MindsPay is a market research website that pays its clients for participating in surveys, focus groups, and product reviews. In addition, MindsPay may from time to time allow advertisers to use their clients to submit feedback on individual ads or ad campaigns.
Like all paid survey sites, working with Minds Pay isn’t likely to pay the bills, but participating in market research online is generally a simple way to make extra money. Minds Pay, like all legitimate market research websites, requires no fee to become a member, just an email address and your completion of a general demographic questionnaire.
Once you’ve become a member of MindsPay, you can use their website to find surveys you would like to participate in. When surveys arrive that you may qualify for, you’ll be given an email invitation to come and participate in that survey as well.
In order to participate in MindsPay’s research, you must be using Internet Explorer, and you must be a member of PayPal in order to get paid.
So is Minds Pay Legit?
Well, as Minds Pay is free to join and pays its clients in real, legal tender, it’s considered legitimate. There are, however, a couple considerations I would point out.
First, while MindsPay does offer its share of regular, run of the mill opinion surveys, many of its surveys are actually based toward product trials. This means that you’ll have to sign up and try a product or service, ie enter your credit card information, in order to participate in the survey or trial.
Since most of these signups have free trials, this doesn’t seem like a big deal. However, if you don’t read the fine print or forget to cancel a service within the trial period, you’ll likely be required to pay a fee. As surveys rarely pay more than $5 at the high end, and being charged for a service tends to be quite a bit more, unless you are very organized you could end up losing a lot more money than you are earning.
Secondly, Minds Pay pays out their members in multiples of $50, which means that you would have to earn a minimum of $50 before you ever eligible for payment. While this isn’t unheard of, it is quite a high payout for an industry that pays an average of $1-$2 per survey. If you need or choose to quit for any reason before you reach $50, you simply won’t receive any compensation for your services at all.
First off, the offers under Activity Status are very randomly Viewed, Approved, or Rejected, as I haven't really completed offers while I've been a member.
When you go to click on "request payout" under activity status, you can right click on it and see that it isn't a real link. It says "open image in new tab", as opposed to other real links that will say "open link in new tab". That's the biggest showing of a scam right there.
There is no way to contact anyone from MindsPay, but they sure will send you an automated account verification message through a call very quickly. The number that called me and left the message was 847-327-0335, by the way, which is strange because 847 is my local area code number.
The website is set up extremely simplistic compared to other legit survey/offer sites that I'm a member of (which also don't have any false or fake links, by the way).
Any attempt in trying to delete my account in the past has resulted in the inability to, even though they tell you "you may still get a few emails for the next few days", and it's been weeks since I clicked unsubscribe for the 3rd or 4th time. This is also another red flag that should be taken up with the BBB.
I'd give this site no stars if I could, and the word should definitely get out that it's either a scam, or a site that isn't any good anymore.
My review summed up in a few words? Stay away from MindsPay.
I have called, I have written, I have written the BBB and nothing seems to make any difference with them. I thought I might make a little money during the winter months - it has been a little bit.
John
On higher-paying trials (>$10) I've had tremendous difficulty getting paid. A newsletter product I tried was ordered in July and I've been sending them proof of my order, trial, and evaluation ever since then but they refuse to credit my account. Now they won't even answer any of the service requests I file with them, and my account is sitting at $45, though they owe me for another $39.50 that they refuse to credit. I haven't cancelled the account yet, which is just what they want so they can keep the $45. You can't call them. They list no phone number. Their program is designed to get paid by advertisers, but frustrate the product testers into quitting before they have to pay out the $50.