We’re all familiar with the concept of taking online surveys in order to make money. Toluna.com is a market research company offering you the chance to do exactly that, with a couple of twists.
First, Toluna.com does not give you direct payouts for every survey you complete like other companies. Instead, they work on a point system. You are given 500 points simply for signing up and at least 1,000 points for every survey you complete. Once you reach 60,000 points, you can redeem these points for cash payouts.
Secondly, they also reward you with being a part of their social network, where you can create polls and opinion forums. The more people respond to your polls, the more points you receive.
Finally, in addition to survey completion, Toluna.com also enters you into a drawing each month for the chance to win up to $2,500 just for being a member. If you choose to, you can exchange 500 of your earned points for an extra entry into the monthly drawing.
So is Toluna.com a Scam?
The rule for determining if a survey company is a scam is whether or not you are charged for participating in surveys. Toluna.com doesn’t charge their members for anything. Your membership and participation are completely free.
Also, Toluna doesn’t make any outright earnings promises. They don’t claim you can quit your day job, they just say you can make extra money.
But there are a couple things to keep in mind for being successful making money for taking surveys online. First, make sure to sign up for multiple companies. Surveys will only be given to you if you fit a very specific demographic. Each survey company may only get a couple of surveys each month for your particular demographic. If you sign up for multiple free survey sites you will be far more likely to get the number of surveys needed to actually make a couple extra hundred dollars a month.
Second, you need to do the research to see exactly how that survey company handles payouts. With Toluna.com, you need to earn points before you can get your payout. With other companies, you need to complete a certain number of surveys before you can be paid out, and with still other companies you need to reach a specific dollar amount before you can be paid out. This is information you should have before you begin spending you can make money taking surveys.
However, I have earned over $500 in around 18 active months on Points2Shop, which has a much better success rate on offers and pays out a lot more than Swagbucks. It’s not the greatest way of making money but if you have a spare 10/20 minutes every day, you can consistently make $3-5 from the comfort of your own home.
Surveys look legit. But Toluna engages in unfair trading practices. Answered seeming legit questions about established products/services. Was definitely in the target demographic. Then at what I felt was probably the end of the surveys, Toluna terminated surveys robbing me of 12,000 points. Need 20,000 to redeem vouchers.
A WASTE OF TIME PPL. AVOID IF YOU'RE EXPECTING ANY REAL POINTS.
Companies looking for survey companies should also avoid Toluna. Not only for their unethical practices, their practices deter your target demographic from engaging with them.
Toluna is engaged to only provide our clients with correct and trustworthy information from our panelists. In order to guarantee the quality of the data we collect, it is necessary to perform periodic checks and remove accounts that supply incorrect data. We are sorry to inform you that your account was flagged as having provided incorrect data on multiple occasions and was therefore deactivated.
Please note that Toluna will always send vouchers that have been ordered before a user was blocked but as explained in our T&C, once the account is blocked all points are forfeited as it is naturally understood that they were acquired fraudulently.
However, if you feel that your account being blocked was unjustified then please contact us at [email protected] and we will be happy take a closer look at your case.
Regards,
The Toluna Team
So sod them they can do this but if you are thinking of joining it is such hard work you give your all and they take advantage I just count the money I have had from them and give all my efforts to other better more loyal sites The better sites out there think more of you !!
Toluna is engaged to only provide our clients with correct and trustworthy information from our panelists. In order to guarantee the quality of the data we collect, it is necessary to perform periodic checks and remove accounts that supply incorrect data. We are sorry to inform you that your account was flagged as having provided incorrect data on multiple occasions and was therefore deactivated.
Please note that Toluna will always send vouchers that have been ordered before a user was blocked but as explained in our T&C, once the account is blocked all points are forfeited as it is naturally understood that they were acquired fraudulently.
However, if you feel that your account being blocked was unjustified then please contact us at [email protected] and we will be happy take a closer look at your case.
Regards,
The Toluna Team
Toluna holds the right to deactivate accounts if the member has either created abuse on Toluna.com by creating spam, harassment, or violence, or if the member has created abuse in surveys by providing wrong answers in multiple surveys or by providing abusive answers.
For abuse on the site, we will warn you before we deactivate your account, but in the case of fraudulent answers in our surveys, the deactivation is automatic and only takes place once the user has been flagged multiple times over an extended period of time.
However, if you feel that your account being blocked was unjustified then please contact us at [email protected] and we will be happy take a closer look at your case and help you in any way we can.
Regards,
The Toluna Team
The very best in my opinion are You Gov and Global, they are very fair.
Best of Luck to all my slave labour mates out there, don't let it steal all your free time. Liz
I did a medical survey for Toluna in December, 2015 and was issued a check dated January 11, 2015. There was a note printed on the check saying it was invalid one year from issue date. My office received the check January 16 which meant the check was invalid.
It took six phone calls and several e-mails before a new check was issued.
The phone #s that worked were 203-846-5814 and 203-846-5853.
It is my opinion that they are avoiding payment.
My physician's assistant also receive a misdated check.
Neuroman
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Thank you for your email. Usually, when you complete a survey, it is listed in your account with the entry "project open" posted next to the number of the survey. Sometimes, it is possible that the participation status in your account is incorrectly displayed as "Prize Draw Entry" instead of “Project Open”, even if you have successfully completed the study. This happens because some of the surveys you take part in are hosted by our clients and there might be a routing issue when you are re-directed to the Toluna site.
However, once we receive from our clients the list of participants who have completed the study, the status always changes and the points are awarded. For this reason I kindly ask you to wait a few weeks for the study to close so that we could check your participation status and credit the points to your account.
Thank you for your understanding.
Have a pleasant day and regards,
I have spent some points for a Voucher, so I will post again if I receive it. Meantime I am wary of doing anymore surveys.