Online Surveys: Can You Really Earn From Them?

You’ve likely read pitches like “Earn $400 a week right in the comfort of your own home by just responding to surveys”. Too good to be real? Well, yes! Although it somehow makes sense that some firms are willing to spend an amount for market research thru online surveys, this is no way good to have your time spent. To give a clear picture on how scam works, here’s how.

Basically, scammers make use of spam. They tend to make promises that will somehow convince the person to grab their incredible offer such as a quick money for a hardly-exerted effort. At most times, they assert that you can earn a big amount for every survey online that has been participated - all in just a matter of few minutes. Who would want no big money in less time with less effort? Of course, everybody does! So to be able to avail what is being promised, you would be very willing to pay the required low amount like $35.75 just to access the site and learn how that big money can be obtained without much fuss.     

The scammer’s objective is to convince thousands of internet users to pay that amount or whatever is charged in exchange for the information. On a side note, this payment stuff would be okay if only they have not use spam and if they do actually fulfill what is being promised. Yet, as reality strikes, majority of them
are really worthless.

It might be a good idea to search online and look for a site that has the capability to filter scammers out and obtain a site ranking of online survey. This way, it may help you opt out what’s not legit from those that are considered legit survey firms. This action does make sense; however, it’s just so unfortunate that a lot of these ranking websites may actually serve as interceders who are yielded with commissions by survey firms for the referrals. Oftentimes, whoever expend great amount of money is expected to obtain the highest rating.

But are there really legit surveys online? Yes, but finding which is really which is like searching for a needle in a 97,000 (number of results when you input the word “online survey” in the Google search) piles of haystack. Another reason why the hype is not true is because legit web surveys are somehow lengthy which simply means that it would take awhile for the respondent to have the survey filled out completely.