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why exactly does the online surveys directory.com exist anyway?

It was actually searching for something else that got me going on this paid surveys stuff...

...then a phone recruiter called from a very well-known polling company, and offered to send $15 CASH in the mail (yes, c-a-s-h in an envelope, delivered to my U.S.P.S. address!) if I would log-on to a website and take a 30 minute survey. Three days later there was an envelope in the mailbox with three crisp five-dollar bills (and I hadn't even logged on yet! Look up "norm of reciprocity" and you'll see why they do that). The survey took twenty minutes. Too cool! And then I started poking around and doing some research. Aye yaye yaye!

This site is for all the people that know paid market research is legitimate, are tired of sifting through the sheer tonnage of repeat information, and want a reliable source of paid market research surveys information. Period.

No "automatic registrations" with every button set to "yes, sign me up!" No ramming our Top 10, 20 or 50 paid survey affiliates down your throat and showing you nothing else. No emailing you every other day with the newest paid surveys online or other free offers. Just an ALPHABETICAL list of online surveys that you can bookmark, and pick and choose what companies YOU want to sign up for. Not the surveys someone TELLS you to. At the OSD, you're FREE to choose.

 

why all this information is absolutely free

All this information for free, because ultimately, it should be free. Our motivation is not money or to collect your information, as none is asked for and none is collected (we don't use the sub-id on our links). Donations are accepted (via PayPal), and honestly, without a shred of guilt. Managing this amount of information for free, is not actually free.

If you've ever had some time on your hands though, done any research on "getting paid for your opinions" and seen all the "information" out there, maybe you'll understand why this site exists and functions the way it does.

no bull-you-know-what...

The ultimate goal here (besides venting our honest and unbiased opinion about this much advertised, hyped, debated and written about topic), was to maintain (easier said than done, with this many surveys, it's a monster!) and publish the largest, free-access, most comprehensive, up-to-date directory of legitimate consumer research surveys available. All so you can participate in the decisions being made about the products and services you use everyday, work from home, make money online.

PLUS! You get everything you need in one place to start doing these online surveys. Tips and tools and legitimate strategy and some previews of what to expect when you start signing up. From a real online surveys taker. We don't ask anything from you, other than you actually use this site, tell your friends about it and share it, adhere to the professional respondent guidelines stated herein, and report any outdated or manky links.

So, did we succeed? Did you find what you were looking for? Did we miss anything? Do you have any suggestions? Is this one of the biggest, most awesome list of paid consumer research surveys available anywhere on the internet?

Good, bad, or somewhere in the middle? Please let us know. Anything. Technical issues, questions, advice. We're always here and always working on it.

 

update policy...

Check back for more as these pages will be updated regularly as schedules allow. About once a month (well, once a month is not happening anymore - sorry 10/13/2011), all the links are checked manually. Yes, someone sits down and "clicks" every link. It takes a day or two or three. It's more fun than watching paint dry.

You may notice some links listed in the general directory that don't always work when you visit. We're in the process of trying to identify the surveys that are "on again, off again." If after an extended period of time, they don't appear "on again," we'll probably sub-categorize them and remove them from the "official" count.

 

we're here to help, in any way we can...

And in conclusion, if you EVER experience anything you deem "questionable" in your dealings with ANY of the companies listed herein, please contact us, and we WILL be of assistance to you. You'd be surprised what a little "teamwork" can accomplish. We've done it in the past, and we'll do it for you.

Thanks for stopping by! Now go start taking some paid online surveys for money and start changing the world. You may not be shopping real-estate in Monte Carlo next year, but you will help businesses improve their services and products. Which helps everyone. And that's a good thing.