ValuedOpinions.com is another paid survey website run by parent company Research Now Ltd. Once you sign up for Valued Opinions, you will begin to receive survey emails, with each survey estimated to take anywhere between 15-20 minutes to complete, and monetary compensation ranging anywhere from $1-$5 per typical survey.
Valued Opinions will also send you something called “Hot Topics” surveys. These are not paid surveys – instead they are simple questions Valued Opinions needs you to answer to determine whether or not you qualify for upcoming surveys. These should not take up much of your time, but again, they are not paid.
Now, while Valued Opinions does assign monetary value to each survey, they don’t actually pay you in currency. Instead, they have a rewards system where once you have acquired $20 in value, you can redeem that for a voucher. Depending on where you live – Valued Opinions is a multi-national company – your options for vouchers will be different, but US customers report being able to redeem their rewards for Amazon gift cards, amongst others.
You can receive your vouchers in two ways. One, you may request them to be sent to your home. If you do this, it takes up to 28 days for delivery. Or, you may request an e-voucher, in which case you will be emailed your voucher almost immediately.
So is Valued Opinions a Scam?
Remember, paid survey companies are not a recommended way to make a living from home, but they can be good to make extra money each month. As long as a survey company honors it’s payouts and does not require any fees to participate, it is not considered a scam.
Valued Opinions requires no fees to sign up or to retain membership, and customers report receiving their vouchers in decent time frames and being able to redeem them no problem.
Some customers do make claims of being frustrated by how often they are disqualified from surveys, but this is a common problem with all paid survey companies. Unfortunately, at this time it does not appear that Valued Opinions gives points for trying to complete a survey, which some companies do offer.
But remember, if you’re trying to make money taking surveys, always sign up for more than one company so you’re assured of receiving enough survey invitations to actually make money.
I completed my first set of surveys to the total of $20 and filled out the application along with my address details. I have 2 weeks and I sent an email asking what was happening with the voucher and why I hadn't received it yet. They sent one email back saying that my voucher was processed and had been sent off. I then waited another 5 days for the voucher but still nothing. I emailed them once again, and could you believe it they replied saying the previous email they sent me was an error in their system, and that they needed my address to send it off!! Talk about excuses grr! So I then told them I had already sent off my delivery address with the order, but sent it through again anyway. They then emailed me back saying "Your voucher is now being processed, please allow up to 28 days for delivery". 28 DAYS! Are you kiddding me? the amount of money they rip off people with is appalling, now I wouldn't be so angry about this if the voucher wasn't planned for my sons christmas present, but I guess now he has to wait :( And I probably won't even get it thanks to their STUFF UPS!!!
Like many other other survey places, they don't pay you if you don't qualify. The difference is that with this British Company they will ask you as many as 20 very probing questions before deciding you don't qualify. Really?!!! I contend they get free answers from you to use and pretend that you don't qualify so as not to pay you. I have had enough. As soon as I earn enough to get my $20 whatever, I am gone. I have been with them a long time and have made next to nothing. They are USERS and dare i say SCAMMERS. I have emailed them over and over about the problem, they usually don't answer. This is not worth the time nor frustration.