One of the better survey sites (globaltestmarket.com)

Member Name: soutram

Product:	globaltestmarket.com
Date:	09/09/09 (111 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Get sent lots of surveys and don't get screened out of very many

Disadvantages: Takes a while to receive payment

I am a member of quite a few survey sites and apart from Lightspeed Panel I would say that this is one of my favorites, I have been a member of this site for around a year now and have received two cheques to date so I thought it's about time I wrote a review about the site.

Globaltestmarket.com is another one of the vast research companies out there, you join up and they send you surveys to find out what products you purchase or what you think of certain adverts or even get you to look at a new advertising campaigns to find out what your opinion of it is.

They are an American company but all of the surveys you get sent a relevant to you (lots of British companies use them), when you join the ask you to fill out a few profile surveys (Household, Travel, Employment, Financial, Technology, Medical, Vehicle) so they can then send any relevant surveys you way.

The Site:
The site is very easy to navigate, when you go to www.globaltestmarket.com you are greeted by there home page which on the right hand side gives you a short list on how the company works then if you decide you wish to join just hit the get started button, this then takes you to a short form that you have to fill in with name and address, date of birth emails address etc.

Once you have done all of that you can the start to fill in the profile surveys which will enable you to get more paid surveys sent to you (these don't take very long to fill in and you can update them at any point if your circumstances change).

Its quite a basic website, once you have logged in you only have a couple fo pages you can look at: My Details - this is where you name, address etc is stored, Surveys - This is where the profile surveys are & any other surveys you may have been invited to but not yet completed, Market Points - This shows you how many market points you have and this is also where you redeem them, Sweepstakes - Some surveys give you entries into the sweepstake, in this section you can read the rules and conditions etc, Contact Us - This page has a form you fill in if you wish to contact Global and finally the Blog - This just gives you updates on payments etc.

Surveys:
On average I get sent about two surveys a day (this can vary though, sometimes I get none & other times I get four), Its not very often I get screened out of the surveys, I would say this happens to me about 25% of the time but if I do then I still get rewarded 5 market point.

Surveys tend to reward you with 10 - 50 market points (of 5 if screened out), they on average tend to take around 15 - 25 mins to complete and are usually very straight forward (usually a load of options and you tick which ones apply)

Rewards
As I just mentioned you get on average 10 - 50 market points for a survey, each market point if worth 5 cents. You cant redeem your market points untill you have a minimum of 1000, this is then converted into $50 (using Expedia currency converter this amounts to £30.51).

Once you have selected to redeem your market points Global send you a cheque, this can take six - eight weeks to arrive (which is one downside to the company), I think I have been lucky though because both my payments arrived within four weeks.

As I mentioned I have been a member for about a year or so now and have received two cheques from them, this does not sound a lot I know but I don't tend to do all of the surveys that I get sent (I don't always have time or sometimes just cant be bothered) , I would imagine if I completed all of the surveys then I probably would have received a couple more cheques on top of the ones I have already received.

Summary: One of the better survey sites with good rewards and plenty of surveys