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I never had a problem with mintvine/ branded, they always pay on time and they give points even if you dont qualify for a survey

Mintvine isn't perfect, but unlike other survey sites, you can earn points fast. You just have to have patience. Nothing is easy anymore. Most people cash out at around ten dollars because they don't have patience for surveys. Yes, some do take a long time and most that ten minutes windup being a Half hour or more. If you've got time, do more than one in one day. I earn about seventy to a couple hundred points a day. It's long and tedious, but, they're giving you something for it. This is the first site where I actually got something for doing surveys.

I enjoyed filling out surveys and have received 2 $10 payouts, but more often than not I complete a survey (long ones!) and get a screen saying "Your responses were not recorded because you are not in the country you are registered in. When you return to your country, you may resume surveys." I'm in my country, honest! And I went back to verify my inputted data, and I have contacted Mint Vine a whole bunch of times with no resolution. So when THEY get back from Mars, I will resume participation.

About the best thing I say about this panel is that they do offer you a lot of surveys. The problem is, that instead of crediting your points immediately, as most other panels do, they label them pending, and "sit on them" for 3-4 weeks. Once they are finally credited, and redeemed, they then mark your chosen reward as pending, and sit on that for at least a week. (This is likely a good "cash flow tool for them) As to their rate of payment, usually the best you can do is 70 points (cents) for 20 minutes. Even if you discount the fact of the time consuming process of having to qualify for, a survey, from which you are then rejected, the best you can possibly do on this site is about $2.00 an hour. This is only only my go-to site when there are absolutely no surveys available on the other, better paying, better service, panels which I frequent.

I joined mintvine a week ago. They ask me lots of my information and with one nighmare exception, never ever ever qualified me for a survey. Ive been doing surveys on Vindale for months. One of their Portals YourSurveys also uses Mintvine. After months of surveys on Vindale I built up my status to GOOD with 255 points. When Mintvine sent me to the YourSurveys site it dropped my score down to 100 points. Then it asked my address. I gave it to them and they came back and said it was a bogus address and dropped my points to 90 with a status of Warning. I went back to Vindale and discovered my status has been dropped on all portals. I have written many complaints and they have never responded. With the status of Warning it has greatly decreased my ability to earn rewards. They are a complete scam. Do not go near them.

Remember the Seinfeld "Soup Nazi?" NO SOUP FOR YOU. Well, this website is worse for those of us who aren't materialistic tornadoes with gobs of sticky children. So it takes 1,000 points to get $10. Took me a year and a half simply because I am honest. I would go through a survey. About 5 minutes in after a barrage of "Where do you live what do you do do you like trees how's your mother doing" It asks, every #*@&%$! Time, "Do you have children?" I sigh, click "No" and BAM next screen says "NO SURVEY FOR YOU! Teeheehee but feel free to start this process over again on this other survey" Okay. I start over. Same questions vomit right back to me. Then it smirks, spins the cylinder, and asks "Do you plan on purchasing any of the following in the next 6 months?" A general list of electronics appears. Hmm... I choose "None of the above." I have enough $#*! and the $#*! I have works perfectly fine. BANG NO SURVEY FOR YOU. I tried lying once. Said I had kids. Said I would by them all TVs and cell phones and laptops in the next six months. Took almost a damn hour to do that survey. For 50 points. They should probably just let people know before signing up that they really only want the child-having money-spending demographic.

I really like MintVine. It's a shame a lot of survey members from other sites complain about the excessive screenouts, quotas, etc, when MintVine GUARANTEES that you'll be redeemed 5 points for every survey you're disqualified from and 5 points for answering the daily poll. PLUS if you follow their facebook page, you get a chance at winning 250 free points among the 70 or so people that comment.

One complaint I do have however, is that 1. The Offers page fails to tell you if you successfully completed an offer. A lot of the offers worth 40+ points require you to sign up free of charge for newsletters, samples, etc. but I've only been redeemed for one or two. 2. This has only happened really recently, but after completing one of the surveys, it instead redirected me to a broken link that said "Server Not Found". I was irritated because a lot of time was put into completing it, and I had clearly qualified. However do not be misled. Almost all of the surveys you take will be redeemed for points. Just be sure to contact the support staff. They quickly look to your needs.

Takes an average of about two weeks to reach my min. Payout of $10, and I don't scrap for points either. I really like the point system actually. Each point is worth. 001 cents

Mintvine usually sends (spams) you daily reminders of "exciting" opportunities, which you think they are actual survey matches to your profile (the one you have to tediously completed after you sign with them). But no, they are the infamous "funnels", a series of non stop profiling question that leads you to tantalisingly good surveys. But, sadly, 9 out of 10 tries you end up being screened out due to "filled quotas" or "incompatible demographics". By then, you have easily spent half and hour or more of your time without completing a single survey. Well, the 1 out of 10 that you end up completing is good, right? Well, no. Your "awarded" points are hold for 3 weeks in pending status for review, to see if you can actually collect them or not. After weeks and weeks, you finally reach a payout. It is now time to celebrate? Well, no! After you complete your transaction (let's say, an Amazon's gift card), there's a pending 48 hours or so "processing" time until you finally get your well overdue reward. Once I had to wait almost a week to get the darn thing cleared.

Now you tell me if all I have described is worth your time or not. Yes, you eventually get rewards, but I tell you, it's a friggin' struggle.

I really like Mintvine quite a bit. Unfortunately like all survey sites? The biggest obstacle to making it worth your time is the rejection rate. You can spend all day trying to take surveys and 3/4 of that time is spent getting rejected. The only way around this is to basically have 2-3 browsers open and take several surveys at the same time but now your working like a mule for pennies! Mintvine actually pays you for rejections which is a nice benefit even though its only 5-10cents but it somewhat takes the pinch away..