Do Survey Websites May As Much As They Should?

March 6, 2010 6:21pm CST
Some of you may have joined up to a survey website where you are paid to answer surveys and some of you maybe have joined quite a few like me. When I say survey site I mean one where the only way with them to make money online is through filling in surveys like Valued Opinions or Opinion World and not one like Mutual Points or ipoints where their are other ways like earning cashback to earn payment. These survey sites can allow us to give our opinion to various people and also they can be intreasting to take part in. But on the paying side of things do you think that the surveys you have been filling in for survey websites have been paying you enough? How much do you think they should be paying? The payment for a survey may depend on the length of the survey and perhaps may be more if it involves a certain activity then other surveys, for example attending a focus group for the survey. When speaking with some people they have suggested these survey sites are spending less on market research with paying their survey takers then if they had used other means of getting the public to fill in surveys that they had been giving, whih I agreed with it could be the case, maybe I thought paying less then if they had been carrying out this research say in the street with a person and a clipboard to get the information from passers by. For me, I have sometimes thought that the amount of money offered for completing a survey was low considering the amount of questions but on the other side I have seen surveys sometimes where I thought that's quite a bit of generous cash offered from them considering only a few questions are in the survey. If I'm correct the amount offered for a survey may depend on how much a partner is paying them for them to get the answers as a percentage of that may be for the survey takers although I am not 100% sure on that. I think that taking surveys can be a good way of making some money and I have found some where I think their payments tend to be more generous then others but as they say, every little helps and even those little amounts can add up. Sometimes also they do not pay in money but vouchers or other prizes which can be nice too. Sometimes for filling in surveys, some of which may be on the longer side, they only enter you into a prize draw to win something-so nice to get entered into a prize draw but no direct payment. So whith the survey sites you have been using do you think their payment has been fair?
1 response
@apples99 (6556)
• United States
7 Mar 10
I'm only with one decent survey site because most surveys discriminate too much so I rarely use survey sites, but like I said theres one thats not bad inbox dollars there pretty good there a survey site, but theres other ways to earn without doing the surveys.
7 Mar 10
I just relised I wrote the disscussion name as 'Do Survey Websites May As Much As They Should?'! But I think you relised what I meant:'......pay as they should'!:) Is their a way to edit the title incase other people don't relise what I meant? I think I have heard of the website Inbox Dollers, but I wasn't sure if they were a survey site or not, I see so you are not joined to any sites completely for the money earning through surveys. Well so far I have not found any survey sites that I thought descriminate in anyway but if you have found any that do that is really bad of them and unfair.