Sunday, February 15, 2009

Paid Surveys Etc. dot scam

I hate sites like this. And I'm going to start calling them out as I find them.

People like Sylvia are also part of the problem, but ultimately the failure is ours. As long as there are MR companies offering money for surveys, sites like PaidSurveysEtc will continue to exploit naive web users and tarnish our reputation.

The sad truth is that these scam sites do a better job of marketing themselves than we do, so they have become synonymous with online surveys. We indirectly finance these scammers, and if we want to fix our online reputation we need to take responsibility for protecting internet users from them.

1 comments:

Ray said...

What is the option to paying incentives to people who are willing to spend 20 minutes doing brand tracker or cust sat surveys? Yes, we can make them better, yes we can share some insight, but do we only want to interview people who will do it for free, and who do it to our timetable, as often as we need it, and answer our dumb questions?