March 2, 2007
Is Paidsurveyprogram.com a Scam or Legit?
After writing about the benefits of a blog yesterday along with the fact that I continue to drive traffic to this blog from a simple meaningless comment that one of my readers submitted about paidsurveyprogram.com, I figure I might as well give those searchers what they are looking for.
Here it is. Are you ready? DON’T PAY ANYONE TO DO SURVEYS! PaidSurveyProgram is no exception. No legitimate survey provider will ever ask you to pay them to do a survey. It just doesn’t work that way.
Here’s how a legitimate survey program works. You signup for free and you only take a survey when invited to. When a new survey goes live you are notified by email and given a link to follow to a questionnaire. The questionnaire is not the survey. It is a qualifying form that you fill out to see how much knowledge you have about the type of product that is being surveyed. If you don’t have enough knowledge in the area that the product targe’s you will be skipped over and not invited to take the survey. You must be invited to take the survey in order to get paid.
Think about it. Why would you want to pay someone to perform a service for them? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Companies do surveys on their products to get input from knowledgeable people to get a better idea of what the average person wants from a product or what attracts them to the type of product that is being surveyed to get a better idea of how to market it.
Companies pay millions of dollars on high quality surveys. They are not going to allow just anyone to take them. They want people that can give them input that will help them advertise their product. High quality surveys are gold to these companies.
Here’s how the paid survey programs work. After reading a long hyped sales pitch you are asked to pay “X” amount of dollars to join. You are then provided a list of companies that you can do surveys for. They will always imply that it is an automatic process and that you are guaranteed that you will be taking surveys by the truckload. They make it sound so easy by saying things like, if you do just 10 surveys a day and get $25 for each, you will make $250 a day. Multiply that by thirty days and you will be making an easy $7500 a month.
I can tell you that there is no way that you can take 10 surveys a day with a legitimate survey provider because you won’t have that many opportunities a day to even qualify, let alone be invited to take that many. Most, if not all, of the surveys that you will take with the companies that are given are bogus. Some of them won’t even exist for that matter.
The only agenda that the paid survey providers have is to take your money and run. Stay away from this type of survey program because each and every one of them, are scams. PaidSurveyProgram is no exception.
One last note; If you think that taking online surveys is an easy way to make money, think again. You don’t get paid all that well to take them and it will require you to be knowledgeable about a lot of products or you will have to do a lot of research in advance to even make it somewhat profitable and you will also have to signup with many survey programs in order to get enough opportunities in the first place. You have to ask yourself, is it worth it? If you do want to try doing surveys, only signup with the one’s that don’t require you to pay money. The rest are nothing but scams including PaidSurveyProgram.
thank-you for your report I wish I had read this before signing up with paid surveys program. com
Hi Lucy,
If you bought paidsurveyprogram less than 60 days ago, you can get your money back. Since you ordered it through clickbank you are guaranteed a refund within 60 days of purchase.
You can go here to request a refund. http://www.clickbank.com/csinquiry.html
Brian
thank-you very much for your help and taking the time to answer my e-mail and sending me the website I needed to get my money back from paid surveys, I really apreciate it. its good to know there are some good guys like you with websites, so many are scams.
Sincerely Lucy Vandenberg
No problem Lucy. Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad that you commented here before the 60 days had expired.
Before you buy anything again you might want to check here first. If it’s not here you can go to the forum and ask about the product in question. There is a scam section on the forum as well. You can find it here. http://the-truth-about-internet-marketing.com/the-truth-about-internet-marketing-forum-2?forum=5&page=1
The forum is new so there’s not much there at this time.
Brian
thanks for the information, I will remember that and thanks again for your help.
Lucy Vandenberg
Hello,
Has anyone that joined Paid Survey Program, LLC and completed the requirements to receive a $500 giftcard from Walmart actually received the card? Also, has anyone received a form to fill out from the US Census Bureau? It may be that the form from the Bureau has nothing to do with the surveys but thought I’d ask. Kathy
Hi,
Please don’t fall for the paid survey schemes. The blog post is a good explanation, so please listen to its words of wisdom.
I fell for the scheme about two years ago, and forked out $35.00 to a paid survey company. I signed up to about 30 survey companies, and never received a penny — my problem was compounded by the fact that I’m Canadian, and most of the surveys were only open to U. S. residents
Anyhow, I was involved for about two months and learned my lesson. Don’t go there — you won’t earn much from it and it’s a time consuming task.
All the best,
Laurie
Thanks for your input and sharing your experience Laurie.
Brian
Hi!
I would like to ask if this program is also available in other countries in Southeast Asia or Asia like Philippines? And also, I’m receiving an updates but it seems its still dated in the year 2003. is the offer still considered?
thank you.
Hello!
I had visit PaidSurveyProgram.com recommended by “X” surf ads company. During surf ads, I want to sign-up because of first impression look a like very easy to make money by taking survey. But it have to pay $ 39,95 to sign-up. I also read F.A.Q on the http://www.paidsurveyprogram.com/faq.html
But again still do know how to decide whether do or don’t.
Finally, I have found this website make me understand to make decission.
I considered not to sign-up.
Many thanks!
are there any websites out there that will pay you even if like $50 a week ? i was looking at the paid surveys and I know that most of them or even all of them are scams.. but is there by any chance one of two that arent?
when i will be getting upadates cant wait to see more and know more about internet marketing.
http://www.jeffpaul.tv/
ok so youre saying that this program doesnt work at all? do you know of any success stories? does anyone know of ANNNYY good real true paid survey sites???
Thanks for this advice, especially about the request for refund page on clickbank’s site.
Much appreciated.
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