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.
I called 312-212-0044 and a lovely young lady named Christina answered on the first ring. She explained the verification process and I told her I had never seen that or read about it.
She guaranteed my payment will now be processed. This is not a scam and for the comments where some of you are saying you called for 2 months, or had to purchase products is completely erroneous. I never purchased anything just pursued survey over the last few months.
There's also a spot at the end of the website where you can open a ticket and contact Minds Pay to send an email.
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Your email has been received #MP00016240 (2)
MindsPay Support Mail Dear Maria, Thank you for contacting us. Your email has been received and will be processed as soon as possible. We have assigned your request a ticket number: MP00016240. Please include
Today at 4:29 PM
Me
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Today at 4:43 PM
Like Mindspay will ever pay up or make this right. On to BBB and other consumer complaints sites to add my 3 cents worth to
Mindspay has never replied via the customer email before.
http://www.bbb.org/western-michigan/business-reviews/market-survey-companies/mindspay-in-grandville-mi-38137776
BBB has an alert out. I will post this as well.
http://reviewopedia.com/workathome/minds-pay-reviews-is-mindspay-legit-or-a-scam/
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Minds_Pay_a_legitimate_company
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101002123133AAhGzFB
Maria
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My experience after trying to cash out $50.00 back in September. Just tried calling again after getting a busy signal at their 312 phone number numerous times and did get a recording but . . . see email below that I just sent. Will follow up if I hear from them. I would say . . . don't waste your time.
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To [email protected]
Today at 1:31 PM
So, this is a complete scam.
After trying to call the 312-212-0044 number several times in the last 2 months I was finally able to get thru without a busy signal. After being on hold for 10 minutes the recording then said "All agents are unavailable, please call back at a later time."
Currently on hold at the 866-993-7718 number for 5 minutes "Thank you for your patience, please continue to hold." over and over and over. Nobody there I assume. Will report as a scam along with so many others who have dealt with Mindspay.
Now holding for 7 minutes.
After 8 minutes . . . same recording as above. "All agents are unavailable, please call back at a later time."
Will post as a scam.
Maria
On Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:12 PM, "[email protected]" wrote:
Hi-when you submit for a payment, you get a pop up on your screen with
our verification dept. phone# asking you to call us to verify your
payment request. We have not heard from you to verify this payment
request.
Please call us at 312-212-0044 Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm (CST) (not
12:30-1:30) so we can insure a timely payment.
We ask our members to answer a few basic personal details to make sure
that we can consider it as verified which helps us to keep fraud
related activity in check.
Once your account has been verified, your payment request will be
submitted, and all payments are made directly to your PayPal account
on the 1st or 15th of every month after the mandatory 30 day wait
period from the day you submit for payment if phone verified. (not
weekends or holidays, it will be the next business day)
Thank you,
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All of a sudden my password does not work anymore, as well as the "resend password" link.
You find the same crappy offers on dozens of other portals like inboxdollars, vindale and a zillion more that are more reputable.
This is the information from the BBB which has had numerous complaints for them The address being used by the company of 2885 Sanford Ave SW, #14119, Grandville, MI is actually that of a company by the name of Mailbox Forwarding Inc. The true physical address of Mindspay is unknown:
Mindspay
aka A & A Marketing, Inc.
Nearest Location:
853 N Quentin Rd Ste 207
Palatine, IL 600672031
Headquarters:
113 McHenry Rd Ste 120
Buffalo Grove, IL 600891796
Inboxpays.com
aka A & A Marketing
10685-B Hazelhurst Dr #7902
Houston, TX 77043
113 McHenry Rd Ste 120
Buffalo Grove, IL 600891796
INBOXPAYS:
Nearest Location:
853 N Quentin Rd Ste 207
Palatine, IL 600672031
Headquarters:
113 McHenry Rd Ste 120
Buffalo Grove, IL 600891796
I am thinking it's a scam.
Also- if they send you a weekly email telling you that you are the weekly "winner" of something but it requires you to pay anything to get it- report it to your state attorney general's consumer affair's department. At least in Ohio- that's illegal!