Current Rankings,
from best to
worst(as of July 21, 2008)
Paid Survey Reviews of 20 Top Paid
Survey Sites, by Ranking
Based on their clients ratings
of them as expressed in their refund rates.
Which Paid
Survey Site is Best? Here is what their
clients are telling us about which ones made
money for
Them!
Here's
wherewe get down to the results of
the competition! The Finalists!
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.
Explanations:
The
single most important ranking
factor is 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 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
Grav-
ity
3
mo.
Avg
Last
2
wks
Com-
pos-
ite
Index
July
21st
Rank-
ing
Click
To
Visit
Site
Paid Surveys
Online - This very active site
offers an instant $20.00 survey that you
can take upon signing up and offset your
cost of joining. Attractive site with a
lot to offer.
Paid Surveys
Etc.- Site has a personal feel.
Many testimonials, less slick... perhaps
more real? Recently updated. Historically,
has a low refund rate, has often been the
leader or amongst the top 5.
Survey Storage
-They offer a
comfortable way to earn money using
your PC and the Internet. They offer an
easy way to earn money at home, or
(anywhere), wherever you have access
to the Internet. They offer to send you
detailed info about their database,
about earnings and about companies they
list.
Surveyhawk - U.K.company
(Located inside the European Union) offers great
coverage of surveys available in Europe, provides
software to auto-fill signup forms. (Join
price is actually £18.)
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.
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.
Net Paid Surveys -Market
Research Companies need your opinions.
They pay 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. Offers phone surveys,
focus groups, paid to watch new movie
trailers.
Top Dollar Surveys - Earn
money from your home, Set your own hours
and your own pay. Enjoy what you do. Get
paid up to $75 to take online surveys, 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 Pay 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? To get the honest opinions of consumers to
help them figure out which new products are likely
to succeed. It's really just that simple."
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.
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
Express Paid Surveys - Slick
new website, sample survey. Not much info. FAQ's
explain the paid survey business. They have often
been amongst the top 5.
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.
Surveys Needed -They
say, "... 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.
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 play" 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-
ity
3
mo.
Avg
Last
2
wks
Com-
pos-
ite
Index
May
21st Rank-
ing
Click
To
Visit
Site
Survey Scout - This
very active site is very highly rated by
various rating agencies. Still, the refund
numbers show that 1 out of every 5.3
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.
At one time, size was a major factor
in choosing good paid survey sites. Bigger was
better. Then for a few months the refund rates of
many larger sites went up and stayed up. Big paid survey
sites were starting to look like dinosaurs, big, but slow
to adapt to new conditions! Many of the smaller, innovative
sites have got much better marks from their clients, as
expressed in their refund rates.
But recently the larger sites have made a
comeback, rising to the top in results according to their
clients and as expressed in their refund
rates.
Some sites have "gone private", using
ClickBank only for a collection agent, which makes their full
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
any sites that have gone this route.
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%!!
Recent Changes:
Average Refund
Rates in the Past
Date
Avg.
July 21
7.15%
July 5
7.36%
June 21
8.54%
June 5
7.49%
May 21
8.01%
May 5
7.18%
April 21
6.84%
April 5
6.68%
March 21
6.51%
March 5
6.68%
Feb 21
6.49%
Feb 5
6.85%
Jan 21
8.64%
Jan 5.'08
8.26%
Dec 21
8.64%
Dec 5
9.42%
Nov 21
8.13%
Nov 5
8.66%
Oct 21
8.30%
Oct 5
9.92%
Sept 21
9.92%
Sept 5
10.16%
Aug 21
9.82%
Aug 5
8.28%
July 21
8.84%
July 5
8.55%
Jun 21
8.87%
Jun 5,'07
7.34%
Our First and Second place
winners this time are in a virtual "dead heat". Their Composite
Index numbers are only 0.04% apart! Interestingly enough, that
is the same margin that separates the 3rd and 4th place
winners!
Refund
rates are down again for this half-month
period. The average refund rate for the latest half-month
period for our top 20 paid survey sites was
7.15%.
You will note that we now
show the past average refund rates in a table by date, which
you can see on the right-hand side.
ClickBank has made some
changes in the way it reports numbers which may cause some
distortion in the absolute values this half month. It will not
affect the relative positions of the sites
evaluated.
When we have sites whose
numbers are in transition from changes in prices or
otherwise off-scale and not reliable, we indicate 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 is7.15%.
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 fifteen months of history
posted on this website, with the numbers and the picks from
December 5, 2006 all the way up to today. 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
7.15%
(means that on average, for the top 20 companies shown
here, approximately 1 new member in every 14.0 asked
for a refund for one reason or another). For the
top five only 1 in 20.9 to 1 in16.4 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.
Paid Surveys
Online - This very active site
offers an instant $20.00 survey that you
can take upon signing up and offset your
cost of joining. Attractive site with a
lot to offer.
Work Online for Pay
- instant $20.00 survey that you
can take upon signing up and offset your cost
of joining.