Paid Surveys!

[morpium]

Well, i am quite short of cash but i do have a job. At the moment i work in a phone company cold calling people and i get paid anything per week from £45 to my highest £190 for 9 hours work.
Naturally I started looking on how to make money via ebay etc... so i can get my bike asap and i stumbled across "PAID SURVEYS".

I looked at the sites and they pay you to do surveys but you pay something like £16 and then they pay u monthly between £2 - £70 per survey which apparently take you "5 minutes to do". Has anyone ever tried this? And if so is it worth it? also anyone got any other suggestions for making a quick few bob.

Cheers anywho!
Gareth

P.S Just search "surveyhawlk" into goggle and you will see what i mean or "paid surveys"

[TOM M]

Seems to good to be true and it probably is.

Why would you have to pay someone before they let you wok for them??
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[morpium]

apparently its a "start up price" sounds like a francize kind of thing. I have no idea, i thought fair enough if i can earn a quid or two while i cant sleep in the middle of the night i shall.
I tried the free ones where you dont have to pay to sign up and so far im 7 surveys away from a £5 hmv voucher -- pointless.

Ahwell eh!
I could just imagine as u join and pay the £16 a message comes up on your computer saying "OWNED".

Cheers,
Gareth

[Rookie]

I actually paid to join one of these things, it was only £18. What you get is a big list of companies, you sign up to as many of these companies as you like, and then they tell you about the surveys they're doing. But in my experience, 99% are either completely irrelevant, full, or require you to go to London. They have rigorous screening processes. For example, there was a 'Car Drivers' Survey'. I checked it out, it was a discussion group in London for people who drove a particular Mercedes. There was a cigarettes smokers' one - again you have to go to London, but the only reward was 2 packs of cigarettes a year.

Every now and then you get an online survey, but even if you do get through the screening process, it's about a £2 reward.

In short, it was money down the drain for me, I wouldn't recommend it. It's not often I get burnt, but I did that time.

[morpium]

Cheers rookie for saving me my money i guess.
I am trying to find a way of making money from home seen as a job and school etc is just alot, ahwell ill find another form!

Its a shame people have to go out of there way to "steal" other peoples money though isnt it.

Cheers,
Gareth

[Rookie]

[morpium]

BUy WholeSale do you mean bought things in bulk and then sold separately? (excuse my lack of knowledge)
I know my cousin does a bit of it, finds things in the wrong categorys , buys them then re-sells them in the right categorys.

Cheers though,
Gareth

[Paivi]

I'm with www.ciaosurveys.com and have made about £50 in a year, as the surveys are usually from about 50p to £2, so you won't get rich.

But, I've also had loads of free shampoos, cosmetics, toiletries, detergents, drinks (incl alcoholic), as well as vouchers for services. All I have had to do in return has been to fill in a max two-page questionnaire about the product, and once I was invited to a small focus group, but was on holidays so couldn't make it (that would have been a £100 reward). I have never been asked to pay anything, and haven't been inundated with spam either. Once your account shows £10, you can request them to credit it to your bank account.

The key is to say you've got this and that, and you're very interested in loads of things, that way you'll be sent more surveys.

Edit: just to clarify: this is free, you don't have to pay to take part in surveys and they even ask you to contact them should anybody ask you for a payment.
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[morpium]

Yeh thought so, i was just checking worth a shot and hey £50 isnt to bad:p hehe

[Louise]

Done it - wasted money - As someone else said you sign up to a big list of companys (can you be bothered to sign up to 100 serveys in one day) :S
I did a few, needless to say I never got paid, infact I didnt do one servey coz I didnt get asked

[Giffer2]

Send me £20 and I'll give you the secret of getting people to send you £20, within 1 week you'll earn 1.32 million pounds and all for the cost of £20.

Check out some of the testimonials -

I sent £20 and I was amazed, it was like money in the bank.
- Someone

I paid the man and earnt money, best money making system there is.
- My Mate

So what do you have to lose? Send me your money now!
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[Lady Loner]

punch mystery shopper into your search engine, there are sites in the U.K.
I contract for one here in Oz, go out to macca's, dept stores, all sorts of places, ... you get to eat/keep what you buy AND get paid for it...

Best bit is, ... NO payment to join.. making on average (aus) $70-120 a week.

[Itchy]

it works but you'll never make much out of it , I made £15 once by lying to a marketting company in Bury, which has an office opposite the railway station (the antique one) , you get called in every few months for people to access the impact of adverts.

cost nowt to join , but you do get lots of annoying calls everyso often.
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