about them. The one I have used with pretty good result is OpinionOutpost.com. You sign up and they award you points for taking surveys. Once you have 100 points you can cash it in for either a $10 paypal deposit or an amazon code. I have made about $40 from them over the past six months, and I only take surveys once and a while when I feel like it. They do send you a lot of email though. The one thing it is important to remember about survey sites is that you should never pay anyone to take surveys or see surveys.

ariel06 · March 2013

Pinecone and Opinion's outpost are the only ones I've found that are worth it.

Wulfgar · March 2013

A lot of it depends on your social economical class. My wife tried to do this but kept getting turned down after entering all of her information. I forget which site it was, but you would earn credits towards gift cards.

polooo27 · March 2013

My wife tried to find pinecone but she couldn't find a way to sign up. Are there any tricks to getting signed up. I think all the adds she found were expired.

jjbmstinco · March 2013

I use swagbucks. I have been doing it for about 3 months and made about $55.00. I am not super into like some people are but I try hard to make my goal.

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