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Hi
just received e-mail from this company saying I can earn upto £50 per week tax free is this ok do you think. Has anyone heard of them. Do you really not pay tax on it. Thanks
Starting to save £2 coins again, but it is a struggle:rotfl:Not doing very well keep spending them

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  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
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    'Paid Surveys' IS the company name.
    I receive emails from them as well.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

    Member #1 of £1,000 challenge - £13.74/ £1000 (that's 1.374%)

    3-6 month EF £0/£3600 (that's 0 days worth)

  • MILLYMOLLY
    MILLYMOLLY Posts: 1,069 Forumite
    patman99 wrote: »
    'Paid Surveys' IS the company name.
    I receive emails from them as well.

    Did you sign up with them , I've read the faqs and it seems like they have a list of survey sites that you join through them after egistering
    Starting to save £2 coins again, but it is a struggle:rotfl:Not doing very well keep spending them
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
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    No, also, I tried a whois search and got nowhere. I cannot even find who owns the site.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

    Member #1 of £1,000 challenge - £13.74/ £1000 (that's 1.374%)

    3-6 month EF £0/£3600 (that's 0 days worth)

  • geordie_joe
    geordie_joe Posts: 9,112 Forumite
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    MILLYMOLLY wrote: »
    Hi
    just received e-mail from this company saying I can earn upto £50 per week tax free is this ok do you think. Has anyone heard of them. Do you really not pay tax on it. Thanks

    I have heard of them, they don't have any surveys, just a list of survey sites, and if you join those via their links they will earn money.
  • mrsyardbroom
    mrsyardbroom Posts: 2,033 Forumite
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    I've had six emails from them so far today. They just keep spamming. The emails go straight to my spam box and I haven't bothered to open them. Any worthy company wouldn't need to do this just to sign someone up.
    Don't mess with pensioners. :cool:
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
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    I thought they looked a bit suss. Nice looking website with loads of click-throughs all down the left side.
    Not what you would expect from a proper survey site. If I wanted to earn someone a referral fees, I would set my own site up and click through from that. One more for the blocked list me thinks.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

    Member #1 of £1,000 challenge - £13.74/ £1000 (that's 1.374%)

    3-6 month EF £0/£3600 (that's 0 days worth)

  • geordie_joe
    geordie_joe Posts: 9,112 Forumite
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    edited 31 July 2011 at 9:39PM
    I've had six emails from them so far today. They just keep spamming. The emails go straight to my spam box and I haven't bothered to open them. Any worthy company wouldn't need to do this just to sign someone up.

    I don't think they come from the company. I have had dozens of them lately, and they come from different addresses each time.

    I suspect the company pays affiliates for each sign up they get, and provides them with an email, to send to people who have opted in to get emails from them, obviously. Which is why I get the same email from different addresses and the link in it contains a different number.

    Which fits in with the company, they want to make money but not by their own effort. So they try to make money from people who sign up to things through their links. But instead of working to get people to sign up, they pay others to do it for them.
  • tco03
    tco03 Posts: 73 Forumite
    I used Yougov which worked great the first year i earned £50, then it took another 3 years to earn another £50... seems like the surveys become less frequent
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