These are a way of earning a little extra without leaving home. The downside is that the screen-out rate is very high and the pay rate is very low! Over the years I’ve completed surveys for a huge variety of
sites but I’ve now settled for a very small group.
My favourite is Prolific Academic. “Prolific” send surveys from academic
institutions all over the world who want a quick survey. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a
terrifically brainy type – yesterday I had to watch a video of chocolate chunks
being dropped into hot chocolate then answer questions about how much I fancied
the product. I think most people can
answer questions like that. Other
surveys from Prolific have been about looking at weird pictures, answering
questions about ethics or giving opinions about political viewpoints. I check into Prolific several times a day to
see if there are any surveys. You don’t
get screened out although I have returned the odd survey where I have felt
uncomfortable answering and they do have a lot of attention check
questions. It’s very important that you
keep the “about you” section up to date as if you don’t you get less potential
surveys. The
minimum payout is £5 and they pay me via Paypal. It’s been around £150 in total this year.
Another favourite site for me is .lifepointspanel. I complete surveys for them most days. They have a fairly good pre-screening method
so I get screened out on about 25% of the surveys I start. However, if you are screened out they normally
credit a couple of points anyway: it’s not much but I feel that they have an
incentive to make sure I am invited only to appropriate surveys! Occasionally I get some longer surveys from
them – Recently I did the National Buying Survey which was long and rather
tedious but paid 1500 points. (550
points pays £5 in Amazon vouchers, rather less via Paypal.)
There is no way that I could make a living answering surveys but they d make for a small (but very welcome) addition to my pension.
