paid surveys?

[Suki]

You've all seen the ads.
Does anyone have experience with these, sounding too good to be true, "get paid to take surveys online" things? what is your experience? what company did you use? recomendations?

I'd like to hear from real people insted of that garbage they all have on their sites...

my roommate used to work at a call center, phoning people to do surveys, makes sense to cut out the middleman except that online they only hear from a certian portion of the population, which will skiew their statistics...

 

[KaNick]

I used to work for a phone survey company that did surveys for health care. According to them it is the best way to get good results. This is because there are more people who are illiterate than there are people who don't have phones in the US. An internet survey is even worse than mail. I don't know much on how they pay, but I assume it isn't worth the time for some reason.

 

[Turner]

My wife gets anywhere between $300 to $500 a year for doing this stuff. Sure, it's in little bits, but she gets a lot of that.

A couple of months ago, I did one with a cable channel, and they paid me $75 to go and eat dinner with some other people and discuss things they were interested in. I was there for about two, maybe three hours. Not bad for a free dinner!

 

[saltyjim]

Saltyjim here. My kid got into filling out the surveys and tried to get me to do it too. I'm not too good on the computer yet though, but he says it's really easy. This is the link he gave me:

http://www.mywebpowerlibrary.com/

He does well enough that he will not need a job this summer and he says he will have enough saved up for the car he wants.

Good luck!
Salty Jim

 

[The Yankee]

I used to work for a phone survey company that did surveys for health care. According to them it is the best way to get good results.

I worked in that field as well. It's a little something that makes them feel it's worth their time. Especially for surveys requiring that the respondants be doctors or a professional in the given field. Depends on the person on if the money is worth it. The problem was, if they got screened out because we had too many of x-type...well...let's say some of them weren't happy.

I would say the majority of the surveys I worked with as an interviewer and as someone else along the chain did not give the bonuses.

I wouldn't know about online surveys though. I've seen some that would enter you in a sweepstakes for $100 or something of equal value...which doesn't seem worth it to me most of the time.

 

[7ronin]

I don't have any experience with online surveys but ten years ago I did participate in some live surveys. One of them was a mock jury where we were required to listen to the plaintiff's case in a pending big bucks civil suit (malpractice). They paid us each $100 for about three hours work.

 

[Turner]

That was quite a thread bump....

My wife's still doing the surveys, and we're still getting $5 and $10 checks here and there. She's also got into product testing. I'm doing one now for after shave lotion and facial soap.

I still couldn't tell ya how to get into it. All I know is my wife says we're going to test this product, or that product.