Online surveys are scam

Malaysia
July 19, 2010 1:59pm CST
I have register myself with 100 of them never sent me an invite. For your information, I live in Malaysia. Maybe that's why I don't get any. If any of you know some survey sites, can you please tell me?
7 responses
@jane239 (521)
19 Jul 10
Just because you don't get any personally, doesn't make every single survey site out there a scam. There are plenty of genuine ones,plenty of sites that I have been paid for often. It all depends on your profile and whether they have any suitable surveys.
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@TeamCholent (2832)
• United States
19 Jul 10
Survey Sites are not scam. I make over $100/month doing surveys. The reason you don't get surveys is because most companies are not looking for people from your countries to do any surveys. You need to find a Malaysian company or try GlobalTestMarket and see if they allow users from your country. Most survey sites want US,UK and Canadians only. Before calling a site scam do your research and only join the ones that allow you. If you joined 100 survey sites you have joined many sites that are for the US only.
• Malaysia
19 Jul 10
Sorry but the Malaysian sites has two or maybe more and it doesn't offers surveys regularly. Sigh...so sad can't make money on survey.
• United States
19 Jul 10
Aye, same here. I also get a ton of surveys, but I'm also from the US. I don't know of too many sites that specialize in international surveys, hoever the ones given here are all legit, so id try them. Worst that can happen is you just don't get any invited.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
22 Jul 10
From what I understand, it is pretty difficult to be able to take surveys online i you don't live in the United States. That said, I don't know that I would say that they are a scam because there are several places that I've been paid for taking online surveys. All of that said, I think that you should look up international survey sites and see if there are places that you are able to register for that accept survey takers from Malaysia.
• United States
19 Jul 10
I have a list of international survey sites on my blog. One of my favorites is survey savvy...they pay by check...no check fee...and you may request payment at just $1. Happy Earnings
• Japan
20 Jul 10
I agree with working mom, survey savvy is an international and paying site.
• Canada
19 Jul 10
Have you tried mysurvey? I still don't have enough points to cashout, but I heard it's legit.
• United States
19 Jul 10
Its not International so they can't use the site.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
19 Jul 10
i receive invitations to survey sites all the time in my email box(several times a day). as a matter of fact i get invited to surveys so much that it would get old trying to see if i qualify for them all. it has to be the country your living in to not get an invite because i don't see how in the world you could join so many survey sites and not get several invites a day. also have you tried completing the online profiles on each of the survey sites. the survey sites will want to know some things about your interests and what you do on a regular basis in order to qualify for some surveys or else they might not invite you. if you have done what i've suggested i would suspect its probably the country you live in.