Why Don't People Want Free Money?
August 28th 2007 15:14
I have been taking surveys for almost two years now and a few months ago signed up with an ING direct savings account to get MUCH better interest than I was making at my bank.
While I haven’t made billions of dollars from my surveys, I have been making more lately than when I started. For instance, over the summer I had almost $100 sent to me. As it stands, I have $115 waiting for me to cash out.
As for ING direct, I’ve made a little over $10 free dollars in interest since mid-May. If I had kept it in my regular brick-and-mortar bank, I would have made about a quarter. (Not a quarter of $10, but a quarter as in 25 cents).
With both of these, I’ve tried to get friends and family in on the action. Only one of my friends has actually signed up with some of the survey groups. Guess what? She made money! (And she actually made money more quickly than I did). With the online savings account, I tried to get some of my family to sign up to get the $25 bonus for themselves. Apparently, they want no part of it. I even told many of my friends about it, (by now they know I’m a finance fanatic), but apparently they couldn’t use free money either.
Why is this? Do people not trust the sites? Do my friends and family not trust me? I’m really not quite sure what the answer is. All of the survey sites I’ve told them about are ones I’ve signed up for myself. I would never tell them to do something I myself haven’t tried.
Why wouldn’t you want to make an extra $200 - $300 bucks a year?
While I haven’t made billions of dollars from my surveys, I have been making more lately than when I started. For instance, over the summer I had almost $100 sent to me. As it stands, I have $115 waiting for me to cash out.
As for ING direct, I’ve made a little over $10 free dollars in interest since mid-May. If I had kept it in my regular brick-and-mortar bank, I would have made about a quarter. (Not a quarter of $10, but a quarter as in 25 cents).
With both of these, I’ve tried to get friends and family in on the action. Only one of my friends has actually signed up with some of the survey groups. Guess what? She made money! (And she actually made money more quickly than I did). With the online savings account, I tried to get some of my family to sign up to get the $25 bonus for themselves. Apparently, they want no part of it. I even told many of my friends about it, (by now they know I’m a finance fanatic), but apparently they couldn’t use free money either.
Why is this? Do people not trust the sites? Do my friends and family not trust me? I’m really not quite sure what the answer is. All of the survey sites I’ve told them about are ones I’ve signed up for myself. I would never tell them to do something I myself haven’t tried.
Why wouldn’t you want to make an extra $200 - $300 bucks a year?
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Comment by Anonymous
I'm also with a couple of these places and yes it is a great way of earning some tax-free dosh. Do any of them have a joining fee? I think I'm going to do more if they don't have a fee
Thanks for the info,
Tracy
Comment by Ashley
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