are these survey sites worth it?(merged)

glitterjunkie

jenniewb wrote: »

Can anyone else help/prove me (and my friends) wrong? do they pay more then £15 a year?
(am hoping people will so I can see a possibility I wont be waiting another 2 and a half years before cash-out!)

Yougov - I joined them in July 2008 I think, and am on £25 now (so about 9 months) - so I'd agree with whoever said it takes 18 months to get to £50. The way I see it is, their surveys only take 5/10 minutes here and there, and I'd be online anyway so I don't mind how long it takes to cash out - £50 will be a fantastic bonus when I eventually get to it!

My favourite sites are Onepoll and Pinecone - I usually get about £4.50-£5 a month from Onepoll and £8 from Pinecone. I also use Valued Opinions, which gets me about £4 a month (I've had £120 from them in 2 years), and Lightspeed which is the same - although I am really annoyed with Lightspeed as I've sent 5 emails now about some missing points from a survey I completed, and they haven't even had the manners to reply! I'll carry on with them because I like the fact you can cash out at £1-worth of points, but if they do that to me 1 more time I won't be using them again.

I'm quite sad and actually enjoy doing surveys so just see the cash as a bonus! I've also had some good stuff to test from Pinecone, eg moisturiser, deodorant, cleaning products and so on - all stuff I'd have had to buy anyway, so it's all good!

Liz33

I'm getting really annoyed with Valued opinions and You Gov they send me things through really late so I quite often miss the deadline and I can't seem to get into my account to see how much i have got to go before I get a voucher I'm thinking of giving them up as a bad job!

kirkeastment

kirkeastment wrote: »

I use HP, and can say i'm very pleased with them, am up to around 2000 points with them at the moment.

Also is anyone else using surveyhead, great site, i'm already up to $15.50, and only have $9 pending payment, $25 cashout level, i've only been a member for a few months, and they have daily surveys, so pretty good.

On other news today was a great day in terms of payment from surveys, i got paid for 3 different £1 surveys today from Opinion World.

Figured i'd quote myself for an update, i've just had two more £1 deposits made into my paypal account for OW surveys, so thats £5 in one day from them, i get around 10 paid surveys a month from them(those are just the ones i qualify for btw).

Also, Valued Opinions is getting to be a very poor site now, i've had 3 surveys in the last 2 months from them, and i've not qualified for any of them, going down hill for sure.

unhappyvirgincustomer_2

kirkeastment wrote: »

I use HP, and can say i'm very pleased with them, am up to around 2000 points with them at the moment.

Also is anyone else using surveyhead, great site, i'm already up to $15.50, and only have $9 pending payment, $25 cashout level, i've only been a member for a few months, and they have daily surveys, so pretty good.

On other news today was a great day in terms of payment from surveys, i got paid for 3 different £1 surveys today from Opinion World.

I'm with surveyhead and took me about 4 weeks to get $25 and about another 4 weeks from request to getting the money into my paypal account. Get at least 1 survey a day although not accepted for them all but got a survey for $15 yesterday that took about 30 mins to do so quite happy with them.

davester

I am with them too reached the 25 dollar pay out in about 1 month, waiting for the money now.

jenniewb

redagila wrote: »

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Lightspeed: surveys vary- I get around 100 to 500 points a month on surveys and get send about 1-3 a week to do, which I rarely get through with. They pay either 80 or 110 (if your lucky) points. Cash-out is 550 points, which is £5 from amazon. Surveys take anything from 5 minutes to 25 minutes. They do prewarn you on the survey time (which is always longer then it actually takes!). If your screened out, you usually pick up 10 points.


This not quite correct as you can cash out with only 115 points for a Paypal payment of £1. I find it useful to do that as soon as I get to 115 points to use for my e-bay purchases.

Sorry- I stand corrected! (Its because I tend to save and save for the highest amount so I can treat myself rather then not notice the difference) well spotted though and thanks for reading

jenniewb

glitterjunkie wrote: »

Yougov - I joined them in July 2008 I think, and am on £25 now (so about 9 months) - so I'd agree with whoever said it takes 18 months to get to £50. The way I see it is, their surveys only take 5/10 minutes here and there, and I'd be online anyway so I don't mind how long it takes to cash out - £50 will be a fantastic bonus when I eventually get to it!

My favourite sites are Onepoll and Pinecone - I usually get about £4.50-£5 a month from Onepoll and £8 from Pinecone. I also use Valued Opinions, which gets me about £4 a month (I've had £120 from them in 2 years), and Lightspeed which is the same - although I am really annoyed with Lightspeed as I've sent 5 emails now about some missing points from a survey I completed, and they haven't even had the manners to reply! I'll carry on with them because I like the fact you can cash out at £1-worth of points, but if they do that to me 1 more time I won't be using them again.

I'm quite sad and actually enjoy doing surveys so just see the cash as a bonus! I've also had some good stuff to test from Pinecone, eg moisturiser, deodorant, cleaning products and so on - all stuff I'd have had to buy anyway, so it's all good!

I don't think your sad- I enjoy them too- they never were there for anyone to pay the bills with, its a token of thanks that they do pay- although unfair when they lead you on and then don't (via screening after 20 minutes (toluna, ciao...) or just 'forget' to add on points (toluna- again! and lightspeed- happened to me on more then one occasion)

Am so jealous of your yougov amount- I joined the same time as you and log on every single day- and sometimes twice a day, even at weekends (nothing ever happens at the weekends AFAIK but I just check out of habit now) good luck- hope you get your £50 soon, (and hope mine does not take 3 years!!)

merchant

Does anyone have an opinion about Panelbase: reliability; frequency of questionnaires; length; and rewards?

Reverbe

I am having a lot of issues with my account this week. I recieved a rare invite to a survey and when I clicked on it it said I had already done the survey. I emailed them to sort this out and was told that I had failed a quality control check.

I have been with this site since last summer quite sucessfully aside from a few login issues at times and have had a £10 voucher from them. I checked their terms and conditions and can confirm truthfully that I have NOT trangressed their site rules in any way. I have emailed them several times re this and each time they tell me I have failed their quality control check and despite asking constantly they never tell me why. Like I said I have not contravened their rules in any way shape or form. They also tell me my account which has over £6 on it is blocked and my IP address blacked - tho this varies due to the nature of my isp.

Again I have done nothing wrong. Yet I cannot seem to get any explanation from them. I am inclined to think this is a glitch or mistake in some way but am rather perturbed as to the emails from them never giving me a straight and full answer.

Has anyone else ever encountered anything similar from them and if so how did you get it resolved? I cannot seem to find a phone number for them,

Has anyone

Reverbe

redagila wrote: »

I quite like HP since they changed to cash payout. Before then I had redeemed points for a torch come tool kit for the car. When they changed I already had enough points for a £25 cheque which arrived quickly.

Used to do the HP but their rewards were only redeemable in the US and mostly electrical...