Paid Survey Scams

There are a lot of scams floating around the Internet for sure, but in defense to paid surveys, they're not scams. They're just not very good for earning any kind of real income on the Internet. Well, I thought it was about time that somebody set the record straight about these paid survey sites and the programs that sell information on paid survey sites. I think after reading this, scam or not, you'll probably want very little to do with doing paid surveys online.

First off, let me explain just what paid surveys are for those who haven't heard of them yet. Paid surveys are just as they sound. You sign up with a site and they send you a survey on some topic. It could be your shopping habits, your job, your dating preferences and a number of various topics. For each survey that you fill out, the company will pay you for doing so. On paper, this sounds really great. However, the reality of these surveys is a different matter altogether.

For starters, you just don't get to take a survey. You have to first qualify for them. To do this, you have to fill out a questionnaire, which sometimes even longer than the survey you have to take. This questionnaire will ask you things like your age, sex and employment status. After you fill in the questionnaire, you will then get a message informing you of whether or not you even qualify for the survey. And therein lies the rub of this whole business.

When I first got online, paid surveys was one of the first things I tried. I quickly learned that many of the surveys are geared towards people other than myself. In other words, I didn't qualify. I spend countless hours filling out questionnaires and never even got to take a survey. It was quite frustrating. Finally, when I did qualify for a survey and took it, what I got paid was a joke. And therein lies the final rub on surveys.

Each survey site has a different pay structure so this will have to be a general description. For the most part, the payment is about $5 for a survey that takes about 30 to 60 minutes to complete. Sometimes it's as little as $2 and some sites don't pay you in money at all. What they do is give you what they call credits. Sometimes the credits they give you are quite considerable, on the surface. But then you go to cash them in and you see the exchange rate from credits to cash is something like 1000 credits gets you $10. Usually it takes about 10 surveys to make those 1000 credits. When you compute the number of hours it took you to make that $10 it comes out to less than $1 per hour. Yes, it's pretty bad.

Technically, you can make money with paid surveys, so they aren't technically a scam. However, the amount of work that goes into doing this is considerably more than you are going to make, and that is if you even qualify for the surveys. In the meantime, you're receiving all this junk email of offers because of being signed up with these sites, which is the real reason they want you in the first place.

So, if you're looking to make any kind of decent money online, stay away from paid survey sites.

Even if they ARE legit.

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