Current Rankings, from largest to smallest (as of September 5, 2008)

Paid Survey Reviews of 20 Top Paid Survey Sites, by Size

Based on their clients ratings of them as expressed in their refund rates.

Analysis and Current Rankings, by Size:

 "Penalty Box"

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.	$34.95	177.4	11.1	9.2	10.0	--	Visit Site
Surveys For Checks - Offers software to speed up filling out necessary forms by as much as 10 times.	$49.99	20.4	14.4	12.7	13.4	--	Visit Site
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.	$34.95	0.5	12.7	12.6	12.6	--	Visit Site
Paid Survey Pro - Also has an instant $20.00 survey that you can take upon signing up and offset your cost of joining.	$34.95	0.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	--	Visit Site

For an explanation of the factors used in classifying our top 20 and in picking the top 5, Click Here >>  Paid Survey Site Classification Factors Explained

Commentary:

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.

In September of 2007 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:

Our Second and third place winners this time are again very close. Their Composite Index numbers are only 0.05% apart!  Also the fourth and fifth place winners are only 0.12% apart.

Refund rates are down a bit for this half-month period. The average refund rate for the latest half-month period for our top 20 paid survey sites was 7.35%.

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 of this text.

ClickBank earlier 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 is 7.35%.

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 7.35% (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 21.5 to 1 in15.9 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! **