Paying a fee to take surveys

Paying money to get money... isnt this funny?? you wont have to pay money if really deserve money. Just learn to earn for your talent than to go beyond these cheaters.

I have never paid for taking surveys and probably never will. I have neard good things about Survey Scout, but not sure if I want to spend money to make money. I would need a really good review in order pay for a survey site, and I don't mean one of those short to the point reviews, but an in depth one. I am a member of a bunch of survey sites and I never had to pay for registration. I get about 8-20 survey invites a day, some days are better than others though. I have been slacking lately and not doing the surveys that I get, I guess its just a lazy week for me. I have heard of express Paid Surveys but they don't look very legit. The whole look and feel of their website is too flashy and exaggerated, if you go to a legitimate survey or research companies site, it will be a simple layout not a whole bunch of flashy lights or animated people talking. This is usually because the legit ones are paying people for their opinion not the look of the site. websites like Express paid surveys charges money for a list, thats it, they don't have to shell out any money to panel members or focus groups.

I find that very interesting-I once paid for some assortment of surveys and discovered that they were scams-they swallowed my 50 hard earned dollars and since then, i have found surveys very difficult things to indulge in especially if i have to pay for them

Do not pay for surveys! I paid out $40 for a list of survey companies that paid. One of the names on the list also suggested I pay another $30 for a special list of survey companies. I thought, "Well, there's no such thing as a free lunch, if I pay, I should get the rewards." What a load of carp! I registered with about 40 - 50 companies, only about 20% send me surveys, I've not been paid by any of them, I get points or entries in a monthly draw. Quite often, I get screened out after 20 mintes of answering questions. There was so much positive information about people receiving payment - I read everything to be sure I was doing the right thing. After nearly 6 months of getting zip, I contacted the guys I paid the money to and told them what I'd gone through and asked for a refund. I didn't hear back from them. I emailed again and insisted I be paid a refund but again, then was nothing. Don't pay anyone, anything to do a survey.

i have not found any that i have to pay for and for the little cash that you get, i dont think i would pay for them. do the ones that you have to pay for the privilege of filling out surveys, do they pay well? i am just curious.

Paying to be able to take surveys? I'm all for mlm, but taking surveys as a business? Not likely. Paying usually gets you more quality, more service, more options. But thats not always the case with internet. I've signed up for a few Finnish survey sites and time to time get offers to join this or join that survey site, but if they ask me for to join in I always pass. The only way having to pay for it would make sense to me would be that they use some very expensive own program/toolbar etc which in my mind isn't a very good reason to pay for (might be for some serious surveyer, but not me) or they are paying for referrals and have somesort of actual mlm complan behind it. Still I can't see it as business...

That's ridiculous! I've been doing surveys for about 20 or so years and I've never had to pay anyone once. I even had to do surveys as part of my graduate school work, so I've been on both sides. You don't want people to pay because you don't get the right kind of sampling because only the people who had the money and the time would pay. But, you do want to pay people for taking the surveys as an incentive. I'd bet you were only paying for a list of companies and not really for taking any surveys.

I paid a fee once about 5 years ago.I got access to their site members area where there was a list of many businesses that would pay you for doing surveys.I sent emails to several of them.One of them was local business to me.I called them.I was told that I had to come over and apply.I had to fill out an application and go thru and interview.I never got one survey from any of those places on or off line.I tried to go back to the site that I had paid my money to and it was down.I have done some surveys at a site that doesn't have alot,but at least they pay and have surveys often and will even include surveys to your family members.

No, you should never pay anything to take surveys. They should be paying you always. I don't do survey sites anymore though because most of them don't pay and/or have ridiculous payout limits and/or it takes forever to reach payout, even if it is low. Also, as you said, it is nearly impossible to qualify for the surveys. I have only found two that are reliable in their rewards and pay but one of them has discriminated against me so I will never ever ever use them or recommend them to anyone.

I could have lost my money If I was not seen some of articles and some blogs about the online surveys, they suggested on their blogs never pay for single money for get paid surveys, because you can get this all survey sites without paying single penny, thanks a lot for them who really saved me by scammed from some of sites. After that I got many sites free of cost and joined few sites, but yet I don't get anything from these sites.

The thing is fact that some sites take fees for signing up and take surveys. We should think os some things before paying them the money and signing up the site. They are 1. Is it worth it ? 2. Do we earn more than we pay as fee? 3. Do we profit in less time? 4. Is it reliable to join in the site? 5. How many surveys can be taken daily and how much they pay for each survey? These things help in understanding the site very much and its a must before Joining in the site by paying some fees.