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7 Reasons Why You Should Be Careful Taking Online
Surveys For Money
By
Rob Palmer
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7 Reasons Why You Should Be Careful Taking Online Surveys For Money
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Table of Contents
Taking Online Surveys
1. When joining a survey site, you provide your personal and demographic information.
2. There are scammers out there.
3. The survey site pulls your earnings for some reason.
4. If the survey sites seem legitimate, review their payment system.

5. The survey site may trick people by posting positive reviews about the site.
6. There are survey sites that claim you can earn thousands of dollars a month.
7. You may not qualify for a survey.
Recommended Resources
Taking Online Surveys
With all the easy ways to make money online, taking paid surveys is among the
easiest. In fact, even a 10-year-old can do it. You’ll find many companies online offering
to pay you money or gift certificates for taking surveys. The payment can range from $1
to $10 or even more for surveys which take longer to finish or in some cases, a product
is given as payment for a survey.
Taking online surveys is a good way to earn extra cash while also trying new
products. But don’t expect to make a living out of doing this. This is only a way to earn
some extra cash for bills or grocery. It might even take you a while before you can earn
a decent amount.
While I am not discounting the fact that you can make extra money answering
surveys, the following list will show you the other end of the spectrum. Since you’re
determined at earning some money, better be familiar with these so that the next time
you sign up on a survey site, you know what to do.
1. When joining a survey site, you provide your personal and
demographic information.
Personal information such as name, contact number and address are usually the
ones that survey sites will ask. If you don’t provide them, the site won’t allow you to
proceed with your signing up, as this information is crucial for it to determine which
surveys to send to you. Make sure you are joining a legitimate survey site. You can rest
assured that it won’t disclose your information to other parties.
If you are not comfortable about giving out your name and other important details,
then taking online surveys might not be for you. There is a risk in this kind of job, so if
you’re willing to join, make sure you understand this. Better read the Privacy Policy to
make sure that the site is legitimate. If the site has no prominent Privacy Policy link,
then ignore it and look for another survey site.

2. There are scammers out there.
This is probably more important than anything. You’re here to make money, so it’s
not right that those who promise to pay you for a job are the ones who ask for money
before giving you the promised job. More often than not, those who ask for any fees up
front are scams. They just want to take your money. So make sure that a survey join
you want to join is free and does not ask for membership fee or other recurring fees.
Scammers are getting clever these days, so don’t be fooled. The job or the site may
appear legitimate, with all the photos and testimonials of others who supposedly got
paid for doing the job. They may even promise you a 100% money-back guarantee.
Don’t fall for that. Even with this guarantee, the scammer may still run with your money,
and you have nothing, not even the real name of the person behind that scam website.
Also, don’t join survey sites that require your credit card number. If a site does, you
should be suspicious.
3. The survey site pulls your earnings for some reason.
Now, a lot of people would not be reading Terms of Use willingly. Who wants to
read long and boring Terms of Use anyway? But this is very important, as you’ll find the
terms and conditions by which you must work to earn.
Why I am saying is that some survey sites give you surveys, but when you have
reached the payout terms, they will pull your earnings. This is unjust, and when you try
to contact the site for clarifications, they don’t get to you right away. You’re lucky if you
get a reply. And then you will be told that you did not sign in as often as they required or
that you were using a fraudulent account.
At some point, some survey sites will tell you that you did not complete the surveys
according to their terms. They’ll probably tell you all the reasons just so they won’t be
obligated to send you the money you rightfully earned. So before signing up, read the
site’s Terms of Use first, even if it’s a long one.
4. If the survey sites seem legitimate, review their payment system.
The last thing you want is not be able to get the money you worked for. If you
choose to use PayPal to get the payment, better contact the PayPal management to
determine whether the survey site is following the PayPal’s Terms of Service. Also,

make sure that PayPal is aware that the survey site uses it as a payment option.
5. The survey site may trick people by posting positive reviews about
the site.
Chances are there are people out there who have already tried joining a certain
survey site and have written a review. Search Google or other search engines for any
review of a survey site to see whether it is legitimate or not. You can also search for a
forum or forums dedicated to working-from-home jobs or to taking surveys online. You
will meet people there who can recommend legitimate survey sites and give you a list of
sites to avoid.
But beware, though. As I’ve mentioned previously, scammers are getting clever.
Owners of survey sites could be posting positive reviews for their sites to trick people
into joining them. Or they may pay some people to say good things about the site.
Either way, be very careful.
6. There are survey sites that claim you can earn thousands of dollars
a month.
It’s not true that you can earn thousands of dollars taking online surveys in just a
month for a lot of reasons. First, it takes time before a survey site can match a survey
taker to a company’s specifications. Second, for survey sites that offer points that can
be redeemed for cash later, a single survey may be worth a few points, meaning you
have to answer a lot of surveys to earn a considerably big amount. And that would take
time.
Third, for sites that offer cash, the surveys may not arrive as often as you’d like.
Sometimes you can only take 3 surveys or so in a day, and there are days when there
aren’t surveys to take. Fourth, you will not always be eligible to take all surveys. At best,
you can also earn a few dollars, or maybe a few hundred in a month.
7. You may not qualify for a survey.
Sometimes, in our haste to grow our earnings, we want to just open the email, open
the survey and fill it out. Only after spending 15 minutes or so filling out the survey do
we realize that we do not qualify for that particular survey, and we ended up not getting
paid and wasting time at the same time.

Here’s what you should do. Read the email carefully first, checking if you qualify to
take that survey. It’s better to pay attention to the details of the offer first than end up
wasting your time and effort. But don’t be discouraged if it takes some time before you
get the next survey.
Recommended Resources
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