lurker finally joining with survey question

**melissasue** · 06-26-2005, 02:27 PM

Hi everyone! I am a 23 year old pre-physical therapy college student who is very frugal out of neccessity! I have been lurking here for about a year and now I have question o fmy own. I have joined some online survey sites(free) and many of these places offer cash/points for trial offers. I am afraid that i will not be able to end these offers and get charged. one of these sites is panda research- does anyone know about these offers or have experience good/bad. Thanks!

**Kimberlina** · 06-26-2005, 02:45 PM

On another board I frequent, someone just asked about Panda research. If I recall corectly, the response was that they jsut send out spam.

**dolphin** · 06-26-2005, 02:51 PM

I personally had a bad experience with a survey site who promised a large gift certificate if I tried out a sponsor offer to get a free credit report and a trial monthy report from that sponsor which you could cancel before 30 days so you wouldn't be billed. I had to include my cc number. BIG MISTAKE!!! I couldn't get them to cancel it! I never got the gift certificate. I never got the credit report. I did get a $70.00 charge on my CC two months in a row untill I was able to get hold of the company (finally) and stop the withdrawals and was not able to recover the $140.00. That was 2 years ago and I've never signed up for any survey sites since. I do pinecone but that's safe and doesn't require any personal financial info.

Not all of the survey sites are a bad experience but I am too gulible (sp) to do them.

Good luck and hope the ladies here can steer you toward some good and safe sites.