Paid Survey Site Lists

Taking surveys and participating in focus groups are a popular way to make some extra money online. The issue at hand is that there are an abundance of survey list companies online that promise you lists of survey sites that pay and charge you up to fifty dollars to have access. Are these paid lists worth your money?


I tried a few to see what they had to offer. All of them did have long lists of sites that you can sign up with. The process of signing up takes a lot of time as almost every site has many questions for you to answer for your profile. Expect to spend the first day just filling out information on your household and yourself. In the lists, you will find many of the sites are for US only. There are enough that take people from Canada and other places to keep you busy though. There are a few gems in these lists that do provide cash paying surveys but a majority of the lists are prize, point and sweepstake entry rewarded.


There are some sites that are ridiculously overpriced for the information you recieve, and in fact seem to be lining their pockets in multiple ways. The less scrupulous sites, often these say you will get access for free lists, sometimes sell your email to mailing lists and the sites they list are sometimes promo sites. When you hit the link for the survey, up comes a "free giveaway" promo for a tv, cash or other big prize. If you further click to enter for the prize, you will be directed to participate in signing up with a fixed number of offers in order to qualify. Some of these require credit card participation. Yikes. These are not list sites that are worth your time.


Are the paid survey sites worth your money? If you are from the US in particular, they probably will give you some good paid survey sites. If you are from Canada or other Countries, you will find a few good paid survey sites. The lists usually cost anywhere from twenty to forty dollars. I found that I did make that money back from doing surveys but it wasn't instant and it took about six months of survey taking from a number of sites to make regular cash incentive rewards on surveys. The good part is that if you do regularly participate, you start getting better incentive invitations and also focus group invitations. Focus groups online pay very well from twenty to about forty per panel. They are online as well and pre set times for participation. If you are also in the health field, the lists have very well paid research sites to sign up with.


The survey sites that I have had the most success with (and I am not an affiliate to these sites) are:


Dollar Surveys (Each invitation pays a dollar at minimum)
Test Spin (Cash incentive)
Angus Reid (Usually offers cash but doesn't send many invites)
Zoom Panel (gift certificate and focus group panels too)
Greenfield Online (Many offers, after time doing sweepstake entry surveys provides more cash surveys)
Web Perspectives (Same as Greenfield only also has many focus group offers)
My View (Quite a few invites)
TSN (Many gift certificate surveys and focus group invites)


I am in the process of reviewing Buzz and Focusline. I will find out and report back if they are good.


So in summary, if you anticipate spending time taking surveys, you may want to spend some money on a good survey list site. Check reviews online of sites before paying to make sure the list you buy is worth it. You can get a useless list if you don't. Surveys will not make you rich but you can make some extra cash if you regularly participate. You get better incentives with many sites after time.