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Love to write but lacking both a creative outlet and an audience? Had a good/bad experience with a product or company and want to tell people about it? Perhaps you are a frustrated movie critic looking to get discovered or maybe you're just a opinionated soul who wants to shout their mouth of to the masses?! Whoever you are, you've come to the right place! Or should that be the write place... Better still, all the companies listed here will pay you to do all those things and more! All of the companies listed here recognise the importance of real consumers and will pay you to write opinions and reviews on products, services and more in order to help other consumers make a purchasing decision. As a consumer reviewer, your reviews will be awarded with either cash or prize draw entries dependant upon the company you are writing for with rewards of up to £15 per review written!
Ciao is a European opinion site where you can earn cash for reviewing products and services. They pay £0.01 every time another Ciao member reads your opinion on anything from travel and hotels to caviar and toothpaste which might sound a poor return when compared to some of the other European sites here but does quickly mount up as this site is by far the busiest consumer site in Europe. Ciao will also pay you up to £15 for what its editors consider especially useful consumer opinions in a monthly set of awards. Alongside the paid opinion writing section of the site there is also an active online survey section can prove pretty lucrative and an unpaid area for writers to express their more creative sides and have some fun with poems, jokes etc. New members automatically get £1 free into their accounts. Go There! or Read More. Hotspot is the online website of Hawaiian Tropic, a leading name in suncare and beachwear products. Submit a holiday review to the site and you earn points which can be redeemed for free products from their catalogue! You get 200 points just for joining, 50 for accepting their monthy newsletter and 55 for each Hotspot review...when a T-Shirt is just 300 points you can see how easy it is to bag a freebie here. :)
Get paid to write at Amazon.com? Sure why not, in fact, you can earn money at all the Amazon sites! Everyone has heard of the Amazon shopping site but less well known is that if you write a review of something you've bought from them or elsewhere AND are the first to do so on their site, then you will be entered into a monthly prize draw for Amazon gift vouchers! There is a different draw at each country specific Amazon site so there's no reason why you can't write reviews for all of them if you want to. Go There! This is a relatively new site which rewards its writers with between £0.01 and £0.03 for every reader their reviews receive in selected categories as well as awarding tokens for entry into regular prize draws for Amazon vouchers, free DVD rentals and a variety of other things for performing various actions around the site. You receive tokens for writing reviews, referring friends, commenting on others' reviews and more which are all put into various prize draws held monthly and throughout the year. Being a young site it isn't that busy either so your chances of winning one of their prize draws right now are high. I've already won £50 here and the gift voucher was in my inbox within minutes of the drawing! They are also very community focused and hold regular fun events around the site one of the latest being a general knowledge quiz held in a newly created quiz room where the winner stands to win £10 for their time. All new members get £1 free into their account upon registration. Go there or read more here! Dooyoo is another European opinion site which pays its members to review products and services of which they have had experience. If you have an opinion on anything from a mortgage to a sports car and can express that opinion in 75 words or more then Dooyoo wants to hear it and is willing to pay you for telling them! Currently you earn £0.03 each time a registered user reads your opinion and an extra £1.50 if your submission is considered extra special by the site editors. Dooyoo is in many ways the mirror of its main competitor Ciao! and you will find many of the same people writing on both sites and being paid twice for the same opinion as there are no enforced restrictions against this as long as it is your own work. Go there or read more here! Epinions is another paid for opinion site, the grandfather of them all in many ways, but has fallen on hard times in recent months. This site is huge with absolutely masses of things to write about but the rewards for doing so are low these days. They work on the basis of "income share", you get back a proportion of the money your opinion earned for them, which means if you get lucky then you can earn really well for a particular opinion...or it may earn you nothing at all if you don't. Things like vehicle or computer reviews tend to earn really well(it's not unheard of for automobile reviews to earn over $25 each) whilst others like movies are lucky to earn you $0.01 so its a little bit of a lottery! It is open to members worldwide but US members can cash in at $10 whilst outside of the US it is $100 minimum and there is a lot of red tape to go through to do so. Worth a look if you live in the US/Canada or know a bit about the high paying areas whilst European writers should look at one of the many other paid opinion options on this page. Go There! Bigrag is looking for student reviewers to be paid to write opinions on all kinds of things such as movies, games, books, electronics, clubs etc. They pay from 50p up to £2.00 depending upon quality, graphical content and suitability...i.e the more student-orientated the better it seems. They also want your funny pictures, jokes, videos, stories and other smaller submissions for which they will pay a smaller fee. Worth checking out and it's not just for students as there are plenty of reviewers on site who are long past their student days! Go There! A hideously garish student site which runs regular competitions and CLAIMS to pay £5.00 for local shop and services reviews as long as the place in question isn't already up on the site. I say 'claims' because in recent months getting paid by them is akin to getting blood out of a stone so one to either avoid like the plague or to at least not devote too much time and effort too! I'm beginning to smell a scam here...no I take it back I DO smell a scam here. Avoid them. If computers are your thing then this site is for you. Here you can be paid to review computer and video games...well, for all computer hardware and software reviews actually! Got a mouse? Submit a review of it and you've earned some cash. Currently they pay 10p for each review and then another 5p each time your review is read by another member which can mount up. The site isn't the busiest in the world and if you aren't too clued up about computers it can be time consuming to reach their £20 cash-in level but I can at least vouch that they do pay out when you get there as I have been paid twice now. Go There! Another opportunity for those in the UK to get paid to write online. I'm beginning to think this is a UK only phenomena... Anyhoo, not all areas of this site are rewarded each month but rather a selected area is targetted and all entries received in that area will be entered into a prize draw. Recent prize draws have been for a digital camera and 3 prizes amounting to £200 in Amazon vouchers which is very winnable seeing as they aren't all that busy. Do they pay? Yes they do, I won £100 as a result of one of their prize draws. Review Centre This is a new UK shopping portal which wants to pay for your opinion on online shops. Submit a review of an online shop you have used(no matter how short it seems) and they will contact them and ask if they want an 'enhanced listing' on their site - if so, you get a £5 Amazon voucher! There is no limit to how many shops you can recommend but you will only get paid if the shop decides to take out an enhanced listing. Might be worth getting in quick before all the well known and popular sites are snapped up..although the last time I looked there wasn't a single 'enhanced listing' to be seen so perhaps not! Go There!
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