Where do you draw the line with surveys etc?

mikep22

That moment when you find yourself £125 overdrawn 3 days into the month = doing any survey I can get my hands on - it'll get paid off soon enough, but if the choice is surveying until the cows come home or having to go cap in hand to Wonga, I choose the surveys.

raspberryrippl3

i've realised even pinecone isn't worth my time anymore :-( 15mins for £3 isn't too shabby really, but with pinecone, the format is always exactly the same which just becomes draining after you've done the 100th one

MissPop

raspberryrippl3 wrote: »

i've realised even pinecone isn't worth my time anymore :-( 15mins for £3 isn't too shabby really, but with pinecone, the format is always exactly the same which just becomes draining after you've done the 100th one

I gave up with Pinecone because I was only getting one £3 survey every 4-6 weeks (which seems to be the usual), and then the site went tits up and I kept getting locked out of my account. Fortunately I cashed out after every survey because the last one I did I was never able to cash out and support were useless

fly-catchers

Wizzbang wrote: »

UGH, I can't even stand to watch the drivel that ITV puts out on TV for money. I have better things to do with an hour of my time. Be warned that YouGov work for ITV.

I find with those YouGov TV surveys that if you leave the marker you can move to say whether you like or dislike a bit in one place and open another window you can do other things. Come back to the YouGov window after about 40/50 minutes and finish the survey!

Beartricks

I realised too late that I wasn't going to make decent money on SB. I did all the offers with big payouts, and had a bit of a panic when I signed up for things like UseNext, which are questionable at best.

I'm also worried about the wide range of information that I apparently have to give up. Most of them don't ask for enough to identify you in one go, but one survey company might ask for my postcode, another might ask for my age and place of birth, another might ask what kind of car I have. I have no way of knowing whether these companies are separate. For all I know they're all the same company, quickly building up a picture of me.

Now I'm stuck doing surveys and all the low-paying stuff like running videos. I'm going to carry on doing the occasional survey and meeting my daily goals for the multipliers, but I think I probably need to move on to something else. My goal was to use SB money to buy a specific item so once I've done that I'll put it to bed.