Paid Survey Companies
Are All Paid Survey Companies Scam?
Ruling out all survey companies and calling them as spam or scam is simply illogical. There are a number of paid survey companies that are legit and that do pay their surveyors. However, the number of fake companies claiming to be legitimate survey companies exceeds their number and that is the reason most of the people looking for some extra cash are lured by these scams. Just to clarify, no matter how well reputed and how secure a survey company is, it cannot provide you with full time income. On the very best they can offer you some extra money that might be enough for covering few bills but expecting anything more than that is plainly ridiculous.
Signs of Fake Survey Companies
There are some clear signs linked with fake survey companies.
- They will emphasize the importance of you paying them registration fee over and over. They will claim that this fee is used for your own good, administrative purposes, maintaining the site, updating their database and actually you are the one who is getting benefit from this fee.
- Fake survey sites are usually littered with testimonials, tens and hundreds of testimonials will be testifying the authenticity of these sites and how they made their lives easy.
- Fake survey sites are usually ill maintained and one can easily find some grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, missing links and improper contact information.
- These sites tend to ask too much personal information, they will most probably sell that info to companies and you will end up with getting more automated junk calls and emails.
How to Differentiate Legit from Fake?
That's fairly simple but it also depends on your experience.
- If the information provided on survey site is clear, there are no exaggerated claims, they do not boast of or make fake claims and they are communicating openly regarding the payments and the money you can or will make then you can take risk with such a company. Also most survey companies do not ask for registration fee as they are already getting paid by research companies that are conducting those surveys.
- A well built and maintained website with useful information and a track record of past successful survey projects, is another hint of the legitimacy of a company. You have to see if they have too much experience or if they look too good to be true.
- A legit survey company will never make you believe that you can take any survey; most surveys are based on demographic, psychographic and life style segmentations, so one cannot fit in all categories. Also a survey company claiming that they will provide you enough monetary support that you won't need your day job is a clear cut fake, so avoid them.
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what are the honest and most famous paying survey companies worldwide?
The rule, as always, is to stay away from those that ask you to pay before you can get these surveys.
Legitimate market survey companies such as Pinecone Research recruit members based on demographic characteristics -- e.g. mothers of babies 0-12 years old -- and will send surveys of products and services targeting this demographic group. Pinecone Research, however, pays only $5 per survey -- you're definitely not going to be rich with that. They can give you anywhere from 1-5 at most surveys in a month.
Other companies simply ask you to answer as many research as possible, and you don't earn anything just the chance to win at a raffle (which I find lame).
Pinecone Research http://www.pineconeresearch.com
GreenField Online http://www.greenfieldonline.com
Harris Poll Online http://www.harrispollonline.com
BuzzBack http://www.buzzback.com
SurveySite http://www.surveysite.com
SurveySavvy http://www.surveysavvy.com
Survey Spot http://www.surveyspot.com/
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