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I'm signed up with Kantar Postal Platform for their Flyers Survey. They list various flyers that appear in the mail, and you identify when and if they arrive and the condition they were in. For that I get $10/month which I use for Amazon gift card codes. I'm retired with not a lot to do and it's not much effort.

Registered with Legeropinion.com, answered all surveys offered for me for today. Did not qualify for just one of them.

Spent about 1 hour of my time on surveys (time to register account and update profile not included). Earned $.5 (50 cents).

I have used a few of them, and generally get $100-200 per year which goes to my Paypal account. These include:

lifepointspanel.com
Angus Reid
Opinionoutpost.ca
surveylion.com

Sometimes answering a survey can be annoying in that you spend 10-15 minutes doing the whole thing and only at the end do they tell you that they have enough answers from others, thanks very much, but no points for you!

Good to fill time, if you have some to spare.

For the past 3 months I've been doing surveys on askingcanadians.com, which are sent by email, almost every day. It's usually less frequent when starting out, though.

They give you points from a few different programs (Petro Canada, Aeroplan, The Bay, etc.), you choose one of them and provide them your loyalty card number. I think you can switch between them as well, but only one at a time.

As long as you start the survey before the closing date stated in the email (sometimes it's the same day you receive the email, as well as possibly closing before the closing date by hours or days), you'll get a minimum of a few cents worth in points if you don't qualify for the survey (after the first screening questions).

If you fully complete the survey, the amount of points earned is according to the survey length (1,200 Petro Points [$1.20] for completing a 15 to 20 minute survey, as an example).

Adam1 said
For the past 3 months I've been doing surveys on askingcanadians.com, which are sent by email, almost every day. It's usually less frequent when starting out, though.

I've been doing that for about a year now as well. Get about 4 or 5 surveys a week. I can confirm that they do credit the points (Aeroplan in my case) to your account after a lag period (about 6 weeks).

Racking up quite a few points over the last year. I started doing it as a way to keep the Aeroplan account active.

My hobby for money - contests (local TV, radio stations, internet).
It's more fun and much more money.
I only play contests with prizes over $500. So far I won $1870 cash (Rogers contest 98.1 FM Toronto radio), $1256 cash (the same Rogers contest 98.1 FM Toronto radio 3 months later), iPhone (internet subscription), TV, Mediterranean cruise (Bell radio station Toronto). I'm not interested in many available contests below $500, especially $100.

Used to do a lot of surveys. Got a bit apprehensive giving away a ton of personal information for a few bux. No longer participate.....my privacy is more important than giving away personal information to someone whom I don't know, nor what they are going to do with said information.

pooreva said

You must be kidding me... Even gift cards????  

Yes, it is. Otherwise I'll be asking my employer to pay my salary in gift cards. I would not be alone.

It is taxable income. Just like any taxable income, it is up to you to report it or not. Just like annual interest income under $50 that banks often do not report to CRA on your behalf.