Those who follow know my story. I'm a physician and do a lot of market research surveys as a 2nd income. I post the results every month. I actually work for a lot of different companies in the course of doing this. When I say a lot, I mean in the 25-30 range, so it can sometimes be hard to keep track of it all.
This morning, I logged into one site. I had done a survey for them last night and noticed that I was eligible for another so I went on to see if I could do it. I screened out but while there I checked my earnings history.
Much to my surprise, it showed that I had a balance of $330 in my account. This company used to automatically pay any earnings to my Paypal account. Apparently, they stopped doing that at the beginning of September. Now, the earnings accumulate in my account and I can go in and collect them in various ways - requesting a check, a prepaid Visa card, an Amazon credit, or shopping from a merchandise catalog.
There are some benefits (which I'm not entirely clear on - I need to read the details) of keeping a $100 balance in the account so I put in a request to be sent a $230 check. It should come in about 2 weeks, so that will give my December income number a nice little boost. From now on, I'll certainly remember to pay more attention to this particular company site. No reason to let them hold so much of my money.
"Found" $330 of survey income
November 23rd, 2013 at 02:01 pm
November 23rd, 2013 at 03:18 pm 1385219900
November 23rd, 2013 at 03:48 pm 1385221701
"As a member of Sermo, you are given opportunities to participate in surveys pertaining to your specialty. At times, these surveys fill very quickly before you are able to participate. Selecting to be in preferred status will help with this scenario by giving you prioritized notifications of surveys available for you. To qualify for preferred status, your balance will need to stay at $100 or above. The qualification is immediate as well as disqualification. When withdrawing your funds, you receive a notification if you are about to lose Preferred Status or tell you how far you are from obtaining this status."
So by maintaining a $100 balance, I get notified of the surveys first before those who don't have "preferred status." It is true that surveys fill pretty quickly so this is a legitimate perk and well worth parking $100 there.
November 23rd, 2013 at 09:49 pm 1385243375
November 24th, 2013 at 07:03 pm 1385319795