are these survey sites worth it?(merged)

lrr_2

whats the average amount people sign up to, who has made a tidy sum on them and whats your top 10?

jenniewb

lrr wrote: »

whats the average amount people sign up to, who has made a tidy sum on them and whats your top 10?

Lol- this makes me laugh- was the entire point of the question I asked in the first place! its turned into a "Pinecone link please" link insted!

From my p.o.v I have founf global market test the best, I had managed to save around £30 and now I am up to £40, but it has taken me years to get that far as I answer honestly to questions and get locked out of surveys alot. GMT give you 5 points even if you dont qualify. Its paid in cheque and you need to wait 6 weeks for a cheque, but tis a good site, they dont bother you much. When you can get todo a full survey, its generally short and sweet, around 10 to 15 minutes.

Pinecone (am building a rod for my own back here I know!) are also great, fi you can do a survey for them its an instant £4 in either paypal vouchers or luncheon vouchers. (Luncheon vouchers can be used to pay for things in places like boots, starbcusk, tescos, sainsburys... it doesnt have to be food.) surveys take about 15 to 25 minutes to do.

People swear by Opinion World but they never pay me anything, well, ok thats an exaggeration, they do pay up, but not when they should, I think they probably owe me like 20 times wha they have actually paid as they say they will pay and then dont. I am too lazy and buisy to follow them up, partly my fault but somehow not.

Pureprofile isnt too bad either, it pays, but its so rare they actually do a survey. When they do have surveys its normally less then 20 minutes and can pay anything up to £2.

Lightspeed is good too- again, not many surveys but when they do them, they add the points to your account asap. Its normally 110 points a survey or more, which works out to £1 or so. Surveys are again short. Anything from 5 minutes to 15. Once you have 1100 you can get an amazon voucher- amoung a choice of others, it arrives almost instantly. Very good service.

Toluna are not very good, they do offer more surveys but they dont always credit you with points, its a case of constantly remining them and adding the survey link and survey code when you do contact them to enquire as to why the points arent there. You need 60000 for £10 amazon vouchers or paypal or wherever else. But surveys are only around 1000 to 3000 si your going to be waiting a long long time.

Ciao are terrible, aside from the poor payment (eg a survey for 30 minutes paying 5p) they will go ahead and ask you all the questions on the survey, then get to some type of screening at the end and ask something really dumb to ask at the end like are you male or female before telling you your not in the right criterea- either that or someones just blagged my time and survey answers for free!)

But my top top rateing has to be to dooyou who are slightly different- you post reviews on things you have used, weather its a new mp3 player, plasma tv or fairy liquid, literally type in what you have tried and you can either write it up or ask for it to be put up. I have reviewed literally everything I have used bar one or two uninteresting items. I have so far earned myself £70 in two months- you get 50p a ereview you write up provided its over 150 words and then if others review what you have written you also get points if they rate you as 'very useful'. I ahve earned £10 of that £70 throguh people rateing me! You dont need a link for dooyou but if you want one (only cos it gets me points!) please just ask- I will also get to be your friend and can give you feedback on your reviews if I link you, but its your call, as I said, you dont need a link, it just could be a benefit to you (and admittedly me!)

I have also recenrly started onepoll. Not too bad, surveys are 10p or a prize draw entry or 5p the most I have seen is for 15p. But many of the surveys are titled "only answer if your a mother of children between the ages od 8-12" or "only answer if your a mum to be" or "only answer if you are a parent"... so its rare I can get to do more then 5 a week, anything from 5 prixe entries (yeah right!) to 50p a week, you need £40 before you can ask for a cheque. But the surveys are short and sweet.

None of the other surveys are really worth my time, I am waiting to get the points for the next voucher for the rest (ipoints, opinionpeople, yougov, opinion bar,...etc) and then drop out as they just either have my details on file and it worries me, or they are just sending surveys that screen me out everytime and so are a waste of my time and effort.

Hope this helps?
jennie

libra10

lrr wrote: »

whats the average amount people sign up to, who has made a tidy sum on them and whats your top 10?

I've just checked back since January and have received the following rewards -
January £5 M & S vouchers Holiday Inn Survey (don't know where that survey came from (possibly ipoints).
£50 It's Your View
£4 Pinecone vouchers
£10 Amazon vouchers Auto Insight (this was a referral from IPSOS).
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£40 One Poll
£10.90 Opinion Bar
February
£4 Luncheon vouchers Pincone
£30 M & S vouchers ipoints
£5 Amazon Juicy Brains
£10 Argos vouchers IPSOS
March
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£12 Amazon Auto Insight
£10 Amazon That's What I Think
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£200 cheque Prize from One Poll
April
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£10 Amazon Toluna
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£25 cheque Global Test Market
May
£10 National Garden Centre vouchers Lightspeed
£10 Amazon Toluna
£10 Amazon Juicy Brains
£12 Amazon Auto Insight
£25 Payment Pure Profile
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£30 M & S vouchers ipoints
£5 Amazon Juicy Brains
June
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£22 payment Home of Research
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£5 Amazon ICC website - not sure where this came from
July
£4 Luncheon vouchers Pinecone
£8 payment Caio
£10 Amazon Auto Insight
August
£10 Amazon Toluna
£10 National Garden Centre vouchers Lightspeed
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions

I'm currently waiting for a £50 cheque from YouGov (taken well over a year to earn) and £40 payment from OnePoll. Also waiting for £21 from Home of Research, £10 Amazon voucher from Toluna, and two book of vouchers from Pinecone. Have also earned Nectar points with MyTNT.

I love receiving the vouchers, but like others find that you can spend lots of time chasing up points or payment. But it's a nice little run of money.

HTH

Good luck

kianicky

in the last week or so i've had the following

£10.00 marks and spencer's vouchers from valued opinions
£10.00 boots voucher from ipoints
£20.00 asda vouchers from my voice

and i'm awaiting £20.00 cheque from home of research

but it does take a good while to build up the points/money doing surveys, but it's work it when the money/vouchers come through

lrr_2

libra10 wrote: »

I've just checked back since January and have received the following rewards -
January £5 M & S vouchers Holiday Inn Survey (don't know where that survey came from (possibly ipoints).
£50 It's Your View
£4 Pinecone vouchers
£10 Amazon vouchers Auto Insight (this was a referral from IPSOS).
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£40 One Poll
£10.90 Opinion Bar
February
£4 Luncheon vouchers Pincone
£30 M & S vouchers ipoints
£5 Amazon Juicy Brains
£10 Argos vouchers IPSOS
March
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£12 Amazon Auto Insight
£10 Amazon That's What I Think
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£200 cheque Prize from One Poll
April
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£10 Amazon Toluna
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£25 cheque Global Test Market
May
£10 National Garden Centre vouchers Lightspeed
£10 Amazon Toluna
£10 Amazon Juicy Brains
£12 Amazon Auto Insight
£25 Payment Pure Profile
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£30 M & S vouchers ipoints
£5 Amazon Juicy Brains
June
£4 vouchers Pinecone
£22 payment Home of Research
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions
£5 Amazon ICC website - not sure where this came from
July
£4 Luncheon vouchers Pinecone
£8 payment Caio
£10 Amazon Auto Insight
August
£10 Amazon Toluna
£10 National Garden Centre vouchers Lightspeed
£10 M & S vouchers Valued Opinions

I'm currently waiting for a £50 cheque from YouGov (taken well over a year to earn) and £40 payment from OnePoll. Also waiting for £21 from Home of Research, £10 Amazon voucher from Toluna, and two book of vouchers from Pinecone. Have also earned Nectar points with MyTNT.

I love receiving the vouchers, but like others find that you can spend lots of time chasing up points or payment. But it's a nice little run of money.

HTH

Good luck

wow!
never thought you could get all that!
how many hours a day does everyone average filling in stuff and has anyone been kicked of a site for doing the daily clicks to much? ive not long started and doing all the usual and have about a dozen sites but having a problem clicking through kelkoo on some of them already. have i been red flagged and should i do it only 1 every few days? does everyone have a different email address for every cashback site or can you use the same one for them all.
thanks in advance for any tips. dont want kicked off the sites for doing something wrong!

eshweeze

duggie1982 wrote: »

Hi (First Post)

If anyone needs an invite to Pincone Research then PM me please.

I will refer about half a dozen at the moment.

Very good site as I have earned plenty for studies and also product testing.

UPDATE: All sent out. Dont have any left. Thanks

Please could you reffer me i am new to this all thanks

Sun

See post#240

eshweeze wrote: »

Please could you reffer me i am new to this all thanks

Angelraesunshine

has anyone else had pinecone send them 2x £4 of LV by mistake and now have an email asking you to send one lot back to an address in belgium? if so are you going to do it, its not even a free post address and it;s their fault not mine. I got back from hols to find 2 on the doorstep.

zuzieq

Hi, this is my first post (I'm normally a dedicated lurker, I LOVE this site! So OT thanks all round!)
Anyway just wanted to post to say I've also had this email from pinecone, no freepost but asking for it back. I agree, it's there fault not ours and it shouldn't cost us anything! If anything, can't they just not reward me for the next survey I complete rather than me go to the effort of sending it back. I may email back. What do you think?
Zuz x

Woodyrocks

Angelraesunshine wrote: »

has anyone else had pinecone send them 2x £4 of LV by mistake and now have an email asking you to send one lot back to an address in belgium? if so are you going to do it, its not even a free post address and it;s their fault not mine. I got back from hols to find 2 on the doorstep.

I have just checked my email and found the dreaded email. Being a Pinecone newbie, I thought it was just the generousity of Pinecone that I have heard so much about :rotfl:

I think it is best to send it back because I don't want them blacklisting me for the sake of £4 when I intend to get a lot more than that out of them in the long-run :T

Anyhoo, all those stamps I borrow from work does come in handy. 4 first class should cover it methinks