Friday, January 2, 2009

Get PAID to fill out online surveys! SMASH or TRASH?

Alright so I decided to check this out just to see how BAD I would get ripped off.


Now I am not the one to rain on someones parade or ruin their business, but this site truly blows. So the pitch is basically the same thing we all heard before; sit on your ass and make money working from home, no experience necessary, get paid to read emails, blah blah blah...

this is their headline.....

“Discover How to Make as Much Money as You
Want, Just By Having an Internet Connection,
Some Spare Time, and an Opinion!”

Wow all I need is an Internet connection, spare time, and a brain cell to form an opinion. GREAT! So knowing that this will not turn out well from the start I swallowed my pride and continued to read on. After a few minutes I was ready to make the purchase and take advantage of their "money back guarantee." Being a web savvy individual myself I always look for the "LAST CHANCE" offer that most site like this have. This basically means that the price you see on their site for a product/service that they are trying to sell you may not be the LOWEST they will let it go for.
The original web advertised price for this membership access is $68. I think this is the number they come up after digging around in their ARRS. WAY too steep for my taste for something like this. But there was hope after all! Apparently they are running a "LIMITED TIME" campaign and are willing to cut that price in HALF. Alright i didn't have to do much and already i got it for half of their asking price. So here i am down to $34 and still have a hard time pushing that buy button. I WANT A LOWER PRICE DAMN IT!

HERE IT IS:

So i go to my FireFox browser tab and click on the X to close the window. And what do you know? A nice little pop up comes up that says "ok ok alright we know this STUFF we are selling is not worth the keystroke we used to create it so tell ya what. If you click cancel on the bottom of you close window we will give you the membership log in for only $17" -NOTE i paraphrased to make it sound more exciting.
NOPE! Still not sold on your, now $17, item that is guaranteed to suck by how convincing you are making it seem that this indeed is a valuable product to purchase. I click the X button again after clicking on the cancel in the previous pop up and what do i see? Yes, another pop up window where the price is a low $7. FINE! If i was going to write this post i made as well have some experience behind it. So I make my purchase and genuinely want to make it work so i can write a more positive result. After my $7 payment was processed i was taken to yet another sales page or as we in the biz call it a "UP SALE" where they try to squeeze more money out of me. I believe i clicked through 4 different attempts at getting me to buy more expensive products. So finally i was at the members page and ready to fill out a survey to make some "QUICK CASH." There are about 4 pages of different company links to sign up and participate in their "survey" program to" get paid."
OK whatever i will try and see what happens maybe one of these will work. I picked the TOP 3 and did everything they asked me to do. Of course i did NOT put in my actual info i used my JUNK account to set these up.

OUTCOME:

After wasting an hour trying to get paid i realized that there was no such thing as "getting paid to read surveys." Most of the companies offer incentive programs where you collect their points where you can turn in for prizes after filling out so much CRAP online that your phone/email will be blasted with telemarketers/SPAM daily.

Here is their TOP suggested marketing company, CLICK HERE to be taken to the landing page. All though i would not waste my time. Collection points to get a $10 gift card is just not worth the amount of CRAP you will get in return. The bottom line is that companies like this don't really pay you for the surveys. Their main objective is to collect your information so they can sell it to third partys. ALWAYS read the privacy policy before you disclose any information online.


I have already asked for my $7 back and am waiting to see what happens with that. Keep you posted!

And for now, "Get PAID to complete surveys online" is most definitely TRASH

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