Steven C.

I think I joined around the first week of Febuarary 2015. The company name is: Survey Sampling International LLC. That is what will appear on your PayPal payment. I'm looking at my 1099 misc from last year. I made $1,196.60. Am I rich? Not from them alone, I also run my own import/export business from my home. Put that together with the other survey companies I'm a member of and I make about $7000 a year. It does involve a lot of time. You will qualify for a lot of surveys, then some days you may not. The biggest problem with this company is, even if you finish a survey and do not get paid or taken back to the main Opinion Outpost homepage, the burden of proof is on you! I have probably over 50 surveys that I finished and did not receive pay. Yet, they always give you the same canned response. They will credit you once the survey closes in 2 - 4 weeks. Not once have I ever been credited. I've probably lost over $90 because they chose not to stand behind their members. A lot of times you will spend 10 minutes on a survey and get disqualified. Then when you look at your survey history it will say you didn't finish the survey. I have brought this up to customer no-support, stating why the hell would I waste 15 minutes of my time completing a survey just to stop and not finish it? Makes no sense, but they choose to ignore it and you, without credit. Altogether on several occasions they have responded with "we see you spent a considerable amount on this survey, here is $ for your time. So they have the ability to see you did the survey or spent lots of time on it, but just they just choose not to pay you! In my Opinion (no pun intended) they could care less about it's members. What do I have to do beyond making $1200 for myself and I'm sure a hell of a lot more for them, to prove you shouldn't screw over your members. I've written them so many times and told them I would love to recommend this company to everyone I come in contact or do business with. I can not do it! Until Opinion Outpost starts standing up for their members and doing away with the scumbag partners that want to screw you out of 50 cents because they choose to disqualify (after 10 minutes of answers) or straight out just not pay you after taking a survey. One good thing is I have actually made an additional $400 testing products sent to my home, I've tested from bread crumbs, noodles, 10 lbs of dog food, peanuts from Doritos and underwear, just to name a few. They are definitely not a scam. I would have loved to give them 5 stars, but I can't. Until they step-up and do what's right (they have the ability to do it) one star is it. The speed and the process of the payment is top notch, unfortunately the lack of members support takes them down! But, give them a try. You will make money and earn your payout.

This is one of the cheapest paying sites of them all. You can waste hours trying to qualify for a survey and sometimes when you qualify you will spend another 15 minutes doing the survey and then it will say "bummer your not a match or the survey has reached it's target number of participants. Now keep in mind you just spent 10 minutes trying to qualify for a survey! Then there are the times you do qualify and complete the whole survey and won't get credited. When that happens, customer service or non-service is what I call it, will often ask you for a screen shot, the topic, the survey number. Basically putting you as a liar instead of a valued member. So! I already wasted 20 minutes of my time, now I'm supposed to waste another 15 minutes on top of that for a lousy F'n 25 cents just to prove that I actually did complete the survey. Really? Yeah, I had nothing better to do today but waste hours of my time qualifying for a 25 cent survey and then just decided I was going to not finish it! Get real, run from this site as fast as you joined. I was a member for almost 2 years and and had to fight for every penny earned. 75 cents and hour average sucks. There are so many other sites I have now been a member of that I can make over $100 a week for an hour or so a day. I have tested/reviewed over 70 products last year alone and made an extra $1170. 00 just off that, plus you get to keep the product. That will not happen here. It took my son all summer break ( 2 Months) from school to finally cash out $34. All summer, every day, several hours an evening. His first day though one of the sites I recommended he made $9 in 40 minutes and after $10 you can cash out to paypal instantly. No waiting around for a week to get a check. Lets not forget that when you do reach the $30 threshold to get paid they charge you $3 for processing fee. Yeah, that's right! You could spend 5 hours trying to make 3 bucks on this site! Now they do put it back in your account, my guess it's in the hopes you will continue to waste countless hours a week making a meager $10, it can be done. You could make $15 a week, but you better be prepared to work at it 10 hours a day 7 days a week. I logged my time for my highest paid week and I spent 4 1/2 hours a day for 7 days and made $29 Now divide that by 31.5 hours spent. It averages about 92 cents an hour. Need I say more. The other site they run (send earning) is even worse. Do the math people. The first year with them I did make about $328. But I also run my own business out of my house and can spend 15 hours a day doing surveys, while still making an extremely good living. I'm often asked by my friends, why do I even bother doing online surveys? When I tell them it's the extra money I use to buy all of us the beer when we go out, they no longer question it! Just remember, you will not get rich doing this, but with the right survey companies, you can make some pretty decent side money. Last year alone I made $5844. 20 from just 4 good/honest paying survey sites. So it can give you extra income. Just not this site, too much time involved to make a buck! Try it for yourself, they will pay you. They are definitely not a scam, just just pay crappy for your time!