We have compiled a bunch of frequently asked questions for you. We have tried our best to answer all the questions but if any of your question is not answered here please contact us and we will be more than happy to answer your questions as soon as we can!! |
| General Survey Questions - Section One |
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| Questions about Getting Paid for Surveys - Section 2 |
| General Questions About Survey-Platinum - Section 3 |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 1. Why do I get paid for sharing my opinion and filling out surveys? Companies spend Billions of dollars a year trying to convince consumers that their products are the best and to buy their products and services. They achieve this by getting an understanding how people think and shop. Knowing this, companies are willing to pay people (up to $150 an hour) for their opinions. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 2. I have a busy schedule, will I have enough time to do this? Of course you will because YOU make your hours! That is one of the best parts about surveys and why it's the easiest way for the average person to make some extra cash. You can do it at your own pace. If you have an extra 30 minutes in the morning before you go off to work, you can do a few surveys then. If you are a stay at home mom, you can complete surveys while the kids are at school? Or maybe it is late at night and you can't sleep? These are all perfect times to do surveys and get paid! The great thing about this is that if you get busy with other things and don't have any time to do surveys for awhile, that's okay! You are the boss and don't have to worry about getting fired. You can do surveys when it's convenient for YOU. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 3. Is my personal information secure? The personal information you provide these companies is used to determine your eligibility for evaluations and to group the answers you provide with other evaluators. You, the evaluator, are the lifeline of these market research companies. Therefore your personal information should be kept very secure and confidential. Make sure you review each company’s privacy policy before you sign up. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 4. What are online surveys? These are general forms generated by the Marketing Research Companies, to get information on a particular product or services. They perform detail investigation on the feedback they get from you and pass it on to top companies. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 5. What are focus groups? Focus groups are like little meetings of people like you and me where they pick a particular topic for a product or services and everyone express their opinion on them. They are generally over the phone or chat rooms. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 6. What is mystery shopping? Mystery shopping is when you are sent to a designated retail or commercial area to buy a product or service and look at the way you were treated and how was your buying experience and your overall experience with that establishment. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 7. Why will I get paid for reading emails? Companies and advertisers want you to read emails to learn about their products. They pay you cash for every email you read. If you do this right you could be making anywhere form $1,000 to $1,800 a month, just by reading emails. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 8. How can I get a FREE car? This is a great feature I have added in this site. You can get a free car with advertisements on it! You don't have to pay any insurance nor any monthly payments to get this car - its free for you to drive. They make money off the advertisements they put on the car. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Survey Question:: - Section 1 9. How do I make cash instantly? We have included some 'Paid To Read Email' and 'Paid To Fill Free Offers' companies that will pay up to $100 just to sign-up with them as a sign-up bonus. Companies may have a minimum payout amount. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::Questions about Getting Paid for Surveys:: - Section 2 1. How many surveys can I do in one day? There is no limit to how many you can do. As long as you meet the requirement of the survey, you can make out as many as your time permits. The number of survey invitations you receive depends upon the amount of personal information you provide to the companies you register with. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::Questions about Getting Paid for Surveys:: - Section 2 2. Can I still do this if I don't live in the US? Yes, you can still do these surveys, we have listed many international companies that pay worldwide for your opinion, but they pay with US dollars only. You are just required to be at least 18 years of age to participate. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::Questions about Getting Paid for Surveys:: - Section 2 3. How do I get paid? Every time you participate in any of the paid opportunities listed, the particular company that is sponsoring the opportunity will pay you directly. These are often market research firms hired by the companies to do various types of market research on their behalf. Most of the time, payments to you will be in U.S. funds. If you do not live in the U.S. you will simply deposit these payments with your bank or other financial institution and they will convert the U.S. funds to your currency for you. When and how you're compensated will depend on the specific opportunity in which you are participating in. Some will pay instantly through PayPal, others will send you a check in the mail. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::Questions about Getting Paid for Surveys:: - Section 2 4. The Money I make, is it tax deductible? No, they do not remove any tax from your checks you have to file them on your own. If you're a U.S. citizen, you will be considered an "independent contractor" for income tax purposes, and no income or other taxes are withheld from the payments you receive. If you make over $600 in a calendar year, with any one company, that company is required to send you a Form 1099, and you're supposed to include this as "miscellaneous income" on your tax return. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you will need to ask an accountant or other tax professional for the answer to this question, and how it might apply to you in your location. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::Questions about Getting Paid for Surveys:: - Section 2 5. Do I need to have a PayPal account? No, you don't need a PayPal account to participate. Just be sure that you choose the opportunities that do not use PayPal for pay out. there are plenty of survey opportunities for you to participate in that pay with check or other methods. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 1. Who is Survey-Platinum? We are not a survey or market research company. We simply make it easier for you by providing you with access to our database that lists hundreds of the best paid survey companies and opportunities. We do all the leg work for you. We research all the money making opportunities and compile a database of them all so you only have one place to go to make the most of paid surveys and other at home money making opportunities. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 2. How do I know Survey-Platinum is legitimate? We could list all sorts of reasons, but there would be no easy way for you to verify most of what we said - so we won't even bother mentioning them. Some people even ask to contact our existing customers, but our strict privacy policy prohibits disclosing that type of information. If you're really curious, go to Google and search the web for the term "Survey-Platinum " - you'll find 100s if not 1000s of other websites that highly recommend our site and our service. We are also one of the most highly-rated sites at ClickBank - one of the Internet's largest payment processors. We are consistently ranked as one of the Top 5 websites in the highly-competitive "Money & Employment" category. No "scam" could achieve that! There is one thing that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this isn't a "scam" ... ... The fact that we use ClickBank.com and PayPal.com to process our orders - quite possibly the Internet's largest and most prestigious payment processors. To make a long story short, these huge companies (PayPal.com is owned by eBay!) only process orders for legitimate websites - not fly-by-night companies and rip-off artists. If we didn't provide a valuable service for a fair price, provide great customer service, honor refund requests (very rare!), etc. then the Internet's two largest payment processors would not continue to process our orders. They have very strict rules about that "stuff". Think about it ... It's not like we're asking you to send cash to a P.O. Box or something. Now THAT would be indicative of a "scam", and you should never do that. You want to know the bottom line - something that most merchants won't tell you? If you were not satisfied with Survey-Platinum and we refused to issue a refund, all you would have to do is contact the payment processor directly and they would issue a refund automatically. It really is as simple as that. This is no scam, and you have nothing to lose. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 3. Is Survey-Platinum different than other similar membership sites? There are other sites that appear similar to Survey-Platinum, but most of them don't offer the same level of services that we do. The two main differences between Survey-Platinum and the "other" sites is our extensive database, and our awesome customer support. We pride ourselves on them. We only list the best paying opportunities, and we update our database regularly. You'll be impressed! |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 4. How many survey companies are listed in your database? At the moment, there are over 450 companies in our database. Plenty to keep you busy for as long as you want. Our links go directly to their websites so you can register with the ones you like and get started right away. We are always looking for additional opportunities for our members to get paid for their opinions, so this number will keep growing. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 5. How many pay in cash verses free products, points, or sweepstakes? At this time, 27% of the market research companies in our database pay only in cash. A few of these pay in gift certificates to places like Amazon.com, Target, Walmart, etc. which we consider to be the same as cash since you can buy things there you would buy anyway. Let's face it, a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com is in reality just as good as cash. Another 62% of the market research companies in our database reward survey takers via "Cash & Prizes". What this means is that sometimes they pay in cold hard cash, and other times they reward you with prizes, free products, "points" redeemable for cash or prizes, etc. It's important to understand how market research works ... 9 out of 10 times a market research firm is hired by another company to conduct research and surveys on their behalf. Thus, the reward or incentive for any particular survey usually depends on what the market research companies' client is offering at any given time. So for example, one month a market research company might offer a free product or prize drawing (usually the odds are pretty good!) and the next month they may offer a $50 to $150 survey and/or focus group. It all depends on what their current clients are offering. This is why we strongly suggest that you get yourself registered with as many of the market research companies as you possibly can, because you just never know who will be offering what, and when. Do NOT make the mistake of only registering with those listed as "Cash" only. Finally, the remaining 11% currently pay only in prizes, free products and/or "points". Points redeemable for cash are great, you just have to build it up before getting paid. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 6. How often are databases updated? Database is updated twice a week. If there is an important update, we do it right away. If we have a great deal come our way we generally email our members and let them know about the incredible deal. |
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___________________________________________________________________________ ::General Questions About Survey-Platinum:: - Section 3 7. How soon after I sign-up can I get started? You can get started immedietely, once you sign-up. This is no way to tell if you will be offered surveys or make money within an hour after joining, but there are several things you need to do to prepare for taking surveys and you can do these things immediately upon joining us. Some members start receiving surveys within a few of hours, but on the average the wait is usually at least a few days. It really depends on your profile, and which companies you choose register with. Please keep in mind that some market research companies only send out 1-2 surveys a month. With these it will take at least a few weeks before you are entered into their system and start receiving surveys from them. For example, if you only register with 10 programs and they all happen to only send out 1 survey a month, it will take at least a few weeks before you see any surveys. It is crucial to register with as many as you can as you will NOT make a lot of money from any one company. We introduce you to 100s of companies, and the more you register with the more surveys you can take. It is that simple. Once you get going you can do surveys every day. |
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