SurveyBasket
Making money from online surveys is one of the most searched for topics on the Internet.
The sad fact is that your chance of making money from online surveys are close to zero, especially if you stay in a non-USA country.
Most online survey companies on the internet mostly have surveys for Americans only
BUT there is a South African online survey company who claims that you will get paid for completing surveys online.
The site is at http://www.surveybasket.co.za
I decided to investigate and give them a try.
I changed my view on Survey Basket. I left my original article below but lately I think that SurveyBasket sucks. It seems as if they lost interest in their concept. I made good money in the beginning but up to date only received 5 surveys to complete. Currently this is not a good option anymore. It started off very well, but it seems as if it is dying a slow death
I did a bit of due diligence and found that the site belongs to a prominent person in the marketing industry. I did have a telephonic interview with the owner and everything seems above board and it seems as this is not just another fly by night survey site.
Although the domain has been registered in 2007, the concept was only launched in May last year and the panel system was only launched in August 2009. At the moment there is a big demand for proper surveys by South African companies.
At first the R75 activation fee bothered me. According to them the R75 activation fee is to make sure only serious participants apply. This makes 100% sense to me. I can see on some of the other programs which I joined in the past that thousands of people join something but in the end only about 10% the people do something. When I asked the owner of the site about this he said that he did try a survey site before and they found that people register multiple accounts and just click any answer to get money. The R75 activation fee is a way to prevent this from happening, it is kind of a screening process to ensure that they have a quality panel.
They also mention that you can get your R75 back in the form of a referral fee. You will earn 200 “baskets” per referral which is equal to R20. Like most similar programs you can only request a payout once your account reaches R100 or more. The owner of the site also confirmed that if somebody joined the site, paid his R75 and feels that it is not what he wanted it to be they will gladly refund him or her.
R75 is not money anymore, you cannot even go out for supper with R75 anymore.
So I joined SurveyBasket and paid my activation fee.
My account has been activated within about 5 hours after my deposit.
What I liked is that I did not receive any sleazy follow-up emails (sales pitches) which tried to convince me to activate my account. This is a good sign.
When I logged in there was one survey ready for me.
This was a general demographics survey and it earned me 150 “baskets” which is equal to R15.
I might also mention here that if you would like to try this as a “get rich scheme” then you will be disappointed. These guys want to run real quality surveys completed by a quality panel. They will not send you a survey per day exactly to try and prevent the “get rich quick” attitude. They also monitors the time people take to complete a survey and the answers they give. This is to differentiate between the “happy clickers” and the people who complete the survey for real.
So if you are serious and if you would like to make a positive contribution then I suggest that you join today to avoid loosing out in future.
The site is at http://www.surveybasket.co.za
PS. Also see my follow up post about SurveyBasket at
http://pietpetoors.com/blog/80-profit-in-5-weeks/
PSS. Also read the prove of payment article at
http://pietpetoors.com/blog/surveybasket-paid-me-4-times-this-month/
Just an update: surveybasket has been sold to a company called “Enlighten” http://www.enlightenpanel.com/aboutus
Would be interesting if you did an article on them…
Check out Global Test Market – http://www.globaltestmarket.com – you won’t earn millions but they are legit. I’ve been a member for quite a while and the best part is that they don’t ask for any “member startup fee” what-so-ever.
checking out the whole online survey thing.It just doesn`t seem worth it!!!
I joined a while ago and got some surveys even before I had activated my account so I figured, might as well activate and cash out and hope I get more surveys. So far though I find the surveys seem to have really dried up. I feel bad referring people there now, in fact I have even sugggested to most of those who I have referred that they opt out and ask for a refund on their initial joining fee as they haven’t recieved any more surveys since activating their accounts.
l tried to join you guys but when l submit my form your site keeps loading forever.
im studying this survey option for 4 months non stop,i have a list of 400 companies in rsa that actualy works,after i gathered my info i joined all 400 sites and checked them with hawks eyes,you wont believe, i made R26905 from day 1 to day 42,i couldnt believe it,i have a list of 800 other companies as well (mostly usa and canada.Anyone interested to buy my list of 1200 legitimate sites for R400,it cost me way more than that for all the bytes i used in 4 months….andreels@rocketmail.com
Nice try John (If that is your real name) Surveybasket belongs to a gent with the name Clayton Millis. Go to http://co.za and get your facts right. When you did that please come back here and apologize.
Pieter runs this company and is a fraud! Look at how he markets this website! They pay people out for less than the initial R75, and make money from referals!
Received another survey, I now earned in total R120 from answering surveys and R1,760.00 for referrals. Even though the surveys is coming very slow it still is a good return on the R75 investment I made.
The referrals work well yes, but the surveys are dead. I only received 5 in total so far.
hey peter, thanks for the tips, i also am one of the people that joined and at first i got 2 survey’s now im in waiting period i guess, does the referals work?
No, only the 4 so far
Peter, have you received any more surveys to do?
I do not know any American site that can be trusted. Besides trusting them, the biggest problem of the ones I tested are that almost all of their surveys are for Americans or Canada only.
The Survey basket thing dried up, I received 4 Surveys in total which earned me more than what I paid to register but for the past month I did not receive one Survey.
Francois – what happened? Are you getting some surveys or are they dying out?
@ Pieter: Is there an American site that you trust that does the same. I’m thinking here that with PayPal, things should be a bit easier? Yes?
Help with what?
plz help
See http://pietpetoors.com/blog/surveybasket-paid-me-4-times-this-month/
I 100% agree with them charging a fee for people to join. That way they filter out the time wasters and scamsters.
If it bother you that they charge a fee so that they can help you to make money then don’t join them. One of the golden rules on the Internet is “If you doubt, don’t do it”
I dnt see why a fee should be charged’ they should just put a payout limit. I dnt see how fraudsters can fraud them as per their reason for charging the fee. I dnt mind joining piet but is there anyone willing to send me proof of payment? Been scamed so many times sigh
@Pieter thanks man hope i get more surveys cheers
@Wiseman, I asked SurveyBasket what was going on and they replied with: “Thanks. We couldn’t actually read his fax, so didn’t have any idea who it was. It has been activated.”
How long ago did you pay and fax? Mine was activated within 5 hours. Sems like their business has really taken off now so give them a bit of time. Send them an email and ask them how long it will take
i’ve paid and fax my bank slip but my acoount is not active yet how long does it take
Joined, paid R75 and had 3 surveys in two weeks for a total of R55 return. Will see what happens
The first two was a week from each other, the next was only two weeks later. I make more money from referrals at the moment
Did you get more surveys recently, how did it go??
Do you get surveys after every second week or weakly?
I also tried survey basket and only received 3 surveys in the last 4 weeks for a total of R55.
i’d also like to join pieter,
Bernard, just go to http://www.pietpetoors.com/goto/surveybasket , complete the registration form, pay your R75 activation fee and wait for your first survey.
PIETER,I AM VERY MUCH INTERESTED PLEASE HELP
I received my second payment for R180 today.
Pieter,
I have just registered and paid my R75, lets see what happens.
OK, I received my first payment from Surveybasket today. Was only R135 but it is a start. At least now we know that they are paying.
Received my third survey today, my account now on R95, just R5 more rand to go then I can request a payout and see if we get our money.
I received my second survey today. Also earned 150 “baskets” for it.