GANGSTER GREED

I believe that the gangster done got a little too greedy at this site!

This is a GPT (get-paid-to) site with a gangster theme. I actually thought that the site had been abandoned because no offers were clearing, there hadn't been a new offer listed in a couple of months, and of the offers that were listed, over half of them were expired.

Then I saw a couple of new posts in the forum. There's actually a huge referral contest going on! First person to get 300 active referrals wins a PS3! And there were a couple of other posts in the forum talking about how great the site was.

I think that the ones talking about how great the site is are ringers. They might even be the owner himself just using different names. The subject that they, or he, dwell on is about how people just aren't doing the offers right, and that's why people are having trouble getting offers to approve. Apparently hardly anyone can get an offer to approve, so they, or he, is blaming the members for not doing them right.

C'mon, now! This isn't rocket science!

From the outside this site looks great. A long, long list of free offers that pay pretty good, instant cash-out with only a $10 minimum, and unlimited referral levels, starting at 25%.

Unfortunately that long list is more than half dead, that $10 is next to impossible to ever make, and no matter how many people you refer you'll never be credited for them.

I'd say this site is as crooked as a hound dog's hind leg!

And I think it's safe to say that that PS3 will remain nothing more than a fabrication.

AMERICAN CONSUMER OPINION PANEL ( SURVEYS ONLY )

This is an absolute top-of-the-line survey company here! I wish I had 100 more just like it! Surveys pay $4 - $25 each, and the check is in the mail after each survey.

There's no selling, no long, repetitive, boring questions like with so many of these other companies, these surveys are actually interesting where you really do get paid for expressing your opinion on a variety of topics. It might be current events, politics, steroid use in sports. You might be sent a new food product that hasn't hit the market yet, and be asked how you like it. I'm sure you're bound to get a survey that's a dud once in a while, but the vast majority are winners.

The only bad thing is that they don't ask you to participate in surveys often enough, once every two weeks is about it. It varies. So, if you can find 99 more survey companies just like this one, you could probably make a decent living taking surveys!
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NIELSEN/NETRATINGS

The Nielsen family has been at the forefront of shaping television programming for over 50 years, and now they're global leaders in gathering data on Internet usage.

If you join their panel, all you really do is download their software and go about your regular routine. You'll get occasional surveys and be rewarded with chances to play their "wave and win" game, where you can win one of 1,500 prizes. There's also quarterly drawings for $10,000.
They promise that the software is perfectly safe, and I imagine that it is. After all, this is the famous Nielsen's!!!

So if you're feeling lucky...
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THIS SITE IS FOR REAL

ThisSiteIsForReal.com will send you surveys and offers, and then you can choose what you want to do. For the most part they're not really surveys, per se, they're more like offers and free, and not so free, trials. But it's not a scam, there's money to be made here. They pay once a month, and cash-out is only ten dollars, so that's easy enough to reach. They also pay six levels deep for referrals, so there's a lot of potential income to be made there.

I prefer the completely free offers, myself, but I sometimes wonder if I'm not missing out on a lot of income opportunity here. Some of these free trials might pay, for instance, $12. But you have to pay S & H up front, which is $5. So, as long as you remember to cancel before the trial period runs out, you come out $7 ahead plus the free use of the product or service. And, of course, there's always the chance that you might actually like whatever the product or service was, and decide that you want to keep it. Which is what the merchandiser/advertiser is gambling on in the first place. Just be sure that you read the Terms and Conditions first.

All in all, though, This Site Is For Real has a good reputation for paying their members on time and in full, so I give them a "thumbs up".

DEAL OF DAY

There's very few great sites, and, just to maintain a semblance of legitimacy, there's very few really blatantly bad ones. But this has got to be the worst site I've ever had the misfortune to visit.

They operate under the guise of offering free and fantastically low-priced deals on products.

As soon as you visit the site you're bombarded with spam. If you're still inclined to register, your mailbox will have 10 pieces of spam within the hour, and no fewer than 50 within 24 hours. If you make a post in the forum, every single keyword that you type will be linked to one of their advertiser's sites. Makes you want to take a long, hot shower just to wash away the filth.

Yeah, I confess. I was one of the one's foolish enough to register at the site. I mean, at least to my reasoning at the time, I can understand how they might need to run some ads to pay for the site. And the forum looked to be right up my alley. So even after my computer froze-up once and shut down twice, I reasoned that something else was causing the problems, so I kept coming back.

Well, to make a long story short, my computer was running so bad that I ran anti-virus and spy ware programs for three hours. I came up with two Trojans and three files containing ad ware. I can't prove for a fact that they came from dealofday.com, but I do know that my system was running fine until I visited this site.

So this site gets my boo, hiss, thumbs down, hope you rot and burn for eternity recommendation!

OPINION SQUARE ( SURVEYS ONLY )

This is a well-established survey company. The only thing that I don't like about them is that they only pay in merchandise and gift cards. I prefer cold, hard cash. They do have drawings that offer a chance to win as much as $10,000 that pay cash, but as far as compensation for taking surveys go, it's strictly merchandise and gift cards. Shipping and handling is free!

They have a "spin the wheel" gimmick that's pretty fun. You're compensated for surveys with points and tokens, then you can use the tokens to spin the wheel, for a chance to win more points. This wheel seems to be on the level, because you really can win on it, and the points build up fast. There's a huge selection of prizes to choose from, so, if you like to win merchandise then this is a great place to do it.

MY SURVEY ( SURVEYS ONLY )

The good thing about My Survey is that most of the surveys are less than ten minutes in length, are very easy to qualify for, and a lot of the time you'll be compensated even when you don't qualify. There's nothing I hate worse than spending an hour taking a survey that was only supposed to last 20 minutes, then being told at the end that I don't qualify to take the survey. There's a few companies that do that on a regular basis, and what they're doing is getting free surveys completed and stealing my time. You don't have to worry about that happening here. The qualifying questions usually only last a few minutes, and a lot of times they'll even raise the amount of your compensation after you've qualified. They also have drawings where you can win as much as $10,000!

The bad thing about My Survey is that the pay per survey is kind of low.
Pitiful, in fact. Pathetic.

However, when you weigh the good versus the bad, consider that the surveys are short, quick and easy, remember that you won't ever waste an hour of your time trying to qualify for a survey that you won't get paid for, I have to say that I think this company is worth working for. Also, like most survey companies, the more often you respond to the invitations, the more invitations they send you. They like having someone that's there when they need them, and will reward them with more and better-paying surveys when they come up, as opposed to someone that only occasionally responds to the invitations.


And then there's the $10,000 drawing! Somebody's got to win it!