Paid Surveys: Payment Proof

First I want to start off by saying that any website that is asking you to pay to make money from surveys is the scam site of the century. Paying to take surveys online is the equivalent to paying to start a job, which is absolutely absurd in the real world, but thousands of people get taken by this ploy everyday online. What these sites are offering instead is a view of a webpage that has a database of survey companies that you can sign up for. To their credit, the only advantage they add is the convenience of seeing all of the companies in one place, but that convenience is not worth the $35 bucks they charge you for it.

Moving on, I just wanted to post some payment proof that I received today from Lightspeed Panels today. This paypal payment is from about the last 3-4 weeks of surveys. What I like about Lightspeed Panels is the many different prizes that you can get. In addition to paypal they have a ton of popular DVDs and other small gadgets. But money is my favorite thing to redeem my point for. Which brings me to my next point...Lightspeed Panel operates on a point system. The smallest about you can redeem (for Paypal anyway) is 575 points for $5 in paypal. I am telling you this to give you an idea of the payment per survey. Looking in my account for the last 5 surveys I've taken this is what I see:

Ok, so the last 6 surveys I've taken since the start of the month. Sometimes you will have invitations for the larger surveys that payout 500 points, but mostly you will get invitations to the smaller surveys that payout an average of 75 - 200 points. So the next question you probably have is about the time it takes. The 500 point survey required about 30 minutes but in general, the surveys will take about 10 - 20 minutes to take based on the topic. From this picture you can also tell that Lightspeed Panels is pretty good at sending invitations pretty often. These are just the surveys that I have qualified for and taken, but there are many others that I have received invites for, but I have not fit into the demographic of people they are looking for. If you have a family, this is great because anyone in your household can take surveys so that if they are looking for a particular group of people (for instance a child, a parent of a minor, or a female over the age of 40) they might be present in your family. Any who, enough of that, here is my payment:

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1. Opinion Outpost

Opinion Outpost is another really good company. In general they pay $2.50 - 3.00 for surveys and they use a point system as well that is a little easier to understand than Lightspeed Panels'. 230 points translates to $2.30 and so forth. I can say that the majority of surveys that I receive are right around this range or higher. The one thing that I do not like about Opinion Outpost however is the payout, which is only in checks. I wish that they would make the move to online payment and I look forward to that change in the future. Where I cannot fault Opinion Outpost is the amount of survey invitations that I receive. I will get about 4 - 5 invitations a day and while I may not qualify for all of them, I am glad to be given the opportunity to make more money. Check out a screen shot I took of my backoffice:

Granted this was a time when I had not signed in for some time, but regardless they ar

e pretty good at sending invitations often. One thing that sets Opinion Outpost apart is the termination rewards that they give, while another company that I take surveys with has termination rewards (I'll talk about it later), Opinion Outpost gives you three options. If you have started taking the screening portion of the survey that you find that you do not qualify you will be taken to a page that offers you three options for your termination reward - a thank you for taking the time to come to the site and try to take a su

rvey. You can 1. Make a donation to a charity 2. Enter into the sweepstakes 3. Play an instant win game. You would think that many people only choose the instant win or sweepstakes, but I often find myself clicking the donate button and something like $40,000 has been donated by members (at $0.10/click thats pretty great), although I most certainly try the instant win every once in a while. And the great thing about the Opinion Outpost is that they give you enough surveys to do both. Here is another shot of my backoffice and and idea of the money I've made with this company:

Sorry, no nice pictures of these next few companies, but they are still great earners for me

3. SurveySavvy

SurveySavvy is similar to the last two companies discussed, where they are different is in the earning system, the surveys that they send are based on dollars and cents so that you know automatically how much you will be earning when a survey comes along. I like that this SurveySavvy generally has short and sweet surveys that take about 10/15 minutes to take. Also SurveySavvy spends some of its own revenue on incentives for its members, so that in addition to the surveys they also send different booster surveys, and other tasks that its members can use to earn. Looking at my backoffice since my last payment I have taken 9 surveys and I have a balance of$18.50, so that is generally about $2.05 per survey. Although Survey Savvy does not send invitations as often as Opinion Outpost, they are paced with Lightspeed Panels, but what I can say is that they invitation that they do send are pretty accurately matched based on your profile surveys so that you have a pretty good chance of qualifying for the surveys that you are invited to take.

4. Ipsos i-Say Panel

Nothing really to say about this company, they are again the same as the other companies. They utilize a points system as well, but it is much harder to understand, so that a 20 minute survey will be something like 8 points. Like Opinion Outpost, Ipsos also has termination rewards, but instead of just clicking a button they have fun games to play that result in extra points or more recently entries into sweepstakes. The game that they have running currently is a "Guess the Percentage game". They ask a question like: "What percent of American males smoke a cigarette in the morning?" You guess the percentage and based on where your guess is to the actual amount you are given sweepstakes entries that can be spent on a number of 4 different sweepstakes prizes that have been anything from a backyard makeover to $1000 AMEX gift card. What I will say about Ipsos is that the prizes on which you can redeem points are excellent. They have anything from gift cards to just about every major online retailer from Amazon to Sephora to Target, figurines, and electronics that range from small stop watches to 52" Plasma TVs (which I am currently working toward, lol).

If you are hoping to get involved with surveys online I would say that it is best to open a separate e-mail account separate from your personal account and use that to sign up with the companies. Be careful now, the compulsion here is that you will begin to use this e-mail account for other things, its so fresh and new, unadulterated by spam, and it will be that way if you use it just for the survey companies as well, but when you start to use this new e-mail for other things, spam will slowly begin to flood your inbox and can crowd out your survey invitation so that you might miss some good opportunities.

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