If your new to doing online surveys you might be worried when you don’t get a check within a week after doing a good paying survey. I’m here to tell you that worrying after a week is a complete waste of time. Many times a survey may be open for a month or more while the company gets all the wanted responses to a particular survey.
After the survey closes and the survey requester gets the data and verifies the survey has been done according to their directions they will then issue a payment to the corporation who did the survey for them. Then the survey panel will review data to determine if any fraud was detected and decide how to deal with that issue before releasing payment. All total it can take anywhere from two to twelve weeks to get paid for a survey you have done.
In the five years I have done online surveys I have never had one single company not pay me as promised for a completed survey. I have had threaten a company once with legal action for not paying me but once the case was sent to a higher member of the corporate headquarters the issue was resolved within 2 days, and to be fair the company was in the process of some internal reorganization during that year and seems to be rock solid now.
I can’t count the number of times I have read on the net about this survey panel or that survey panel being a scam because they did not pay me. In every case where I was a member of the panel I have called them to action to remedy the problem because the company was a honest one. Too many people type tales on the internet without doing their homework first. Survey panels just like every other companies do make mistakes and things do get lost in the system from time to time. Most companies are more than happy to help you with any problems you may have if you contact their customer service department and let them know what the issue is.
Check my Survey Tools section right now for articles about toosl that will help you with your online survey taking and check back often for updates as I am adding stuff to this blog all the time. I will soon be adding a program that will help you keep track of all the information about your online survey panels in one easy accesable format. Look for that post this weekend on The Survey Seeker.