Paid Survey Sites... which ones are good and which ones to avoid!?

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I’ve got terrible insomnia at the moment and I’ve signed up to a few of these paid survey sites but other than one that I’ve been with for years, the rest have been awful. I’ve heard 20cogs mentioned, has anyone tried this?

Does anyone have any positive experience with ones that pay out, and don’t make you spend an hour for 10p?

If anyone has any good ones, can you tell me why it’s good, and if you have a referral link add it, I might as well make you some money too.

(The only good one I’ve found is Viewsbank, and they do a 10p admin poll each day so I’m quite good at clicking through and doing that one! If anyone wants to try it www.viewsbank.com/referral/2f784de5 they pay direct to bank account.)

Looking forward to hopefully finding some good ones!

Lifepoints isn't too bad, I got £25 via PayPal the other week and it didn't take up that much time to build that up doing little surveys when I had nothing better to do.

I've also done bigger paid projects for angelfish opinions (got paid £105 for an online community last week where I had to fill in a money diary for about 6 weeks) I've also done a couple of things for "take part in research" that have paid well. Trouble is you have to apply for lots before actually fitting the profile for one.

I downloaded Quick Thoughts which gives 50p per survey, they are of varying lengths. When you get £10 you can cash out either an Amazon or an iTunes voucher - I get probably £20 a month on here.

I also use Swagbucks although I have friends who don't like it! You can cash your bucks out for a range of rewards - again I usually wait until I have 1300 and then get a £10 Amazon voucher. I currently have almost £200 Amazon credit that I haven't touched from these two sites!

Do you always need to have a Paypal account for them to pay into? Have had a bad experience with Paypal after being hacked, and will never use that service again. Far too stressful, trying to untangle it all went on for a year . I know people rave about Paypal, and I've read lots of positive experiences people have had, but I will never forget my experience, and I never want to go near them again.

But I like the idea of (safe) paid surveys, especially as (like the OP) I don't always sleep well and have time to kill in the wee small hours. Even if it's not for much money!

I made £83 profit from 20 cogs without referrals, so worth a bit of effort. That led me to lifepoints which was generating a fiver a week, but all surveys have stopped since January. ( They blocked me from their social media for complaining!). One poll have trashed their site in an ' upgrade' but it is now just about useable again. Yougov never screen out but it takes over a year to reach £50.

All the others screen you out halfway through, taking data for free. I don't use Amazon so only want cash or PayPal rewards.

I say is alright. You build up points which you can spend on vouchers for Amazon, tescos or a 1 time use Mastercard. Takes me about a 4-6 weeks to build up enough for £50 voucher. Occasionally you get entered into product testing. I've had free cat food, fabric softener, sweeties and coffee sent to me in the past.