Maximumpaidsurveys.com (Scam alert!)

Matt here!

Well, there isn't really a scam alert. More like a "pay attention to what you're paying for" alert. As a disclaimer, I was always curious about Maximumpaidsurvey.com since the day I started doing my research on paid online surveys a few months ago. It always seemed so legitimate! I should have paid attention to the rating it received from the Better Business Bureau. It got an “unsatisfactory” score, but only because they refused to refund someone. All it had was one single complaint and I assumed that it would be more honest than it actually was. (Shame on me!)

This would be a really great time to mention that BBB (Better Business Bureau) should be your main resource for evaluating sites before you sign up to them. I will do a post later on what to watch out for when searching for online money making opportunities. Always be cautious, always be skeptical, and always make sure that the sites you sign up for are legitimate. Also, you will always read me saying this: NEVER give away your personal information without being satisfied that the company you’re signing up for has a detailed privacy policy! NEVER. EVER.

I signed up for Maximumpaidsurveys.com today. It cost 40 dollars and is worth maybe 2. The site is simple... a 10 year old could have made it. All it consists of is a giant database of survey companies and mystery shopping companies. Standard rules apply in that all the sites listed require you to apply for them. Same-old tedious job of filling out form after form.

I will say that the site does have some moderately useful resources (about 3-ebooks on affiliate marketing, WAHM or work at home moms, and online auctioning) and the data bases ARE useful albeit not very well organized. Strangely though, some of the sites that is on the databases have been known to be scam sites. Not quite sure why MPS tries to pass themselves off as being legitimate while promoting these scam sites. I would exercise the same caution used when dealing with any online site that asks for some personal information. I would like to say that MMS is nothing like how it is being advertised. It is definitely not worth the 40 dollars spent to access this information which is all easily learned with a few hours of online research.

It’s important to realize that if you decide to sign up for this program you aren’t subscribing to anything. You’re merely buying access to a few data bases. It is possible to get referrals from this site. If you buy access, you can make about 26-27 dollars selling it to others. That, however, in my opinion would be scamming people hence I will REFUSE to post the referral links. As far as I’m concerned, this site is dishonest, deceiving, and misleading in that it does not offer the product it advertises.

On the bright side of things, I will use the resources to further my online survey research. I will try to bring the legitimate ones to you! So don’t worry, you don’t have to pay 40 dollars to access this crap. Till then, into the scam site category maximumpaidsurveys.com goes!

Disclaimer: I will not release any information that is exclusive to Maximumpaidsurveys.com.