Tell Tom's Your Opinions to Earn Cash and Other Rewards

[techtre2003]

I just got a 300 point survey on search engines that wasn't too bad; took about 10 minutes. I'm really just trying to get to the 1000 points because I'm curious to see if I'll actually receive payment.

 

[Zulu191]

I am not really enjoying giving out all my information to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, and then getting told that they do not need my opinion and end up booted out of the survey with no points rewarded. I have tried to take 6 surveys today and have been booted from 5 of them without being rewarded points even though it took me 5-10 minutes to answer their first 10-20 questions... Not feeling the love.

 

[nocteratus]

[citation][nom]Chainzsaw[/nom]I feel shafted being a Canadian!Ahh well.Happy Fourth of July to my Neighbors![/citation]

Me too.
Proud to be Canadian but ...

 

[getochkn]

I got one. Update your picture viewing scripts on Toms from the 90's. Seriously, every time I click on a photo that says "zoom" underneath it, it brings me to another page with the photo still the same size, then I click on it and it opens a new windows to finally get a "zoomed" in photo. Then I have to close that window, go back on the browser just to get back to the article I was one. Real fun on a phone closing windows and going back and soooo 1993 web design. The pop-up window isn't even sized to the size of the picture. Arggg.


Now, where's my money.

 

[Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer]

[citation][nom]donsai[/nom]Has anyone tried this? I signed up and it is nothing like what I expected. I thought it would be surveys about technology-related topics.Instead it's about life insurance, cold medicines, etc. The same crap that you get phone calls about in the middle of dinner.I spent 20 minutes on a survey and got 200 points. Meaning $2.00. At that rate I'm making 6 bucks an hour on products I really don't care about. I advise you all to think carefully before signing up.[/citation]
Tom's Hardware, look. I really like you guys, I enjoy most of the articles, &c. &c. If what he's saying is accurate, this is some unprofessional $#!+ right here. It makes you look bad, it makes you look amateur hour...hell, I'd love to give you my opinion on technology-related stuff (I already sometimes do it for free). But none of this spammy crap. :-(

 

[Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer]

Hmm...usually my posts show up right away; I guess they didn't appreciate me pointing out that experiences like those detailed above cheapen the image of this site...

Edit: My original post did show up (after quite a delay, though, I might add), so I do apologize to TH for insinuating that censorship might be involved.

 

[Shin-san]

Enough cloud computing spam

 

[Guest]

Its frustrating to have a complete survey, then somehow the connection drops to the reward page, and i am not reward for 30 min of clicking.

 

[assasin32]

[citation][nom]jupiter optimus maximus[/nom]Its frustrating to have a complete survey, then somehow the connection drops to the reward page, and i am not reward for 30 min of clicking.[/citation]

I got bored and tried it and went through several surveys just for them to tell me at the end "we don't like you" and to not get my points. Feel like im being cheated.

I think they need to fix it as have mabey a max of 10 pre survey questions and than a quaranteed you get paid survey afterwards instead of them being able to tell you to get lost after 20min, even if the reward is less.

 

[therabiddeer]

This reeks of pyramid scheme. They abuse the readers of tom's network to make profits. Probably every survey one of us fills out gets them a chunk of money. It is like ads, except probably pays them more and requires the user to actually spend time being annoyed doing stuff unrelated to the site.

 

[komikool]

Always for residents of USA.

 

[doorspawn]

Farewell toms. I'm afraid this was the last straw.
You were good for a while, but this and the poorly-informed marketroid "itpro" show you're harming your readers in the pursuit of short-term profit.

 

[techtre2003]

Not worth the time but it does actually work. It took me about 2 hours and I don't know how many rejected surveys but I finally got 1000 points and was able to get an instant deposit of $10 in my Paypal account.

 

[shin0bi272]

apparently the guys at tom's havent figured out we dont care about this program yet... since this is what the 3rd or 4th time its been put on the news list? I mean its basically trying to get you to do the same thing as bigspot.com and no one cares about them either. No one wants to fill out lengthy surveys for a 0.0001% chance to win $10,000 (and all the taxes that go with it) just to have their email flooded with spam from other companies who toms or the survey company sold your email address to. This is how zuckerberg made billions people... selling your info to spammers.

 

[gentlydownthestream]

I only have to cross a gigantic ocean in order to pick these prices up too bad

 

[Crush3d]

This is almost completely bogus. I signed up a while back only to realize what a waste of time it was (though, I wasn't really surprised.) In my opinion it's essentially a scam where you do the survey and they tell you at the end you don't qualify. They ask about your demographics, interests, and feelings on certain products in a "pre-survey" (which you can't be rewarded for) and then afterward you almost always get told you don't qualify to take the actual survey for a reward - all the while they laugh their way to to the bank since you basically gave them free data in the pre-survey.

 

[Guest]

Once in awhile i receive this: "NaNPoints + 500BonusPoints =NaNPoints! Because you are a highly valued member, you receive additional bonus points for this survey." What the hell is NaNPoints? Why do they even bother making it into a joke.

 

[fb39ca4]

[citation][nom]jupiter optimus maximus[/nom]Once in awhile i receive this: "NaNPoints + 500BonusPoints =NaNPoints! Because you are a highly valued member, you receive additional bonus points for this survey." What the hell is NaNPoints? Why do they even bother making it into a joke.[/citation]
NaN means Not a Number. Looks like they were dividing by zero or taking the square roots of negative numbers or something

 

[varun706]

aaaaawwwww mannnnn, even for this I need to be an american!!!!!
I had planned to tell them to consider the rest of the world. there it goes out the window...:-(

 

[ozvip3r]

[citation][nom]Chainzsaw[/nom]I feel shafted being a Canadian!Ahh well.Happy Fourth of July to my Neighbors![/citation]
If you're a real Canadian you wouldn't spell like a yank.

 

[snowzsan]

[citation][nom]ozvip3r[/nom]If you're a real Canadian you wouldn't spell like a yank.[/citation]

That's Google/Firefox spellcheck turning the future generations into illiterate morons.

 

[razor512]

waste of time, it is worst than those cash survey sites since you are doing mostly the same surveys which take just as much time, but your chances at making money if much lower.

I used to do surveys like this but at least when I did it, I got 30-60 cents per survey (for the 5 minute ones) and $1-1.50 for the longer surveys, and had minimum payouts of $1 for paypal, and $5 for check and $10 for amazon.com gift cards

How many tomshardware contest have you entered and how many have you actually won?

With the odds of winning being so low, it is not worth devoting hours of your time into crap like this. Remember, your time is also valuable, what other productive things can you be doing.

 

[razor512]

[citation][nom]therabiddeer[/nom]This reeks of pyramid scheme. They abuse the readers of tom's network to make profits. Probably every survey one of us fills out gets them a chunk of money. It is like ads, except probably pays them more and requires the user to actually spend time being annoyed doing stuff unrelated to the site.[/citation]

they pretty much are scams, the thing is this one starts off bad. The thing about paid survey sites, is that they usually start off good and slowly become more greedy until everyone leaves and moves to a new one.

Eg I used to use cashlagoon (went out of business for thinking people will work for 10-20 minutes for 15 cents) and early on, they paid an average of $1-$3 per survey and had a minimum payout of $1, and surveys also gave you points which were used to purchase prices on their site (tiny things such as HDMI cables and other cheap/ basic stuff)

(PS the highest paying surveys also never went over 20 minutes)

I used to make about $70-$100 a month (which I used purchase more frequent upgrades for my PC) until they suddenly started lowering the per survey payout and once it his 50 cents per survey, I started to do less of then, then when they dropped to around 15 cents, I just left and never came back.

Tomshardware, if you are going to run a pyramid scam, then at least start off at the level that other scams started off at. Don't just go demonic from day one.
Remember, Hitler didn't gain power from disappearing anyone who spoke out against him from day one (and doing other horrible things) things gradually went to hell.

 

[thillntn]

I'm gonna be really mad if the guy posting Chinese Nike's crap gets paid before I do. LOL.

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]benikens[/nom]Essentially this article says, 'We will pay for opinions, American opinions' The internet is global yo bout time a website so concentrated on tech open up to outside countries a-bit more.[/citation]

well by the time toms gets done paying french and american taxes for giving away money and then what ever country you are from, there really isn't much of anything left to give.

fix your leftist socialist states 50-75% taxes. that's just the income tax, not including their prize tax which in the usa is 33%