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from: Jorge Chavez
Searching on paid survey review you come upon several different sites
with reviews of paid survey sites. Are these reviews real?
Do they have useful information? Can they be helpful? The
answer is, "Well, it depends." This article explains, "Depends on what?"
When you are scouting around trying to find a good paid survey site, a
guide company to help you get started with paid online surveys, you
sometimes come across "Review Sites". Are these of any help? Is
their information useful? Can you trust them?
The answers depend on what kind of review site we are talking about.
Are we talking about real paid survey review sites or are we talking
about bogus "review" sites of the various types that exist? Let's
enumerate them:
Real:
1. Serious review sites. These will normally be comparing more than 10
paid survey sites, using objective criteria, measuring
performance, making periodic reviews (since companies and conditions
change rapidly), offering comparisons, and periodically coming to
different conclusions in their rankings.
These are signs of a serious review site, and yes this type can be very helpful.
2. Semi-serious, Good ol' Boy sites. These will list 3-6 that
"they have compared" and found to be good, they recommend them, etc.
Web page goes up and remains unchanged for months or years. Maybe those
paid survey sites were good at one time but now? Still some of these
sites name well-regarded paid survey sites, so they may not be the best
but they are not all bad.
This type of site can be of some help, better than nothing, but they are not the best.
Bogus:
3. Sham sites set up by or sponsored by paid survey sites as a kind of
self promotion called "Paid Survey Review" in name only. You can
see various of those scattered about. Look at the sites closely and you
will see that they do not look "live", webpages are old outdated,
details such as privacy policy and contact information are missing or
non-existent. Site has no feel, no depth to it. Comparisons
are short on details, sponsor companies always show up in the top 3. No
discussion about ranking criteria, you are expected to take that on
faith.
This type of site is not credible and is of no informational use.
(Except maybe to note that the sponsors are not long on scruples or
ethics!)
4. "Straw Man" sales pitches. Generally start off with something
like, "We checked out 197 paid survey sites and 97% of them were
scams. There were only three that were any good. But those three
are really good and we have their contact information here" Reading a
bit you will note that they often play it fast and loose with the
numbers, saying one thing at one time and something else at another.
This type of site is a sales site, setting up "Straw Men" and then
knocking them over to make the product they are trying to sell look
better! What they have to say is self-serving, highly suspect and
not at all helpful.
So the full answer is that Paid Survey Review sites can be either very
helpful, somewhat helpful or totally useless, depending on the
site. Judge for yourself now that you know what to look
for. Just look for the signs as explained above and it will not
be very difficult to distinguish which is which.
Jorge Chavez is an experienced business analyst at:
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Regardless, some try to dupe you into believing their lists are special. But, according to messages on scam forums, their lists are essentially the same as others. Worse, some also list other membership sites, trying to dupe you into buying essentially the same list over and over again. They include sites that seem to be their competitors, because they earn referral fees or commissions when you click the links or buy memberships. A couple mentioned in scam forums even try to dupe you into buying the same list at other membership sites they own under different domain names. So, natch, these sites have incentive to exaggerate how much you'll earn from online paid surveys.Other middleman paid survey sites provide free lists. But, many are effectively in cahoots with the questionable membership sites, because they too earn referral fees and commissions by hosting links and ads for membership sites. 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But questionable middleman sites hype hypothetical, best-case scenarios that can't possibly apply to each and every consumer for each and every hour he or she participates. In the real world, the likelihood that you'll often earn the higher of the hyped amounts is slim. Besides the reality that most simply don't pay much, you must be invited to complete paid surveys. To be invited, you must fit targeted demographics. That alone limits your earnings right off the bat, as you can't possibly fit every demographic.Consequently, despite what questionable middleman sites imply in their "dream job" hype, it's unlikely that you'll earn a living from paid surveys and other marketing research. You might, however, earn or win some extra spending money, or free or discounted goods or services.Most reviewed paid survey sites effectively promise not to share personally-identifiable information or not to share it without prior consent. 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