I belong to almost all of the sites you listed and out of all the surveys I take I don’t qualify for 95% of them. I will spend 15 minutes with generic questions with them collecting information about me then when done they say I’m not eligible for the survey or they have reached the required amount of people for that research. I can understand the reaching the required amount of people but I would think I would qualify for at least 1 or 2. It’s really discouraging when you take all that time to do the survey and not even get any points for doing so!

It’s easy! You answer online surveys and short polls right from your computer or smartphone. InboxDollars then rewards you with your choice of free cash or gift cards for popular brands. It’s easy to get paid for sharing your opinions, and we’re one of the best survey sites out there. Our members earn cash, not points for surveys. Since 2000, we’ve paid over $56 Million in cash rewards to our members.


Rip off. I referred a couple people to Inbox Dollars that lived close to me and they closed out all of our accounts saying we were all in the same location and the same person. We provided IP addresses and even went to as far as asking if we could provide identification to show proof and of course it was negative. Lost a total of about $31. As for my neighbors probably the same or close to the same..
How it works: There are two ways to earn cash with Survey Savvy. The first is, as the name suggests, by completing surveys (which typically pay between $1 and $3 each). However, you can also make passive income with Savvy Connect, which is a lightweight and unobtrusive mobile app that runs in the background on your computer and/or mobile devices, collecting anonymous data to send back to the company. Savvy Connect users can earn $5 per month per device, just for keeping the app installed.
I have been using Inbox Dollars for months now. I am at $32.60 as of right now. My amount has been the same for weeks. I click on the paid emails, and I am not being credited. I wrote to them and all I got back was that I did not have enough funds to cash out. I very clearly told them that my amount is frozen and that I am not being credited for the paid emails I click on. So I try to contact them once more to explain my problem again, I got no response. So I wasted months of my time for absolutely nothing. This site stinks! It is very time consuming. Alot of the surveys you do not qualify for. You sometimes are filling out surveys for several minutes until they decide to tell you that you do not qualify for the survey. I am upset that I wasted so much time for absolutely nothing in return. This site is a complete waste!
InboxDollars is a trademark of CotterWeb Enterprises, along with InboxPounds.co.uk (UK) SendEarnings.com, DailyRewards.com (Canada) and PaidEmail. The 6-time Inc. 5000 honoree is a Better Business Bureau (BBB) accredited business with an A+ rating as of this review. The corporation is headquartered in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Daren Cotter, founder and CEO is a well-respected investor, adviser and mentor and was recently honored as Technology CEO at the 2017 Titans of Technology awards.

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It’s a scam.I’ve been making surveys and other stuf for 2-3 months and i was close to my first payment and they decided to ban me for botlike activity.I’ve emailed them to see what’s the deal cause I wasted so much time in it and at the end I was left with nothign and they got all my money I don’t reccomend these thieves to anyone they will waste your time and nerves jsut for their good and will take your money just before you get to 30 dollars (which is the needed amount to cash out).I hope there are not many people screwed as me.Btw they anwsered me email with other stuf telling me that I’m not from U.S. and that’s why they won’t pay me or unban me……..
InboxDollars is a trademark of CotterWeb Enterprises, along with InboxPounds.co.uk (UK) SendEarnings.com, DailyRewards.com (Canada) and PaidEmail. The 6-time Inc. 5000 honoree is a Better Business Bureau (BBB) accredited business with an A+ rating as of this review. The corporation is headquartered in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Daren Cotter, founder and CEO is a well-respected investor, adviser and mentor and was recently honored as Technology CEO at the 2017 Titans of Technology awards.
To start taking surveys, you need to go to the ” Surveys” tab where you will find your notification dashboard with all the online surveys you qualify for, depending on the answers given when you signed up. Each of these surveys provides you beforehand with specific details such as completion time, topic and the amount of cash you can earn. The latter varies, depending on the survey you choose to complete, but generally you can earn anywhere from $0.25 for a 9-minute survey to $4.50 for more extensive surveys.
I signed up for InBox Dollars, which led to a rabbit hole of sweepstakes and surveys, all of which, had the same 30 questions repeated 2-3 times in a single survey, punctuated by attempts at selling magazine subscriptions. One survey had a couple of telling questions. “Do you believe Trump is the best President America has ever had?” “Do you believe Hillary Clinton should be convicted of a crime?” and “Is Fox your main source of news?” I started getting an ungodly amount of spam emails and I can’t even count the number of spam calls, that are now growing at a rate of about 18 per day. I can’t block them fast enough, though one number has called 21 times in the past 3 days. 11 of those tries were yesterday. Today they only called 5 times… I just started mass spam dumping from my inbox. I don’t even care what’s in the message. If it’s not something I know. DELETE DELETE DELETE! I received a Netspend card in the mail today. Wasn’t able to activate it though.
How it works: Pinecone Research is owned and operated by Nielsen, the billion-dollar data and measurement company responsible for TV Nielsen Ratings. With Pinecone Research, you earn $3 per survey, which typically take 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The downside to Pinecone is that they often have strict demographic requirements, which means that you may not qualify depending on your age, education, race or other profile factors.
The minimum amount that you can cash out is $25.00. However, Fusion Cash ensures that you are active in the site, so that you cannot use the platform to earn only passive income. That is, you cannot simply sit and do nothing, accumulate referral earnings up to the payment threshold and cash that out. They ensure this by requiring that at least $15 of the $25 payment threshold must be personal earnings.

There are also some minor surveys called “Trait surveys” which you can take from time to time to boost your trait score. In these surveys, you’ll simply be providing more personal information about yourself, relating to ethnicity, health and medical condition, religious beliefs and viewpoints, political view points, purchase preferences etc. The good news is that, you not only boost your trait score by answering these trait surveys, but they also pay you. You’ll earn anything between $0.03 – $0.10 for each trait survey.

Fusion Cash also has a lot of paid offers, that allow you earn by completing simple tasks, which includes visiting websites and signing up, and more. Some of the offers will require you to submit your credit card information; but if that’s a concern, you’ll also find offers that do not require CC details. Any offer you complete will arm you between $0.25 to $30.  You can also earn by using the Fusion Cash search engine to do your web searches; or by watching certain videos; or by listening to the radio.


For every survey invitation, you’ll be told how long it’ll take, as well as how much you’ll earn. Apart from taking surveys, you can also earn via product testing. Once in a while View Banks send out product that you’ll use and give your opinion about. You earn cash for the test, and you also get to keep the product. You can also earn from their “mystery shopping” assignment where you can be tasked with shopping around for insurance quotes or calling your bank. These are high paying tasks, which can net you as much as £130.

IOCS is a not-for-profit research organization that conducts studies and experiments on shopping-related behavior – things like how we, as consumers, evaluate products, how we make the buying decisions, etc. Although the focus is mostly on shopping related behavior, some of their experiments and studies include broader areas of marketing, psychology, and economics.

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You build your trait score simply by being active on the site and completing surveys. The surveys from Paid Viewpoints are some of the shortest surveys you’ll find. They even advertise that a survey will take only 2 – 3 minutes. In whatever case, even if a survey takes more than twice the advertised time, it will still be the shortest out there. On the average, they ask about 10 questions. To make things easy for you, they set a character limit for each survey answer (between 90 – 120).

Yes, InboxDollars is legit. They’ve worked with Netflix, Target, Walmart, and other Fortune 500 brands, and have been accredited for 13 years by the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating. They’ve been around since 2000, which makes them a rare bird in the internet space, with millions of users around the world. Plus, they have over 6,000 positive reviews on Trustpilot. So, is InboxDollars legit? Yes, without question. Don’t believe the “InboxDollars scam” rumors. It’s not a sweepstakes, and they never ask for your credit card. Any so-called “earning opportunities” that do are a scam.

Like many other reviews, I used the site properly but as I reached the minimum $30 payout threshold, they terminated my account with generic multiple choice possible reasons of using VPN / acting like a automated BOT / having multiple accounts - none of which was true, perhaps I accessed the account once or twice with VPN still enabled, but that didn't prevent them from earning their partner referral fees they partially share with me while I wasn't using VPN. They can block access to site while using VPN so they ensure proper tracking as you complete each offer. I earned offers while not on VPN, so accidental VPN access that doesn't impact any specific offer they earned through me becomes their dishonest way of stealing the bonus money from you. Support says they escalated to 2nd level support that will respond with an email in a few days, of course they don't.

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First, thank you for providing this extensive list. I wanted to offer a quick follow up. After reading your post I decided to give Survey Junkie a try and I’ve already closed the account. Yes, I can tell it’s well organized and it is definitely a user-friendly platform. The problems I experienced were first that not one of the surveys they emailed me about were available. I did, however, complete several surveys from the site itself and I found them to be lengthy – in itself, not a problem, but 3 out of 5 told me I didn’t qualify after I’d already invested 10 – 12 minutes filling out the forms. They got more than enough information from me to be useful which is an old and highly unethical trick in market research – which happens to be my background. All in all, it was a LOT of wasted time. 

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How it works: LifePoints is the survey platform of a company called Lightspeed, which is owned by Kantar (one of the world’s largest market research and consumer data analytics firms). The platform was formed as a merger of two of the company’s other products, MySurvey and Global Test Market, and gives users a variety of ways to earn points that can be redeemed for cash:
I have to respectfully disagree. InboxDollars won’t make you rich, but there are a handful of great cash offer sign-ups on the site. I made $40 over the course of an hour right after I signed up. I will say that I’m now to the point where my options are mostly to make pennies, but hey that $40 covered my internet bill for the month. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading your review and I definitely do agree that there are better ways to make money online. Thanks for the post!
How it works: Pinecone Research is owned and operated by Nielsen, the billion-dollar data and measurement company responsible for TV Nielsen Ratings. With Pinecone Research, you earn $3 per survey, which typically take 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The downside to Pinecone is that they often have strict demographic requirements, which means that you may not qualify depending on your age, education, race or other profile factors.
I don’t see PaidViewpoint on your list. I like using that site. I signed up for it on June 28, 2016, but I guess I forgot about the site and stopped using it on July 24, 2016 but had a total of $1.91. I started using it again on May 5, 2018, and I’m now up to $27.05 and have a trait score of 10, which is the highest. The surveys are easy and you don’t get disqualified. I mostly earn 10 cents, but once in awhile I earn some good money like 62 cents. It does take awhile to add up, but it’s free money.
Once you have accumulated up to 4,000 points you can request a rewards. In Hiving, 1,000 points is the equivalent of $1.00, which means that the minimum cash out is $4.00. Also, points redemption is only available in stages of 4,000. Thus you can withdraw only multiples of $4.00 (that is, $8, $12 etc). You can request your payout via PayPal payment.
Updating review. I have been with I.D. for a little over a month & have made $17. Because I qualify for more surveys here, I make more money than I do with other survey sites. I am sure I would have made more if I didn't have 5 other survey sites I have to try to visit while I am online. I don't get online everyday. There are a few pros and lots of cons to this site. We all know that taking surveys can be tedious, and this site has options to play some of their cheesy games for a few cents here and there. The games give me a break from the tedious surveys and I enjoy them. They also give money for using coupons through them. It is not a lot by any means, but what other survey site does that? Cents add up; don't you ever pick up pennies off of the ground? The cons on this site are signing up for supposedly free offers, it can lead to spam junk mail if you don't read the terms. I do not like spam junk mail. Nothing is actually "free" from any of the offers, minus some other survey sites. I cannot complete the bonus because I don't have FB. One big thing that concerns me is when I leave the tab for I.D. idling it creates a virus pop up window and that I do not like. I searched online to see if anyone else is experiencing that, but could not find anything. So if the virus thing happens again, I will block and unsubscribe from them.

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I think the people that are saying good things about it are being PAID to say good things about it. INBOX DOLLARS is a SCAM. EVERYONE needs to REPORT them to the Better Business Bureau and Sue their ASSES. I bet if ENOUGH people got together and did that they'd get PAID and INBOX DOLLARS would get SHUT DOWN like they need to be so they can't SCAM people anymore.


I agree with this. Inbox dollars is not a source to make a living income, it’s to provide EXTRA income. It’s possible to make the $30.00 in a month, or close to it, if you dedicate time to it, but it’s NOT easy(and not worth it if you have more going on in your life). I’ve been using them for years and have yet to encounter a problem with them. In fact, it’s better now than it was when I first started several years ago.
Fusion Cash also has a lot of paid offers, that allow you earn by completing simple tasks, which includes visiting websites and signing up, and more. Some of the offers will require you to submit your credit card information; but if that’s a concern, you’ll also find offers that do not require CC details. Any offer you complete will arm you between $0.25 to $30.  You can also earn by using the Fusion Cash search engine to do your web searches; or by watching certain videos; or by listening to the radio.
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