What’s the deal with those online survey sites that claim to give you all these rewards and prizes. Scams?
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December 25th, 2008 at 7:08 am
This is a very easy question .
They ALL want your money !
December 25th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Generally, if something sounds too good to be true it usually is. A lot of e-mails say you can “win” a TV or airline tickets or whatever. But if you read the fine print, that’s only if you get a bunch of people to sign up for credit cards or subscribe to magazines or whatever. And then you get endless spam.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Nothing in this world is free. For everything, someone, somewhere down the line ends up paying. Chances are, it is probably going to be you. If you sign up for these on-line surveys, chances are that they will want your credit card number. After that, you wont know who has your credit card number or what they may do with it. BEWARE of these on-line surveys. Even if the websites look professional, watch for spelling errors. Watch out for those TV commercials and notice how the phone number keeps changing. Read lots of reviews of the website in question. Base your decision on the reviews and not what the website may tell you. I can’t tell you which websites to go to, I’m just telling you what to look out for.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
It would be hard to say, but some sites are legitimate sources of pay, even though it doesn’t seem like it. Its just that most people don’t pay attention to the fact that it takes time for money (or points, depending on the site) to accumulate to the point to where it can actually worth something, which apparently, is a long amount of time. So, cleanly put, survey sites are only good for getting money on the side. A suggestion of mine for taking offers/surveys and filling them out would be to get an account on MyPoints, they’re reliable enough and you can choose the rewards that you get for spending those point, though i have not seen an option for plain-out cash pay-out yet.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Most of them are email scams that take your information along with others, and resell their list to others starting up a business online. The same is done with all that junk mail you get in the mail. You would be surprised at how many lists your information is on.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I’ve done a few. It’s a whole lot of work, for basically nothing. Some of them claim that they will send you a check when you reach 20$ or so, but I never came close, because they didn’t really offer me the paying ones based on my profile. I guess I don’t fit into the really interesting paying surveys! Anyway, some of them let you accumulate points to spend at their site – it’s a lot of work for the little they offer.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:13 am
From what are heard, they are real (most of them at least) but the are not free (thats why you see the *)
What it asks you to do is sign up for offers and/or redirect your friends to do the same. Ex. one month of NetFlex will cost you like $5 or something, then you have to redirect like 3 friends. Somehow they make their money and you will get something, but you may want to choose a site that someone already used and got results.
Ex. One of my friends got an offer “Buy two cell phone boosters and get a free tv”
He bought them for about $15 each, $30 total. He never got them, but he did get his TV
So, not free, but cheap in most cases.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Alot of the sites that offer free gifts and such are a scam.
However, I’ve gotten a few freebies from the sites that I use.
There’s a link to them on my profile.
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