Survey Scout - is it a Scam?

Here is the historical record we have about their refund rates:

Survey Scout refund rates, by time period:

For the half month ending:

Commentaries Found Posted on the Net:

1. Survey Scout.com is listed under "Disagreement Advisory Sites" by Scam Free Zone at: http://www.scamfreezone.org/scams.htm

These (Disagreement Advisory Sites) have had numerous complaints against them. The complaints range from advertising orders not delivered, products not received, downlines deleted, payments not being made and so on.

2. McAfee at: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/surveyscout.com

A. Overall initial commentary: When we visited this site, we found one or more misleading claims about work-at-home opportunities.

B. e-mail tests for surveyscout.com: 2.4 e-mails/week

After entering our e-mail address on this site, we received 2.4 e-mails per week. They were somewhat spammy.

C. McAfee SiteAdvisor Comments (1) When we visited this site, we found one or more misleading claims about work-at-home opportunities.

D. User Reviews (10) [There are ten user reviews, all negative. You can see them at the McAfee site, the url is above.]

Survey Sentinel commentary: The two commentaries summarized above do not indicate that Survey Scout is a scam; they pay their bills and honor their refund requests. But they certainly are cautionary and indicate some serious doubts about the site.

One might look at this analytical data as further corroboration of our general rule; When a paid survey site's refund rate gets above 10%, their current and past clients are advising you to take them off your list of possible sites to do business with.

Survey Scout has a refund rate way above that 10% "red line". They seem to have taken up permanent residence in our "Penalty Box". They clearly should be WAY out of consideration to do business with.

There are many, many better sites to deal with.  To start with, there are 20 sites on our active review list that are ALL better for survey participants to deal with than this one.