I typically would not even think of paying for a work at home for money offer but It really seemed legitimate. First of all, the ad I found for this site was on the Readers Digest web site. It couldn't be a scam if Readers Digest had it on their web site, could it! Second, I remember years past getting paid at least ten dollars to take Harris Polls. I guess those days are over!
The first time consuming aggravation I suffered was the realization that the web site I just paid $34.95 would not actually be sending any of the surveys that will pay me between $5 and $75. I would have to apply to these companies myself. Gee, I could of found this information easily without their help.
After applying to about 15 of the "top rated" sites, getting tons of popups and obsurd offers for free laptops, digital cameras, and sneaky ways to get me to refinance my mortgage and get prescription drugs online, I realized that this may not be all it is cracked up to be.
After taking countless surveys promising to enter me in prize drawings, I wondered when I would actually see the cash. The only ones that promised cash only paid $2 each.in my desparation, I tried these.infortunately, they had either already had enough respondants or I did not qualify.
To make a long story short, I have invested full evenings away from my family, countless lunch breaks, and $34.95 to be entered in silly drawings which I can guarantee I will not win. Oh yeah, I can get the new Sony Vaio laptop after spending a half hour on one of the "reputable" sites listed as tops. Oh, they didn't tell me up front that I have to commit to at least 6 vendor offers for products and services that I don't need and will cost me more of the money that I don't have and can't seem to make more of.
At least one good thing came of this: I'm getting ten times the SPAM and a load of cool popups now! (That's sarcasm if anyone from Paid Surveys Online just happens to be reading.)
What's really sad is not the loss of time and money, but just one more reason not to trust anything solicited on the web and that there really are no valid work at home businesses that actually pay for hard work and valuable time.
Sites like this also give a bad reputation to legitimate survey sites that don't make outrageous claims and really do need our comments and opinions. Well, unfortunately, no matter how legit the survey site, they are not getting a second of my time. I can find much better ways to waste time and money on the Internet.
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