I thought I’d quickly describe how some of the scam survey offerings work and how these so-called online pay survey opportunities work.

Picture this: You can’t even go to the survey unless you pick one of the advertiser’s offers, or have to pay for this are that. Sound familiar?

Well, the sites I am describing aren’t genuine market research sites, but are incentive sites disguised to make you think they are.

Genuine market research companies will never require you to pay anything or even provide credit card details, not even when you are sent products to test. Keep well away from any company that asks otherwise (especially if they ask you for upfront money).

The only exception to this is mystery shopping work where you may be required to test the buying process for a site, but in all cases you will be refunded all expenses.
If you visit one of the free online survey directories you will find details of hundreds of genuine market research companies that are willing to pay you for your opinion.

Check out MakeSomeMoney365 which sorts all the sites by country and has a paragraph or two about each company so that you can see which are the most suitable.

The site also has several paragraphs which explain how the process works and how to get the most out of it. You’ll generally only receive a few invitations from each company so its important to sign up to as many survey panels as you can. The more active companies are usually listed first so just work through the listings for your country and wait for the surveys to come in.

Hope this post help with spotting the fakes from the genuine companies.