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Hey guys just wanted to show you this website I've been using -

I've made over $500 in the past month using it and just wanted to pass it on. It's pretty legit and works immediately.

http://www.prizerebel.com/index.php?r=3079910

Thanks!

You have 41 posts so I want to trust you, but just so you know, this seems like spam.

That was kind of my feelings, too. I don't personally mess with these kinds of sites myself anyway. Whether they are going to add your name to mailing lists once you order a prize, add you to spam lists, or do something more nefarious, there is no such thing as a free lunch. No company on Earth simply sets up business to give money away without making a lot more money than they give out. And if you can't see how the company is making that money, it is best to stay far, far away.

Meh. I'm sorry about the spam, as it kinda is.

It's not exactly, "free lunch", you complete offers on different site's, including surveys and signing up for mail lists. The sites pay PrizeRebel to have people check out there surveys and PrizeRebel pays you a portion of what the site's give you.

It's mostly just a thing to do when your bored, you can go do a few offers in an hour and get closer to your goal. They don't give out money or prepaid credit cards, just Video Games, cards, and phones.

Just wanted to clear up how they got their money.

Sorry about the slight spam there, but I do recommend doing it in your spare time!

Thanks!

Oh dear...is it like the "surveys" that people do for Farmville? Because that was just a thin front for a lead-generation and mobile plan scamming business. For example, they would have a survey having to do with healthcare, and all the questions would be heart-related. No one actually wants your answers unless you fit the profile of a potential customer for a new kind of medicine or something similar. Then they sell your info to the company who had them doing the survey. Those companies don't actually want your answers to surveys, since people will do surveys for free and answers are not worth money. They just want your business. The worst ones just give you some fluff, meaningless survey and then put you into a loop saying you must give them your mobile phone number to be texted the results in order to get credit for it. In the fine print it says you are signing-up for a $10 - $50 a month mobile phone plan that they will bill directly to your cell phone company. There is obviously some trickery going on there since they only pay maybe $2 for you to sign up for something that will cost you over $10 and does not even provide any tangible service (they maybe just send you a joke every day or something else ludicrous).

The whole Farmville survey system has come under a lot of fire in the last couple of years for this kind of practice (making lead-generation/mobile plan scams look like paying surveys). There are literally hundreds of those same types of businesses out there online, all competing for that business. I just hope that site is not one of those, but it certainly sounds like one. Bigspot.com is a pretty famous one right now that actually even advertises on TV.

i was in a survey system thingy. Actually earned 3 $50 gift cards from game stop

I know what you are talking about since I remember our conversation back then, but that was Lockerz. Lockerz was different. They were not a lead-gen/mobile scam site. Instead, they just got a wad of investor money and set up their site for 6 months of basically giving away prizes. Their "surveys" weren't surveys at all, since answers to them were valueless ("Would you turn a friend in for cheating on a test?" was one question lol) considering they had nothing to do with any product, service or study. All they were doing was amassing a huge following of people who all competed for the big prizes, such as iPods, game consoles, laptops, etc. (of course they were instantly "sold out" of those prizes as soon as new prizes were entered, leading to charges of social engineering lol). A few months ago, Lockerz increased the "pointz" cost on all their prizes by about 10 fold and opened up a retail shop. Now the only real way to get enough pointz for a prize is to shop on their site and get an amount of pointz equal to your purchase. Of course, the big-ticket prizes still sell out instantly.

So they were not a real survey site. Lockerz was more like going to opening night of a movie theater and being given a nice dinner for free. It was really a one-time deal to try to get you to stick around and become a long-term customer.

To clear things up:

Most 'survey' sites are scams. As Jack has elaborated, most of these scams earn their money through phone / credit card subscriptions. There are also some which have you pay a sign-up fee before doing any of the surveys (this is also scammy - why would they do that if they wanted you to complete the surveys).

However, there are some which are real and you will get money. More recently though, commercial enterprises will select people at random via their points cards at the stores. They then send them something in the mail via the address given when the card was issued and ask if you want to be a part of their survey/feedback/discount program. In exchange for providing feedback, you get discounts, occasionally get to test new products etc. These processes are not entirely online and are inherently tired to the real world.

Most online surveys which will reward you will not give you cash. They will give you discounts for online downloadable products (software, etc.) or another product which is supplied the company requesting the surveys (or another company participating in the survey-system).

There is another type of site which might be confused with a survey site. These sites typically want to generate repeat visits and loyalty, and they do this by encouraging interaction. Interaction can be filling forms, or just general participation in the site's purpose. In the beginning, they might give you a cash/prize incentive to kick start/boost traffic to their site.

Also, research has shown that monetary rewards given after a survey like the ones online do not generate a substantial increase in the amount of people who complete the survey. So why should they pay you? Of course this information has not reached the ears of everyone, so still expect some valid surveys.

Like everything, think about their motives before entering your details and you should be fine.

pax.

I've done surveys on a certain site for money. I wouldn't have done those surveys for free.

I don't remember the exact publication date of the study or the journal it was published in, but the conclusion of the study was that when monetary rewards are promised but only redeemed when the survey was returned that the percentage of participation did not vary from when no reward was given.

When money was promised but not sent, the recipient had to trust the company to give them the money after completing the survey. When money was promised and sent with the survey, the recipient had an innate desire to reciprocate the trust given to them by the completion of the survey.

The differences between the research conducted and online surveys, are that these were paper surveys in the mail, and that when you are online trying to find paid surveys, you are actively seeking to compete the survey and not the passive recipient of a paid survey. No doubt the response to active and passive participation in paid surveys will vary quite considerably.

pax.