Current Rankings, from best to
worst(as of Dec. 21, 2007)
Paid Survey Reviews of 20 Top Paid Survey Sites,
Based on their clients ratings of them as expressed in their refund rates.
Which is Best? Here is what their clients are telling us about which ones made money for
Them!
Here's where "the rubber meets the road"!
You can see paid survey reviews of all of the top 20 paid survey sites here (plus a few in the 'Penalty Box'!)
Pick any one of the top 3-5, sign up with them, join their happy clients and make
money!
(If they made money for their current clients, they will likely make money for
YOU!)
The paid survey review list below, shows the highest ranking
company (the best and most preferrable, with the lowest refund
rates) at the top, and the lowest ranking (the worst
refund rates, the least preferrable) at the bottom of the list.
To see these paid survey reviews sorted by company size, click here: Rankings by
Size
Our selection and Current Ranking of our top 5 choices in these paid survey reviews are in the
next-to-the-last column on the right.
Paid Survey Review Explanations:
The single most important ranking factor in these paid survey reviews is their clients'
opinions given to us in the refund rate history. We use and show three numbers for this, each in per cent
(%):
The 3-month moving average.
The refund rate for the last 2 weeks.
The Composite Index, which is composed of 60% of the current refund rate plus 40% of the
3-month moving average. This is the one to watch.
The Composite Index is like a golf
score; the lower, the better! -- And it tells you how well (or how
poorly!) the player is doing!
Please note: 1. As of May 1, 2007 we are updating
these paid survey reviews and their rankings twice monthly, on the 5th and the 21st of each
month. 2. To better understand the comparisons, please read
the explanations of the different factors used, in the "Explanation of Classifying Factors" and the
"Commentary", below.
3. See especially the discussion of the 3-month moving average refund category, and
the Composite Index!
Analysis and Current Rankings, by Rank:
Refund Rates in
Per Cent (%)
Paid Survey Guide Company:
Cost to
Join
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Survey City -Over 550 guaranteed paying survey companies. Includes Getting Paid to Drive your car
with magnetic or vinyl ads on it or a new or existing car package, Mystery Shopping package with 120+ nationally paying
companies.
Survey Storage -They say, "We offer you a comfortable way to earn money by using your PC and
the Internet. We won't promise that you'll make millions - what we have for you is an easy way to earn money at home, or in
any other place you like, as long as you have access to the Internet." For more info they say, "We will send you
detailed information about our database, about earnings and about companies we are listing. In addition we will send you a
$25 worth survey for FREE!"
Top Dollar Surveys - Earn money from the comfort of your own home, Set your own hours, Determine your own
pay,All the while enjoying what you do. Get paid up to$75 to take online surveys, Get paid up to $150 to participate in online
focus groups, Get paid to try new products and you get to keep the products too, Get paid up to$25 to preview movie
trailers!
Highest Paid Surveys - Sample survey, bonuses, six good testimonials."$10 - $300 Per Online Survey, $50 -
$300 Per Hour For Online Focus Groups, $4 - $25 Per Hour For Previewing Movie Trailers. Market research companies will pay you for
answering simple online surveys and participating in online focus groups. Why? They desperately need the honest opinions of consumers
to help them figure out which new products are likely to succeed. It's really just that simple."
Extreme Paid Surveys - Top Features and Benefits: Take surveys, make $5-$75 an hour, Read emails for
$10-$40 an hour, Join focus groups and get $50-$150. Try new products, and keep them. Preview movies, $4-$25 an hour.
Surveys Needed -They say, "Money is not just going to fall into your lap no matter what the
circumstances are. You will never get paid for something you put NO work into. BUT, making money does not get
much easier than sitting at your computer and sharing your opinion. The Problem Is Finding The Companies That Actually
Pay!" They offer surveys plus a good bonus package.
Paid Surveys Get Paid for Your Opinion - Market Research Companies need your opinion. They are paying
thousands of dollars every day to people like you. Sooner or later you will want to do surveys because it's easy, fun and you can
be
rewarded for your efforts. Includes "mystery shoppers" and "get paid to drive" bonuses.
Top Online Surveys - All the programs we list have been thoroughly checked out and are guaranteed to
pay. We use these programs daily to make ourselves a monthly paycheck. It doesn't matter where you live, or who you are - you can
do it too. I've shown 1000s of people all over the world, in over 50 different countries, how to get paid for their opinions.
Instant Paid Surveys -Informative website. Access To 500 + Specialized Firms that will give
you cash, products, and prizes on behalf of their business clients. Also offer Product Study Forums
Quick Paid Surveys - Step by step startup instructions, 490 companies in their database, updated
weekly. They say they have a clean database, no trash companies.
Maximum Paid Surveys - 500+ paid online survey companies, 200+ mystery shopping companies. They
now say they have 762 companies that want to pay for your opinion.
In Ice Hockey, when players break the rules and mis-behave the officials take them out of the game and put them in the penalty
box. The game then goes on without their participation. They can only watch and wait until it is O.K to come out of the penalty box and get
back in the game.
Some paid survey sites we have been following now have Composite Refund Indexes of over 15%! That's such a bad
paid survey review that it's a bit ridiculous! Another, Paid Survey Program, has not filed their reports with ClickBank so we cannot
calculate their refund rate. (Any site that hides their refund data is most likely NOT proud of it! We equate "Unknown" with "High" and
don't allow any such to remain on the active list.)
So we built the "penalty box" below and put them into it, out of consideration of and away from the rest, until they get
their acts together. ;-)
***PENALTY BOX***
Refund Rates in
Per Cent (%)
Paid Survey Guide Company:
Cost to
Join
Grav-
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Survey Scout - This very active site is very highly rated by various rating agencies. Still, the
refund numbers show that 1 out of every 6 clients demands a refund! We do not recommend this site at this time.
GreatNetMoney -Advocates their Great NET Money Program, where you Get PAID for taking surveys.
They say they help common people earn an uncommon income from all around the planet.
Daily Paid Surveys - Get Paid Daily for What You Think! Your Opinion Is Worth $. Online surveys,
online focus groups, new product testing, preview movie trailers!
Golden Surveys -Receive easy lists of over 300 companies that are willing to pay you to sit
at home and use the computer. We update regularly, so there are always more surveys and more companies to choose
from. Additional Bonuses: 1: Get Paid To Drive Your Car or Get a Free Car. 2: Get Paid To Shop & Eat. 3: Get Paid
Just To Pass Free Samples
At one time, size was a major factor in choosing good paid survey sites. Bigger was better. In recent months the
refund rates of many larger sites have gone up and stayed up. Big paid survey sites are starting to look like dinosaurs, big, but slow to adapt
to new conditions! Many of the smaller, innovative sites have gotten much better marks from their clients, as expressed in their refund
rates.
Two large sites, first Survey Income System and now Paid Survey Program have "gone private", using ClickBank only for a
collection agent, which makes their refund rate figures unavailable to the public (you and I!). Instead of making the changes needed to provide
more client satisfaction, they took steps to hide the size of their failures to please their clients! We no longer list either of
these.
Last September we set up a "Penalty Box". We put sites with refund rates over 15% in it. These sites with
ridiculously high refund rates do not deserve to be in our top 20, regardless of their size!
We also brought some of the smaller paid survey sites that we have been tracking, into the top 20 list. They
are smaller but have very good refund rate numbers. We prefer a small paid survey site with a 5% refund rate to a large site whose
refund rate is over 10%!!
Changes this month:
Refund rates were up a lot. The average refund rate for the latest 2-week period for our top 20 paid
survey sites was 8.64%, compared to 9.42% on December 5, 8.13% on November 21, 8.66% on November 5, 8.30%
on October 21, 9.92% on October 5, 9.92% on Sept. 21, 10.16% on September 5, 9.82% on August 21, 8.28% on August 5, 8.84% on July
21, 8.55% on July 5, 8.87% on the 21st of June 21 and 7.34% on the 5th of June.
We had a couple of sites whose numbers were in transition from changes in prices or otherwise off-scale and not reliable. We
indicated this by "n/a" (Not Available right now).
Note that none of our picks had either a 2 week or a Composite Index refund rate higher than 7.14% (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 the quality of their service. We tend to favor larger companies over smaller ones, based on the market's
choice and greater stability.
We now print the refund rates of all with refund rates of 10% or higher, of our top 20 in
Red above. This is to highlight their low desirability status and
urge caution with these. Note that we have added a red "X" to the left of each of these,
to point out that these rank at the bottom of the top 20 and their refund rates have passed our "red line" danger
mark. At this time we would NOT recommend them. The overall average refund rate this month is8.64%.
We have looked at the numbers of survey makers on the lists of paid survey sites as a possible qualifying factor, but have
generally downplayed this number. The quality of the list is much more important than the shear number of names that are on it.
We now update our analyses twice a month, at which time we review 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 comes in.
We always pick the current best choices for you!
We now have twelve months of history posted on this website, with the numbers and the picks from December 5, 2006
all the way up to today. [Congratulate us! We just passed our first
anniversary!] We invite you to look at the past numbers in Past Rankings for
comparisons.
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 8.64% (means
that on average, for the top 20 companies shown here, approximately 1 new member in every 11.6 asked for a refund for one reason or
another). For the top five only 1 in 25.6 to 14.9 asked for a refund.
**Remember that the services offered by each and every one of the above
companies are covered by an unconditional money-back guarantee backed up by ClickBank! **
The 3-month moving average.
Survey City -Over 550 guaranteed paying survey companies. Includes Getting Paid to Drive your car
with magnetic or vinyl ads on it or a new or existing car package, Mystery Shopping package with 120+ nationally paying
companies.
Surveys Needed -They say, "Money is not just going to fall into your lap no matter what the
circumstances are. You will never get paid for something you put NO work into. BUT, making money does not get
much easier than sitting at your computer and sharing your opinion. The Problem Is Finding The Companies That Actually
Pay!" They offer surveys plus a good bonus package.