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Analysis and Current (April 5, 2007) Rankings of 20 Top Paid Survey Companies Here are the comparisons. Please read the explanation of the different factors used, in the "Explanation of Classifying Factors" and the "Commentary", below: Current Ranking and Analysis:
Explanation of classifying factors: ** Cost to Join - Generally speaking, this is a one-time fee. ** Gravity - This is a ClickBank number which is an expression of the level of activity, number of affiliates involved, volume of business, number of transactions and so forth. Generally, the bigger the number the more business that is being done by that company. This number changes daily and summaries are reported weekly. ** Refund % - This number is calculated based on data published by Clickbank, and, while it is a very good indicator it can be deceptive. The problem is that the refund is calculated by taking the gross income figures less the refunds. The gross income figures and the refunds are actual for the last two weeks. This is mathematically correct and will be exact over time. However, the reality is that income is from current sales and refunds are for clients who began sometime over the last two months. So that means that if the company has, say, declining sales for the last six weeks or so, so that their sales today are half of what they were six weeks ago, and their "real" refund rate is 5.0%, then that amount being claimed by clients who came in six weeks ago will look like 10% against today's lower sales. Similarly, if there is an increase in sales, the refund rate of today will look smaller. It's what is called a "lagging indicator" and can give a somewhat distorted reading when the weekly sales rate trends up or down. In the long run, a moving average will be correct. We have started recording the info needed to calculate that moving average. For now you can check the old list on the "Past Rankings" page here on this site, to see what the refund rates were, mopmth by month, beginning 4 month agos, on December 5, 2006.
Commentary: Why the rankings we made? 1. Paid Surveys Etc. Has the lowest refund rate of all the companies. We picked low refund rate for quality of service, big for stability and proven performance. 2. Legit Online Jobs. Medium size, has the second lowest refund rate of all the companies. 3. Maximum Paid Surveys. Medium size, fourth lowest refund rate of all the top 20. 4. Top Online Surveys . Smaller company, growing recently. They must be doing something right. Has the third lowest refund rate 5. Get Cash for Surveys. Fifth lowest overall refund rate, medium size and growing.
Changes this month: Instant paid surveys dropped off the top 20. It was the second smallest with a refund rate of 13.5%. It was replaced on the top 20 by newcomer Survey Absolute.
Note that none of our picks had refund rates as high as 7.0% (1 client in 14). All things being equal we felt that the refund rate was the single most important measure of client satisfaction and determiner of quality of their service. We tended to favor larger companies over smaller ones, based on the market's choice and greater stability. This month we have printed the refund rates of the worst 25% of our top 20 in Red above, to highlite their lower quartile status and urge caution with these. Note that we have added a red "X" to the left of each of these this month, to point out that these are in the bottom quartile of the top 20, and at this time we would NOT recommend them. Note that this month four of our top 20 are pulling the curve up with really bad marks, so that there are only 5 that are above the average refund rate, but 4 of these are WAY above average! We looked at numbers of source companies on their lists as a qualifying factor, but generally discarded this number as the quality of the list is much more important than the shear number of names that are on it. The choices in some cases were very close. During the next few weeks we will look at the close contestants more carefully and watch them. When we have more info we will update our table and revise our picks. Paid survey companies change and market conditions change. Our selection of recommended companies is dynamic and will change as new information about current conditions warrant such changes. We now have five months of history posted on this website, with the numbers and the picks for December 5, January 5, February 5, March 5 and now, April 5, 2007. We invite you to look at the past numbers for comparisons. It is interesting to note that our top 4 choices this month have been in the top 5 for all 5 months! In general, you probably won't go wrong with any of the companies listed, especially those with refund rates below the average. For the 20 companies listed above the current refund average is 9.05% (a little bit more than 1 in 11).
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Paid Surveys Etc.- Site has a personal feel. Many testimonials, less slick...perhaps more real? Lowest refund rate.
Survey Scout - This very active site is very highly rated by various rating agencies.