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.

Paid Surveys

Pinecone Research
A few years back I responded to an ad asking for women 18-35 for online surveys. It turned out to be with PineCone Research in the UK. They sent me a survey every month or thereabouts, I filled it in for 20 minutes and I got a whole lot of vouchers for free lunches.

It was a fine scheme, and I've been looking for something similar ever since.

**Pinecone Research don't take sign-ups from their web page.

What Do You Think?
I signed up to www.whatdoyouthink.com.au about a year ago, thinking they would send me enough surveys to get a voucher or two. My PC broke down a few weeks later and I missed the only survey invitation they ever sent me. A year later I am still reading all their email ads, but still haven't built up enough points to get any reward.

Surfing around for other surveys, I found www.valuedopinions.com.au a few weeks ago. So far I've had one survey request, but didn't qualify for the full survey and don't qualify for any reward.

Today I found and joined EmailCash. It's a survey site too, but with 400,000 members, I'm not sure I'm going to get any surveys. Still, they do have some good discounts for online shopping sites.

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

Paid Surveys for US Residents

NeilsenNetPanel.com
Entries in a quarterly sweepstake. 50 winners each quarter. No payment per survey.

SurveyNetworks.com
Sweepstakes entries.

Ecnresearch.com
Open to US and Canadian residents. Sweepstakes, coupons, offers and discounts. Signup to other survey companies. Website has a strange layout with multiple front pages. I would be interested to hear whether this site is really offering paid surveys.

Greenfieldonline.com
Non-US residents are sent elsewhere when trying to register.
Paid surveys waiting to be completed in the members area at Greenfield.

Your2cents
Accepts US and Canadian residents over the age of 18.
Payment of between $1 and $5 per survey.

American consumer opinion
All registered members participate in a monthly drawing to win $250 in cash awards, just for being a member. If you participate in a survey (a longer questionnaire), you will always receive some type of incentive (a free product to test, cash, a check, or a gift). Incentives typically range in value from $4 to $50, per survey or focus group, depending upon the length of the questionnaire and the time it takes to complete it. Simply fill out surveys for money. Participants in online focus groups generally receive more than $25.

Discount Coupons:
www.microsite.coupons.com
Offers discount coupons for grocery items to members.
Current sweepstake for free groceries for a year.
An affiliate program for referals from high traffice websites.