Is it all worth the effort? Mystery Shopping, Survey Filling, etc.?

tiahontoast · 26 May 2015 at 1:13PM

I appreciate that this is a little late, though I've been on Swagbucks for a while and wanted to share my opinions! (Also out of all you mentioned I'm on ipsos, more on that later)

I've signed up and deleted my accounts for many 'money earning' sites, though Swagbucks is the one that stands out to me the most. This is because Swagbucks is always thinking up new ways for it's users earn points, and this is very refreshing, seeing as most applications like this simply require one action repeated over and over again to earn fractions of pennies.

From Swagbucks I earn roughly £25 a month, which is good considering I'm never tied to my computer.

I recently joined up with ipsos and I've had 400 points worth of surveys since I registered a week ago, which is ok - the surveys are pretty easy to complete and give you points even when you don't qualify - but £10 is roughly 1,300 points. I'm still waiting to be asked to be sent products to trial within surveys, which was mostly the reason why I joined in the first place.

I'd love to hear your experiences with the sites you joined back when this thread was started! Hope I helped!

(Ps. I created this account today just so that I could help people out; I was desperate to reply to people like you!!)

skintpaul · 26 May 2015 at 1:20PM

check out local uni's / colleges - have done a couple of paid surveys, that were quite fun!

rockm87 · 26 May 2015 at 1:27PM

I agree swagbucks is working the best for me right now!

skintpaul · 27 May 2015 at 6:21AM

quick look at swagbucks site, annoying intro aside, seems to be for USA?

swampduck · 27 May 2015 at 8:46AM

E-surveys work ok for me and add to Nectar points for the annual Christmas shop. As a previous poster says even if you are not suitable they still pay you a nominal amount so it can add up.

Swampy

rockm87 · 27 May 2015 at 9:33AM

skintpaul wrote: »

quick look at swagbucks site, annoying intro aside, seems to be for USA?

It also works for the UK. Im well on my way to receiving my third gift card.

There is also a UK facebook page for it too.

Goldiegirl · 27 May 2015 at 9:50AM

I started doing surveys last July.

At first I enjoyed it, but it quickly became tedious and boring, and I was fed up with being screened out, especially if I'd already spent 5 or 10 minutes imputing information

At first I got good results from Opinion Outpost, and would make £10 a month, but the surveys dried up for me.

Valued Opinions wasn't too bad, but I got screened out far too often.

So I stopped OO and VO.

I kept on with One Poll and You Gov, as I wanted to get to the payout point.

I got to £40 on OP, on 9th May and I'm awaiting payout. when the money is received, I'll delete my membership.

Payout point is £50 for You Gov, and I'm currently at £44.50. I don't mind YG, as I'm never screened out, but I'm hardly getting any surveys now. I intend stopping when I get to £50, but it'll still be at least a few months to go.

It's safe to say I'm over surveys now - it's just not a constructive use of my time