Tina H.

Well at first I thought they were wonderful. Now i'm starting to feel a tiny bit cautious which may or may not be called for.

But first things first, let me straighten out one thing. They are ironically named. I have "cashed out" at $100 and there was no offer of a check or prepaid debit card. I looked through the list of things to choose from and there were some not-so-thrilling choices, such as subscriptions to magazines I have not heard of and would not be interested in, and an e-gift card to some online shopping site that I haven't heard of either. No thanks. I ended up choosing two $50 Walmart gift certificates. Don't ask me why one $100 WM gift certif. Wasn't available. Lol Because I do not know. I think in about 2 weeks they were sent to my email box. (E-gift certificates, which btw you can print and take to WM service desk and they will give you an actual card to use. I recommend that). So I was thrilled. We buy a lot of groceries at WM so this was just as good as giving me cash.

And let me say, I don't know how they do it but they get a LOT of surveys. You just keep going back and refreshing the dashboard and they appear. Of course you won't qualify for some and of course some of them take you through an entire damned survey before they decide you don't qualify. Nature of the beast I guess. But I'm very pleased with what the surveys pay. And sometimes I get into discussion group about a new product and those can pay as much as $8-$12 each. But believe me, people sure do jump on them so you better jump as well when you see the opportunity on the dashboard.

I have only had 2 of the surveys I've taken declared invalid response, which is actually pretty amazing considering the zillions of them I have done. I guess I snoozed at the helm a couple times.

Only thing kind-of bugging me now is I achieved another $50 cashout and I put in for another WM gift card and it has been pending since April 6th. I feel like I won't really exhale until they give it to me because I don't recall it took near this amount of time with the last two. The site does say to give it 4-6 weeks and it just didn't take that long last time... but hopefully I'm worried for nothing and it will arrive. Going on what I know now I would recommend the site, just remember they apparently don't pay cash!

Ok when I first joined about 3 months ago I was pretty content. Finally made that first whopping $30 cashout ($27 on a prepaid Visa after "processing fees") and reached a second $27 cashout. It is very hard to qualify for very many surveys. I think having kids gets you more surveys and my only kid is grown.So the good news is yes, there is tiny bits of money to earn on that site. Now for the bad.

I am bloody sick and tired of spending a half hour answering multiple pages of in-depth questions only THEN to be told 'We're sorry but you do not qualify for this survey" That's a load of BS. They do not have to take up that much of your time and make you do that much work in order to figure out if you're a good candidate for any survey. It's plain and obvious they are getting all the data from you to use in their research, then refusing to pay you for it and there is no recourse for you when this happens. Sure it looks good that they have a "live chat" person on their site. Except for well... it's a bot that keeps cutting and pasting BS that is not even relevant to what you're asking.

Today, I was excited to get into a survey after getting rejected by 3 or 4. They wanted to access my web cam and capture my reaction to a 10 second video. Ok fine. When they want to do this supposedly only the researchers are ever going to see it and it won't be used for any other purpose, yada yada. So what's the harm right? I enabled my webcam, participated, then after they captured my reaction to something they had me answer some questions. Then guess what? Yep, they were sorry but I did not fit the criteria for the survey. That could have easily been ascertained BEFORE capturing my face on film. Clearly another case of "Let's get this poor poverty-stricken a-hole to jump through hoops and not even give her the lousy dollar she's trying to earn!"

That is a disgrace. Beyond unethical. And well, a load of B. S. And of course you cannot confront the cowards because as I said they are hiding behind a bot. I would stay clear simply because the frustration they will cause you will not override the few small payouts you will get.