Qmee

What is Qmee?

Qmee is an online survey site that promises to pay you to answer survey questions. But many respondents spend all their time “screening” rather than earning.

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How it works

If you sign up for the app, you’ll be presented with a number of surveys that you can take for pay. Once you complete a survey, you are credited with the promised amount. And, if you want, you can cash out immediately through PayPal.

There is no minimum cash-out amount, which is an advantage over other survey sites that typically require you to accumulate $5 or $10 to cash out. (You can sign up with Qmee here.)

Qmee review

Like many survey sites, Qmee promises to pay you for answering questions for product researchers. However, the pay is slight and respondents maintain that they often spend 10 or 20 minutes answering “screening” questions, only to be told that they don’t qualify to take the paid survey.

Qmee sometimes does pay you when you’re disqualified. But this consolation-prize pay is generally less than the promised pay for the whole survey. It usually amounts to between 25 and 75 cents.

Even if you do get paid, pay won’t come close to minimum wage. You may make $2 or $3 per hour.

Par for the course

This, by the way, is pretty standard. Most survey sites pay pocket change — if they pay at all — to get you to answer a whole bunch of questions about you, your buying habits and your opinions.

By and large, these sites are recommended by sites that are getting paid to send them customers through so-called affiliate relationships. While we also have affiliate relationships, we refuse to mislead you about the earnings prospects of any site we review. We think survey sites are generally a good thing to do when you’re stuck on jury duty and have no better alternative. But otherwise aren’t worth your time.

Recommendations

There are some exceptions, however. Sites like Respondent, UserInterviews, and Prolific will pay you considerably more, if you qualify for a survey. However, they’re also interested in far more detailed information. If you’re enlisted for a survey here, they’ll set up an appointment and interview you one-on-one or they’ll include questions that are designed to make sure you’re paying close attention. If you fail the attention portion of the survey, you don’t get paid.

In other words, you can’t really do those surveys while watching t.v. or waiting for a flight. So if you want a way to kill time that will earn you a few bucks, you can sign up with Qmee here. And you can find similar surveys with SurveyJunkie and Swagbucks.

But if you have unfettered free time and want to earn money, look elsewhere. If you need ideas, take our quiz.

What their users say (from the Apple App Store)

“More than half of the surveys cheat you out of your reward for answering surveys or cheat on time. For instance, a seven minute survey for $1.54, ends up requiring nearly twenty minutes. And as you pass the seven minute mark to ten, it will decline you. Then it either gives you a partial payment such as 0.27, or no reward at all. Lots of these surveys also ask for too much personal information such address, email, phone numbers and social security numbers!! Why is this happening without repercussions?

“A friend recommended this application and I can tell you that a normal day I do 30 to 20 dollars. It is even more incredible because you can withdraw your funds at any time.”

‘Qualification’ surveys

“I’ve encountered some surveys that are very deceiving. After taking what appears to be the actual survey (not qualification questions), the survey ends with “sorry but not qualified to take survey.” Meanwhile, I’ve put in time answering all the questions and even watched the video. The latest one of these deceiving surveys is one I just did that made me so annoyed that I decided to update this review. It was for “American Gods”, a series on Starz. I wish there was a way to report dishonest surveys like this. Fortunately, I’ve only encountered a handful of these bad surveys, most have been honest.”

“I’ve done 3-4 surveys where I’ve spent 30-45 minutes answering all the questions, giving plenty of thought to my answers and detailed answers to open ended questions, just to be told at the end that my survey was not ‘accepted’. I answered every single question asked and the people collecting the survey data have the entire completed survey with all my answers. Why then am I not getting my promised compensation?”

“The best part of this app is it pays INSTANT TO PAYPAL AND THERE’S NO MINIMUM CASHOUT.”