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Old 09-29-2006, 11:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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survey sites are semi scams

yep, that's right survey sites are a tipe of scam;
I know because I've tried a many of them and I haven't made mouch.
Survey sites work the same way AdSense works, you click on a offer, you enter your personal information(to complete strangers) and they get the money while you get nothing or in rare cases you get 0.50 or 1 dollar.
And wait a minute it dosen't stop there because the site you entered your personal information to will send it to many other sites so that it can make it's profits and so on until you get hundreds of spam emailes(I get about 400 a week so that you can get the idea).

I've found only one site that paid and I could only make 3.75$ in two weeks (practically nothing) and I had to use false united states information to achieve this "performance".
If you want to see for yourself try these:http://www.treasuretrooper.com/171880 and www.fusioncash.com(I don't recommend registering for this one).
If you do decide to use the first one tough, use false information(for safety and so you will see that I was right)

Anyway, if you really want to make money on the internet, become a designer,writer,editor,programmer,3d modeler or(in the worst case) you can use AdSense or something similar.

If you want there is another fun way of making money, with this: http://www.exodus3000.com/?r=Kesarion
It's a nice game that requires a bit of strategy and a lot of inteligence, if you register check out the rules first, there is a lot of information there that you will need.After that you can play the game.Make all the 250 moves in one day even if you think it isn't such a fun game(I tought the same at first but it's actually great!).
If you know what the code in the link is please don't delete it, it's a win win situation if you want to know(unlike others).
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Old 09-29-2006, 12:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I agree. Although I've never bothered with survey sites, it does seem like the people running them are making the money, while the "cheap labor" filling them out is making next to nothing. Its similar to http://www.mturk.com, which used to be very profitable for the people doing them until it was exploited. Now, you do their tasks for a few cents while amazon is probably charging double for running the operation.
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Old 09-29-2006, 01:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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corect,
but there is still something that bugs me, I know what those "make 3000$ - 15000$ a month" sites are about(advertising, AdSense,AdWords,search engines...the works) - I actually thought of making one myself a while ago(but it seemed better to stick to AdSense and programming), anyway, what are those data entry things about? I found some bits of information but most were inconclusive(even the people that got scamed didn't know how to explain it clearly). Can any you tell me what these things are about?(in detail)
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Old 09-29-2006, 02:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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what about the "get free psp" sites that's complete scam, you gotta sign up for some bs pay for that and supposedly u get psp or whatever they offer, never worked out for people i know
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well, naturally anything that wants you to pay for something that is free is a scam...
http://www.exodus3000.com/?r=Kesarion -=waste some time with exodus=-
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Originally Posted by Kesarion
yep, that's right survey sites are a tipe of scam;
I know because I've tried a many of them and I haven't made mouch.
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I've found only one site that paid and I could only make 3.75$ in two weeks (practically nothing) and I had to use false united states information to achieve this "performance".
You have a lot of nerve calling survey sites fraud when you are the one going around frauding every one of them...you my friend, are a dumbass.
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strong words there mr. veteran, but it's a dog eat dog world out there, they try to fraud me, I fraud them...
but then again I suppose that you already knew that and you only wrote this because you didn't have anything better to do...

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No I wrote it because I get paid hundreds of dollars from reputable survey sites all the time and there shouldn't be any reason for you to bad mouth them here.

There also shouldn't be any reason for you to be quadruple posting annoying affiliate links and promoting fraud here on YE. We are trying to improve the reputation here, not diminish it.

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