A Voucher from Valued Opinions

Wow! I finally got a voucher from Valued Opinions! A real $20 voucher for Dymocks.

A response from Valued Opinions

I sent the following email to Valued Opinions on the 17th of March:

My vouchers, ordered in December have still not arrived. Because of the long delay and lack of response from Valued Opinions, I have publicized the issue on my blog http://notearningmoneyonline.blogspot.com . When I receive vouchers to the value of $20 (any valid vouchers) I will change my Blog entry to reflect the fact. Howver, if I am not paid, the entry will continue on my Blog un- edited and will tell not only your members but also your customers about the fact that you are not paying as promised.

Today (20th March) I received the following reply:

Hi

Thanks for your email. I have arranged a replacement voucher for you.

Kind Regards

Panel Support

Has anyone actually received vouchers from Valued Opinions?

Valued Opinions is an online survey company which offers $10 and $20 vouchers for doing market research surveys online, in your own time. I joined it last year, because I thought paid surveys would be a good way of making a little extra cash.

Back in November, I was looking forward to vouchers from Valued Opinions for my Christmas shopping. By December my balance was over $20 and I requested payment. When I hadn't received the vouchers by late January, I contacted Valued Opinions, who responded that they had a delay with my vouchers but they were now in the post. A couple of weeks ago I still hadn't received the vouchers and complained again. No response.

Do Valued Opinions actually put any value on our time or opinions?

Do all their vouchers get lost in the mail?

Where to from here?

I've been trying to make money online since April, with not much success at all.

The best survey site I've been using is Valued Opinions...with an $18 credit and $10.50 pending credit, I'll be able to walk away with $A30 in vouchers for my Christmas shopping.

Adsense has ended up best for advertising revenue on my blogs. Mainly because you can put it anywhere, and steadily reap the benefits. My current balance is $US18.21, pretty useless, considering I can't get the money until my balance reaches $US100. Its taken me six months to get this far, at this rate it will be another 2 years before I get paid!

So where to now? I've long since given up on getting traffic to my blogs from online communities like myspace and orkut. It was too time consuming, I got plenty of traffic, but no money. The next thing I tried was my own community search engines, Swickis like the one on this page. I've been getting a steady stream of traffic through them, but the income generated is still very low. I worked out I'd have to create 50 or more Swickis to get an Adsense cheque by next Christmas.

I'm heading for the job search sites. By my calculations they're a much better place to make some spare cash.

International Bloggers Day

Wednesday was International Bloggers Day.

To celebrate, I've decided to compile a list of my earnings to date.

1. Adsense. Current Balance $US2.65 . Google will pay only when the balance reaches $US100. Maybe I'll get a cheque in a few years.

2.
Clixgalore Affiliate Marketing. 40 Australian cents and 150 Indian Rupees.

3. Valued Opinions $AUS12.50 from three surveys. I can actually claim a $10 voucher!

4. Ciao surveys 1 survey @ about $4. Can't be claimed yet.

5. EmailCash 500 points, equivalent to about $AUS5. I need $31 to claim a reward. At this rate that would take a year. To be honest, EmailCash isn't really a survey site. Its a loyalty program. The best way of earning points from EmailCash is to buy things from their partner sites.

6. WhatDoYouThink 723 points, which can get me a $20 BBs coffee voucher. Otherwise I have to wait another year until I get above 1000 points for any other rewards. Anyone ever heard of BBs coffee?


And the winner so far is... Valued Opinions. What a pity they don't have an Affiliate program, so I can increase my revenue. Maybe its because they don't need one.

Paid survey sites for Australian residents

Ciao surveys. For non-Australian residents, go to their international site.

EmailCash
It's a survey site with 400,000 members, but it does send real paying surveys.

www.whatdoyouthink.com.au
I must be in the wrong demographic for this site & never get any surveys.

www.valuedopinions.com.au