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.
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Hi-your attachments were not a print screen attachment of the confirmation email sent from the advertiser, so no credit was given.
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MindsPay Support
This after 4 months of going back and forth. SO, instead of explaining more clearly to you how to do a print screen (just in case you're not as geeky as they think you should be) this is the kind of thing you get.
I'm sure they get plenty of $$ for giving all of your information out to all of these companies - but they don't want to pay you for your info - and then you get spammed to death on top of it all.
My suggestion . . . don't bother - it's not all they promised it to be - and now they've changed the rules so you won't ever get paid for just reading their emails . . .
I worked my way up to about $45, a mere $5 away from getting a payout. Then, without warning when I checked my account it showed that $25 of that was separated because I'd reached my paid-e-mail maximum.
So if I wanted to make it to the $50 mark, I had another $25 to go, and they COULDN'T be from paid e-mails. So the rest of that $20 was useless to me.
To say that I was livid is an understatement. Nowhere when I signed up or in any of the documentation I read did it say this would happen. I got no prior warning, and my suspicion is they do this when people get close to a payout so they don't actually have to pay them.
I've cancelled my account and strongly urge anyone considering signing up with them to just move on. It seems like a good thing, get paid a few cents for opening an e-mail, but you're just wasting your time.
They are never, ever going to pay you.
blantant refusal of payment, false advertising, intentionally scamming people. that's bullshit....don't blame yourself....blame the scammers
NOW i'm quibbling with them over a stupid $.25 that I'm supposed to have received for winning one of their daily facebook polls, but they won't pay me.
And now they have blocked me from posting on their facebook wall because of this.
SCAMMERS is the correct term for them.
December 13th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Seems like it, you are correct. Why has the world become such a bad place full of SCAMMERS?"
It's a safe business, making money from ignorance and stupidity - because there's a thousand new suckers born every minute!
Seriously people... Read, study, and review sites like these before you put your time into them, if you get caught up in one of these schemes, you've only got yourselves to blame...
But this is not the reason for my negative review. What I found to be the most discouraging was the types of "surveys" they were asking I take part in. Every email I received (and yes I went back to check), turned out to be ploys disguised as i.e. a $250 gift card to any store in America, if you answer just a few short questions! But if you scroll down and read the fine print, it states that they are in no way affiliated with said store, they are an independent company, and in order to be considered for the gift card you must sign up for (in other words, give your credit card number to) 12 to 14 offers.
Now, said offers are legitimate, from established companies and are also what most would consider to be a good deal or bargain (there are quite a few that are trial periods, but still require a credit card and you must remember to cancel at the end of the trial in order to not be charged). All of this is what one must do for every such survey or it will not be completed and you will not be compensated the $1 - $2 from Minds Pay.
So just imagine how many offers, trials, exams, tests (and so on) you have to participate in to earn the required $50 to make the very first withdrawal from your account. It would be endless and there is the obvious risk of forgetting to cancel the 7 trial offers you committed to for just one little ol' survey! This review is A LOT more in depth and detailed than I had in mind when I began, and I apologize for taking up so much of your time! But I do hope that someone will find this useful. 'Nuff said!
I came here after I Googled "MindsPay Scam" just for info.
Glad I didn't commit!
Laters!