What surveys do you do?

Abbafan1972

I am registered with a few survey sites and I am wondering if I'm doing too many.

Here are the ones I'm registered with....

Toluna - It normally takes me about 12 months to get to the required 80,000 points to get a £25 Amazon voucher. I am currently on about 53,000, so wouldn't want to stop doing these at the moment, until I get to the 80,000. I get annoyed though by the amount of emails these guys send me and a lot of the time I don't qualify for the surveys.

Ipsos - Don't bother me too much with too many emails, but points do seem to go up quite quickly. Am nearly there for a £10 voucher.

Pinecone - Surveys are few and far between, but the ones I've had come through recently I've missed. And Pinecone did email me to say they've noticed I haven't completed surveys recently.

My Survey (Lightspeed) - Points go up quite quickly and have just claimed a £5 voucher.

One Poll - Been doing these for more than a year and am still on only £23.00 something (this will be my 1st £40).

The reason for me posting is that I'm thinking of dumping Toluna when I've got my voucher. A lot of the surveys I get I have missed, because I have other commitments and also Pinecone I'm not sure about.

which ones do you all do?

marvellousaunt

Hiya - there's quite a lot of discussion about survey sites if you do a search in this forum.

Personally, my favourites are Ipsos, Valued Opinions, MySurvey and Globaltestmarket.

Pocket-Money

Toluna is the same for me and I thought about cutting it myself. However, I made a few changes lately and now I have better experiences. Most of their surveys are really low paid. I therefore just delete most of the surveys without following the link in the email. I don't know the incentives for the UK as I am in the US. Here I need 60,000 points for a $20 check. I usually delete all invites with a rate below 3000 points/15 min survey. That's working quite nicely for me as I save a lot of time.

In general I don't think 5 sites are too many. I use around 8 myself. However, this depends how much time you have for such activities.

Imo, at the end it is all about reaching a satisfying hourly rate for your effort. Everyone has to decide himself what this hourly rate is but don't forget all the time you spend for starting surveys without qualifying. I applied the above change I made for Toluna to other sites as well which increased my hourly rate but obviously slightly lowered my monthly total earnings with survey sites.
Another trick I use is using pay-to-click sites to supplement my earnings from online surveys. While answering surveys I run PTC sites in the background and switch tabs every few questions to click the next ads. That way I am able to increase my hourly rate to $5-6. Obviously you won't get rich with this but it's an ok hourly rate for an online job, where you have zero investments and you are highly flexible with the time you want to spend.

Regarding specific sites, my top survey sites are the ones marvellousaunt already mentioned

Cheers,

Pocket-Money

londoner01

This is a bit off on a tangent Pocket-Money, but which sites have you found best for pay-per-click? And are they US or UK? Thanks a lot!

Pocket-Money

I don't want to derail this thread with a PTC discussion. Some general thoughts though,
The PTC scene is full of scam sites so you want to do some research before sign up. You are also looking for sites where you can run the PTC ad in the background as you want to use it in parallel to survey sites. Just clicking PTC ads is rather badly payed with just around $1/hour. It is a nice way to supplement earning from online surveys if combined though.

If people are interested in this concept and want to discuss single sites, let me know. If there is enough interest, I am happy to open a separate thread for such discussion.

Cheers,

Pocket-Money

Marteebies

Hi Guys

I have been taking part in online surveys for a while now and have registered to almost every genuine survey website.

The websites which I have had the most success on and would highly recommend are as follows:

https://www.panelopinion.co.uk

https://www.yougov.co.uk

https://www.valuedopinions.co.uk

https://www.surveyfriends.co.uk - This website rewards you with gifts and vouchers, which I know isn't as good as money but they are easy to win lol. I have already won a £50 amazon voucher during 2012 and my friend recently won a HD TV in there gift lottery, which is why i am recommending them

However the website which i have had the most success on over the years is panelopinion

I hope this was some help...

Good Luck

ChennyM

Also, check TCB for cashback on any of the survey sites you may of missed. Not guaranteed, but potentially worth a few extra quid



.. that's topcashback.co.uk for the few who may not have heard of it..


Cheers.

C.