Paid survey opportunities are paying jobs in which you get paid cold cash to give your opinions and observations about a recent shopping or other consumer experience. In short, you can get PAID to shop & dine!

Thousands of companies will PAY you to go to a movie, shop and buy things, eat in different restaurants, test websites, test new and exciting products before anyone else knows about them, and much, much more. After accepting your assignment you simply complete their survey, which is often an online survey or satisfaction survey and share your thoughts, feelings and experiences with the company that hired you. It’s that easy!

Virtually anyone who can communicate verbally and in basic written form and can complete an honest survey can do surveys for cash. You don’t need to have access to the internet for many types of paid surveys, but to complete a web survey or an internet survey you obviously need access to the internet, even if that access is at your public library.

Some examples of paid internet surveys might be new websites that want people like you to test them and then complete a satisfaction survey to tell the company how you would rate the site’s usability, functionality, and features. On another paid survey you might be asked to visit a local submarine sandwich shop, place an order, eat it and then fill out a paid survey to give your thoughts and experiences. Did the food taste good? Was it hot? Did the employees give you your receipt? Were the uniforms clean? Was the store clean? Were the employees courteous and professional? A paid survey can involve only a few question or solicit other types of feedback or they can be quite complex. Generally speaking, the more complex and/or time consuming a paid survey job is, the more it pays.

On yet another assignment you might be asked to buy an item of clothing from a particular retailer, or a gourmet cup of coffee, or an oil change… or to watch a TV commercial and then fill out a fun online survey afterward. Some simple paid surveys may only require that you go to a store and fill out a report explaining how your employer’s product was being displayed.

Getting paid to do a single online survey or other single paid survey doesn’t pay well enough per survey to earn a living, but if you do lots of paid surveys you can earn a considerable amount of money simply giving your opinions about different shopping and dining experiences, and you can have a lot of fun in the process.

Not a bad job, huh?

One of the fun aspects of doing paid surveys for a living is that you always find money in your mail box!

Most people that do paid surveys for a living are independent contractors. Generally speaking, your employer will not take taxes out of your paychecks and you won’t punch a time clock. As a self-employed person there may be substantial tax savings available to you for working in this manner. You should talk to a qualified tax and/or business advisor concerning these types of paid survey issues. Because most paid survey companies are required to report your income to the Internal Revenue Service at the end of the year, they will require your social security number. For this reason and others, please be absolutely certain that you can fully trust any paid survey company that you give this important information to. There have been incidents in which people reported various security problems, ranging from identity theft to unauthorized charges on their credit cards, after signing up for a paid survey job or internet survey job.

Not all paid survey jobs or paid survey websites are legitimate. Honest paid survey jobs never charge a fee for you to work for them. To find HONEST paid survey companies you can try to screen the companies yourself (be careful!) or use a website that has already pre-screened them. One website, www.moneyfromhome.com, pre-screens all different types of work at home jobs, including paid survey, mystery shopping and web survey jobs, and only publishes scam-free listings at their website which is available to members for a reasonable fee. The peace of mind and convenience of having hundreds and hundreds of scam-free work at home job listings is worth the small fee to many people.

Happy shopping & dining for cash.