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A word to the wise – Big Spot Surveys
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I have been seeing commercials lately, mostly on the channels that Jake watches, for a website called BigSpot.com.
I have taken notice because I am a big online survey taker and am usually “in the know” when a new one pops up and I had never heard of this one. They advertise it as a paid survey company, meaning they imply that you get surveys directly from them and receive compensation through them. I’m not going to go into great detail about how paid surveys work, you can read more about that here: free paid survey info; I have all kinds of posts about them.
So I finally got around to checking out BigSpot.com and I want to issue a warning to anyone else who may sign up there. BigSpot.com is NOT a free paid survey company in the sense that they do not appear to administer the surveys or pay you for participation. They collect your information and claim to send you information about other free paid survey companies but in the meantime they have your personal information. You do not need to sign up for any site that claims to collect your demographics in order to match you with paid survey or market research companies. I have links to many of the big survey companies and I don’t collect your information. There are also plenty of other online sources that have EXTENSIVE lists who also don’t collect your personal info. Free Paid Surveys.net is my all time favorite.
Now, I have no proof that BigSpot.com does anything with your personal info other than what they claim, in fact they do have a privacy policy, but why sign up for something that you don’t have to and risk handing out your name, email address and zip code to a third party company for NO REASON?
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Thank you for posting this. I was considering signing up for BigSpot myself until I stumbled across your article.
Thanks again for the warning!
Big Spot is nothing but a scam and a waste of time. Any time they give you a survey to do YOu get about halfway through it and it always sends you back to the home page saying you do not qualify. DON’T waste your time
BigSpot, BigScam, Why does the FCC allow these scammers to operate and run advertising on the airwaves. Their routine is to have you sign up and register with your personal information and promise you cash rewards for participating in various surveys. The catch is after every time you complete a survey,a message appears saying you don’t qualify for this survey. Therefore, you don’t receive any compensation. That’s ok because I gave yhem so much BS information I have scewed all their data. I encourage everyone to do the same. Sign up, give as much false information as possible, and screw them as they have done to all the honest people they have taken advantage of.
thank you so much for that info, i just seen that commercial on tv and i was going for it until i read what you had said about them thanks for the heads up
Nice post. There’s absolutely no point in joining Bigspot.com, especially when you can get join all the panels for free without giving away your personal info. I guess that who ever created the site just wasted a huge chunk of their time!
THIS SIGHT IS B.S. EVERY COMPANY YOU SIGN UP TO YOU GET ASKE PERSONEL QUESTIONS AND ALL YOOU WIN ON ALL ARE CHANCES TO WIN DDRAWINGS. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME.
wooh thats bad