SurveyMoneyMachine.com is not a market research company. It is a website run by a woman named Hailey Gates who claims to have compiled a list of legitimate, high paying survey companies. She allows you access to this list for free simply by signing up with her website.
Once you enter your email address, you’ll be sent a confirmation email that you must respond to in order to get access to Hailey’s list of survey sites. Her list includes lots of well known survey sites that we’ve reviewed here in the past.
Survey Money Machine also emails you two direct links to survey companies everyday specifically asking you to sign up for those companies. Hailey claims that the more companies you sign up for, the more likely you are to make money, so she specifically requests that you sign up for at least 14 and preferably 20 different survey companies.
So is Survey Money Machine a Scam?
Well, Survey Money Machine does not charge you any money to receive the survey list or to participate in any of the surveys, so in general, the answer should be that it’s not a scam.
The problem with Survey Money Machine, however, is the outrageous earnings claims made on the sales page of the website. Hailey Gates claims you can make between $150 and $300 a day taking surveys. Anyone who knows anything about making money taking online surveys knows this simply isn’t true.
Taking surveys in exchange for money, prizes, or rewards will generally earn you a couple extra hundred dollars a month in cash and services, and that’s after you sign up with many different companies like Hailey recommends.
Survey Money Machine also claims that if you don’t earn between $25 and $150 in the first hour of trying to make money taking surveys, then Haily Gates will write you a personal check for $100. Well, the problem with this is that the money you’re “earning” is most likely bonus money companies award your account once you sign up. If you sign up with a couple different companies within the first hour, you could accumulate $25 or more in bonus money.
But the problem is each company has a level of earnings you have to reach before you are paid out. So even though you’ve accumulated $25, it’s spread out over multiple companies, that each have their own rules and regulations about how to cash out your earnings. You will not be receiving a $25-$150 check within one hour of signing up with Survey Money Machine.
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I also feel that we actually do the WHOLE survey. Meaning, once we reach the end of the survey, we're told we do not qualify to complete the survey - even though we just completed it.
So, they get their surveys done for free, or maybe a fraction of what was initially promised to the worker.
Seems sneaky. I stopped doing it. Took too long. What i really hated and saw as a scam was when i did a lot of the questions on several surveys and was then told i didn't qualify after all the work i had just done. It seems rigged so that they GET their surveys DONE and WE all GET DUPED in the process.
I will not waste my time with SCAM ARTIST. My fishing buddy is a retired layer and we both have more money than we will ever spend
paying survey companies there are. after taking at least an hour to fill out everything they wanted to know about me, and it was extensive, and after i was all done then they told me about the payouts. it seems to work on a point system. i have to earn 1000 pts before i can cash them in. i earn 10 pts per survey. so that would require 10 surveys per day for 10 days, which i think would take at least 3 hours a day, would earn me $20. i don`t think that`s anybody`s idea of a "money machine". but hey! they also enter you in a sweepstakes to win goods or money. i didn`t check into the odds of winning that though.
I was interested in the Survey Money Machine until I Googled and found this review site. Great help for me making a decision not to pursue taking surveys to make money.
For health reasons (back and recent heart attack) I am unable to work outside my home, but absolutely MUST find something to pay the bills and heavy debt load.
It would be FANTASTIC if people would mention something they find that actually does work, where you can trust the company will pay you, and is not out to rip you off or scam you, now or down the road. Everybody seems to be an affiliate for something or another, so even recommendations are not to trust.
I gave up looking online for a few years and got completely off the web. About a year or so ago, I got back online and see that nothing has changed. My trust in what I see online is gone.
Thanks again Glen for your posting!
For those 6 months, my accumulated points earned me just UNDER $20!!!!
About 25 cents an hour, AND, you don't even get cash, you get a gift card to Amazon, or some other company!