A Guide to the best online paying survey sites in the UK

This page will supply you with the information i wish i had when i started looking for the best paid survey sites and will help you avoid survey scams
I have given priority to sites that are most relevant to the uk but lots of the survey companies listed are also international.
So many sites are get rich quick schemes or total scams promising that if you pay them a certain amount you will be sent surveys paying vast amounts of cash! Not likely! Lots of sites either just want your money for telling you when surveys are available or are just there to sell you something.
All legitimate survey sites pay you. Not vast amounts but the good ones send you regular questionares and it is always them that hands over the cash, not the other way around.
Market research is big business so why should you pay a company. The proper survey sites are getting paid and they pass on a proprtion of this to you.
I have spent an age trawling through all manner of websites and below is what i believe are the best.
Most are traditional dedicated survey sites that send you surveys to complete and the credit you with cash or redeemable points. A few sites work a little differently, such as http://www.squishycash.com
where as well as sending out surveys they have lots of free offers that if you complete them you get paid.It all adds up.

One of the best survey companies is ciao they send out lots of surveys but don't be shocked at the beginning.There are a lot of low paid surveys but stick with it as i did and you will notice things starting to change. I started to get high paid surveys very quickly. I have had lots of £1($2) and £5($10)surveys and an interactive panel event that paid £15($30)!!!! Very nice.

One of the first things to do to save yourself a lot of tedious form filling is to download it will make life much easier and is a fantastic tool. I can't emphasize this enough. Rather than repeatedly filling out your details for each survey site if you do it once in roboform ans save it all it takes is one click and a form is filled out. Simple as that!

The main thing to do with the following list of survey sites is to subscribe to as many as you can. You will never earn much if you only sign up with a few survey sites. The more you sign up to the more surveys you get and the more money you accumulate.

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I hope this mini guide and list has been of help to you and you start earning some extra cash.

The list of what i feel are the best paid online survey sites now follows. It really will help with your survey success. It is not in a definitive order of the best paying but basically i would start at the top and work my way down as there is a rough order to who send out the most surveys and the best opportunities to make money.

Good luck.

acop
ciao
squishycash
pureprofile
freesurveysuk
cashcrate
surveysavvy
yougov
fairexchange
surveyclub
lightspeed
opinionbar
globaltestmarket
surveys.com
ipsos
surveyhead
valuedopinions
toluna
uksurveypanel

If you have had any experience at all in completing online surveys(or trying to) you know there is nothing more annoying than starting and then being screened out half way through. You need to filling the questionnares to the best of your ability so that you suceed.
I'm not saying to lie as this will only come back to haunt you but you need to look at the questions properly at times and think about why you are being asked certain questions and what is the survey looking for.
Surveys that ask about purchases and especially electronics etc are a great example. Think about why they are asking you about such things and ponder about why you are always screened out when all you do is say no to everything about what they are asking. If something nearly fits with what you are being asked use your own judgement if the specific is not there. You get my meaning