Making cash from online survey sites - new MSE guide

Larac

mycatstealschicken wrote: »

Good morning. I've been doing a few of these sites so will try to give you my opinions

Valued Opinions - Feast or famine with this one. I can go days without a survey then a few come along at once. They can be very bad about dq as you can get half way through a survey before they chuck you out. On the other hand they do credit you and they do pay. Sometimes you have to wait for a survey to credit but most are instant. Its £10 for a voucher except for Amazon Vouchers which they've recently put up to £15.

One Poll: Slow and steady wins the game. Check every day as there re nearly always surveys. Very rarely are they above 20p and normally 10p or 15p. Lovely short surveys thought and dq is usually after one or at most 3 questsions. Cash out at £40 so not one if you're after cash in a hurry.They pay cash into your bank account.

Toluna: Avoid this unless you like doing surveys a lot longer than stated then waiting 6 weeks and sometimes longer for them to be credited. They pay in points and they pay badly. You need 80000 for a £15 voucher and a typical 20 minute survey is 2400. I'll be claiming my voucher and stopping doing this at the earliest opportunity.

Pinecone I've not been doing this long but quite impressed. Only had 2 surveys but they pay £3 each. Be warned you are not allowed to claim pay pal for your first they send you luncheon vouchers of all things. Surveys seem to take about 20 minutes and lots of them result in being sent a produce to assess. I'm expecting something early next week from Fedex.

Mysurvey: I like this site. Points built up quite well but again its feast and famine in terms of the surveys. You have a good choice of rewards. I've had a £10 Amazon voucher and I'm now waiting for £10 paypal (for some reason they take up to 2 weeks to pay out paypal!)

Crowdology: Mixture of surveys some long some short. I get dq from quite a few of them but the ones I've managed to complete have been interesting and always credited quite quickly. Cash out to paypal at £4 BUT paypal take 2% admin charge. If registering with this one use the email address associated with your paypal account as they don't let you change it. Their site is very basic.

Panelbase: I am waiting to see what happens. I like their surveys though I do get thrown out of a lot of them but the ones I've completed have been very interesting (quite a lot of listening to clips from the radio). They do sometiems keep credits pending for a few days but not too bad. I've only been doing this since early September and I should be able to get my first £10 when they credit the £2.80 I got doing surveys last night. They pay be BACS.

Swagbucks - won't say much here as there's huge amounts of info on MSE but be warned they are slightly addictive. I started doing them early this year and lost interest then came back at teh end of August and managed to get a £25 amazon voucher in about 3 weeks. Now well on track to the next one.

Just the answer: Not really sure about this one yet. They send me the odd survey but seem a bit slow and dq me a lot. On the other hand you can withdraw at £5 so I'll stick with them until I've made that much at least.

You Gov: Not one if you want money in a hurry. Their cash out is £50 and they pay 50p a survey or thereabouts. I only seem to get one a week so maybe in a couple of years I'll have some extra cash at Christmas. On the ohter hand they do not dq you and the surveys are about social and political issues so quite interesting to do.

I think that's the lot. Not sure how helpful it will be but thoguht I'd add my views

A good post - IMHO you have pretty much nailed the key ones. If you can get onto Pinecone then they typically pay out 6-9 pound a month. Panelbasenet are worth pursuing as you can easily get 10 pounds a month as long as you respond quickly to their emails. I mainly focus on what you have in your list apart from swagbucks who I can't get into as they seem to be quite time absorbing...

eldaniel

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

As a slight aside, does anyone know why they do this ? Crowdology seems to be the only site that charges a Paypal commission, I'm with other sites that pay via paypal and no commission is charged. Is it really Paypal that are making the charge, or is it Crowdology sneakily making a bit for themselves ?

Globaltestmarket implemented 3% charge recently.

eldaniel

I know Uk.Mysurvey has some people who like them etc. but thought I will tell you about my experience. Recently quite few surveys end with technical error so you end up doing them for nothing. Customer services never credited me with the points when something like that happened. Many times they just dont reply or send you generic email with silly steps you should follow to avoid that. Obviously the steps are useless.
Now I got really upset because I wrote my opinion on their Facebook page and they deleted it within few hours. My feedback was constructive and not offensive in any way. Obviously they want only positive feedback to be posted. Reminds me a bit of communist rule. Therefore I will be leaving them, just on the principle of their censorship.

Flugelhorn

humph never seem eligible for crowdology....

System

I used to be with Crowdology, at my old e-mail address, unfortunately it is impossible to change e-mail addresses with them, despite me trying 4 or 5 different e-mail addresses and so I never got the £8 I was owed. I now do the Cint surveys via Survey Network, who pay out at £20, and I've recently cashed out

cally6008

katykicker, yes you can change email address on crowdology, you have to email Cint directly with your username and old address and ask them to change it for you
be sure to say that its just for the crowdology account

Victoria_Meldrew

Since the MySurvey site changed I have been unable to find my list of completed surveys and the points received. Have e-mailed them twice but of course, no reply. Can anyone tell me where I will find this as I want to make sure I have received the points I should have? TIA

silverfairy

Victoria_Meldrew wrote: »

Since the MySurvey site changed I have been unable to find my list of completed surveys and the points received. Have e-mailed them twice but of course, no reply. Can anyone tell me where I will find this as I want to make sure I have received the points I should have? TIA

Not easy but I have just found it ,from REWARDS tab at the top of the page, then scroll to the bottom of that page and under the icons for the various rewards there is a MY Points section. and just below the writing is a green tick & Search ,then a box for month by month transactions. I had to click down to September,then back into October to see the recent points there.

Victoria_Meldrew

Thank you so much silverfairy - I don't think I would ever have found that. I did get as far as that page but I thought I had to click on redeem so would never have seen the points. I spent a good half hour trying. I don't know why they must make it so difficult.

Kite2010

If your tempted to take up YouGov's offer of changing points into prize draw entries to get a voucher for a bronze prize, the bronze prices appear to be mostly worthless