Paid survey scam site alert: Cash4Offers.com is a “Get Paid To” site that claims to pay users for completing paid surveys and completing offers. Australians (and others around the globe) have signed up with this company only to be disappointed. While there are many sites that you can earn great money with, Cash4Offers.com is not one of them.
Here are some red flags of paid survey scam from the Cash4Offers.com website:
“Earn $35.00 in your Cash4Offers account by reading paid email, doing surveys, taking offers and free trials, watching TV, driving your car, reading books, listening to music, and receive your check in the mail in less than 72 hours. Get $3.00 just for joining. Cash4Offers members have earned over $60,000 to date!”
Red Flag #1: Did you notice the part saying how their members have earned $60,000 to date? $60,000 is not very much when you consider their company has been around many years and has signed up thousands of people.
Red Flag #2: In 2008, they claimed their users had made $170,000 to date. If in 2008 their users were up to $170,000 in earnings, which means that somehow lost their users $110,000, which is not possible. Either in 2008 they inflated their numbers or they magically noticed an accounting error. Part of the problem could be that users filed claims saying they never got their payments.
Red Flag #3: Another sign of it being a paid survey scam is that in the “About Us” page, Cash4Offers.com states their users have made $70,000 to date. So which is it? $60,000, $70,000, or $170,000. If they are stating a fact then why do their numbers keep changing? I could understand the number raising, but not decreasing by $100,000 in 2 years.
Red Flag #4: By reading between the lines, we find out that you must have a minimum account balance of $35 to request your payment. $35 is quite a high amount, and Cash4Offers.com is betting that you will not ever reach the $35 milestone and therefore they will not have to pay you.
Cash4Offers.com will credit your account $3 just for signing up. While $3 is a nice gesture, you should keep in mind that you will still need to earn an additional $32 for payout.
Red Flag #5: Note the line above that states your payment will be sent by check within 3 business days. If you read the terms and conditions it says you could be waiting a lot longer. “your first payment request is processed on a Net-15 basis. This means that your first payment will be processed 15 days from the end of the month in which you requested payment.” To make it simple, if you request your payment on 2 July, you will be waiting until 15 August or later for your cheque to be processes.
Here are some of the complaints others have posted publicly regarding Cash4Offers.com as reported by GPTBoycott.com:
Camille Lay
Date: May 18, 2010
Comments: i have been with cash4offers for months with no results and few emails from them,so i had my suspicions and unsubscribed
Name: Janet Lillis
Date: February 24, 2010
Comments: didn’t pay, decided I wasn’t in the system
Name: Ronda
Date: January 21, 2010
Comments: I have gotten to the required 35.00 to be able to cash out with this program and they claimed I needed to complete three cash offers, however I told them I would sue them if they did not let me cash out as promised. They sent me an email saying that normally they would cancel an account for threatening them, however at this time I could go ahead and cash out, but upon returning to the site got the same message to complete 3 offers,. I cannot believe that our government allows sites like this to operate without any kind of regulations. I don’t know how other people have gotten paid in the past but this is unacceptable and I think we should all file a class action lawsuit against them for committing crimes against us and not paying us for our time.
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Joined. Referred a friend of mine. I reached $46.55. Requested cash out. Three days later, I sign in to find that my account was cancelled per my request. I never requested to cancel my account. They also cancelled the account of my friend that I referred. I would say that it is a scam. They also don’t respond to any questions sent to their support center.