Current Rankings,
from best to
worst(as of July 5, 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.
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Which Paid
Survey Site 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.
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
5th
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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."
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.
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.
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,
"... 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.
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.
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 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%
Refund
rates are down a little over a point. The average
refund rate for the latest half-month period for our top 20
paid survey sites was 7.36%.
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
is7.36%.
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 7.36% (means that
on average, for the top 20 companies shown here, approximately
1 new member in every 13.6 asked for a refund for one reason or
another). For the top five only 1 in 20.5 to 1 in15.6 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.
Legit Online
Jobs- Work At Home site
includes surveys, "real" jobs, shopping,
wholesale, grants, auctions, driving,
more.