Changes From GlobalTestMarket to LifePoints as of February 2019
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45628)
Philippines
February 14, 2019 8:58pm CST
Online survey site Globaltestmarket is now called LifePoints.
It accepts members from 40 countries.
It pays through Amazon Gift Cards, PayPal, Zalora and Lazada, or you can choose to donate to Unicef.
When you receive an email about a new survey, the link takes you to the new LifePoints website where you now have to log in first, so try to remember your old username and password when you first registered.
The old GlobalTestMarket was more convenient because when you clicked the link in the email, the survey immediately opens in a new tab and you start answering the questions.
The points for getting screened out (what I personally call consolation prize haha!) has been reduced from 5 points to 2 points.
I'm from the Philippines and the rewards I always avail of is PayPal. Here are the changes in the [/i]minimum LifePoints from the updated Rewards page when I log into my account:
285 LifePoints = 250 Php PayPal (about 4.77 US dollars as of Feb 2019)
570 LifePoints = 500 Php PayPal (about 9.54 US dollars as of Feb 2019)
1130 LifePoints = 1000 Php PayPal (about 19.07 US dollars as of Feb 2019)
Minimum points for Lazada online shopping are:
550 LifePoints = 500 Php Lazada Ecert
1100 LifePoints = 1000 Php Lazada Ecert
Please note that minimum LifePoints thresholds might be different for other countries.
The 40 countries that can join LifePoints (formerly Globaltestmarket) that's listed on their updated FAQ page are:
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America
Vietnam
I'm going to be patient and ride through these changes and growing pains that GlobalTestMarket (now known as LifePoints), is going through until I earn 1130 LifePoints to cash out at 1000 Philippine pesos.
Then I'll decide after that if I will unsubscribe or not.
It's not practical (for me, personally) to request payout at only 250 or 500 Philippine pesos.
My other survey sites are YouGov and Triaba, but I'm having second thoughts about them, too. Time will tell.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
i'm not really liking these changes.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
@JudyEv i'm sure you'll get surveys about travel, cars and finance.
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Feb 19
@hereandthere Haha. I get the finance ones but I have to get Vince to do them as I don't know enough about our finances. I really need to get a handle on our financial affairs in case Vince goes before I do.
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
I am still unsure what to do with my Life Points. I logged in last December and I was surprised that I have more than 1000 points there. Maybe I will redeem it this December or a little earlier.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
if you already have more than 1000, you can request paypal payout now. i wouldn't want to lose that in case something happens to the site later on.
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
@hereandthere oh okay. Do they allow payouts now?
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
@brokenbee i cashed out at 1000 pesos (equivalent to 1130 points) 2 months ago, december 2018, and received it after a week via paypal.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
So, they change their name, huh? that's new. Haven't been active to that place for a while though.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
they also have a new website.
i suggest that you go and check your account. you might have many points already that you can cash out. look at arbie's response in this discussion. she was surprised that she already has more than 1000 points in her account.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
16 Feb 19
i get the urge to write long articles sometimes. haha!
i hope it shows up in search engines and more people get to know mylot.
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
23 Feb 19
@hereandthere Yes, that is different. The treshold is 1150 points for 100 NOK (about 13 euros) at the moment, they might change that I suppose. I have 1128 now, so I hope I get at least one survey before they change it.
At the moment it's 19 points for screenouts, might also change.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
23 Feb 19
@Torunn you're almost there. will this be your first payout?
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
23 Feb 19
that's how it started here, too. they sent teaser/update emails first.
it seems the rewards are also different. manuela from portugal says she still gets 5 points for screenouts and her threshold is 2500 points for 20 euros in paypal.
@jobelbojel (36796)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
This is an amazing information. I am not into but I can check it out.
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@jstory07 (148798)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23 Feb 19
@hereandthere I will have to do that.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
19 Feb 19
i got a boost when i got a survey with really high points recently.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
19 Feb 19
@hereandthere some surveys give us a good number of points 
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
19 Feb 19
@hereandthere that happens with me as well, I think it is a problem with their server.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
22 Feb 19
because it's hard to come by reliable international survey sites for us who are outside of us/canada/uk/au/nz. maybe you can check out yougov.
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@yoalldudes (35028)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
I'm glad I am able to access Lifepoints now whereas in GlobalTestMarket I have trouble logging in to my account.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
@yoalldudes are you new at gtm/lifepoints? have you reached payout before?
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@yoalldudes (35028)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
@hereandthere I don't know. I'm just glad its okay now. I'm happy with Lifepoints.
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@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
5 Jun 20
never succed from globaltestmarket. very hard to pass the screening
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Jun 20
i've been paid several times but starting this year, i got busy and stopped answering the notifications.
@filipinagirl (98)
• Philippines
23 Feb 19
I'm also not liking these changes. I'm getting screened out more frequently than before. My other survey sites are Toluna, Mobrog, and Rakuten Insight Surveys.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
24 Feb 19
how fast do you reach payout at toluna, mobrog and rakuten? do they pay through paypal?
@filipinagirl (98)
• Philippines
24 Feb 19
@hereandthere I can reach the minimum payout within a month or so if I do not miss answering the surveys. Yes, they all pay via PayPal.
@snowy22315 (209239)
• United States
23 Feb 19
I haven't used Global Test Market for a long time. I heard they changed their cash out..it used to be 50 and it took forever to get there.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
15 Feb 19
Looks like they have a few kinks to work out. A message popped up saying they aren't available in my country. I live in the US 
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Feb 19
really? now that's weird. maybe you can try again another day.
i got confused in the beginning of the site change because i would get the 'join now' button so i had to come up with a new name and superlong password. when i got the message that my email already exists, that's when i realized i had to log in, not join again. thankfully, they changed it now to show the 'log in' button for existing members.
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@suni51 (3431)
• India
16 Feb 19
I am a regular member of Global Test Market indirectly. That means I am members o couple of GPT sites which are in turn members of GTM. But I am planning to subscribe LP from now on since I am back in India although this site is not available for Indians.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
23 Feb 19
i just treat it as future money. it's slow and takes patience. sometimes i even abandon a survey midway. but it also happens that by the time i reach payout, an unexpected need arises. hahaha!
