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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 we
get down to the results of the competition! The Finalists! 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.
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Refund Rates in
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Cost to
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Grav-
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6 mo.
Avg
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Last
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Mo.
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Com-
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Index
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Jan.
5th
Rank-
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eCashOpinions -Major corporations want
to find out what you think about current trends, shopping habits, and why you
buy certain products... They NEED you! Tons of Online Research Panels are
searching for new survey takers every day who are willing to volunteer their
time to give their opinion... and be rewarded for it! And eCashOpinions has
that inside connection to get you enrolled with ALL of these companies! .
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$34.95 |
119.9
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5.7
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4.0
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4.70
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1st |
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SurveysPaid - They have a
multi-faceted offer of ways to make money. They say, "As of October 5th, there are
1031 surveys needing American participants today! Do you live in United States of
America? There are American companies needing survey takers immediately!" |
$34.00 |
183.3
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4.4
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5.0
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4.74
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2nd
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Paid Surveys Etc.- Site has a
personal feel. Many testimonials, less slick, less hype... perhaps more real?
This site has done well and grown over the years. Recently updated.
Historically, has a low refund rate, has often been the leader or amongst the
top 5.
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$34.50 |
37.0 |
5.2
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4.7
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4.92 |
3rd
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Visit Site |
| Paid-Surveys-At-Home - Over 400 survey companies on their
list, offers free bonuses. This site has been rising steadily in the rankings
recently. |
$39.95 |
68.4
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5.3 |
5.2 |
5.21
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4th
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Survey Payday - They say, "Huge corporations rely on your
input so that they can find out how to better serve their customers. By offering
your opinions, you are improving their products and services. Your knowledge and
insight is invaluable to these companies, which is why they will pay you handsomely
for your information – you are getting paid to help! This is a win-win
situation..."
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$37.00 |
10.7
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6.6
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4.9
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5.53
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5th
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Surveys for Checks - They say, "We provide our members
with a step-by-step guide on How To Make Money Taking Suveys Online. That way they
will be the best qualified candidates for every survey and receive more surveys in
the $50-75 range! Would you rather take 15 surveys for $5 each or 1 survey for $75?
Our members save time and because of this are able to take more surveys and MAKE
MORE MONEY!"
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$49.99 |
29.5
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6.2
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4.8
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5.6
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Make Cash Taking Surveys - A 10 minute video at their
website gives details about what distinguishes them and the benefits they
offer.
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$34.95 |
146.1
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5.9
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5.8
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5.9
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| International Incomes - New rising star! International
Incomes (I.I.) is a service that is available to all countries of the world. This is
why we call ourselves International Incomes. Only I.I. Can Get You Enrolled With The
Top, Highest Paying Survey Companies Out There! |
$29.95 |
5.1
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6.1
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5.7
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5.9
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Nextgen Paid
Surveys - They
say, "Enrollment is Open Worldwide. Once you enroll, you will have instant access
to the Members Area where you will find several companies currently looking for
people just like you to complete surveys at home. You can simply browse the list
and pick the surveys that interest you. It takes only a minute to submit your
information and you will be able to complete the survey right away or it will come
straight to you through email." *If you leave the first page of the
website, they offer you a discount to $37.00! Start to leave a 2nd time and
they offer a 3-day trial for $4.95!
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$49.95* |
11.4
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5.9
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5.8 |
5.9
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| Paid Surveys Authority - They have an excellent video
presentation, which explains what they offer, at their website. |
$47.00 |
21.7
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5.7
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6.4
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6.2
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Visit Site |
| 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
five, frequently in the top three. |
$34.95 |
16.6
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6.0 |
6.4
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6.2
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Surveys for Income-Since 2006, over 10,000 people have used the
Surveys4Income system to make money from home. We have a "Survey 101" area that
will show you everything you need to know. Many of our highest paid members are
showing others how to complete surveys faster, to bring in more money per month.
Plus $196 in Great Bonuses!
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$34.95 |
7.1
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6.4
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6.9
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6.7
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| Cash Surveys - They say,"Let me introduce you to the most
exciting and very real home based money making opportunity on the Internet. In one
sentence this is about getting involved in sharing your opinion and benefiting from
a...TRILLION dollar per year US marketing budget. This means that there are new survey
opportunities all the time from various companies." |
$39.50 |
5.0
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7.1 |
7.3
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7.2
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| Paid Survey Cash Club - They have an excellent video
presentation at their website, which explains what they offer. |
$34.95 |
7.9
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7.3
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7.3
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7.3
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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.
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$34.95 |
12.1 |
7.3
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7.7
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7.5
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| Cash Surveys Only -Get our catalog of survey companies that pay cash.
At Cash Surveys Only we don't
list just any survey company out there. We reveal to our members only hard to
find, tested and approved real survey companies that pay cash. |
$29.95 |
5.0
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7.5
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7.8
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7.7
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Paid Surveys and More -They say, "Most
multi-million-dollar-a-year corporations dont't know anything about their
consumers! So they will pay 'regular' people like you and me to discover what
people really think." They also offer 3 money-making bonuses.
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$34.00 |
8.3
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8.2 |
8.4
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8.3
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| 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. |
$39.95 |
8.3
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8.1
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8.3
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8.3
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Top Paying Surveys- New site, growing fast. They say, "Who
Wants to Make Up To $65 For Every 10 Minutes Of Spare Time They Have? If You Have
an Internet Connection, Some Spare Time and an Opinion - See Why Fortune 500
Companies Need You And Why They Are Prepared to Pay You Top Dollar…Even During the
Recession!" -Audrey Casey - Founder of Top-Paying-Surveys and Stay at Home Mom
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$39.95
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5.2
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8.4
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8.2
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8.3
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| 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. They offer a premium package |
$67.00 |
4.4
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8.4
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8.7
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8.6
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Paid Survey Sites for Spanish-speaking
People in the U.S. and Canada.
(These sites have lists of survey makers that deal with surveys
directed at the 41 million people in the U.S. who speak Spanish. (The U.S. now has the 3rd largest
Spanish-speaking population in the world!) If you speak Spanish and live in the U.S. or Canada you
should check these out!]
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Encuestas Remuneradas (Paid Surveys) - They say/Ellos
dicen: "Gane Dinero Respondiendo Encuestas Por Internet. Nuevo Sitio De Encuestas
En Español. Sabías Que Podrías Estar Ganando Muchísimo Dinero Desde Tu Casa Por Tan
Solo Dar Tu Opinión Completando Simples Cuestionarios De Selección Múltiple?"
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$34.95 |
46.9
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5.3
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5.5
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5.40
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HM
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Encuestas Por Dinero (Surveys for Money)- They say/Ellos
dicen: "Miles de personas residentes en Estados unidos estamos de acuerdo en que
una de las maneras más sencilla y confiable de generar ingresos desde nuestros
hogares es contestando encuestas relacionadas con los productos y servicios que
personas como Tu y Yo...."
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$29.95 |
14.4
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6.0
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6.2
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6.16
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HM
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Encuestas Pagadas (Paid Surveys)- They say/Ellos dicen:
"Muchas de las grandes compañías del mundo están invirtiendo más de 30 billones de
dólares anualmente realizando estudios de mercado. Y estas compañías estan
obteniendo mejores resultados con las encuestas a travéz de Internet, y pagan por
tener nuestra opinión por medio de Internet y pagan muy bien."
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$37.00 |
4.3
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6.3
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6.2
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6.22
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HM
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[If anyone wants a translation, please let me know. But the sites are in Spanish, the
surveys are in Spanish, and I figured that if you can't read what they say in Spanish
here then you probably would not be interested anyway ;-)
Y si hablas español puedes hace "click" en la parte que dice "Visit Site" (Visitar el sitio web)
y puede discubrir exactamente lo que dicen. :-) ]
"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. ;-)
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***PENALTY BOX***
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Refund Rates in
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Cost to
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5th
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Survey Scout - This active site is very
highly rated by several rating agencies. Still, the refund numbers show that 1 out
of every 5-9 clients demands a refund! We do not recommend this site at this
time. |
$34.95 |
14.5 |
10.0
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9.6
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9.8
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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 |
n/a |
n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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Paid Survey Pro - Also has an instant
$20.00 survey that you can take upon signing up and offset your cost of
joining.
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$34.95 |
0.0
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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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 several 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 got much better marks from
their clients, as expressed in their refund rates, and rose in our rankings.
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.
We also brought some of the smaller paid survey
sites that we have been tracking, into the top 20 list. They are smaller but some have very good
refund rate numbers. We prefer a small paid survey site with a 5% refund rate to a large site with
a refund rate of over 8%!!
Recent Changes:
Average
Refund
Rates in the Past |
| Date |
Avg. |
| Jan. 5, '12 |
6.60% |
| Oct. 5. '11 |
6.82% |
| July 5. '11 |
6.71% |
| Apr. 5. '11 |
7.04% |
| Jan. 5, '11 |
6.97% |
| Aug. 5, '10 |
7.03% |
| Jun. 5, '10 |
6.94% |
| Apr. 5, '10 |
7.05% |
| Feb. 5, '10 |
7.07% |
| Dec. 5, '09 |
6.95% |
| Oct. 5, '09 |
7.08% |
| Aug. 5, '09 |
7.08% |
| June 5, '09 |
7.04% |
| May 5, '09 |
7.15% |
| Apr 5, '09 |
6.74% |
| Mar 5, '09 |
7.10% |
| Feb 5, '09 |
7.19% |
| Jan 5, '09 |
7.01% |
| Dec 5,'08 |
7.22% |
| Nov. 21 |
7.39% |
| Nov. 5 |
7.32% |
| Oct. 21 |
7.03% |
| Oct. 5 |
7.02% |
| Sept. 21 |
7.21% |
| Sept. 5 |
7.35% |
| Aug. 21 |
7.92% |
| Aug. 5 |
7.49% |
| July 21 |
7.15% |
| 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% |
There is frequent turnover in which websites make up our top 20. This
cycle saw the addition of 4 sites: Paid Survey Cash Club,
MakeCashTakingSurveys, Paid Survey Authority site and Nextgen Paid
Surveys. These were brought in to replace Highest Pay Surveys, Earn Online Taking Surveys, Easy
Surveys Cash and Surveyhawk, which had gravities that dropped below our minimums.
We also report on 3 Spanish sites: Encuestas Por Dinero (Surveys
for Money), Encuestas Remuneradas (Paid Surveys) and Enquestas
Pagadas (Surveys that are Paid for). These sites are set-up for Spanish-speaking people
who live in the U.S. or Canada. They deal with surveys being made of/for the 41
million-persons in the U.S. whose primary language is Spanish or who speak Spanish as a
second language.
They all three have good rankings, but were not included in or compared directly
with their counterpart sites in English. Instead, we have established a separate category for
them, as yet unranked, since there are only three in that category.
Refund rates are down to a
record low a bit for this last half-month period. The average refund rate for the latest
half-month period for our top 20 paid survey sites was 6.60%.
We 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 the best measure of the quality of their service.
We now tend to favor larger companies over smaller ones, based on the market's choice and the
greater stability that larger companies provide.
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 6.60%.
We now update our analyses on the 5th day of the
first month in each calendar quarter, 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 sixty-one 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 6.60% (means
that on average, for the top 20 companies shown here, approximately 1 new member in every 15.1
asked for a refund for one reason or another). For the top five, only 1 in 17.92 to
1 in 21.28 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! ** |
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