What do you think of my decision?

I wish I can do what you do. Its very clever the way you maximize the income you make in your survey taking time. I can never remember which companies gave me how much. If I am desperate and have to continue, I will take the time to jot down the details. When I stop there are a few surveys that need a little more points to redeem for cash. I totally agree with those which offer only sweepstake entries. There is one which I think is not short of monetary sense yet they still offer such a reward. Such a ripoff! BTW about qualifying, I tried what one mylotter did which was to input that you earn above $4000 per month. Read on what I wrote above your box what i think of that. They're silly!

Thanks very very much for the lenghthy manual, its awesome! I have been doing online earning since 2006. It is the one that is keeping me sane right now, mostly due to people like you.

I am glad I could help.

Yes they should come up with something different. It sounds interesting this marketing research class. I only read here and there through the internet and a few of my friends, I am surprised that to market a product, there is a formula you can follow. Am I right? Through what I have learnt, your product has to be intriging at first and then after your 'fish' is hooked, you have to play it cool, to be 'suspenseful'. It seems very manupulating but I dun mind if the product is very good. If its not then its a diffrent story.

Yep, that marketing research class was a requirement for me in order to get that marketing concentration include in my bachelor degree certificate. The class was horrible. The textbook was way the size of Mt. Everest and had lots of statistics. Oh, it was called quantitative marketing research. To be honest, I still don't understand what I studied over there. But I had to make the surveys for not only that class but also another marketing class called product and pricing. It was my waste of money because I had to print out the surveys. There were more than 100 of them and each had more than 2 pages. It is like in marketing they have a huge number of survey question structures. One is called scale where the survey taker has to mark his or her opinion at a rate of 1 to 10. I am sure you saw them. And then they have other structures consisted of answers such as never, sometimes, moderately, too many times and so on. I had to memorize all of it for tests and it made me feel sick inside. The funny thing is that I know from experience and like you said survey questions get boring. But we were told in the class and by the textbook to reject those surveys whose answers didn't seem reliable. They just have this weird concept called "validity". If the result from the first survey does not seem right we were asked to restart surveying people. And then another nonsense job comes which is like entering each person's answer on the computer. It yields to some graphs from which the marketers have to come up with conclusions and decisions. You just brought up that product thing. It reminded me of how one of our marketing professors tried to make us go for him door to door to get answers for his surveys. In return he said he would give us extra credit. The survey questions were based on some German detergent. He was researching on whether people liked it in USA. When I saw the questions I yawned. Each had more than 5 pages. Some of my friends agreed to fill them up for me. Others rejected. Turned out it happened to majority of us students. So we ended up filling up the answers ourselves with different pen inks just so he would feel they were done by other people.

O wow! This is wonderful information even if you think it is boring. It made me smile because I did answer most questions with a dice. Sometimes the system detects it and refuse to let me continue so I had to read where i went wrong. I only did it because of the payment. I think it is confirmed that I should not continue with surveys, I will just be cheating them. How hypocrite (I have always hated cheaters!)

Yours is a keeper. I do not thnk I will ever get something like yours where I am. The money is good too.

Sometimes to get to you they do use a very attractive bait. And asking for your phone number is a another way to market products. We have to wise up very fast because there is a whole study done to get to our money!

I do envy you. There are some companies that are worth your while from where you are. I dun have many such companies from where I am. Another company you should look into is Globaltestmarket. Do compare if its worth your while though. From where I am Globaltestmarket pays SGD$50 for every 1000 points accumulated.

This is a way for me to confirm my decision to give up on surveys. I am quite desperate for money now. My financial situation has changed recently and I need to weigh my decision. Everyone has 24 hours so to optimise my earning time your input is important to me.

I do admit that when you get paid its very satisfying but some survey sites intend to give you the same surveys everytime. I do not like to do that, to go through the exact same surveys. Its like hearing someone nag at you the same exact things over and over. And usually those are the ones that take a long time to finish also.

Once I got this survey, they ask me the same questions for ten different brands. It is one of the surveys that broke the camels back for me. The thing is once i am halfway through it I have to finish because my time is spent and I want to get paid.

If you are not comfortable with lying (I have suggested in this same discussion how to qualify) then I suggest you find other methods of earning online. There are uncountable ways to earn online and if one rejects you, a thousand will accept you. But you have to choose or take calculated risk on which one that wont turn scam :(

Exactly. Those long and tedious surveys always leave me feeling cheated. But I am desperate for money now and I am making decisions whether to continue with some which will make my time worthwhile. I have received some very good feedbacks so I am happy with my responses. Thanks.

It is good to choose the ones that you think are worth your time and continues doing them. Sometimes online jobs needs sacrifices and willinginess to do something even with little pay.

Yes I agree that if you dun quality a lot then its time to find another way of earning online. Dun waste your time anymore, do something else. Your time is very precious. Money is something you can find and replace but time is what you wont get back.