Okay small rant/review time... (And slight PSA)
So, I haven't been having the best of luck when it comes to money, especially since the pandemic hit, so I tried to come up with a solution to getting some side cash, and I ultimately found out about doing surveys for quick cash, cool, I thought, so I signed up to two (2) different pages, the first one was recommended by an online article, the second one was recommended by multiple youtubers and magazines I've read.
Now I'm only going to tell you about the first site I signed up to, because this site seems like a scam to me, the site in question is Vindale Research. I know what you might be thinking, "how is it a scam, you said an online article talked about it?" Well, yes I found some articles about the site that said it was an amazing site to make up to $50.00 quickly and it has a $1.00 sign up reward, so I thought, cool, "I could really use that right now," so I signed up, now here comes the problem...
After I signed up to the site they offered me the opportunity to earn $1.00 upon completing a "starter" survey to help you learn how to do surveys, ok great, sounds simple right? Nope! I tried to complete the special starter survey and when I got to the last question, the survey wouldn't let me pass, like at ALL! I tried different combinations and still nothing, "but at least you got that $1.00 sign up bonus right?" Nope! You have to complete the special starter survey to get that bonus, and the survey was broken, no big deal, I'll just do the actual surveys....
I tried every survey they sent me to my email (yes you heard that right, they send you about 20+ surveys to your email which pile up quite quickly) and still didn't make any money. They kept telling me that "you don't qualify for this survey"...
How's that possible exactly? How do I not qualify for every survey that's been sent to me?... So I decided to retry the starter survey... It was still broken... So I contacted the support page and told them that the starter survey was broken, and surprisingly they responded, but instead of fixing the issue they just told me that I have to just cleane out every cookie my browser stored up and it should work, and that the survey wasn't broken... I DID do all those things and it still didn't work, so I ultimately deleted my account on there and decided to dig deeper about this company and what do you know? Multiple people DID have the same issues with this company that I had!
I found many reviews saying how they where a scam and that the customer support people are the absolute worst! Almost nobody was able to complete or qualify for any of the surveys and such, and the reviews just go on and on, if you don't believe me I'll just leave a link to the yelp reviews at the source section of this post.
Now the second survey site I signed up to was swagbucks, and I will admit that they actually do let you make money, I'll probably do a review about them later on.
I don't normally do rants or whatever this was often but I just feel really angry after reading the many negative reviews that matched the same issues I had, I feel like the blog sites that gave it all this hype and said "oh, you can make so much money" just made me feel irritated, I assume that maybe the sites only taylored to people that have money, because most of the questions where "do you make $10,000,000 a week? Are you a doctor and business ceo? No? Then no money for you!"... Like I said I'm just disappointed with all the blog sites giving it so much praise even though hardly anyone qualifys for any of the surveys.
Well, if you're someone who's used the site, did you have the same issues with Vindale like I did or were you actually able to make money with the site, I'd like to hear about it in the comment section below. Link to the yelp reviews are right below↓
https://m.yelp.com/biz/vindale-research-manhattan