You can put some extra cash in your pocket by completing online surveys! It's a free, fun and an easy way to pay for a tank of gas or two per month, all for just giving your opinion. If you do even a small amount of Internet surfing, you will likely find banner ads or affiliate links to survey sites claiming you could make money, up to several hundred dollars an hour.
The "catch" to earning that mythical hundred-plus dollar figure for a survey is that you must pay a membership fee in order to have access to a database of these survey companies.
People led by their desire to make money from home fall for this scam every day. What these scammers do not tell you about completing online surveys is that they do not send the surveys to you. Rather, in order to start making money, you have to apply to as many survey companies in their database as possible in the hopes that you might qualify to participate in some of them. Another thing that these survey database scammers don't do is update the databases. Sometimes you are paying for outdated information.
Now that you have an idea about the scammers and how they operate, you should know that there are a lot of legitimate companies out there that offer you a way to make money completing online surveys. And yes, there are those rare instances where that mythical hundred dollar plus dollar figure is real. However, those opportunities are few and far between. The reality of completing these surveys is that you can expect the average payout to be anywhere from $1 USD to $20 USD each.