Large Investment, Little Return???

Large Investment, Little Return??? sites that just want too much

#1 Guest_Inactive_*

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 05:28 AM

I have encountered many money-promising websites over the course of my internet experience. They start you off with some elaborate story of how shocked you will become at how quickly you will attain success. They also begin telling other success stories from "ordinary" people like yourself. The website itself gets you so worked up that it almost leads you to believe that your success will be guaranteed and risk free: WRONG!!! Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see that there is indeed a quite large investment to be made to jumpstart your "career". Several dollars for some software and a guide....Read the disclaimer. It will be stated somewhere on there that your success depends on your efforts and will vary according to others who have wondered aimlessly down the same path. Success guaranteed? I think not. To conclude, is it really worth investing large sums of money for a bootleg program that guarantees nothing but a burning hole in your wallet. Hmm....Something's going on here.

#2 RayButler

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 05:43 AM

Welcome to the forum.

There is no getting rich quick sites I ever seen work.
I make 50 to 80 dolars a month with PTR and surveys but it takes alot of time to make that...If I have to pay to join any sites count me out...if I like a site i'm working with I well pay for an upgrade but besides that no way.
Ray

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#3 Guest_armageddon_*

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 06:00 AM

I do have to ask, is the time invested filling out the surveys worth what little return that you get?....Because I do have begin to think that there are better and more efficient ways to make money online than to join survey groups that are just bubbling at the fingertips of easily-swayed surfers.

#4 RayButler

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 12:25 PM

It took a couple months I was starting to think the same way is it worth it but the more they send and when you are honest with them I am starting to get more 10 and higher paying surveys did a 100 interactive survey last week. It does take patients but you don't get rich doing it but it does help on spending cash.

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#5 Booker

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 02:17 PM

armageddon...In considering the investment of time, you also need to consider what you would be doing with the time if your were not doing a survey....

Obviously, if you gave up a high-dollar job to sit at home and do surveys, your time would not be well-spent...and, the investment of your time to do surveys would not be worth the cost of giving up the high-dollar job.

However, if you were spending your time, sitting in front of TV, aimlessly surfing the internet, or, something else along that line...then, your time is not worth much, dollarwise. So, if you choose to spend the time doing surveys, instead of the aimless activities mentioned, the investment of your time to do surveys would be worth it.

It's all in the way you look at it, I think. I'm not as involved as Ray, or many others, but, I consider the time I spend doing surveys, PTR's, etc. as a game of sorts....Any $$$'s earned from that time spent is just money to play on.

Just have fun! :)

#6 RayButler

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 02:29 PM

Well said Booker.

I am on a fixed income that isn't much because of health reasons and I find the surveys and PTRs really help me to suppliment that income a little if anything it pays for my high speed internet and a little extra each month and I also have fun doing it...thats the main thing enjoy it, don't let it overwelm and stress you like I do now and then. :dance3:

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#7 vicki2876

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 02:42 PM

Raybulter and Booker have great points. This can't replace a "real" job and I look at it as pocket money, little bonuses. For surveys, it doesn't really take that long to sign up and you don't have to do the survey if you don't feel like it or don't have time so when you do they are nice little bonuses. It does take time for things to get moving though. My first month I got 9 bucks but now almost a year later I average $125 worth of cash and items a month through PTRs, surveys and freebies. Finding people on good forums, like a bunch of people here, really helps in staying away from sites that are a waste of time and get good resources to get the good ones. Good Luck!