I know I’ve posted this before in a similar thread, but in case someone cares: at least SOME of the people (me, for one) are polled through a web survey company whose mail comes from the address “esearch.com” – I don’t know if there’s a webpage at that address where you could volunteer or not. In my case, my email address got ‘inherited’ by them when they merged/bought out some other company that did similar market testing type surveys.
Every so often, maybe six times a year(?) I get an email saying a new survey is available giving the link, saying it must be completed within X days, saying the pay for fully completing the survey is $2.00, which is deposited to your paypal account within six weeks or so, and if you no longer want to receive these messages click here to unsubscribe.
BTW, there’s no possible doubt what these particular surveys are for. There will be maybe five pages with 20 or so ‘typical’ Family Feud questions. (Estimates, never bothered to count.) Things like What time do you get up in the morning? or What is the best fruit to bring in your lunch?
Each time there will at least a handful of questions of the form “What type of car does Steve Harvey drive?” “What nickname does Steve Harvey’s wife call him?” or “If Steve Harvey was a professional athlete, what sport would he play?”
And each time there will be a few dozen questions that will lead off with “For women only” or “For married men only” and the like.
I always do these surveys, I find them amusing. And sometimes surprisingly hard to answer quickly off the top of your head. What WAS the name of the last gas station market I bought something at??
Though I promise I have never answered Rio de Janeiro as a South American country.
(Fair warning: if you join their mailing list, you’ll also get emails about other surveys for them, standard marketing stuff about what brand yogurt you like or how much you spend on dogfood, etc. And others about testing a new product they 'll send you to use then give feedback after you’ve tried it. Those might pay $50 to try the product and do two surveys, though I had one test that involved trying three different fabric softeners for three weeks each, that paid $150.)