Surveys.com

[Heath]

I like Surveys.com (http://www.yourfreesurveys.com/links.php?id=18)because it’s innovative. It’s an online community operated by GfK, a top-ten market research company, uniting some of the most renowned US and European research firms into one organization. Sign up is quick and easy and will take you less than 5 minutes to join.

One of the best features of Surveys.com is Promptcast which allows you to see products and services (e.g. pharmaceutical products, technologies, financial services, automobiles, and everyday grocery store items) before the rest of the world. When you install this software, you will be able to participate in surveys that incorporate high quality video, including viewing never before seen movie trailers. It’s easy to install, and it’s safe. Those of you who read my reviews regularly know that I am very careful about what I let onto my computer. This is not spyware or adware like another survey site installs on your computer. Promptcast only allows access to the high definition video on your commuter. It also allows a notification that you have a survey waiting at the lower right hand corner of your computer. You can accept or decline immediately. It really is a great new way for interaction!

I’ve gotten about 3 survey invitations a month. Don’t be discouraged by this. As I’ve said before, the best surveys sites focus on quality over quanity. Cash rewards are given for every survey that you take through Paypal, which is the safest and most effective way to transfer funds on the Internet. Click here to register: Surveys.com (http://www.yourfreesurveys.com/links.php?id=18)

[eddieMX07]

I have made the most amount of money by just taking one survey. Yeah they survey took about a week long to complete but I received $50 even though I submitted the follow up survey after the deadline expired. And I also got $5 for taking a survey that I don't remember. So surveys.com in on my top #10 list of my most profitable survey panels.

[eddieMX07]

Surveys.com aka GfK is a survey site that requires patience. They sometimes send their panel members paid online surveys. Yesterday I finished a $3 survey about computers that took 20 minutes.
I had luck when I qualify for the $50 survey about news media in January. You need luck and patience to get and qualify for high paying surveys like the $50 survey I took from GfK. And I guess it won’t hurt when you KNOW what a survey company is looking for.

[LapisLee]

I am not having much luck so far with Surveys.com (http://www.surveys.com/), but, as usual, I will provide some basic information while I try to ferret out Eddie's secret survey techniques. :p

Surveys.com is a unique online community where people from around the world share their opinions about existing and new products. Your opinion counts! Join the Surveys.com Online Community. Surveys.com is an online community operated by GfK. GfK is a top-ten market research company, uniting some of the most renowned US and European research firms into a single global organization.

The purpose of the Surveys.com online community is to provide reliable and accurate information to business leaders and government officials about the products and services they provide consumers. By joining our consumer panel you will be in a position to contribute to the decision-making process, plus you will be rewarded for your thoughts and insight with cash rewards.

All you need to do is provide a few details about yourself (it takes just a couple minutes) and periodically you'll be asked to answer a questionnaire that will be sent to your email account. For each questionnaire that you complete, you will be enetered into our drawing for cash rewards.

Membership is FREE

You have multiple chances to win cash prizes.

You have a platform to voice your opinions.

Your privacy (http://www.surveys.com/privacy.aspx) is guaranteed.

Surveys are quick and easy!
Our Privacy Policy (http://www.surveys.com/privacy.aspx):

Surveys.com is strongly committed to the protection of the confidentiality of personal information. The Surveys.com Online Market Research Community is owned and operated by GfK, a leading market research company. We are members of the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO) (http://www.casro.org/) - and have strict procedures in place that are consistent with CASRO's most stringent requirements. To that end, we subscribe to the CASRO Code of Standards and Ethics. To provide you with full knowledge of our processes, this Policy presents an overview of how we collect, store and use your personal information.

FAQs (http://www.surveys.com/faq.aspx)

Surveys.com is now offering a special application FREE of charge for members of the Surveys.com community.

PromptCast (http://www.surveys.com/promptcast.aspx)© makes it easy for you to know when you have been invited to participate in a Surveys.com survey. Installing this application increases your chances of being selected for additional and more exciting surveys in the future.

Our new application offers two great features not found with any other online research community:

1) SUPER HIGH QUALITY VIDEO:
See products and services (e.g. pharmaceutical products, technologies, financial services, automobiles, and everyday grocery store items) before the rest of the world. Members that install this application will be able to participate in surveys that incorporate high quality video, including viewing never before seen movie trailers. Our application will download video in the background so you don’t have to wait. View our video in hi-def instantly.

2) ALERT NOTIFICATION:
Never miss a survey again! Members will be notified with an alert in the lower right hand corner of their computer when a survey is available. Members can accept or decline the survey invitation immediately.

Send your questions, comments, and suggestions to Carol Henderson at chenderson@surveys.com in the US and Pam Hughes at pamhughes@surveys.com in the UK.

By UK Postal Mail:
GfK c/o Panels
Ludgate House
245 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 9UL

By US Postal Mail:
GfK c/o Panels
1060 State Road
Princeton, NJ 08542

[eddieMX07]

I found this important message on GfK Custom Research North America website:

Consumer Warning
Beware of Ads and/or letters offering Quick Returns for Cashing a Check

GfK rarely, if ever, conducts mystery shops involving check cashing or money transfers. We never ask shoppers to send us money. If someone posing as a representative of GfK ever contacts you with a cashier’s check, or if you see an ad promising quick returns for cashing a check, please call GfK Mystery Shopping immediately at 212-240-5471 before trying to cash the check…it may be a scam!

GfK is working with the MSPA (Mystery Shopper Providers Association) as well as the appropriate local, state and Federal authorities to crack down on all individuals involved in perpetrating these schemes.

For more information about these scams, including how to protect yourself and the steps to take if you’ve been victimized, please follow this link (http://www.mysteryshop.org/news/article_pr.php?art_ID=73).

[LapisLee]

The Spring Edition of Surveys.com Community Connection

Welcome to Surveys.com's latest issue of Community Connection! This issue is packed with information you'll find both interesting and useful. We've also added handy links at the top of this page that will take you to our community site and other frequently visited areas. We hope you enjoy this issue, and as always, we want to hear from you! Please send your feedback, comments, questions and/or suggestions to Carol Henderson (chenderson@surveys.com).

Announcing Our New Sweepstakes!

As of January 2008, Surveys.com has changed its monthly sweepstakes prize awards. We have increased the number of prizes to be awarded in order to give our loyal panel members, like you, a greater chance of winning! And remember, the more surveys you take, the greater your odds! You could be our next lucky $1,000 Grand Prize winner! The new prizes will be awarded monthly as follows:

1 $1,000 grand prize
1 $500 prize
10 $100 prizes
25 $50 prizes
50 $25 prizes

Click here (http://www.surveys.com/USwinners.html) to view our lucky winners from our previous sweepstakes. Plus...Stay tuned for Surveys.com's new and improved community site where you'll be able to interact, share and take fun polls and quizzes and find useful information on topics of interest to you!

How to Whitelist 'chenderson@surveys.com' in your Spam Filter

Feel like you've missed a survey? Perhaps your spam filter is preventing you from receiving surveys and other important communications from Surveys.com. If your Internet Service Provider uses a mail filter, please ensure you add the e-mail address 'chenderson@surveys.com' to your list of accepted e-mails and your address book/contact list. Otherwise, your surveys, newsletters and winner confirmations may go into your junk mailbox. To be safe, we suggest you check your junk mailbox to ensure you do not miss any of our e-mails.

Carol would like you to Know....


Surveys.com uses PayPal for certain survey incentives. Note that the e-mail address where you receive your survey invitations is the same one we use for PayPal. If you already have a PayPal account, be sure to check what e-mail address is associated with it. If your PayPal e-mail address is not the same as your Surveys.com e-mail, you can simply add your Surveys.com e-mail address to your existing PayPal account. PayPal allows you to have multiple e-mail addresses for the same account. Please visit www.paypal.com for details.

Surveys must be completed in their entirety in order to be entered into our monthly sweepstakes or to receive any additional incentive offered. Incentive payments are made to all panelists that qualify and complete an eligible survey. We credit all accounts on a monthly schedule. Look for your incentives to arrive during the first half of the month following the close of the survey.

Without details on what survey you were taking and the specifics of what your issue is, it takes much longer to investigate, respond and get back to you with a resolution. Help me help you by including the survey link enclosed in your invitation and describing your situation in your correspondence. Some have found that replying from the invitation e-mail is the simplest method.

Double clicking on the link in your survey invitation will result in an error. Please be sure to only single click the link or copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.

When visiting Surveys.com, your e-mail address is your logon/username.

We respect your privacy. Your information will NEVER be shared with third parties.

[maplaver]

I believe Surveys.com (http://www.surveys.com/default.aspx) is strictly a sweepstakes site, but I may be wrong. PromptCast is software installed on your computer that alerts you to surveys. I don't recommend either software or the survey site until i learn otherwise.

Surveys.com is an online community operated by GfK. GfK is a top-ten market research company, uniting some of the most renowned US and European research firms into a single global organization. The purpose of the Surveys.com online community is to provide reliable and accurate information to business leaders and government officials about the products and services they provide consumers.

By joining our consumer panel you will be in a position to contribute to the decision-making process, plus you will be rewarded for your thoughts and insight with cash rewards. All you need to do is provide a few details about yourself (it takes just a couple minutes) and periodically you'll be asked to answer a questionnaire that will be sent to your email account. For each questionnaire that you complete, you will be enetered into our drawing for cash rewards.

Surveys.com is strongly committed to the protection of the confidentiality of personal information. We are members of the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO (http://www.surveys.com/www.casro.org))—and have strict procedures in place that are consistent with CASRO’s most stringent requirements. To that end, we subscribe to the CASRO Code of Standards and Ethics. To provide you with full knowledge of our processes, this Policy presents an overview of how we collect, store and use your personal information.

Become a panel member and...

Share your opinons and influence decisions on a range of topics such as: current events, entertainment, politics, and new and existing products and services. Our client companies want to know what you think! Just complete your profile and start being rewarded! Surveys.com gives away $5000 monthly in cash rewards (http://www.surveys.com/USWinners.html). Join our community now and you will automatically be entered into this month's giveaway. As an active member of our panel you will receive our monthly newsletter, Community Connection, and you will be eligible to win cash for some of the surveys you complete. So sign up now and get rewarded!

All information is strictly confidential and privacy is guaranteed. Your name will never be sold, exchanged, or distributed to any other party. See our Privacy Policy (http://www.surveys.com/privacy.aspx) for complete details. For our sweepstakes rules, click here (http://www.surveys.com/rules/rules.htm).

FAQs (http://www.surveys.com/faq.aspx)

PromptCast (http://www.surveys.com/promptcast.aspx)

Send your questions, comments, and suggestions to Carol Henderson at chenderson@surveys.com in the US and Pam Hughes at pamhughes@surveys.com in the UK.

By UK Postal Mail:
GfK c/o Panels
Ludgate House
245 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 9UL

By US Postal Mail:
GfK c/o Panels
1060 State Road
Princeton, NJ 08542

[maplaver]

I believe Surveys.com (http://www.surveys.com/default.aspx) is strictly a sweepstakes site, but I may be wrong. PromptCast is software installed on your computer that alerts you to surveys. I don't recommend either software or the survey site until i learn otherwise.

I disagree, I have earned $55 from Surveys.com aka GfK NOP by taking two online surveys. The first survey was a week long survey where I was to record all the news I watch, read or listen. I earned $50 by taking this unique survey. I also earned $5 by taking a survey that I don't even remember taking. Both rewards were sent to my Pay Pal account two months after I completed the survey. So as you can see, people can make money from Surveys.com but don't expect to make $116 in less than three months with them (that's what I made with Survey Spot).

I totally agree about the program called PromptCast. I first installed that program on early January and so far I have NEVER received a survey using that technology.So the bottom line is Sign up to Surveys.com and cross your fingers to get a paid survey but do not install PromptCast unless you don't mind having a program that you will NEVER use.

[maplaver]

Great post Eddie! That is exactly what I wanted to hear. Some more information from Surveys.com's Spring newsletter.

How to Whitelist 'chenderson@surveys.com' in your Spam Filter

Feel like you've missed a survey? Perhaps your spam filter is preventing you from receiving surveys and other important communications from Surveys.com. If your Internet Service Provider uses a mail filter, please ensure you add the e-mail address 'chenderson@surveys.com' to your list of accepted e-mails and your address book/contact list. Otherwise, your surveys, newsletters and winner confirmations may go into your junk mailbox. To be safe, we suggest you check your junk mailbox to ensure you do not miss any of our e-mails.

Carol would like you to Know....
Surveys.com uses PayPal for certain survey incentives. Note that the e-mail address where you receive your survey invitations is the same one we use for PayPal. If you already have a PayPal account, be sure to check what e-mail address is associated with it. If your PayPal e-mail address is not the same as your Surveys.com e-mail, you can simply add your Surveys.com e-mail address to your existing PayPal account. PayPal allows you to have multiple e-mail addresses for the same account. Please visit www.paypal.com for details.
Surveys must be completed in their entirety in order to be entered into our monthly sweepstakes or to receive any additional incentive offered. Incentive payments are made to all panelists that qualify and complete an eligible survey. We credit all accounts on a monthly schedule. Look for your incentives to arrive during the first half of the month following the close of the survey.
Without details on what survey you were taking and the specifics of what your issue is, it takes much longer to investigate, respond and get back to you with a resolution. Help me help you by including the survey link enclosed in your invitation and describing your situation in your correspondence. Some have found that replying from the invitation e-mail is the simplest method.
Double clicking on the link in your survey invitation will result in an error. Please be sure to only single click the link or copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.
When visiting Surveys.com, your e-mail address is your logon/username. We respect your privacy. Your information will NEVER be shared with third parties.

[maplaver]

I've been paid $3 by 3 payments of $1. These payments have been a surprise because I didn't remember taking any paid survey with them :p

[maplaver]

Here is what my survey history looks like with Surveys.com. I haven't seen any cash incentives yet.

Surveys Completed

Survey Invited Completed

r702626 07/12/2008 07/13/2008
USCPRF07 05/21/2008 05/21/2008
R086700 04/11/2008 04/12/2008
USCPRF06 07/08/2008 03/30/2008
R086200 02/15/2008 02/17/2008

[maplaver]

I've been paid $3 by 3 payments of $1. These payments have been a surprise because I didn't remember taking any paid survey with them :p

I was also surprised when I received the $5 and $50 payments. For the $5, I did not remember taking a paid survey with them so I was like "where did this came from". It's a whole different story for the $50. I was supposed to finish the online version of that research study by a certain deadline. Unfortunately, I did not submit the survey by the deadline, but I finished it about three or four days after the deadline. So I was surprised when I got $50 in my inbox. I guess I was lucky

[LapisLee]

I occaisionally get surveys from them and they pay me $1 via PayPal, but this week they sent me two one pound packages of Johnsonville sausages to try and, although, I usually do not eat sausages, these were pretty good. It's difficult to track how much I have earned becaus they do not give a payment history online and their website is difficult to access for me at times.

Survey# Survey Invited Completed

R703823 02/01/2009 02/01/2009
R401921B 12/11/2008 12/12/2008
R11129A 11/01/2008 11/01/2008
R088100 10/17/2008 10/18/2008
R703024 09/23/2008 09/24/2008
USCPRF3b 08/21/2008 08/22/2008
r702626 07/12/2008 07/13/2008
R087500 07/11/2008 07/12/2008
USCPRF07 05/21/2008 05/21/2008
R086700 04/11/2008 04/12/2008
USCPRF06 07/08/2008 03/30/2008
R086200 02/15/2008 02/17/2008

[eddieMX07]

I have received $50 from Surveys.com also know as GfK, a global market research company. I have also received several payments ranging from $1 to $5. I would have to check my PayPal in order to give accurate earnings.

All their payments came from this email --> US-Online-Panel-Payments@gfk.com

[Purp3Ang3L]

I have only taken one survey from them, I dont get many surveys, but they paid me a 1.00 lol....Send more surveys

[LapisLee]

While I am venting, here is an emal that I sent to surveys.com without reply.

November 27, 2008

I am at the very end of the survey on Excedrin Expres Gel, which I have not taken before and just received the error message:

Unfortunately it seems that you have attempted to do this survey in more than one session. Because of the nature of this survey, we cannot allow multiple sessions to complete this survey. Thank you for your time.

I was up to page D16 when the message suddenly and unexpected appeared and asked me to close the window. I did not hit the back or forward keys or stop for an extended period of time. Thank you for investiagting as my time is valuable.

Project=R703475O&id=5329956

http://three.surveys.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll

Here is a copy of the suvey email invitation:

Dear Surveys.com Member

Your latest survey from Surveys.com is available now.

http://id.surveys.com/s.aspx?project=R703475O&id=5329956

Please click on this link to begin. Click only once, please do not double click.

What is this survey about?

Today we will be asking your opinions on consumer attitudes and behavior. Please make every effort to complete the survey in one sitting.

Survey Length

It should take about 20-29 minutes to complete today's survey and this will close on at midnight November 30.

Rewards

Upon qualification and completion of this survey, you are guaranteed a minimum of $1, but you could earn up to $3! This will be awarded via PayPal. In addition, you will be entered into our $5,000 monthly cash giveaway where you will have a chance to win one of hundreds of cash prizes! Each survey you complete gives you another chance to win.

January 15, 2009

Were you planning on replying to this question or did I somehow overlook your response? Thanks!

Lee N.