Paid Surveys & PTR Review
Would you like to make $100 to take surveys? Sure, I would love to. I have opinions, I like other people to know about my opinions. I also like money. When I first wanted to work from home 5 years ago, it seemed like paid surveys & paid to read e-mails were the only way for me to make money. I didn’t like to sell things. I didn’t know anything about how to make a website. I’m not even sure blogs were invented yet. So I thought, I will just sign up for every company & read e-mails & take surveys & it will be a wonderful life. It would have been a wonderful life. Yes there are some legitimate survey/paid to read e-mail companies out there. However, the surveys in my experience only pay $3-$4 each. I only received 1-2 surveys throughout a year from all the registering I did. Reading e-mails seemed ok until I realized I was not making three cents, I was making a third of a cent. The main money to be made is in getting other people to sign up for these programs, you get a referral fee. You build a “down-line” (Down line is one of the ugliest words in the English language. Let’s face it, I’m not that good with people to get hundreds-thousands to sign up for something. I wouldn’t be Sarakastic if I was.). If you ever finally made the high payout of the ptr (paid to reads) they had usually gone out of business or found some way to not pay you. I found paid surveys & paid to read e-mail to not be worth my time. If anyone else has other experiences positive or negative with these programs please leave a comment.
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:52 am
I know exactly what you mean, although many of the companies involved in paying for surveys claim they can pay you in cash, most of the times expect to be payed with coupons, gifts and other freebies. I think that finding a survey that pays with actual cash is kinda hard, but then there are focus groups which can really pay more if you’re willing to put in the effort.
Thanks for the article
Michael
Survey Income System
December 4th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
You are right that the bulk of one’s income will probably come from referals/affiliate programs. However, mystery shopping might be a better alternative. I know some friends that were able to find legitimate mystery shopper companies easily and make real money with that. They also were able to keep the products they bought. If you have a full-time job, however, travelling to stores as a secret shopper might be difficult to do frequently.
John
Mystery Shopping Jobs
March 16th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Yes, I agree. Mystery shopping has more potential for bringing in extra income. Most of the “paid surveys” I tried just offered a “chance” to win their sweepstakes.
If you are concerned about the legitimacy of mystery shopping, you might want to read this article: http://www.become-a-secret-shopper.com/is-mystery-shopping-legitimate.html
July 4th, 2007 at 11:59 am
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February 19th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Very True. I also registered with a couple survey companies a few years ago. The most I ever got for a survey was $2.00. Then a while back I joined a pay per click website, I actually earned a little over $40.00 but they have yet to pay me. I don’t think I’ll ever get paid. Recently I came across a site http://secret-shopper-review.com and I found out about becoming a secret shopper. I have since signed up with a few mystery shopper companies and have been on 2 assignments. One of them was actually a market research assignment where I had to watch a couple commercials and then answer some questions on a computer. It was supposed to take an hour but I finished in 30 minutes and it payed $40 right away.