Are you into taking online surveys for money? If yes, you must have come across Point Club Surveys. Well, I guess you might be thinking of earning points with this site. Please, don’t just get into it without reading our Point Club review.
What you should know is, points don’t pay bills — so you have to check if this company can really make you some real money.
The good news is, I’m going to cover just about everything that has to do with Point Club Survey so you can decide if those points are for you or not. Let’s get to it!
Point Club Surveys Review – Video Version
I know many of you prefer watching a video review instead of reading a text. Therefore, I decided to record you a PointClub video review where I explain whether this opportunity is worth it or not.
In the end of the video, I also show a $1,472 income proof from one more profitable website and I explain how you can get started as well.
Point Club Review
Name: Point Club
Type: Online surveys
Founded: Unknown. At the moment operated by Innovate Market Research in the U.S.
Overall Rank: 30 Out of 100
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What is Point Club? – Same Owners as iPoll!
Point Club is a website that gives you the chance to make money completing online surveys. The site is actually owned and operated by Innovative Market Research which is also in charge of iPoll. For the most part, the site is free to join, and the sign-up process is simple.
You probably remember the story of iPoll? It didn’t end up very well and I am not sure if they pay anything for their users anymore. Anyway, let’s have a look is Point Club tells us a different story.
Once you become part of the club, you’ll be required to fill out your profile — the information you provided will be used to serve you surveys. You can join Point Club via Facebook or the website’s sign up page. Fast and easy so far.
How Does Point Club Work?
Well, Point Club gives you points for each survey you complete. In essence, the use points as their currency instead of cash. For the most part, 1000 points equal $1.
Using points is a trick by several survey sites. They do it because it gives you a feeling that you are earning well even though in reality you are earning only cents. Imagine getting a bonus of 100 points! Then compare that to getting a measly 10-cent bonus.
Let’s get more into detail how earning money and points work in this club.
How to Earn With Point Club?
Members of this site make money by completing online surveys. Each survey is usually last for 5 to 30 minutes. The thing is, each survey will let you know how much you’re likely to earn as well as the amount of time required to complete them. Registered members can also earn from PointClub’s 10,000 points daily giveaway which is more like making $10 a day.
What’s more? Well, there’s also a good chance of earning rewards when you take part in activities such as promotions, offers, games, videos weekly polls, and contests. Notice that your earnings with these mini-tasks will be ultimately small. Practically, you are just collecting cents.
I would metaphorically say that if you are completing tasks on Point Club or in any other similar website, you are like picking up cents on the street.
One cent, second cent, third cent and so on. After spending an hour or two you realized that you have only earned a less than $2-3 per hour.
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What About a Big $5 Sign-Up Bonus?
You can also earn free points up that 5,000 points ($5) by completing profile surveys, confirming your email address and connecting to Facebook and Google.
It sounds pretty nice to earn $5 for just signing up. But I know after reviewing 60 similar websites that there is a catch. What is it?
PointClub has many cash and gift cards options — you can freely choose the one tickles your fancy. The points you earn can be redeemed for gift cards from Amazon, Target, iTunes, Home Depot and Visa prepaid cards. Their minimum cashout is $25, so you’ll have to earn 25,000 points to get paid cash via PayPal. Another option is to take gift cards and they will send you them via email within 72 hours.
It means that you will not get your $5 sign up bonus right away. On the contrary, you need to spend endless hours answering surveys and accomplishing little tasks to make it to $25. It brings us to the next question:
How Much Money Can You Make with PointClub?
As I mentioned earlier, you can earn money by completing surveys and tasks but you should know that surveys vary in value. You can earn between 500 to 5,000 from an average survey. 1,000 points equals $1 and 5,000 points equal $5.
It sounds better than good. You are probably thinking, “$5 per survey! I go to fill them out immediately.” Please, wait a second.
$5 is a maximum that you can earn from one survey. Most likely you will earn something closer to $0,50. In addition, there are not so many surveys available. Let’s have a look what their members are saying about Point Club.
Point Club Reviews and Complaints
You can easily see in these reviews how hard it is to become qualified into surveys. Point Club wants you to fit exactly before they are going to qualify you. Most of the time you just get a message like, “Sorry, unfortunately, you were disqualified of this survey. Better luck next time!”
You are starting to understand why they are able to give $5 sign up bonus.
Point Club Support – Are They Responsive?
Point Club support is like a double-edged sword. On the other hand, they are answering all reviews about their service on Surveypolice. However, some people are reporting that they have a bad support and that they don’t care about their customers.
In my opinion, Point Club support level is not a reason to refuse their service because they will respond and try to solve your issues. But you shouldn’t join their service just because of support. You want to get some other benefits as well, right?
Conclusion – Is PointClub Legit a Scam?
Despite some complaints, Point Club is not a scam. They are paying members who have diligently collected enough points for cash out.
But as you found out in our Point Club review, it takes lots of time to reach that cashout limit. If you start calculating your hourly salary from registering to your first cash out, it would probably be like $2-3 per hour maximum if you have a fast Internet connection.
If you are living in the U.S. or Europe, maximum $2 per hour will not probably satisfy you. If you are living in a third world country, your Internet connection may hinder your chances to earn so, in reality, you’ll earn less than $1 per hour.
Notice that you can’t just run through questions because sometimes they test you by placing questions like, “Is the sky red?” Then they give you options “Yes” and “No”. If you choose the wrong answer, you are most likely disqualified.
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What do you think about Point Club? Do you think it would be worth your time or do you prefer more profitable ways to make money online?
Let me know in the comments below! 🙂
I promise to reply to all of your questions and comments personally. I love to hear thoughts from you.
Hi Roope, I feel like I know you. I have seen you around the internet many times. I joined this survey site, but have not been busy with it. I would love to earn for affiliate marketing, but find it difficult to comprehend.
I am so new with online work.
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The $5 sign up bonus for joining Point Club Surveys is just a strategy to lure more people who want free money to joining the scheme but if you are not aware of the minimum payout limit of $25, you wouldn’t know that the $5 sign up bonus is available for withdrawal until you reach 25,000 points which doesn’t come easy.
Yes. That’s a clever marketing strategy for them to attract more people to their website and services.
Yes, it’s indeed a clever marketing strategy because coming to look at it closely, it’s in human psychology to want to get things easily without having to stress for it. There is this adage of my people that says, “Nobody spits out sugar when being given to”. So, the $5 bonus sign up offer is just like putting sugar into the mouth of new prospective members to join the site.
Exactly! That’s an interesting saying! 🙂
Anyways, it’s just the benefits of those that have all the information about any money making opportunities that sprouts up online before joining such, otherwise it would be like getting into something and realizing on the long run that it’s not worth it.
That Point Club don’t really care about the complaints of their registered users should show us how indifferent they can be when the welfare of those working for them is involved. So, joining them ain’t the best move for me. Also, what is it with most of the survey sites paying a meagre $1 for a huge 1000 points?
Yeah, Point Club is another survey site. The same story like on many other ones but just different names.
Truly, just different names. It makes it look like it is the same set of people that are opening up these sites in order to make others work for them on a very low pay. This should not be the way to go as long as I am concerned.
I would like some more info on this.
What kind of info? I would be more than happy to help when I know more specifically what do you need. 🙂
I have been a member of Point Club for less than a year – I have received one $25 gift code and am 75% on the way to another – I sign in every day, which keeps my ‘streak’ alive and entitles me to additional points per survey – a maximum of five daily rejections x 6 points adds up to 60 points to my total – I have not received a survey invite since 5 Dec 17, so I don’t know if the site is down for maintenance or if PC has closed up shop and taken all earned points with it :o/
Well, I’m glad that you got some reward from Point Club but I highly recommend that you would spend your time on more profitable ways to make money online. Yesterday, for example, I used 45 minutes to earn $40 on one freelancing website and it would have probably taken a year to earn that money on Point Club.
With Wealthy Affiliate I made +$500 in one day in the last month which is much more than is ever possible to earn on survey sites. What do you think? I would be more than happy to help you out!
I just registered at my first survey site. That is just about a week ago. And my impression is, There is not a lot of surveys for all the members because there is none for me for the whole week since i registered. This is really frustrating because, although the registration is free, It really messes up the potential to earn of a member.
Imagine if they had just sent me a survey from the time that i had registered, until today, then at least, there would have been some earnings even if it’s just cents. Unlike what i am experiencing right now that there is totally none.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I’ve talked with hundreds of people about online surveys. 99% of them have stopped answering surveys because they realized that earnings are so small. That 1% is still doing them because…. Nobody knows the reason 😉
Probably those ones that are doing the survey sites are just doing it all because they want to earn small…lol. I don’t want to be on survey sites where earning is pretty difficult as you can’t earn money that can get you beverages for the month.
Survey sites are one of the most popular ways many blogs suggest for earning money online. I’ve tried it once and I don’t think I can make a living out of it since it pay so little and the surveys comes so seldom, some of which I was screened out. Most of them work on a point system that takes so long to fill. I don’t think it will be worth my time.
You are right. Many blogs recommend online surveys because those blog owners want to make money by referring new people into the program. But after researching around 100 survey sites I have come to a conclusion that they aren’t worth it.
Whenever I see a site offering a sign-up bonus, I instantly know that they will have a high cashout amount. Of course, there are a few out there that are actually decent. I think I have told you before about OpinionPanel.
They actually give you a £10 bonus when you sign up and every time you cashout, they give you another £10. Their cashout amount is £25 but it’s technically £15 because you are always given a £10 boost.
Yes, sign up bonus is just a trick to lure more people to the system.
I haven’t had much luck with survey sites. There has been a few times where I have put in a good 30 minutes and the survey just stops. It doesn’t tell me if it’s over, or send me a confirmation that I have actually earned anything. It’s frustrating.
Affiliate marketing is something I have considered looking into, so now might be the time.
Yes. Affiliate marketing is way more profitable than answering surveys. Usually, you don’t get immediate rewards but in the long run, rewards will be awesome if you have put in the work.
Most of the money making sites will never earn you a fat salary, however, if you find a reliable earning sites, you can make good money to buy you chocolates and ice creams. Some online sites can even earn you enough money to pay for your utility bills. I am not interested in survey sites. I have tried but online survey did not work for me.
That’s a good analysis. And some sites can even pay you a motorcycle, car, house or a trip around the world. I want to concentrate on that kind of sites 😉
It sounds incredible but I am an online entrepreneur myself and I know many other people who make their living online.
yes this seems like a sham version of swagbucks, except swagbucks actually delivers.
Seems like a big waste of time if you ask me, when you can find other ways to make great money online like WA.
The problem is there are just too many rewards programs like these and you can`t even decide whats legit and what is not
Hi Vlad,
yeah, there are so many reward programs on the Internet. I have already researched more than 60 of them. None of them are really worth my time. Only 1-2 cash back programs were fine like Ebates.
Anyway, they will never make you a living like Wealthy Affiliate.
Cheers,
Roope
I am a new Wealthy Affiliate marketer and I can say it is not a scam, but it’s not so easy to make money at first. I am spending about 60 hours per week working on five different websites at the present time, and I haven’t seen much profit. I do know that the system works, you just have to work really hard for a couple months and then the $10,000 per month goal is actually, truthfully, attainable.
Brad
Hi Bradley,
I think that if you would spend on 1 (or maximum 2) websites at first, it would speed up the process. You are spreading yourself so thing while trying to run five different websites if you are still starting out.
Pick one or two of those 5. If you REALLY work 60 hours a week, you WILL see profit. You WILL see results.
It’s great that you know that the system works. You must have a good focus to achieve big dreams.
If you need any help or feedback with your websites, let me know and I will be happy to help you out.
-Roope
Thanks for writing this! I tried signing up for similar online survey companies and you have to really jump on the survey once it’s available otherwise it’s gone.
Plus even if you did do all of the surveys they gave you, there’s no way it’s enough to spend any time on at all. I wish I saw this article before I tried it out so I would’ve seen how much of a waste of time it is!
Hi Kelli,
your comment resembles me of tens and even hundreds of other people who have had exactly the same experience about online surveys. They used so much time but received so little rewards.
That’s why I don’t recommend online surveys or get paid to sites for my readers. I know that I would make money by referring people to join but my #1 priority is to provide a great value for my readers and help them to make wise decisions.
Wealthy Affiliate teaches affiliate marketing and it’s a much more profitable way to make money online than online surveys.
I wish you all the best.
-Roope