pay to make money?

United States
January 17, 2007 2:36pm CST
I have looked into lots of ways to make money online and found something funny these survey sites that claim you can make all this money taking survey all seem to inevitably end in asking for your credit card number. You have to complete the survey ie pay for shipping of some product sample or trial membership in order to get paid. But what they pay to take the survey is less than what you have to pay to complete it. Doesn't make much sense to me . How do people actually make money on these sites? And another annoying factor is that you have to give your email address and then they spam it like crazy!!!
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84 responses
@azriel (2107)
• Philippines
17 Jan 07
can you tell me what's the name of this survey site? have tried it? thnx.
2 people like this
• Philippines
18 Jan 07
yeah its 50-70% true..scams sites really make u pay..
1 person likes this
• Italy
18 Jan 07
also for me is scam!
1 person likes this
• Germany
18 Jan 07
Yes the ones which ask for money are mostly scams.
@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
17 Jan 07
the only people making money are the ones getting paid for spamming, which is pretty well what they expect you to do, after giving them the email addresses of all your friends and family first. However, you Can make a living spamming. I've spammed for a business my son owns just on one site, and made close to 600 a month before the site owners caught on and shut us down. And of course, i'm now looking for other ways to make money
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@nehakalley4 (1918)
• United States
18 Jan 07
No there are some survey sites which really pays but you have to be patient enough to fill their surveys, I am not talking about the surveys which ask you for the offers to complete. they are not surveys but there are sites whichasks you proper surveys and make payment also . One of such sites is www.greenfieldonline.com. I have been paid 25$ for completing a survey. You should try once. Then there are sites which pays you for reading mails,I am not sure about these because I have not reached the limit in those sites for cash out. I am opeing these mails daily to increase my earnings. But still I can recommend these sites to you 1. http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/index.php?refid=nehakalley4 2. http://www.e-mailpaysu.com/members/index.cgi?nehakalley4 3. http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?nehakalley4
@killj0y (618)
• United States
18 Jan 07
how long did it take you do get your greenfieldonline check? I requested a check for $20 on dec. 9, 2006 and it is still showing up just as "requested" as of January 17, 2007!
• Indonesia
18 Jan 07
well, yous are as US citizen is better that you can join this site to take surveys for just 10 seconds till 5 mintus.get paid $0.02-$0.05 instantly into your e-gold account.No minimum pay out.
• Indonesia
18 Jan 07
i mean with this site: http://www.egoldoffers.com/?ref=3889023 ohh... god they have increased their offered... it's about $0.05 -$1 per surveys instantly to e-gold.
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
18 Jan 07
Okay, those aren't the good kinds of survey sites. *laugh* The survey sites that you are looking for are ones like Lightspeed and SurveySavvy and Pinecone Research. I think that people speak highly of one called Global Test Market, as well. I personally love Pinecone Research, but you have to find a banner of theirs on the internet in order to join. They used to send me easily $15-20 worth of surveys a month, and the surveys were pretty fun and easy. But one day they just stopped sending me surveys, and I really miss it :( They're by far the best out there, if you can find a link to join! You should also check out Getpaidforum at http://www.getpaidforum.com and ask there abotu good survey companies to join. They talk about all kinds of get paid programs over there. That's where I learned about Mylot and almost all of my other GPT sites. ^_^
18 Jan 07
They stopped sending me them one day too and I've never been able to find a recruiting banner! My dad is doing them all the time and earning $8 a week!
@dbhattji (2506)
• India
23 Feb 08
I have joined two survey sites and none of them have asked for my credit card details, both claim to pay by cheque and so I will have to give them my address, but I am sure thay make a lot more from marketing than what they actually pay us.
@annihilus (2181)
• Italy
28 Jan 07
All scams! Serious survey agencies don't ask to be paid and don't ask for credit cards!
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
21 Jan 07
Most of the surveys that I have done so far want to put me into a drawing or they want you to sign up for this or that so I gave up on them I might try them again thanks for the list
@funfreak2k2 (1734)
• India
30 Jan 07
Need to spend money to get money? - many sites are real scams
u r verymuch true. these sites are real scams. i joined a few sites. if you want to know visit my blog:http://spreadcash.blogspot.com
@funfreak2k2 (1734)
• India
30 Jan 07
u r verymuch true. these sites are real scams. i joined a few sites. if you want to know visit my blog : http://spreadcash.blogspot.com
• United States
25 Jan 07
I agree if they ask for money they are most likely a scam, Always do a search on them and see what people are saying about them. Go to www.WorkatHomeCareers.com and look at their scam section, It is a great way to learn how to find scams!
@pizzoli (3366)
• Italy
24 Jan 07
i use only sites which are free
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
25 Jan 07
I feel you and i do my best to try to avoid these sort of site. I think that i will just stick top mylot. Sure we can not become millionaires here but we can make a reasonable amount of money and we also have fun doing it!!!!
• United States
20 Jan 07
That's true !!! It happened to me before. I was so naive to try these stuff before snd I regret it. You have to answer all the questions and it seems questions won't end. There are always catches on these kind of money making. Later on i tried to unsubscribed to all the e-mails it generated, and i've learned my lesson. thanks and good day tlmoore...
@micheller (1365)
• United States
18 Jan 07
No one should never pay a site in order to make money enless you are investing in something and you still have to be careful with them sites. There are many ways to make an income on the internet without having to pay FIRST. There is a site that i can recommend you to that is a blog site and this girl tells you how she makes an income everyday without even having to put out a penny. www.paidopps.blogspot.com
@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
18 Jan 07
I know that for a fact. I joined all these survey sites and boy Im sorry for it. They are the biggest joke. You cant make any money because they ask you to do a survey about once a month. You might get $10 if that.
@mnflower (1299)
• United States
18 Jan 07
omg I went through this same thing a year ago and I have recently found alot of sights that you can just search pages and get paid for it and they don't ask for a credit card...will try to get a list up somewhere for everyone to see...
18 Jan 07
I'm a member of around ten or more reliable survey sites, that do pay and have never requested a fee or credit card details. Anything that requests credit card details or a fee before they 'share their secret', give links, etc is more than likely a scam.
@makroz (27)
• Bolivia
18 Jan 07
Hi everybody. I think earn money online is very hard, because exists many scam sites, of 100 sites i have tried and particpated only 1 is real works and pays.
• Hong Kong
18 Jan 07
Yeah.. i agree that these sites don't pay money, instead they make money form your one time payments.....$$$$$