Question : Internet Marketing: Paid Surveys : real or scam

Hi,

I'm contemplating signing up a couple of paid surveys sites that pays
for taking surveys & consider to be their affiliates (ie I have link on my
website that lead to those sites).   Would like to know how we can
validate if those are authentic sites truly paying what they promised
as do not want to be scammed & propagate scamming

In particular, I'm looking at following 2 sites :
  http://highestpaysurveys.com/?hop=angelcover
  http://www.surveyabsolute.info/indexCB.html?hop=angelcover

Has anyone taken surveys with the above 2 sites or any sites that
truly pay as what's promised?  

Other than actually paying upfront (when signing up), is there anyway
to verify if the sites are truly delivering what's promised?

Answer : Internet Marketing: Paid Surveys : real or scam

Read this
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/jobs/a/paid_surveys_2.htm

There are companies that pay for consumer information (ie the right to try and sell you something) so the idea of another company selling you a list of those companies is feasible.  The idea of having to pay any type of fee in order to get paid to take survey's is not.  In other words, don't ever pay a fee to register for a paid survey site.  If you are paying for anything, its for a list of companies that will pay you to take surveys.

If I was going to buy such a list, I would buy from someone listed on Clickbank to improve my chances of actually getting my money back if it wasn't for me.  http://www.clickbank.com/buy_products.htm  (search for survey)

That being said, here's a few for free (none of which is going to make you rich)

http://cashcrate.com
http://opinionoutpost.com
http://www.globaltestmarket.com
http://www.acop.com
http://www.inboxdollars.com/

Keep in mind that the way many of survey companies make money is by selling your information and/or sending you offers so get a separate email address for all the email you are going to receive and a trash can next to your mailbox.

Here's some more free resources
http://lefty-freesurveys.blogspot.com/
http://guide-online-surveys.com/