Current Rankings, from largest to
smallest (as of October 5,
2009)
Paid Survey Reviews of 20 Top Paid Survey Sites, by SIZE
Based on their clients ratings of them as expressed in their refund
rates.
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Which
Paid Survey Membership Site is Best? Here is what their clients are telling us about which ones
made money for Them!
Here's where we line 'em up and let 'em
compete!
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
largest company (the one with the highest
"gravity") at the
top. It is sorted
down, in order, with the smallest paid survey
site at the bottom of the list.
To see the sort by RANKING, click here: Analysis & Current
Recommendations
Our selection and Current Ranking of our top 5
choices are in the next-to-the-last column on the right.
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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. Beginning June 1, 2009 we will be updating these
rankings bi-monthly, on the 5th day of each
even-numbered month. (February, April, June, August, October,
December)
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!
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Analysis and Current Rankings, by SIZE:
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Refund Rates in
Per Cent (%)
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| Paid Survey Guide Company: |
Cost to
Join
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Grav-
ity
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4
mo.
Avg
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Last
1/2
Mo.
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Com-
pos-
ite
Index
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Oct.
5th
Rank-
ing
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Click
To
Visit
Site
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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 |
153.8 |
4.3
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4.2
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4.26
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1st
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Visit Site |
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Make Money Taking Surveys -They say, "Companies are
spending $41 billion annually to do market research. They need the opinions of regular
consumers like you to decide if a product is worth their time and money. These companies now
realize that telemarketing doesn’t work-they can’t get your opinions for free. So they are
prepared to pay you for them-and pay well!"
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$39.95 |
133.3
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5.1
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5.0
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5.07
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2nd
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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. |
$34.95 |
84.0
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6.4
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6.3
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6.3
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Visit Site |
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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 |
46.5
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8.5
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8.2
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8.3
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Visit Site |
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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 |
37.4 |
6.3
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6.6
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6.5
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Visit Site |
| 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 |
27.5
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8.3
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8.7
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8.6
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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! There is no other way to get enrolled with the highest paying survey companies
unless you are an I.I.Club Member. |
$29.95 |
26.5
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6.5
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6.1
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6.27
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5th
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Visit Site |
| Highest Pay Surveys - Sample survey, bonuses, six good testimonials."$10 -
$300 Per Online Survey, $50 - $300 Per Hour For Online Focus Groups, $4 - $25 Per Hour For Previewing
Movie Trailers. Market research companies will pay you for answering simple online surveys and
participating in online focus groups. Why? To get the honest opinions of consumers to help them figure
out which new products are likely to succeed. It's really just that simple." |
$49.95 |
18.7
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8.2
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9.1
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8.9
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Gain Opinion - They say, "3 Types Of Memberships: Work From Home, Get Paid For
Your Opinion, To Shop, To Eat Out. Your Opinion Matters. Our website members get paid daily. Our
database has more than 500 companies. There are no recurring charges, ever. We do not sell your
information. Your transactions are processed via 256-bit encryption. We update our member's
area."
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$24.95 |
17.5
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6.8
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6.8
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6.8
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Visit Site |
| 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. |
$39.95 |
15.8
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8.4
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8.1
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8.2
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Visit Site |
| Paid-Surveys-At-Home - Over 400 survey companies on their list, offers free
bonuses. |
$39.95 |
13.2
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8.7
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8.7
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8.7
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Visit Site |
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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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12.8
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7.7
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8.3
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8.1
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Visit Site |
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Classified Surveys - Owner says, "I created a
members area on this site which contains the highest paying cash surveys! It also includes the
best group of bonuses available online today!"
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$49.64 |
12.9
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6.7
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5.1
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5.73
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3rd
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Visit Site |
| Survey Broker - They say, "Who Else Wants to Know How to Make $45 in 10
Minutes and Then Do It Over & Over Again? Learn Why Companies Such As Coca-Cola...Apple...Sony and
Wal-Mart Need You and Why They're Prepared to Pay BIG for Your Time!" |
$39.95 |
9.3
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6.6
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7.9
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7.4
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Visit Site |
| Paid for Free -Has a list of over 600 paying survey maker websites. Bonuses
include sources for get paid to drive, get paid to shop and eat. |
$34.95 |
9.2
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7.1
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8.1
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7.7
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Visit Site |
| Surveyhawk - U.K.company (Located inside the European Union) offers great
coverage of surveys available in Europe, provides software to auto-fill signup forms. Very often in our
top 5 (Join price is actually £18.) |
$32.95 |
8.4
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5.4
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5.9
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5.70
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4th
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Visit Site |
| Earn Online Taking Surveys - They say, "With a sluggish economy and rising
prices, most individuals are working pretty hard to stretch each paycheck until the next. This method
of making money at home is so easy even a chimpanzee could do it! All you have to do is give your
honest opinion. If you are ready to finally start making money online this is the right System for
you." |
$34.95 |
7.3
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6.1
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6.6
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6.4
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Survey Storage -They offer a comfortable way to earn money using your PC and
the Internet. They offer an easy way to earn money at home, or (anywhere), wherever you have access
to the Internet. They offer to send you detailed info about their database, about earnings and
about companies they list.
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$39.90 |
6.7
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5.7
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6.9
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6.4
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Visit Site |
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Get Cash for Surveys - Three Impressive bonus packages, sample survey,
testimonials.
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$37.00 |
6.6
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6.7
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7.4
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7.1
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Visit Site |
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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
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$34.95 |
2.4
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7.7
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7.5
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7.5
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Paid Survey Sites for Spanish-speaking People in the U.S
{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 5th largest Spanish-speaking population in the world!) If you speak
Spanish and live in the U.S. you should check these out!]
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Refund Rates in
Per Cent (%)
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| Paid Survey Guide Company: |
Cost to
Join
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Grav-
ity
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3
mo.
Avg
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Last
1/2
Mo.
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Com-
pos-
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Index
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Oct.
5th
Rank-
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Click
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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 |
55.8
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5.8
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6.2
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6.06
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HM
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Visit Site |
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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 |
23.1
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6.2
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6.1
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6.10
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HM
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Visit Site |
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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 |
6.0
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6.2
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6.7
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6.51
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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 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
Per Cent (%)
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| Paid Survey Guide Company: |
Cost to
Join
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Grav-
ity
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4
mo.
Avg
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Last
2
wks
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Com-
pos-
ite
Index
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Oct.
5th
Rank-
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Click
To
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Site
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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 |
67.7 |
11.4
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10.0
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10.6
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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 |
0.0 |
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 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 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.
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:
Average Refund
Rates in the Past |
| Date |
Avg. |
| 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% |
Home Survey Workers, on our list for years, fell on bad times and had been shrinking For
some months now. Just recently they apparently shut down their website. We have now dropped them from our
list.
They have been replaced by International Income, a paid survey and other services that has
shown impressive growth since its inception earlier this year.
Legit Online Jobs, once on this list, does some things with surveys but has
changed and now has more to do with grants, mystery shopping and other ways to make money on the Net. It has been
dropped from the list of the top 20 paid survey sites and added to our Get
Paid to Shop Etc list.
Three Spanish sites are also relatively new here: "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-person Hispanic demographic.
They all three have good rankings, but were not included in or compared directly with
the 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 about the same for this half-month
period. The average refund rate for the latest half-month period for our top 20 paid survey sites was
7.08%.
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 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 7.08%.
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 on the 5th of each even-numbered 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 thirty-five 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
7.08% (means that on average, for the top 20 companies
shown here, approximately 1 new member in every 14.1 asked for a refund for one reason or another). For the top
five only 1 in 15.9 to 1 in 23.5 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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