Unless this is the first website you have come across with information regarding participating in online surveys you'll have run across the type of site I'm about to discuss.

There are literally hundreds of these sites on the web paying BIG DOLLARS in advertising for the kind of words you are likely to type into Google, Yahoo etc when you want to get some background information on the legitimacy of getting paid for surveys.

These sites claim to have done all the hard work for you. They claim that their independent reviewers have put in countless hours signing up for and investigating all the membership fee sites and have the shocking findings for you...

They claim the vast majority are scams, and that they have found the truly valuable two or three that you should join. The stand above the crowd two or three that will live up to all the claims. The two or three that you can trust because of their independent review.

Want to know the secret?

In my view these review sites are the scams. I suspect that most have not paid and signed up for any of the sites they profess to have completed thorough reviews of and I am willing to wager that PaidSurveysEtc is No#1 on most of these independent site review lists at the time of writing because PaidSurveysEtc is the "broker" that pays its "reviewers" or affiliates the highest commission at this time. Not because PaidSurveysEtc is any better or worse than any other Paid Survey Membership Fee site.

When you read the review and you are convinced to click on the link that takes you to the membership fee paying site and sign up - the "independent" reviewer gets as much a 75% commission of the fee that you just paid.

Does that alter your view of such independent reviews?

Have a look at an excerpt on our Survey Scams page from the Better Business Bureau Report on PaidSurveysEtc to see the type of company many of these "independent" review sites are promoting.