InboxPays.com is a relatively new website that promises you can earn money by participating in market research. Besides paid surveys, they also advertise that you will be paid for reading emails and for completing trial offers.
Paid surveys is a very common way of making money online. When you first sign up with any of these market research opportunities, you must fill out a very specific questionnaire with all of you information. This information is then used to make sure that you qualify for the appropriate surveys and trial offers.
It is important that you be as honest as possible when filling out this questionnaire because you could waste a lot of time being told you don’t qualify for surveys you have already begun.
Inboxpays.com also encourages you to complete trial offers – and you are reminded that you are responsible for canceling those trial offers before you begin being charged – as well as reading emails and referring your friends to join their site.
So is Inbox Pays a Scam?
Well, the first question I always ask is whether or not the site charges you to become a member? Inbox Pays is completely free to join, so that’s a good sign. However, there are a couple things worth mentioning about the site before anyone signs up.
First of all, you must have a PayPal account in order to get paid. This means that Inbox Pays deals in real currency instead of gift cards and prizes, which is something many people like. However, they require that you earn at least $50 in your account before you can request a payout.
This is nearly twice the earnings amount required by most other paid survey sites. The truth is that each survey you successful complete generally won’t pay more than five dollars at the most, and successfully completing surveys is not the easiest thing. This means that you may have to complete many surveys before you can receive a payout, and some people may get frustrated and quit without ever receiving the money they have earned.
In addition, their promise of getting paid for reading emails actually means getting paid to click the links of advertisers that they will send you. And once you allow them to give your email to advertisers, watch out. You will likely be drowning in emails.
And the price that is paid per click will often be very low, and paid to Inbox Pays, who will then pay you a percentage of it. This makes the $50 payout look even harder to achieve.
In general, Inbox Pays is free to sign up for, so it’s not a scam, but you should be aware of what you are getting into. Remember, if you’re really looking to make money taking surveys, then make sure to sign up for multiple companies in order to increase your chances of success.
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So suck it up everyone! You're not getting paid. Inbox Pays stole our money and refuse to pay us. Don't let them get away with it. Set up your email on auto and send them email of complaint every 10 minutes.Contact your state attorney general and complain.
Soon we will see the 'reviews' of how wonderful Inbox Pays is.
I am sick and tired of being ripped off.
So with this suvey panel now with the changed rules as long as I'm just reading emails with inbox pays I will never get paid unless I do offers because that is all that this company have I am pretty much signed up with the other suvey panels you guys call surveys, they are asking me to sign up to different companies that pretty much seem better than this company so far, and the offers are irrelevant to me, I am not going to sign up to these companies if signing up has nothing to do with me signing up with them, and most of them that is relevant to me I already signed up with through other companies. Which by the way have a way better pay system than this.
It sounds like I'll never get paid with Inbox Pays, but as long as I keep reading the email which is nothing but the list of offers I have money being capped until I complete enough offers, at least I was recieveing a couple of cent when they send them to my email. Which also add up to 50 or more eventualy and you would still be paying 50 dollars when I do decided to cash out. This is my everyday thing after dropping of my childreden at school I come home open up my email and go down the list to take surveys, test products, and get paid, I would like to know if this is a panel that I should continue with or not waste my time any more with INBOXPAYS.COM.
Not to mention in the refferal section is completely false advertisement to get others who to joing so you guys cant get more money because it clearly state people you reffer, once they reach 10 or more you get 3 dollars in your account and that never happened and when I asked about it they say I don't get it until they cash out and recieve their money, I don't even know if I believe that. I JUST FEEL LIKE THIS SURVEY PANEL IS A BIG WASTE OF MY TIME.
I too signed up for INbox Pays several months ago. Altho they have a high cash-out ($50), for opening emails, I watched it steadily go up and didn't mind (too much). I have finally come close to cashing out. But in the last couple of weeks, my rewards went down substantially and have not changed since, even tho I am still opening emails. I have written several times and received no answer other than an automated response that I will be answered. AFTER the 3rd request, I finally received and answer. They changed the rules! They now will pay no more than $25 for emails, and the rest must be 'earned' by completed 'offers'. As you know, many of these are just not worth it and I have 'complained' before that the offers are too requiring.
I am willing to group with anyone to complain, file suit, whatever, to change this and get paid. They are nothing more than thieves and I've spent 5 months and will not get paid. I am pasting below the response I got:
This is in reference with your Request Ticket Number: IP00007572.
Dear InboxPays.com Member,
We have recently made a change to our cash mail credits. This has taken effect immediately. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
We provide the cash mail credits to our members as an added incentive for taking offers through InboxPays.com. Due to a high volume of users who are only cashing out on the cash mail credit and not taking any offers, we have to make this change. If we were to continue making payments for cash mail credits only, the company would no longer be in business.
Payment requests are made in the amount of $50. This amount can only have a maximum of $25 for the cash mail credits. The other $25 must be earned from completed and approved offers.
You may have seen a decrease in your approved amount. This decrease is not money that has been taken away from you. You can find any cash mail credits that are over the $25 limit in a new section labeled “Carried cash mail credits” on the “My Account” tab. Any future cash mails you receive will show under the “Carried cash mail credits” section in your account.
These credits are being held until you have cashed out at the $50 threshold. This carried cash mail credit section has no limit for the amount you can earn. You can only receive $25 of cash mail credits at a time toward your $50 payout.
Again, we do apologize for the inconvenience. We have made this change to ensure that we can provide you with the highest possible payout for all offers.
Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience,
InboxPays.com Customer Support
Please reply back to this email without changing the subject line if you have further clarifications.
Sincerely,
InboxPays Support Team
http://support.inboxpays.com/