See, they take your personal information, and your time in the form of the surveys you take. The problem with the surveys is they take about 30 minutes to complete, and that is if you are even "qualified," to take them. The site that I ended up being suckered into using is "Mysurvey.com," a site which for every 1,000 points you earn can be converted into a $10 gift certificate, that takes six weeks to be mailed to you, or 10 days if sent via e-mail. How long did it take me to reach my first 1,000 points on the site? Close to four months. In that time I took several surveys, and most of them I was not "qualified," for, so I got fed up with their bull shit criteria and just started clicking randomly until one of the surveys actually allowed me to finish it and receive points for completing it.
In order to get ahead on the site you have to lie. Which really means your opinion is not valued, and your time is meaningless to them as well, because there have been many surveys where half way in the middle of them they will just stop, after you spending say 10 minutes taking them, and instead of it rewarding you with points it instead gives you a "sweep stakes," raffle ticket. They hand those out like candy, and they do not actually give you any benefit since the chances of you winning their lottery are astronomical, and that everyone else on the site has at least 100 of them just sitting around doing nothing.
How else is taking a survey for "money," a losing proposition? Well, even if you do manage to make it through a 30 to 45 minute survey, the site will only give you at a maximum 150 points for completing it, and if you convert that into their point system of 1,000 points = $10, then you are being paid $1.50 for 30 minutes of your time to answer questions about shitty products that you will not ever buy.
So in the end is it worth it to be "paid to take surveys?" I would have to go with a resounding "no." Your personal information and time are more valuable than what these assholes are willing to give you for it, and while they do "pay out," it's no where near how much they should be and they do their best to hold on to your "money," for as long as possible. Bottom line: It's bull shit, and do not bother with it.
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