For a while now I’ve gotten questions about the paid survey sites that are free to join. A common question is why I tend to recommend the membership sites like Survey Absolute exclusively when there are other paid survey sites that are free to join. The reply is… I don’t. Meaning that I am well aware there are many, many paid survey sites that are free to join which are valid.

Some of them even pay you just for joining.

Here’s a few examples of some good ones that I’ve personally used:

#1 -Inbox DollarsInbox Dollars is a site that pays it’s members for reading mail, taking surveys, playing computer games, and even offers a few mystery shopping assignments. They aren’t strictly a paid survey site since they do other stuff too, and they don’t offer a lot of paid surveys, but they do offer some paid surveys. They additionally pay all new members $5.00 just for signing up. While they can be a little annoying from all the emails they’ll send you, you do get paid for reading those emails (usually amidst 2 and 5 cents each) so it’s worth it to join, and they aren’t a scam site (as always, feel free to post your own experiences with them in the comments section below; that’s what that site is all about)

#2 - Survey Club Here’s another site I love to recommend to public. Survey Club is a paid survey site that’s completely free to join (takes less than a minute in fact) and which sends citizens valid paid surveys by e mail (but doesn’t send you a lot of spam rubbish emails). Unlike Inbox Dollars they don’t pay you a bonus just for signing up, but at the moment they are offering a $10 paid survey to all new members who sign up, and claim that all demographics are welcome. I joined up a while back so can’t speak to that claim as I’m now ineligable, though I’d love to assemble out feedback from others on that.

#3 - #3 - Global Survey Group Global Survey Group is another of the free-to-join paid survey sites I’ve stumbled across which is valid and not just a site that sends you a lot of rubbish mail. Their surveys don’t pay all that much (a lot of them pay only $2 each) but by the same token they are pretty short too. I can recommend that one too.

So there’s a few of the free-to-join paid survey sites that are valid. The problem is that the huge majority of those paid survey sites (so called) that are free to join actually don’t really have paid surveys. Usually it’s just little scam companies looking to scoop up your mail and private data and soon after sell it to the highest bidder. Which is why you have to be careful of the scam sites.

Even the ones that are valid are usually pretty small companies. You might only get one or two paid surveys a month from these ‘mini’ paid survey sites. Of course, every little bit helps, but don’t expect to join these sites and form a huge amount of money. whether you want to get serious about making money at paid surveys, you’re going to need to join one of the larger membership sites (I recommend Survey Absolute, which I’ve reviewed above).

I have collected a large list of fairly valid paid survey sites like the three listed above, which are all free-to-join, and I’m looking to expand that list all the duration (so feel free to comment with your own experiences). whether you’d like to see the larger list, be certain to join my mailing list, as it’s a bonus I offer to everyone who joins the mailing list (which is free of course, and committed to finding more paid surveys and alerting society to the scams).

Original post by jonstark