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Please help, is there a list of survey sites somewhere? :o
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  • i've never done these myself, but a few friends who have seem to spend ages on them. One worked out there hourly wage and i think it came down to about 20p.

    Does anyone have any better luck?
  • littlemrtinkle
    littlemrtinkle Posts: 680 Forumite
    edited 8 March 2010 at 10:18PM
    check out onepoll, lightspeeduk, pureprofile, mysurveyuk, crowdology, pinecone . All pay out fine and you can earn a reasonable amount. I do find the surveys boring so tend to gravitate towards daily clicks and match betting as easier ways to earn money.
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  • cally6008
    cally6008 Posts: 7,629 Forumite
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    i've not done that bad so far this year
  • agarr
    agarr Posts: 261 Forumite
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    If anyone has a recruitment email or link for Pinecone would they let me know please, I would like to join :)
  • minimuffin
    minimuffin Posts: 10 Forumite
    I've had an email inviting me to join pinecone but I'm not sure if it's legitimate or spam. The email is from [EMAIL="lifestyle@acq.ccemails.net"]lifestyle@acq.ccemails.net[/EMAIL]. Does that sound dodgy?
  • cally6008
    cally6008 Posts: 7,629 Forumite
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    dodgy muffin, emails from them come with @pinecone blah blah in the email address,

    i've got a link for pinecone but i dont know if its valid anymore, send me pm with your email address and i'll fwd it to you
  • mateypeeps
    mateypeeps Posts: 166 Forumite
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    edited 12 March 2010 at 7:09PM
    i've never done these myself, but a few friends who have seem to spend ages on them. One worked out there hourly wage and i think it came down to about 20p.

    Does anyone have any better luck?

    Some of the surveys sites I use pay what I work out to be roughly £4 an hour.

    Sites to avoid include Ciao (some of the worst examples being trying to pay 10 pence for a 20 minute survey that might take half an hour in fact).

    ItsYourView if going through a cashback site (half the time it never seems to track the 70 pence each survey).

    Toluna and their 80,000 points needed for a £12 Amazon voucher, takes forever and many surveys bomb out prematurely after wasting 20 minutes of your time, for no payment at all at the end of it.

    OTX and Greenfield are ones to avoid as they are usually time-wasters, many people call them scammers as you miraculously "fail" the survey right near the end when they should be tracking it as a completed survey to be paid out.

    I speak as an "Old Hand" at this for 10 years or more.

    The best used to include Global Test Market, but they have gone downhill a bit and are in danger of meeting Greenfield, Ciao and OTX at the bottom of the Quality hill. They used to pay 5 points even if you did not qualify for the survey at the start, now they hardly ever do.

    The best are Lightspeed (£3 minimum paid to PayPal), the points are 115 equals £1 on PayPal and some surveys are for 115 points or more. The usual surveys are 80 points, I do not remember getting any less than that, ever.

    PINECONE RESEARCH are the best. Each survey if you are lucky enough to get picked, earns you £3, again it is paid to PayPal (or luncheon vouchers if not) and they pay without having to ask/request it.

    I have got a link to recruit members, it is not easy to join as Pinecone do not allow signups from their website, you have to see a banner advert with their join link in it, normally. Finding one is as rare as finding hen's teeth.

    PM me if interested, I want to avoid being banned from here as well as HUKD for trying to help others, while inadvertantly helping myself as well!!!

    Otherwise I would put the recruiting link here to speed up the process for all of us!
  • cally6008
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    ciao (aka greenfield) - one of the better ones

    it's your view - waste of time

    toluna - worth it if you dont mind waiting 2 months for vouchers

    otx - waste of time

    lightspeed - one of the better ones

    pinecone - is good

    others are listed on my profile
  • Aesop
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    Mad_girl wrote: »
    Please help, is there a list of survey sites somewhere? :o

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1683413&highlight=survey+sites

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  • lilbooboo
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    mateypeeps...you are 100% right about globaltestmarket. They used to be my favourite as well as they had such a good paying system, 5 points at least whether you qualified or not. I don't know why they have changed so dramatically for the worst over the last few months...have been stuck on 565 points for most of those last few months as well...:mad:
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