What Is Your favorite Survey Site That Pays in Prizes/Gift cards?

[LapisLee]

1) E-Poll: points for gift cards

2) Zoom Panel: points for merchandise

3) Opinion Place: points for PayPal (I realized too late they pay cash via PayPal!)

4) Opinion Square: points for merchandise

5) Opinion Central: points for merchandise

6) Reward TV: points for gift cards or merchandise (bidding)

7) Polling Point: points for merchandise

8) Testspin: points for $10 amazon gift cards

9) My Business Insight: points for merchandise

10) BuzzSponge: points for Amazon or Target gift cards

[maplaver]

Opinion Place DOESN'T have POINTS. If you choose PAYPAL, they will tell you right away how much you will be paid. It ranges from $1.50 to 4.50 (in my experience).

[eddieMX07]

My favorite Survey Site That Pays in Prizes/Gift cards is HarrisPoll Online because I got my computers speakers from them. I know they offer Pay Pal but I still consider they a Survey Site that pays in Prizes/Gift cards because that is what they were when I joined back in 2005. I choose ZoomPanel in the online poll because I have the most points with them next to Harris Poll.

[LapisLee]

Opinion Place DOESN'T have POINTS. If you choose PAYPAL, they will tell you right away how much you will be paid. It ranges from $1.50 to 4.50 (in my experience).
I know! I know! :(
I haven't made a penny from any of these sites, but I will be cashing out from E-Poll, Polling Point, Opinion Square and Opinion Central as soon as I reach the minimum pay out point and unsubscribing. I just joined Opinion Place as soon as I realized that they have a PayPal option. Hey, everyone makes mistakes. I also like BuzzSponge and may join TestSpin for the Amazon gift certificates. ;)

[eddieMX07]

I know! I know! :(
I haven't made a penny from any of these sites, but I will be cashing out from E-Poll, Polling Point, Opinion Square and Opinion Central as soon as I reach the minimum pay out point and unsubscribing. I just joined Opinion Place as soon as I realized that they have a Paypal option. Hey, everyone makes mistakes. I also like BuzzSponge and may join TestSpin for the Amazon gift certificates. ;)

So your a member of Opinion Square. Does that mean you downloaded the software they provided? I did once installed it but I later realized that was bad idea so I uninstalled. It is not required that you download the software. That is why I'm still a member of their survey panel

[LapisLee]

So your a member of Opinion Square. Does that mean you downloaded the software they provided? I did once installed it but I later realized that was bad idea so I uninstalled. It is not required that you download the software. That is why I'm still a member of their survey panel
No, the only software that I have downloaded is Precast, because I like watching movie trailers and new television shows for paid surveys. I also uninstalled the software from Nielsen Online.

[maplaver]

I know! I know! :(
I haven't made a penny from any of these sites, but I will be cashing out from E-Poll, Polling Point, Opinion Square and Opinion Central as soon as I reach the minimum pay out point and unsubscribing. I just joined Opinion Place as soon as I realized that they have a PayPal option. Hey, everyone makes mistakes. I also like BuzzSponge and may join TestSpin for the Amazon gift certificates. ;)

You knew that they offered PAYPAL but in the blog you said you disliked all AOL things plus you had that paypal problem back then!

[eddieMX07]

I first voted for ZoomPanel in this poll because I had a lot of points with them at that time. Now I would take that back and vote for Permission Research (which is not even an option in the poll!?) I like Permission Reseach because I have redeemed a prize with them and I have also won a prize on this scratch off game, which is a lot like Survey Spot mini game but the points can be used to redeem merchandise. So now Permission Research is my current "favorite Survey Site That Pays in Prizes."

[KENDIKONG]

Valued Opinion. Best amazon gift card site. 2nd place would have to go to clearvoice, which also pays in paypal

[LapisLee]

Surveys that pay in gift certificates are slightly less desirable to me than either those that pay in cash or those that pay in cash for points, but as any good stockbroker will tell you, the key to investing soundly is to diversify your holdings, so I am a member of several of these sites. By far the best is Valued Opinions ($117.65 earned, $100 rec’d since 2008-02-18), my #5 highest earning survey site, because they provide the most frequent and highest paying surveys, they offer Amazon gift certificates, which are almost as good as cash if you shop Amazon.com as frequently as I do and they also have excellent customer service.

The other gift certificate sites on my list of Top 30 best paying survey sites are less significant to my overall plan, but I include them because they do pay in Amazon gift certificates, which I often redeem for DVDs or CDs that can easily be resold after viewing or listening. ClearVoice ($37.20 since 2008-02-18 has been very slow lately sending surveys and crediting me for surveys that I have taken, but they are still ranked #23 out of 30 for me. Keynote ($20 since 2008-03-01) has stopped sending me surveys entirely, but I occasionally take surveys from them through other sites. Datatelligence ($20 since 2008-03-01) is another site that I cannot recommend very highly; however, I still receive the occasional survey from them. Their customer service is close to non-existent if you fail to be credited for a completed survey, as I have on several occasions.

BuzzSponge ($20 since 2008-03-01) is a very innovative and fun survey site that pays in Amazon gift certificates. Although I haven’t earned much from this site, its online community is so much fun to be a part of that I continue to participate sporadically. Some survey sites, like Survey Exchange, offer Reward Choice certificates, which allow you to redeem for rewards from various merchants, offline and online, but they also offer you the option of redeeming your points for Amazon gift certificates. A few other legitimate survey sites that pay exclusively in Amazon gift certificates that you may want to try are: TestSpin (rumored to be considering offering a PayPal option), Baker Street Solutions ($12.50 since 2008-03-01) and My Business Insight.

Finally, I would like to point out that I have also been a member of several online communities, often through CommuniSpace, that pay in Amazon gift certificates. The best example was the Capitol One forum that I joined through SurveySpot, which not only paid me a $10 Amazon gift certificate every month from May through December 2008 sent via an email promotional code, but which also awarded me an Apple Macbook and Apple iPod Touch when I won their year-end contest.

[LapisLee]

I realize that survey sites that pay exclusively in prizes, as opposed to cash, points for cash or Amazon gift certificates are popular with many people; however, I am not one of those people. In fact, I have unsubscribed from at least five of these sites over the past year after toiling endlessly to redeem points for such mundane prizes as a tote bag emblazoned with the name of Polling Point (17,500 points over six months), a brand new DVD (‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind’) that I could have easily purchased brand new on Amazon for $6 (Zoom Panel 1000 points over three months) and two ‘previously-viewed’ DVDs and $14 in Border Dollars (which are not worth much considering how inflated the prices are for items on Borders.com) and a magazine subscription (‘Blender’). The point is that you can earn cash much faster elsewhere and simply buy most of these prize items. The other prizes are unremarkable, such as non-name brand mp3 players that look like they are worth about $10 but that will require you to take dozens of surveys over the course of a year or longer to redeem.

In my opinion, Zoom Panel has the best variety of prizes and has quite a few books and DVDs that you can redeem your Zoompoints for, but most are not exactly recent blockbusters. I have recently rejoined, but I have yet to earn enough points to redeem for prizes.

I joined e-Rewards on October 26, 2008 and quickly earned $110.70. When I went to redeem my e-Dollars I found that the prizes were not that great. First I redeemed $25 for two previously viewed DVDs from Blockbuster, but the rules do not allow me to do that again for six months (July 10). Then I redeemed another $15 in Borders Dollars for a couple of overpriced DVDs, but I am not allowed to do that again until the beginning of the next calendar year. Next, I subscribed to Blender, one of their 32 magazine offerings (five in Spanish only), for $10. I still have $60.70 left with $45.53 expiring on February 1, 2010, but the only prizes left are magazines (Maxim, Golf Digest, Fast Company, Smithsonian, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wine Spectator) and others that I am even less interested in, such as frequent flyer miles and $10, $25 or $50 off purchases at Levengers, Macy’s, Neiman-Marcus, Zales, FTD, ProFlowers and Omaha Steaks, but you must purchase $50 to get $10 off, $75 to get $25 off and $125 to get $50 off.

If it took me six months to earn enough points for a Polling Point tote bag (17500 points), then how long will it take you to earn these other prizes: Polling Point T-shirt (20,000 points), Polling Point sweatshirt (30,000 points), webcam (40,000 points), iPod Shuffle (80,000 points), $100 cash (100,000 points)? Recently, Polling Point added movie tickets from Regal, AMC, or Cinemark (30,000 points) and a $25 Gift Certificate from restaurants.com (25,000) to sweeten their prize pot. Most of these prizes really just clever ways to advertise their own survey site.

Harris Polls is another site that takes forever to redeem prizes and their ‘portfolio’ of prizes is not very enticing. I had been a member for one year and was only able to cash out once for a DVD that I could have bought brand new for $8. They do not send nearly enough surveys, the surveys they do send are not worth very many points and their selection of prizes is poor. They constantly send you emails to attempt to get you to ‘trade in your points for sweepstakes entries’ and they occasionally offer a $5 Amazon gift certificate to attract new members or keep old members hanging on.

OpinionSquare (owned by TRMG, Inc. along with Permission Research) requires that you install software on your computer, which is one thing I prefer not to do. Their list of prizes is very limited, but includes some interesting video games. Some other prize sites that you may want to try are: Opinion Central, Opinion Place, Opinion World Business and Reward TV (where you ‘bid’ on prizes against other members).