Survey Sites Paying Points/Gift Certificates/Merchandise
Advice May 22nd, 2008I’m getting lots of positive feedback about categorizing all of the survey sites. Thanks for the suggestion! Here is the list of online paid survey sites that pay in points to be redeemed for gift cards or merchandise. Some rewards are better than others. And some of these will take so long to earn a prize that you may have a better chance of being abducted by aliens than getting anything. Click on the name to read the full reviews.
1) E-Poll: points for gift cards
2) Zoom Panel: points for gifts and prizes
3) Datatelligence: points for merchandise
4) Opinion Place: points for gift certificates
5) Opinion World Business: points for rewards
6) Reward TV: points for gift cards or merchandise (bidding)
7) Poling Point: points for merchandise
8- Opinion Central: points for merchandise (limited choices)
9) Testspin: points for $10 amazon gift cards
The remaining lists will be categories that test my patience. Tomorrow I’ll start the offer /pay to click survey sites and finally the sweepstakes only ones. Please feel free to comment on these lists. I’ll be taking it all into consideration before I post these lists for reference. Bring it on!
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May 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
NEW ACCOUNT Q…i will be setting my sister up with an account and i am deciding what her very first site should be setting up stuff, brand new email acct goal is to have minimum unwanted mails…should i send her a refferal from one of my sites that allows for multiple household use and pays for survey signups, ie snap$ pays $2 for nielson sign up? and if so is there one youall could recommend, i just don’t know what her “go to” site should be?…also i just registered with myview and they paid $12 for 12 opinion profiles completed paypal 2 day pmt i should see them post today fyi…rick
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Don’t count with MYVIEW payments anytime soon. U have 2 have $25 to cashout and they take a LONG time 2 post ur payments. They are PENDING for a while.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
HEATH,
OPINIONPLACE points 4 gift certificates???????
U have 4 ways of payment:
1. paypal
2. aol credits
3. AA miles
4. sweepstakes
U NEVER RECEIVE POINTS.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
Great list, Heath. You can add SurveyExchange.com, they give $5 and $10 gift certificates at Amazon, Best Buy, Blockbuster, Home Depot, Sears, Target and others after generally 5 surveys. They also give points and sweeps entries if you don’t qualify. You can also add HarrisPoll (which invites to nice short surveys), but like zoompanel or pollingpoint, I don’t think the points are worth that much.
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
FROM GREENFIELD
Reward: An entry in our current sweepstakes
Length: 30 Minutes (Approx.)
Survey Number: 0702853a
i keep getting these survey invites, my question is does greenfield pay ok?, should i spend the time for a sweepstakes entry because it will lead to better future surveys for $ from them???thanx rick.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Greenfield Online does pay for surveys but not as often as other survey sites like SurveySpot. If you do decide to take these survey that give sweepstake entry, then it might help to intentionally disqualify youself from these survey. Taking every survey from a survey panel MAY or MAY NOT “lead to better future surveys for $ from them”
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
map…myview eventually pays though, right?…
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Yes they eventually do pay. Before there was the $25 limit to cash out, I earned rewards for taking surveys from MyView. It took about three months to get the payment added to my PayPal. It takes a long time but I always got my reward. I think it takes that long because they are analyzing the answers to see if I answered the survey truthful.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
RICK,
(at least I do).
I don’t do those greenfield surveys… I don’t believe that doing them will get me better surveys in the future like Eddie does. But they do send u survey invites that pay, the problem is qualifying (at least 4 me). U’ll start receiving them like 1 every 2 weeks
I’m guessing MYVIEW will pay eventually… I have $24 with $6 pending. I’ve been trying 2 qualify 4 another survey 2 b able 2 cash out but nothing yet
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Oops, Maplaver. I don’t know how I managed to put points for gift certificates for Opinion Place. Could be because I wrote this post at 2 AM
I wasn’t aware of the Paypal option. I don’t remember it being there a few weeks ago. I thought it was only into your AOL account. Have you been paid by Paypal? Do you have an AOL account?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Rick, of course, I would suggest Yourfreesurveys.com which is associated with this blog. I hear they have a great customer service person too! (That would be me)
Heath
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
HEATH,
From ur OPINION PLACE review “I choose Paypal payments because I’m not an AOL member or an AAdvantage member.”. U chose paypal but said 3 ways of payment anywayz… it’s 4.
Heck no, I don’t have an AOL account.
From a comment of mine in OPINION PLACE:
maplaver Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I received my 1st payment on march 31.
I’ve received 4 payments so far, 3 of $3.25 (I visited the website for these ones) and 1 of $3.75 (a ’special survey’ received in my email).
I write down the DATE (every 7 days If I qualify, every 3 days if I don’t) they give me at the end of each survey to remember when I can go back and do a new one.
They pay very fast, not the next day like PineCone Research does, but like in 3 days
I like this one a lot!!!
May 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
re: Zoom Panel: I was a member for some time and the Surveys became less, and no replies from the Survey Director; I eventually canceled my account due to frustration;
The same with DataTelligence: My account was rewarded 40 points for signing-up the account, and had remained as such since,…from December 2007 to May 2008. Several contacts were attempted, and there was the “standard” reply, being there’s demographic considerations/other,…and I should receive Surveys soon. Soon took too long. I canceled my account a week ago after several tiresome attempts. [note: should you have AT&T/Bellsouth as your ISP you may begin to have technical problems with DataTelligence: specifically, the Survey link won't work, and you're required to "copy/paste" the Survey, even then there was no success with the links - when Surveys were sent, that is].
Jennifer
September 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I think removing reward TV from the list will be a good idea, I think it should go to other sites.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:57 am
i still have a bit of hope for REWARDTV. im tryin 2 get a shoppin spree but it happens sooooo fast
October 19th, 2008 at 10:46 am
What an awesome and useful blog you have here. . . one of the very few out there.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Surveys That Pay in Gift Certificates
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.
July 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Surveys That Pay in Prizes
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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).
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 pm
I have been taking several surveys per month for the past few years. I enjoy both cash and rewards, but have always thought that it took too long to earn a decent reward in the points programs. So I did some research and created my own survey site. What I hope to have accomplished is to have a points structure that helps my members earn rewards faster. Plus offer a variety of rewards that are highly desirable.
Survey companies should try to look at things from the users point of view:
1. Ability to earn points fast
2. Choice of a variety of nice rewards
3. Have earnings goals that are realistic
4. Have a nice referral program to earn even faster
when they refer friends
November 18th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
i personally really like nielson homescan which has you scan all items you purchase once a week. they also send surveys via e-mail, also for points, and send you an awesome catalogue of gifts to choose from. their surveys are about once a week. i am surprised no one has mentioned them. thing is, it’s hard to get it until they have scanners available or need someone in your area.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I have over 50,000 points at Neilsen Homescan. I have been a member for years and every Christmas get a few family gifts from them. I also like Hi-Points from Harris Online, Zoom and Opinion Outpost. Greenfield is now Toluna and I have been with them the longest. Payouts a few times a year in cash. Pinecone is another good one. And since I can’t remember anything, I have a few more I like.