Making cash from online survey sites - new MSE guide

amyreitz wrote: »

Joined Panelbase.net.


Got 8 invites, got screened out of all of them.
Wasted 1 hr.
One of them I got screened out after 15min.


Complete waste of time. If I had worked this 1hr at my local Lidl I would have earned £8.40.


Based on this experience I would not recommend Panelbase.net.


Just wanted to give others the heads up.

I've been screened out of surveys on Panelbase, but it usually happens earlier in the survey. Panelbase.net is one of the best paying survey sites. They usually pay about £2 per 25 minutes.

With Global Test Market for example, you need 1087 points to earn £30. So you need about 36 points to earn £1. Often there are surveys that are 30 minutes for 35 points, so that is a rate of less than £2 per hour.

Prolific is pretty much the only site which pays well and doesn't screen you out of surveys. So if you want to do more surveys than Prolific, you have to put up with low paying rates and/or getting screened out of surveys.

maggiann wrote: »

Toluna have another site, World of Curiosity, and I've been trying to get a voucher from them since May. They now won't answer my emails,anyone else having problems?

That's awful. Do you know who owns and runs Toluma? Maybe it is worth contacting them.


I wouldn't go near any company associated with Toluna .


It is disappointing That MSE keeps on recommending them as one of the best survey sites.

Prolific does screen you out after 10 surveys.
They believe in the "Non-Naivety" theory which claims that people's responses become less valid after 10 surveys, hence they have the option for researchers to screen out people once they have done 10 surveys.


Therefore do not do any of the low paid surveys!
If you do 10x50p all you will earn on Prolific is £5.
Only do the high paid surveys. Lets say if you do 10x£5 surveys you can earn £50.


Don't make my mistake and do the 40p and 50p surveys, I will be struggling to make it to the £5 pay out sum.


They introduced this screening option in March 2016.
Just wanted to give you all the heads up.


Anybody got any good survey sites that pay well per hr?

Thanks for the "polite" reply.


It is an option they are pushing more and more.
They are also looking into possibilities ( in the future) how they can possibly screen out people who have done lots of surveys on other sites, to preserve the validity of their data.

Those who has done the survey. Would you please give a general idea, how much time will need to be invested for one survey and how much will we get paid by BACS, PayPal, etc (not voucher).