I'm whittling down my list of survey sites

I also used to do the Global Test Market but not anymore I realized that it was not really worth it as you have stated. I do surveys with opinion outpost since they do pay well and I always have a survey waiting for me in my inbox every day so it is a really good site. I also do some transcription which pays out a lot better than most surveys. One place to go is to Callgraph it is a transcription company that pays daily and they always have work to do either to transcribe or to review so it pays well. It's so true how some sites trick you into thinking you are making money but you really are missing out on much better opportunities.

I think GlobalTestMarket's minimum is $50, not $10. I wish it was $10. In any case, I feel they've definitely gone downhill. Motto of the month for me: online spring cleaning. Concentrate on what's working, kick what's not working to the curb by the end of the year. Go into the new year a lot lighter and focused.

im with you on that one. also, ive figured out the best ones only go for people under 25 yrs to join. and with large families. so right now, i only have 3. which ive lied to to get sorry to say but in this day and time you've got to get it where you can the 2 you mentioned are 2 ive belonged to and gave up some time ago.

I have to agree with you about Global Test Market. A couple of weeks ago I was trying to take surveys and I answered detailed questions on one for 10 - 15 minutes or so and then it tells me, "Sorry but you have screened out of the survey". I thought I was TAKING the survey! Instead, I had just been scammed. There is no reason to "screen" through 15 minutes of questions. No, they got the information they wanted and then said I screened out so they wouldn't have to pay me. I had this happen a couple of times with OTX as well so now I don't take their surveys either. I went to my account on GTM and requested payment. I just cashed the check and I'm dropping them. I also saw online where other people were dropping them and one person said that GTM was getting their surveys from OTX. That could be part of the reason for their decline. On a side note, for anybody else that had problems with OTX, they sometimes come up as OpinionSphere now. Probably because the number of people taking their surveys was dropping rapidly. There are enough good survey sites out there. I don't need either one of these.

Yeah some of the good survey sites once payed a generous amount, but now no longer do so. I prefer to not do survey sites as much anymore because the surveys take a long time and you get a small reward for completing them. In other words I just didn't find it worth it for some sites.

I still do Global Test Market, but not as much. I thought they used to give 5 points even when you screen out, but that does not seem to be the case anymore. Atleast not for me. I skip the surveys that only give sweepstakes entries and not points. I don't have time to do surveys for a sweepstakes I may or may not win lol. One I really like is Toluna. Now how often I make the cash-out depends on how active I am. So that varies. But if you go to the actual site itself, you can vote in sponsored polls and get points through those. I just cashed out a few weeks ago, and a lot of it came from doing the polls a few times a week (don't get me wrong, the surveys will help to add to your points. But the polls will too).

Personally I have never really been a Big fan on Survey sites. I do tend to consider trying some of them out but since most of the time, they also say I did not qualify once I do the initial footwork it makes me wonder what they really want for sure. And hey, if you look at things monitarily if you are not being rewarded in something you are doing that you're not really enjoying why keep on doing it anyways? I find being in here in myLot posting so much more worth it for sure.

It becomes really easy to do what we have always done. If we do that we lose sight of things that could be better for us.

I am still a member of many different sites but anymore I am usually to busy with mylot and ebay to get time to sit and do the paid survey sites. Once I am done listing all my exes games on ebay then I will have time to do the survey sites again. I used to do paidsurveys ALL the time with sendearnings and inboxdollars when they always paid you $1.00 for any survey you completed but now its like .25 and .50 most the time for surveys that are long and arent worth sitting there for that long. What I hate the most is getting half way through a long survey only to find that I dont qualify and it was all a total waste of my time!

It's a great idea to streamline our tasks. Afterall we only have 24 hours in a day, we need to select and choose the ones that will generate the most from time spent. I'm still doing paid survey sites but have shortlisted them to just a few. I think I would need to streamline my activities even more. I guess you are write that sometimes we are distracted from more productive ways to earn money. As such, I'm going to spend more time writing instead.