The Money Making Review

Here is your update on the previous posting regarding the “From Home Data Entry” opportunity. 

I hate the word scam, becuase business opportunities take investment of time and money.  In most cases, this is what people call “scam” without first realizing if you are going to make money through online opportunities most will take money and time.  This opportunity took money as well as a good amount of time.  I felt that I did the website reviews in an appropriate manner within all of the guidelines given through the terms and conditions. 

 I requested the payout for 300 website reviews in January 2010.  It is now Mid-April 2010 and have not received payment.  I have requested information from customer service, but have not received any answers to the question of weather I would be getting paid for my time and effort.

My final statement on this opportunity is SCAM.

I would not recommend this opportunity in that I did not get paid for the time and effort that I put into the website reviews.  DO NOT pay for the packages, you will not get paid.

Have you had a different experience?  Drop a line, I would like to hear from you!

I guess AOL is losing enough marketing money to start their own survey site that rewards those who qualify and complete surveys.  Opinion Place is the same type of paid survey taking as others.

Once thing I really like about Opinion Place is that you get paid right away, it does not go into a bank for future pay out.  I chose to get my payments directly into my PayPal account.  There are other ways to get paid including having it count toward your AOL account, American Airlines miles, Amazon credit, and sweepstake entries.  (Although, if you are still paying for your AOL account…there is another conversation to have in the future.)  With the PayPal account, the money goes right into the account and I have had no problems getting paid.

This is a more recent occurrence; I signed on right away and have made about $50.  There is only a couple of invites per week and are usually filled very quickly!  Depending on the amount of the award, the quicker it is filled.  To give you an idea, there was a $5 reward on an invite and in the one hour it took to check my email the survey was filled.  So, if you do not have regular access to your email account (needs to be an AOL account); I would not expect to be able to complete all surveys.

You can visit their website at: www.opinionplace.com.  I have not seen them on any other get paid to sign up, but if you do, please leave a response.

Ipsos I Say, is a point system survey site.  As with other sites, you would need to complete a profile to get emails sent to you to invite you to complete appropriate surveys.  The emails for the surveys do not give you the amount of the points you can receive for the survey; however, after you click into it the first page gives you the amount of points that you will get as well as the estimated amount of time it will take to complete.  One extra step depends on your time if it is worth it or not. I like I Say, because they have offers of product tests.  This is something that really interests me and makes me really feel like I am making a difference in the consumer’s life.  Plus, the monetary rewards are even better!  You do not have to send anything back and get to use the entire product.  The main thing they are looking for is confidentiality and allergies.  So, if you can’t keep it under wraps or have lots of allergies, find something else. There is a minimum for cash out on your points at 50 points, which translates to about $5. 

UPDATE: Starting January 14, 2010, you will be getting updates on your points via email.  They are changing the site and should be done in March 2010.  This update includes having the ability to complete surveys, see your points in real-time after completing a survey, order rewards, get all the information you need about membership and more in the one stop shop.

With a HUGE listing of merchants you can get gift certificates it is hard to choose. One can also chose merchandise from their rewards center.  In addition, there is a chance to win after the survey is complete, sweepstakes style after answering a question on Poll Predictor.  You get points toward the sweepstake entries that are not part of your points for rewards.   I have never won, but take the time to play, just because I find it fun.  In other words, if you play or don’t; it does not affect your reward points.

You can visit their website at: www.i-say.com – you can also sign up with them through read emails get paid sites (good way to get some money for signing up for something you would have signed up for anyway).  I would also recommend checking on MyPoints.com to see if they are offering points to sign up.

Polling Point is a survey site that specializes in political and consumer polls. It gives points for completing polls based on email invitation. Awards for completed surveys are usually 500 points for the survey; however, there are opportunities to make 1,000 points on some longer surveys. I joined about a year ago, and have earned 32,000 points. This is just enough to get a prize of 2 movie tickets (Value of $15?). There are standard polls sent out that are interesting in their set-up, they ask more about consumer products and your thoughts / feelings about those brands. There were interesting political polls during the election. I think it also helped that the company who runs the site; are based out of California and it was when I lived in California so there were specific questions for that area. As far as rewards go for this site; they are hard to achieve. The first prize is at 17,500 and it is a Polling Point bag. Good advertising for them, but does not help me much. The highest reward prize is worth 100,000 points and is $100 cash. In other words, if you are doing these surveys for the rewards and cash – skip this site; however, It is a good site to voice your political opinion. When the survey is completed they do ask how the survey was and if you have any feedback that may be typed into an open text box. I like that they care enough to ask the surveyed if the survey was of good quality. You can visit their website at: www.pollingpoint.com – you can also sign up with them through read emails get paid sites (good way to get some money for signing up for something you would have signed up for anyway). I would also recommend checking on MyPoints.com to see if they are offering points to sign up.

**Update Polling Point is now YouGov Polling Point.

Well, here is the newest of the survey site reviews…

Survey Spot is an online survey site that will pay you cash for your opinions.  They send A LOT of requests for surveys to be completed.  I made a good amount of money with them very quickly.  I earned almost $100 in 6 months, then all of a sudden – I stopped getting requests.  I contacted the survey site and requested information since I was not getting ANY surveys and I had been receiving at least 5 requests a day.  After contact I was told that I did not qualify for any surveys (I am guessing this was practically auto-responder to the question, since it was never fully investigated).

I got a chip on my shoulder in regards to the customer service that I had received.  Since then, I have signed up for another account…surprise…I am back to 5 survey requests a day!  So, the site is fine except that it takes a long time to get through all of the surveys and I think that I was put on hold cause I was only doing the surveys that would earn money.  That is why they are not on the top survey sites listed.  However, I always received my payments in a timely manner and had no problems with payment.

All in all, good site, just know that you will be getting a lot of invites and could end up getting placed on hold from getting invites.  Oh yeah, so you know – I was still able to cash out ALL of my earnings even with the issues…

Best of Success to you!

**From previous blog**