Take Surveys For Money

I am no stranger to doing online surveys for cash. Most paid online surveys are reputable and I would recommend anybody wanting to make some extra money to them. But, one such site, Ipsos-I-Say is definitely not one I would recommend. Ipsos-I-say is for people who are keen to jump on because of the promises of sweepstakes winnings.

If you are like me your eyes get big anytime the possibility of winning a sweepstakes comes up. We should all know that sweepstakes are usually rigged, but, silly me, I believed that I might just have the chance to win on Ipsos-I-Say. I did win something though, an inbox full of spam and suspicious charges to my telephone bill.

The site says that 50 members are chosen daily to win a prize worth $100. I skimmed through the prizes they offer; kitchen gadgets, backpacks, and promotional items, and none of them looked like they were worth $100. Also, once a month a member supposedly wins $1,000. I don’t believe it.

But, even though I had my suspicions I still decided to snoop around some more and try things out. In the process of taking surveys I would be directed to other pages to take surveys. Somehow I would wind up taking surveys for their marketing partners. I would answer question after question until I finally thought I was done.

While I ‘thought’ I was completed with the survey and ready to win my reward it would then start asking me questions such as “would you like to buy this”, “would you like to take online college courses”, and “would you like to buy this magazine for 50% off” and so on. I would answer ‘no’ to every question, but, it will keep giving me more and more options like this until finally it started over asking the same exact questions. I was a quarter of the way in when I realized I was telling them ‘no’ for the same things I had already answered ‘no’ to previously! Finally the sites message claimed I needed to answer ‘yes’ that I was interested in order to proceed. So, foolishly I did so.

The site offered a magazine that I used to read, so, I decided to select that I was interested in hearing more about the offers they had for the magazine. I mean, what could it hurt, not once had I entered my credit card number, and I figured I could just cancel the magazine once they sent out my free issue. Boy was I wrong. When I got my phone bill in the mail I realized that it was higher than normal. My bill is generally the same month after month. But, it was much higher. So, I looked my bill over and there was a charge for the complete 2 year subscription to the magazine! So, now I have a subscription to this magazine and a slight chance to win a grand from Ipsos-I-Say.

If I were you I would steer clear of this survey site. Any sweepstakes that you have to purchase something from, either by choice or by force is not a good site. There are so many other good survey sites that pay real cash that you could join. Also, any survey site that requires you to support their marketing partners is not reputable and you should close out of the page as soon as possible.

I will not be using Ipsos-I-Say, I marked them as spam and they will forever live in my spam inbox.

Tags: ipsos, ipsos i say, survey scams
Filed under: Uncategorized | Jan 5th, 2009.