Making cash from online survey sites - new MSE guide

Kite2010

New Vista Live (NVL) has gone a bit down hill in the last couple months since they 'teamed' up with Toluna.

Previously I would expect a NVL survey roughly every week which was good paying (i.e. £1 reward for a 15 minute survey), however majority of the ones I've been invited to recently since Toluna either has been closed straight away, kicks me out after a couple questions or are stupidly paid, for example I had one tonight about car products, length was given as 40 minutes with a reward of 50p!

And it being Toluna probably would have kicked me out after 30 minutes once they got the answers they were looking for.

legend123

I have tried many different online survey websites to try and earn a bit of extra cash. I find it frustrating that a lot of companies offer vouchers as rewards when all I want is the money! Panel Opinion send you your cash rewards via bank transfer - you can cash out with as little as £10 which is absolutely ideal.

nandrews

Legend,
Yes it's unfortunate that they don't credit in real money, so you can spend it how you like.
I think it's because when they buy vouchers they can get them at less than the face value. No loss to you of course, but they get to payout less than they would have in cash.
However there are a number of the vouchers available which are generally useful. Such as Sainsburys and also Amazon (you can order some groceries via them) and even Argos are useful for some everday items.
Maybe you have friends who would accept a voucher and exchange it for the cash equivalent?

Nigel

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You can convert vouchers into cash with Zeep or on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/giftcardexchange

nandrews

I am interested.
But what is the incentive to those offering cash in exchange for a voucher?
When, presumably, they could get what they could get with the voucher, by paying cash.

Nigel

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nandrews wrote: »

I am interested.
But what is the incentive to those offering cash in exchange for a voucher?
When, presumably, they could get what they could get with the voucher, by paying cash.

Nigel

They buy it at discounted price.

nandrews

Ah OK so the seller takes a small loss to be able to get cash for the voucher?
Nigel

Nortoner

The best site I've found is Crowdology. I manage to earn approx £10 per month. It'll never make me rich but it all helps! Surveys are short and pay around 72p each. I've banked approx £30 this year already (I don't do every survey sent to me).

The worst survey site I've found is MySurvey. The survey's are excruciatingly long and you often find on one of the last pages that you're suddenly not eligible. Also, you have to sit through about 10 short video's and answer the same questions again and again.

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Nortoner wrote: »

The best site I've found is Crowdology. I manage to earn approx £10 per month. It'll never make me rich but it all helps! Surveys are short and pay around 72p each. I've banked approx £30 this year already (I don't do every survey sent to me).

Are you kidding? Crowdology run out of studies long ago.

Can you link a proof of payment?

asajj

ciaccino wrote: »

Are you kidding? Crowdology run out of studies long ago.

Can you link a proof of payment?

I still receive studies from them and just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it won't for others. Some people have good experiences with one website while others don't.