Has anyone made a little bit of money from Paid Surveys?

peace800

Hi

I need a little bit of extra income of around £100 to £150 a month and I was wondering if I should join some paid survey sites. I have heard a lot of negative things about paid surveys but just wanted some advice as to whether I should join and do a few online surveys and if anyone has done so have they made a little bit?

thanks

littlemrtinkle

i think you will find it very hard to make £100 to £150 from surveys.
onepoll, pureprofile,pinecone, lightspeed panel and thatswhatithink are my favourites. I find you will make more from daily clicks and the no spend offers on cashback sites, and matchbetting.

LeeSouthEast

I use Valued Opinions, GFK and Toluna. So far I've had £10 (taken as Amazon vounchers) from GFK, I'm £12.40 up from VO (although only validated on £4.75 at the moment - minimum payout is £10 in your choice of vouchers), and I'm a long way off getting anywhere with Toluna.

It's play money only - it's not really a serious cash top up option.

Quanz2

I have used a few (Valued Opinions, OnePoll, You Gov). A few of them depend on you clicking on to the site to find out if they have a survey available to you. I've found that, for me, Lightenspeed are the best. The seem to have regular surveys for me and I have earned £20.00 with them in 3 months, and also had a couple of sample products to trial. However, i dont think you could make the sort of money that your looking for doing surveys

trrk

I've earn't £184 over about 4 years - not a particularly good rate for the total amount of time I've spent on surveys.

Ruby_Moon

peace800 wrote: »

Hi

I need a little bit of extra income of around £100 to £150 a month and I was wondering if I should join some paid survey sites. I have heard a lot of negative things about paid surveys but just wanted some advice as to whether I should join and do a few online surveys and if anyone has done so have they made a little bit?

thanks

If you do a few survey sites plus a few 'earn a click' sites and maybe the odd little extra you can find, you might make that much.................................................. Per year!

martyn4764

Ruby_Moon wrote: »

If you do a few survey sites plus a few 'earn a click' sites and maybe the odd little extra you can find, you might make that much.................................................. Per year!

I kept a spreadsheet of daily click & surveys earnings for the last couple of years, just out of curiosity:

2007 £1300ish
2008 £1500ish

Daily clicks aren't what they were, but it's the kind of income that can add up surprisingly.

littlemrtinkle

dont forget all the no spend offers like napster, dvd trials and car insurance searchs.

littlemrtinkle

Quanz2 wrote: »

I have used a few (Valued Opinions, OnePoll, You Gov). A few of them depend on you clicking on to the site to find out if they have a survey available to you. I've found that, for me, Lightenspeed are the best. The seem to have regular surveys for me and I have earned £20.00 with them in 3 months, and also had a couple of sample products to trial. However, i dont think you could make the sort of money that your looking for doing surveys

Check out pinecone, pureprofile and thatswhatithink all three pay out pretty quickly, i use these 3 and lightspeed.

libra10

I'm finding that completing surveys is a nice little earner.

So far this month I've made £79 - from Ipoints, Toluna and Pure Profile.
Last month £143. Payment includes a couple of extended surveys with Home of Research and VO. During August I earned £36.

A proportion of these payments are received in vouchers, and they're great when hitting the High Street.

Am currently completing a couple of diaries for VO and they are definitely my best 'earner' at present.

Sign up with several survey companies and complete as many as you can.

Good luck

dippykitty

I make a little bit extra from surveys and the like but it's mostly been vouchers and not hard cash. Off the top of my head, I've redeemed £20 from Toluna (still waiting on the second voucher and am 2/3 towards a third redemption), £20 from Lightspeed, £60 from Consumerpulse, £50 from Valued Opinions, and £10 from That's What I Think. In terms of cash, that's amounted to around £5 from Lightspeed and am close to a £15 payout on Surveyhead.

Surveys can be a great way to earn vouchers to help out with Christmas costs (and other presents) but I don't personally earn much cash from them and certainly not the amount extra that you need. I don't use them anymore but there is the option of YouGov and Pureprofile, who I think still pay in cash (although it took too long to reach redemption for me). If you don't mind writing reviews, DooYoo can be a good additional earner. I've had £100 in cheques and £30 in Amazon vouchers this year from them, although it's fairly time-consuming to write the reviews to a good enough standard.