Friday, March 6, 2009

Frugal Friday: Magazine Subscriptions for a click

I have tried many survey sites, but only one has really come through as worthy. That is www.e-rewards.com. There are several things that you can get in exchange for your survey dollars--discounts on purchases at several online merchants, frequent flyer miles--but the one thing I use my rewards for is magazine subscriptions.

When I first signed up with them, I was skeptical. I'd tried several others before them, and ended up answering a lot of surveys that seemingly went on forever only to be told, oops, sorry, you don't qualify! No points for you! But the difference I found with e-rewards is that even if you don't qualify for the survey, you still get paid (and they tell you up front, within the first couple of questions, if you don't qualify). A quarter, fifty cents, depends on the survey. But none of them come back with No Soup For You!

And the actual surveys, when you complete one, only take a couple of minutes. Maybe five minutes, tops. I do one or two surveys a week, delivered right to my email, do a little click-click, and watch as my account fills with dollars for me to redeem. Most of my surveys pay between $2 and $7, and the minimum account balance for redemption is $10.

I've always been a big subscriber to magazines. So getting them for a click is saving me a lot of cash. I currently have e-rewards subscriptions to:

Woman's Day
Family Fun
Smithsonian
Car and Driver
Body & Soul

That's what? $75-$80 worth of subscriptions for a few minutes of my time? I deem that worthy.

3 comments:

darcknyt said...

That's pretty interesting. It's nice to know someone who's used those online survey things successfully. :)

Cheryl said...

I know, a lot of them are bogus, or too complicated and time-consuming to be worth it.

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