Maybe things have changed, but I signed on to SurveyMonkey or something quite like it in 2007 or 2008. They literally keep you online for hours, interspersing ads with surveys. Not every member is accepted for every survey AND the payments are micro payments in the pennies range. Some give points for watching TV trailers/clips, then ask about the product placements noticed.
I do not see how anyone can make more than $5/day on these. Much like fivrr. I bet they are heavy on non-Americans, too, since the USD is worth more some places.
I think I lasted a few days before throwing in the towel. Oh: they slow your computer down by a lot.
This can’t be true.... CNN lead story online is that Clinton is solidifying the electoral college lead.
Of course not one mention there of the two dem operatives quitting after admitting on tape that they send folks to initiate physical attacks at Trump rallies.
Off subject for this thread, we can pile on megyn Kelly all day, but FOX’s website has been very good at reporting the Wikileaks stories and the undercover videos. Kudos to them.
Everything you say is true which is why I quit trying as well. I also quit though because I realized the way to make “real” money off surveys was to lie.
One survey say you love hand soap (when you see the survey is sponsored by some soap manufacturer)
Another say you hate it if it gets you farther in the survey (or you think it might anyway). That’s how the surveys worth only pennies turn into a couple bucks a survey. When they go longer and get more detailed in the questions the sponsor pays more (which makes sense since they are willing to pay more money for more detailed data and survey monkey wants to charge more for more info). And that’s what, I’m convinced, many of the active participants of survey monkey are doing. Lying to take as many detailed surveys as possible.
So that’s the typical respondent of even the political surveys. A liar. They may not lie during the actual poll survey but they are liars, and who will a liar more likely favor, Clinton or Trump? Republicans or Democrats?
That’s what I found reprehensible and so why I stopped. But I’m sure thousands more on there don’t have any such compunction.
Which is why I seriously doubt the reliability if not veracity of any online poll. Systematically done or not. The pool of respondents they draw upon have no moral center in my opinion. And thus, any poll that claims to have polled any Republicans at all is really only polling Democrats (or liberals of any party) who would never vote for any Republican.
Sure there are a few in there the honest ones like me who haven’t figured out the game yet and so are scratching their heads wondering how people can make any money off those things. And maybe some other anomalies that just like to do it to give their opinions and not for the money.
But the pool is skewed at least, IMO, to the welfare type looking to game the system, who have no compunction about lying their way to their final goal: money. Not exactly the typical Trump (or Republican) voter IMO. Look at their results for NC Governor for example. They have the Democrat winning by almost 20 points I can’t believe NC has gone THAT blue!