Answering surveys for rewards

[Yvonne Smith]

I am not sure if this qualifies as a hobby, but it is something that I am interested in, and thought maybe other people are interested as well.
There are a lot of survey websites on the internet, and you can earn points for answering surveys, and then cash those points in for gift cards, or even money in your PayPal account.

Some of the surveys just take a few minutes to do, and you only earn a few cents with each one, but others can be several weeks long and you can earn a substantial amount of money. Also, you can sometimes get extra points if you refer people to the survey websites; so I was thinking that if other people here have good servey websites, we can share with each other , too.

One of my favorites is called Paid Viewpoint. You never go all the way through the survey and then get told you do not qualify, like some survey places do, so every survey you do, you get points for, and you can do several every day and cash out when you get to around $15. I usually get Amazon gift cards, but they have lots of other options.

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Some surveys are for health issues, and since some of us here are seniors, we know all about health problems.
I recently did a survey focus group for congestive heart failure that paid me $450 in rewards. It lasted around 3 weeks, and I just had to fill out a little online journal several times each week, and I actually enjoyed doing it.
The company sends me out a qualification survey for this kind of focus group, and you just do a short survey of whether you have the right illness (or whatever) that the survey is looking for.

I just did a qualification survey for testing a new kind of dog food, and if I am accepted (actually Marco Poodle is the one who will be doing the dog food testing), then it pays $375 for feeding it to Poodle for 8 weeks and reporting on how he likes it. We qualified in the preliminary survey, so it is just waiting to see if Poodle is one of the dogs selected to try the new dog food.

This is something that a person can do in spare time when you are just looking for something to do , and there are enough different survey websites that you can do as much or as little as you want to do.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Cindy used to do those every now and then, and she actually got about $1,500 a year from it. Very few were testing products though, mostly she did opinion surveys. She did sign up for all kinds of freebies for pets and when she got a bag full of goodies we would take it to the no kill shelter. She entered contests too, and won a box of rawhide bones and 50 lb. bag of "Ol' Roy" dog food from Walmart. Since we didn't have any pets, the no kill shelter got all that stuff.

She was worried that might count as income and asked the SSA about it and the lady just smiled and said, "No... Have fun."

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I think that it does not count as income unless you were making a whole lot of money taking surveys, and that would be really hard to do. But even the gift cards every so often are great for me.
I just got the acceptance email for the dog food survey this morning, and they will be sending out the dog food for Poodle in the next weeks sometime.
Hopefully, Poodle likes it, because we have to complete the whole 8 weeks of feeding it to him to be paid for the survey.
It takes them about a month to put the reward in my account and then another month to send the gift cards, so it would be fall before I can actually use the gift cards on Amazon.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Hopefully, Poodle likes it, because we have to complete the whole 8 weeks of feeding it to him to be paid for the survey.

No, you don't. It's just a survey... All they want is your opinion. And they have no way of proving whatever you say, one way or another. Cindy used to do those all the time. Some company would send her a box of food and she was supposed to feed it to our dog. But we didn't have a dog.

When we donated the food to the no kill shelter, the dogs went after it like crazy, so she told them "our dogs" loved it. That's what they want to hear so they were happy, and she got her survey points. On the other hand, you could tell them that you refuse to feed the food to your dog because you don't like the smell of it. It gives your dog bad breath, it gives them gas, it turns them into poop machines, whatever pops into your head.

Nobody ever questioned why she said anything, they just wrote her opinions in their logs or whatever it is that they do with it...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We received 4 bags of unmarked dog food, about 10 lbs each, which will last Poodle for months to come. He likes the dog food, and is eating it just fine.
Somewhere in the information , it mentioned Purina, so i looked and found that Purina has a Calm and Balanced dog food, and I think that is probably what we are testing out.
It has live probiotics, Omega 3 DHA, as well as B-complex vitamins to help a dog be calm. I looked on Amazon, and the 30 lb bag is $87, so I have around $100 just in free dog food.

I mix in a little bit of canned chicken or tuna to add flavor and it softens it a bit for Poodle to eat easier, but it is very small kibble anyway, and he can actually eat it plain also.
Since he is getting old, I like to soften it up a bit for him.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

We received 4 bags of unmarked dog food, about 10 lbs each, which will last Poodle for months to come. He likes the dog food, and is eating it just fine.

Cindy used to do that, and the No Kill shelter dogs loved the food, and the shelter loved saving a few bucks. And the cats loved it too, she got 20 pounds of cat food once... And of course, I believe free makes a lot of things taste better.

Bon Appétit, Mr. Poodle!

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I have completed the dog food survey , and there is still enough of the dog food for Marco Poodle to have food for several more months. He has even gained some weight with this food, and he really seems to like it.
They did not tell me what it was, but I saw on the bag that it was a Purina product, and it was supposed to have probiotics in it to help be a calming food for stressed dogs.
Poodle is not actually stressed, but he does get excited when we have company, or when we have been gone somewhere and get back home again, and i do think it is helping him to be some calmer, but has also helped with his overall health.

Purina does have a calming dog food, so I think this is what we were testing, and I will buy it for him when I run out of the bags I already have. They sent me four 10 lb bags, and he barely used one of the bags for the 2 months trial, so he is still on his second bag full.
Of course, he also eats along with me, so it is not like he just lives on the dry dog food.

I received the points and have asked for them to be cashed in for amazon gift cards, which takes a month or two for some reason. Since I already had some points from other surveys, I cashed in $400 in Amazon gift cards. I do not know what i will use them for yet, but at least they will be there when I do need to buy something.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I do not know what i will use them for yet

Solar panels, obviously!