Not worth it & Surveys and Secret Shopping Wabler on 12 Jul 2007 08:28 pm
Surveys: Sites that are not worth it
This Page has the FULL most recently updated list of sites that are not worth it. I will post new sites that I find that are not worth it as regular blog posts, and I will update the page linked above with the new information.
This is a list of the sites that are not worth it either because they sent me miles of spam, signed me up for other sites that are also crap, or that want me to fill out “special offers” in order to get paid. Remember, filling out those special offers just gets the survey site paid, it does not even get close to guarunteeing that you will ever see a penny.
Also, I want to make it perfectly clear, I am NOT promoting these sites at all, this is why I am putting these sites in here as “domain-name dot com” so that there is no way that I will help out these people who are filling mailboxes with spam, and probably selling your information all over the place.
Requirements: This is a word that I use to refer to the part of the survey where most online survey companies make you sign up for various things that may or may not cost you money, and that may or may not sign you up for services that will cost you money in the future, and that may or may not help you fill your inbox with spam.
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THESE (in alpha order)
- Alpinisms
- A front for outgoing search, when I found this site all the images were broken and they said, “You have found outgoing search dot com” which makes me not want to sign up
- Same crappy site as outgoing search but worse
- America’s Top Brands
- Apparently I signed up for this site, I dont remember doing so, but they are sending me emails!
- LUFESU is apparently the parent company that is offering me the “surveys”
- Contact them here if you need to get rid of them: (note: I dont know if this is a legit address or if they answer the mail sent there)
- LUFESU Data List
100 E. San Marcos Blvd.
San Marcos, CA 92069
- LUFESU Data List
- Business opportunity match/be the boss network
- They want you to invest your money into them. I am not willing to do this so I don’t know how far they are willing to go, what else they want, and what you can earn here.
- Brand Survey Panel
- These people do nothing but send me spam trying to get me to choose between two products, they “surveys” lead to advertising.
- Run and associated with “service inspect “(see below)
- Consumer Taste Panel
- This is just another place for the sites to get your information and then serve up advertisements as “requirements”
- Home Paid Survey Panel
- Honest enough to tell you that you need an I-9 if you make more than $600
- When you register you have to go through a survey, and then through some advertising options
- All their surveys look like advertisements…and they all require that you purchase something or at least give the company your credit card number
- Its Your Opinion dot com
- This site looked promising at first, then severely disappointed when they redirected me to fill out information at cool savings and THEN eversave, both of which you will find in my “do not use these” section of “coupon sites and free stuff”
- My Insider Deals dot com
- Another one of those sites that is nothing but ads and crap
- My Big Rewards dot com
- I signed up and revisited the site, the problem is that you cant navigate to the member’s only section without signing up again or having the “secret” link.
- Also, the only thing they have are “free” stuff and “surveys” that lead to advertising
- National Survey Panel dot com
- These people have done nothing but spam the hell out of me with crap that promises gift cards and other junk, but just leads to advertisements and “requirements” for getting paid
- Outgoing Search
- Thanks you is the message you get when you sign up and are directed to a page that says “process email: youraddress@yourdomain.com”
- Paid Marketing Panel dot com
- These people offer nothing but advertisement based surveys with “requirements”
- Panda Research dot com
- This company sends me multiple emails per day that promise free vacations, gift cards, and money. If I fill out their surveys and then complete some requirements for them
- Also, all of their “surveys” are just ways to show you affiliate advertisements or to push you off to their affiliate’s site so they can get paid.
- Product Test Panel
- This is similar in almost every way to Brand Survey Panel
- Quality Health dot com
- This site may be a good resource for health information, I dont know. I filled out like 8 surveys and never saw anything from it. I would say this is not worth it if you are looking for money or prizes
- Rewards Today
- You sign up for this site just to see their advertisements
- Survey Avalanche
- Signed up and filled out demographic profile
- This site is a list of survey sites, that’s it. They are making money by getting you to sign up and then use them as a referrer to sign up for other sites.
- There is NO money to be made here
- Survey Club dot com
- Every time I log in, they try to get me to click an affiliate link to sign up for blockbuster.com’s online dvd rental service.
- Once I get logged in, I am shown links to their special research of survey companies online.
- There is no way to track the money that I earned so far, and there are no surveys for me to take. The only thing that I can do is send a referral to a friend, so they can sign up and get nothing out of the site too!
- They offer a list of other survey sites (of which they are getting paid to send me to), you will find these sites either later in this post, or in my “Surveys: sites that are worth it” post.
- Survey Team
- This is a site based on nothing but advertisements and referrals
Crap Sites Associated with these bad survey sites, donteven bother with emails coming from these people:
- groovy games place
- To quote them: “This is a delivery domain used to send promotional emails from a wide variety of customer interest areas including retail, financial, and media.”
- hurry aid world
- The same as groovy games place, same template even
- platinum surprise
- This site is static, and it is who supposedly sent me information about freebiepal (see “Coupons and Free Stuff” post)
- progressingaspconfirm4 dot com
- affiliated with top consumer gifts
- affiliated with consumer taste panel
- affiliated with brand taste panel
- rock you tones
- get a free ring tone, and get affiliated with alpinism(see above)
- service inspect dot com
- Affiliated with Brand Survey Panel (see above)
- web extended dot com
- This is usually a mail sending site, and the links are always redirects


















































on 22 Sep 2007 at 9:49 pm 1.Hrithik said …
This site has a very legitimate list of good survey sites:
http://www.paid-surveyinfo.com
on 22 Apr 2008 at 11:28 am 2.Cassie said …
Hello,
When you signed up for Brand Survey Panel, did you actually receive the gifts it promises you in the mail?
on 22 Apr 2008 at 11:30 am 3.Cassie said …
Please e-mail me at asthenia774@aim.com and let me know. :]
Thank you
on 22 Apr 2008 at 12:53 pm 4.Wabler said …
I don’t believe that Brand Panel ever sent me anything but spam.