Monday, November 27, 2006

Get Paid To Take Surveys

Everyone would like to get paid to take surveys. I can think of no way I’d rather make money than to get paid to take surveys online, especially about interesting things. For some reason I’ve always liked surveys, and quizzes. Even in high school and college, I actually kind of looked forward to my exams. While they were in a sense of course stressful, there’s just something fun about answering questions for me.

Maybe it’s just a quirk of mine, but I always fill out any surveys people send me, even ones people call me on the phone for. I definitely prefer to do the ones online, but I feel a sort of sympathy for phone surveyors as I used to have a similar job. Online surveys are best because they can be done on your own time. When I learned that you can get paid to take surveys online I was of course interested immediately.

While it is true that you can get paid to take surveys online, there are some serious catches to this would be good news. Like everything else, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. I’m not the only one that would like to get paid to take surveys, and some less than ethical internet scam artists have picked up on this common desire. If you’re researching ways to get paid to take surveys, be on your guard for scams.

The vast majority of the sites you’ll find online that claim they can hook you up with paid surveys are just trying to take your money and run. I’ve seen some ridiculous claims on these sights about making thousands of dollars a month doing nothing but taking surveys. While it’s a tempting thought, you can tell these are scams just by looking at them. Why would anyone ever clean toilets for a living if they could get paid to take surveys online for about the same wage or more? If you research a little further you’ll see that many people have complained about these scams, and that they really don’t deliver anything.

The truth of the matter is there isn’t anyway to get paid to take surveys consistently. While there are a few sites that offer coupons, gift certificates, and sometimes small cash rewards for taking surveys, most of these sights only reward you with a ‘chance’ to get the prize by doing the survey. Sights like these are real, and aren’t scams. One example is the NPD Online Research group. I’ve been a member of their site for several months just because I like surveys, but I’ve yet to actually win any of the rewards they offer.

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