Current Rankings(as of October 21,
2007) Review of20 Top Paid Survey Sites by Rank
WELCOME TO OUR CURRENT RANKINGS!
Here's where "the rubber meets the road"!
You can see 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!
The paid survey review list below shows the highest ranking
company (the best and most preferrable, as measured by "Composite Refund
Index") at the top. It is sorted down, in order, with the lowest
ranking (the worst, the least preferrable) at the bottom of the list.
To see the sort by company size, click here: Ranking by
Size
Our selection and Current Ranking of our top 5 choices 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Get Paid For Your Opinion -Get paid to work at home! Earn $40 TO $120 to take phone surveys! Earn $10
TO $50 for trying new products! Earn $30-$250 by participating in FREE Online Groups! Improve your quality of life, work
flexible hours so you can spend more time with your family & friends, and say goodbye to daycare and rush hour for good!
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
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.
Three paid survey sites we have been following now have Composite Refund Indexes of over 15%! That's so bad 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 and away from the rest, until they get
their acts together. ;-)
***PENALTY BOX***
Refund Rates in
Per Cent (%)
Paid Survey Guide Company:
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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!
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.
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
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. 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 month we set up a "Penalty Box" and so far we have put five 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 down a bit (after we put the worst offenders in the penalty box!). The average refund
rate for the latest 2-week period for our top 20 paid survey sites was 8.30%, which compares to 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.
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 is8.30%.
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 eleven 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 8.30% (means
thaton average, for the top 20 companies shown here, approximately 1 new member in every 12 asked for a refund for
one reason or another). For the top five only 1 in 26.3 to 15.2 asked for a refund.
** Remember that the products and 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.
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 