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Does anyone else do paid surveys?

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Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 10:12

Things have started to suddenly feel very tight, and I’m literally desperate. I’ve been doing those paid market research surveys and making about £15 a day but everyone around me is horrified that I’m basically selling all of my data.

im not particularly arsed, but has anyone else done these and felt that they actually help out?

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Thingsaretight · 22/11/2025 20:04

TimeAndTidalwave · 22/11/2025 19:56

Well you must be working through the night or have a Time Machine or something. I just tried again and in 45 mins I have got half a survey completed (the rest of the fuckers threw me out). So how the hell can you be completing 15 of them every night?

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I’m just getting accepted to them across multiple apps

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Iloveeverycat · 22/11/2025 20:04

Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 10:12

Things have started to suddenly feel very tight, and I’m literally desperate. I’ve been doing those paid market research surveys and making about £15 a day but everyone around me is horrified that I’m basically selling all of my data.

im not particularly arsed, but has anyone else done these and felt that they actually help out?

You could try and register with shop and scan I did it for a few years. You just scan everything you buy. It's really easy but can't really remember how much I made. I used to have a choice of vouchers.

Clockworkbananas · 22/11/2025 19:57

I have made £10k in the last year from Prolific doing AI training.

TimeAndTidalwave · 22/11/2025 19:56

Thingsaretight · 22/11/2025 19:07

I’m on track to hit day 3 of near enough £15 a day so

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Well you must be working through the night or have a Time Machine or something. I just tried again and in 45 mins I have got half a survey completed (the rest of the fuckers threw me out). So how the hell can you be completing 15 of them every night?

nomas · 22/11/2025 19:11

Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 10:33

I’m literally doing them all morning before work and all evening after. I’m using about 5 apps and just trying as many as I can. Even 10p is 10p more than I’d have before!

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Surely there must be a better to way to extra money?

Cleikumstovies · 22/11/2025 19:09

You don't need to tell the truth. If you answer as a specific demographic, not the real you, then you don't reveal your secrets. Of course, this is Mumsnet so every time you lie, a fairy loses her wings.

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Thingsaretight · 22/11/2025 19:07

TimeAndTidalwave · 22/11/2025 19:03

Ok I’m back to moan about the five surveys site again. Why does it say 7 mins but then you click on it it will say ‘this survey will take around 20 mins’. What a crock of 💩

I cannot believe anyone would make £450 a month doing them. Absolute rubbish.

I’m on track to hit day 3 of near enough £15 a day so

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TimeAndTidalwave · 22/11/2025 19:03

Ok I’m back to moan about the five surveys site again. Why does it say 7 mins but then you click on it it will say ‘this survey will take around 20 mins’. What a crock of 💩

I cannot believe anyone would make £450 a month doing them. Absolute rubbish.

StrikeForever · 21/11/2025 23:13

Ihad2Strokes · 21/11/2025 22:00

I think the 'working full time' gets you the ✅

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No, I’m retired and that has been fine for some

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Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 22:47

BatchCookBabe · 21/11/2025 22:10

£450 a month doing surveys?? Good luck with that. You'll need to be at it 20 hours a day/7 days a week to earn a third of that!

Far better to just get a part time job,

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For three nights I’ve consistently made £15 a night. I have a full time job. The entire point is to make some extra money of an evening

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BatchCookBabe · 21/11/2025 22:13

StrikeForever · 21/11/2025 21:57

I’ve just tried it tonight two. I have completed 2. About 4 more kicked me out, or froze 🤬

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That happened to me quite a lot. Many times I was 20-35 minutes into a survey, and it would kick me out/close down. Sometimes it would say I can no longer continue to survey after 43 minutes/27 questions... And then it shut down... Very annoying.

Ihad2Strokes · 21/11/2025 22:12

TimeAndTidalwave · 21/11/2025 22:01

I wouldn’t mind if it kicked you out at the beginning but to answer 10 mins worth and then get kicked out is taking the biscuit

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Yeah, it got beyond a joke on attapoll.

Ihad2Strokes · 21/11/2025 22:10

TimeAndTidalwave · 21/11/2025 21:30

I just tried that five surveys and completed 2 but on the third one I spent about 10 minutes answering about bloody sweeteners then it screened me out when I clicked ‘finished’. Does it do that often?

Attapoll did that to me all the time, so I gave up on it. Haven't tried five..

BatchCookBabe · 21/11/2025 22:10

Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 10:17

I just think, if i manage to do £15 a day that’s about £450 a month. I’m keeping track of it all for tax purposes but my family seem to think it’s going to end badly

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£450 a month doing surveys?? Good luck with that. You'll need to be at it 20 hours a day/7 days a week to earn a third of that!

Far better to just get a part time job,

Ihad2Strokes · 21/11/2025 22:06

WoahThreeAces · 21/11/2025 17:31

I use the apps which pay you to play games. It's not £15 a day by any stretch but last year it paid for a lot of Christmas presents! I generally use the ones that pay Amazon vouchers. I've currently got about £70 to claim on various apps. That's taken me a couple of months though. It's not an income! But I like playing games and the money is a bonus 😀

I keep getting ads for these, but not sure which ones are genuine. Which ones have actually paid out?

I like playing the goods sorting ones or mah jong to wind down.

BatchCookBabe · 21/11/2025 22:04

I did start this a while back - maybe 4 years back - but it was so much work and took so much time, for not that much money. I think it's OK if you have virtually nothing else to do, and you've lots fo free time to kill, but otherwise, there are other ways to make more money in shorter spells of time.

I did a few and they went on foreverrrr, and took ages to complete, and I got £3 to £5 for it. Over an hour's work sometimes. Others I started to fill in, and then halfway through - and 35 minutes later - it would ask a question and I'd answer it, and it would say 'sorry you can help us no further on this survey' and shut me down. No money/no pay for the 35 minutes I had spent doing it.

Maybe others have found something different/better, but I tried 3 or 4 different ones, and they weren't for me. Too much of my time for too little reward.

TimeAndTidalwave · 21/11/2025 22:01

StrikeForever · 21/11/2025 21:57

I’ve just tried it tonight two. I have completed 2. About 4 more kicked me out, or froze 🤬

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I wouldn’t mind if it kicked you out at the beginning but to answer 10 mins worth and then get kicked out is taking the biscuit

Ihad2Strokes · 21/11/2025 22:00

Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 20:17

I live with my parents and work full time but they’re interested in me!

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I think the 'working full time' gets you the ✅

StrikeForever · 21/11/2025 21:57

TimeAndTidalwave · 21/11/2025 21:30

I just tried that five surveys and completed 2 but on the third one I spent about 10 minutes answering about bloody sweeteners then it screened me out when I clicked ‘finished’. Does it do that often?

I’ve just tried it tonight two. I have completed 2. About 4 more kicked me out, or froze 🤬

Banditbiscuits · 21/11/2025 21:57

I used Money Saving Expert website to see what was recommended as an ideal app/ website before I started using them and have been for over 6 years now. I use Curious Cat, Qmee, Vypr and Swagbucks.

totallylostanddontknowwhattodo · 21/11/2025 21:47

I have done some online interviews with user interviews and would recommend them. It’s not an online survey though

ColdTimeOfYear · 21/11/2025 21:43

I dont get on well with qmee, i keep being rejected.
Prolific is interesting for me. But I find some days there are loads of surveys then other days with nothing. It really varies but it will depend on your profile, everyone is different.
Yougov is reliable, you don't get screened out, but i get approx £50 a year so not exactly enough to leave my job!
I save money earned for Christmas treats 😊

TimeAndTidalwave · 21/11/2025 21:30

I just tried that five surveys and completed 2 but on the third one I spent about 10 minutes answering about bloody sweeteners then it screened me out when I clicked ‘finished’. Does it do that often?

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Thingsaretight · 21/11/2025 21:17

If anyone is interested, I’ve cashed out £4.01 from eureka tonight:

Hey! Use my code TYJ4X9 on Eureka Surveys and unlock a short 80p survey just for signing up! https://eurekasurveys.page.link/vJy5nUDiMQDAmxteA

£3.08 from attapoll

I’m inviting you to join AttaPoll. Get paid to take surveys. Download the app here: https://attapoll.app/join/xqdsj

And £6.28 with qmee, but I can’t refer to that yet.

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BettysRoasties · 21/11/2025 21:04

Ive done some before. Including the Amazon one when you could get £5 for submitting 10 receipts and then to surveys on top. Receipt hog when that was a thing as well.

I was a product tester for the mother and baby’s awards before and got video monitors, bouncers and all sorts.

I now dip in and out if I feel like it.