A friend of mine was recently wondering how she
could make a few extra bucks. A lot of people are, these days.
My friend is usually pretty savvy about all these
‘work at home’ schemes you see advertised on the internet. She’s looked into a lot
of them over the years, and she’s learned to ignore all the hype. But this one
didn’t have all that hype, it all sounded very above-board and fairly
believable.
She signed up. She got a $5.00 bonus for doing so,
and was promised she would be paid – yes, actually paid – for every survey she
completed.
The next day, she sat down, intending to spend an
hour filling out surveys and see how it went. After 2 ½ hours, she finally had
enough and signed out of that website. She had made 50 cents, and isn’t sure
how she had done that. When she calmed down, we talked about her latest
experience.
“It had me fooled at first few,” she admitted. “After
a while, I realized they were all yes-no questions; Do you suffer from back
pain? Do you have allergies? That sort of thing. Then I realized that every
time I answered ‘yes’ to anything,
I was shunted to another ‘survey’. And that survey was set up exactly like the
first, even asking the same questions. So if I answered ‘yes’ to a question in
the 2nd ‘survey’, I was shunted to another survey.”
“Sounds like it would be impossible to make any
progress,” I suggested.
“Right. So I stopped worrying about giving
‘honest’ answers, and just answered ‘no’ to everything. Then I got to the end
of one of those ‘layered’ surveys, and I was asked to choose 2 of the following
wonderful offers.”
“Uh oh.”
“You know it. First, they didn’t offer anything I
actually wanted. Second, if I had chosen even 1 of those ‘wonderful’ offers, I
would have paid out far more than I would make on the survey. And third, if I
did NOT choose any offers, my survey was not considered complete.”
“Bummer.”
“Yeah. I should have known better. Lesson learned.
Again.”
She’s still looking for a way to make a few extra
bucks.
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