If youve ever played the lottery than you have some idea what paid surveys are like.
Surveys used to be a bit like telemarketing calls; disinterested pollsters would contact you at inconvenient times and rush through questions and even lead you along from time to time in how to best answer their question.
Today many surveys take place online with an offer to pay the participant for their time.
This idea seems a bit like free money to many who will flock to a paid survey site and fill out as many profiles as possible in order to gain their share of the paid survey market.
The problem is these well meaning and hard working individuals often do not hear back from the polling organizations.
These sites are barraged with an incredible number of applicants willing to take online surveys. Odds are not everyone will be allowed to participate.
Paid survey companies have the luxury of being able to pinpoint the specific type of subject they wish to invite to the survey. This means that profiles are sorted according to a very specific need and then a small handful in that group is allowed to participate.
Its sort of like finding that one...