Paid surveys no fee attached. That’s the way it should be but it’s not always the case.

As with many things in life things aren’t always black and white there are a lot of shades of grey in between. I will go on to explain this a bit later so please bear with me.

I think a little clarification is in order here first. When we talk about paid surveys what we mean is that ‘You’ get paid for doing a survey! Let’s face it if you’re reading this it’s because you want an income of sorts.

Unfortunately there are a lot of companies out there claiming to be survey companies that will ask you for an upfront fee – sometimes referred to as a ‘deposit’ for them to send you their surveys to fill out. They claim that the reason they ask for the deposit is to sort out those people who really want to do their surveys and to cover ‘administrative’ expenses. The amount of people ‘suckered’ into this is unbelievable!

The bottom line is that you should never – never have to pay a fee to do a survey.

Having said that I’m sure the next question is where am I going to find surveys that pay. The good news is that there are two sources. One that requires a bit of time and effort and the other one that requires less effort but for similar results.

Method 1
Search Google and the search engines in general for surveys that pay. This where you will have to exercise caution as this is where the ‘scammers’ hang out. Let’s face it these guys are also in business so they also know the ‘search terms’ that you are likely to use.

Unfortunately, for the ‘uninitiated’ this can be very time consuming and for some people an expensive mistake.

Don’t despair though, depending, on your location (some online survey companies have criteria before you can sign up) there are companies out there that won’t charge a fee and will pay usually anywhere from $5 upwards.

Don’t get sucked into the hype about huge amounts of money – a fair estimate once you get up and running is about $125-$200 per month for each hour worked per day! Hey it mightn’t be mega dollars but it’s easy money and it all adds up!

Method 2
This where it gets a bit more complicated to get your head around after what I have just said about not paying a fee. This option lies in the grey area i.e. not black and white and is the route preferred by a lot of people who don’t have time and/or sometimes the confidence to start right away.

As far as paid surveys no fee are concerned this does involve a small fee, usually no more than $35 but what it does provide is a membership and a ‘list’ of paying sites that you can sign up to straight away. Many people like to learn a bit about the business first by having their hand held and then look for other paid survey sites where there is no fee.

The “old school” hosting scam was primitive – grab the money and leave the market. This type of scam is not scary, because users understand that trusting a site or blog to the web hosting company that is 6 months old is quite dangerous.

The modern hosting scam is a lot more effective and dangerous. Technically it goes like this – hosters invest money into a certain amount of hosting servers, gather some clients. Then they do not invest money into buying/hiring more servers after reaching the limit with their capacities, but they keep gathering more and more clients.

What saves them is a special solution that for a while switches off your sites and blogs to save them bandwidth and server processor load. If you noticed that your sites are down for days, you start hammering at the support with tickets and they raise the sites, for a while.

They try not to do it that ruthlessly during the first 90 days after the purchase, because you can a charge-back from the bank. But after the 90 days’ term is over, they don’t care and the show starts.

If you have some nice portion of sites and blogs it is very difficult to track of all them, and the hosters know that. Surely sooner or later you will get absolutely frustrated with the service and say bye-bye to the hosting. But during all that time they stay on the market and keep gathering new clients with new money on the same server capacities.

This is how the web hosting scammers work today. Only knowledge can help you out from this trouble.

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If you thought that selling online is a piece of cake, think again. Having the support of an established and reliable wholesaler can of course help you handle other areas of the business better, but the biggest stumbling block is finding reliable wholesalers. According to those in the know, your wholesaler holds the key to the success of your retailing business. Reliable wholesalers can be located on reputable wholesale directory sites.

Your wholesaler plays a crucial role about how your business shapes up. There are many scammers out there, and they can spoil a perfectly well set-up enterprise in a manner that would make recovery from the situation exceptionally tough. Dropship forum sites do alert the trading community about the various scams going on in the e-commerce arena, but their effort seems to fall short because scams are still being reported from many e-commerce sites.

Wholesale directory sites have discussion forums where scams are also discussed at length. New retailers looking for valid information about scammers can use these forums to improve their knowledge about how various scams are created and how to avoid them. Scams are more prevalent in the dropship industry because dropshippers mostly operate behind the scenes. It becomes easy to impersonate them or masquerade as a real dropship service to cheat inexperienced retailers.

As a wholesaler from China, I have many chances to see all sorts of scams from handbags to electronics. They are exposed by angry victims in business forums, blogs and even websites dedicated to Chinese scams. Reading them surely doesn’t feel good, not to say a lot of content sways from the wholesale topics to a pure hatred to the Chinese.

Scammers are obnoxious, but they are just a fraction compared to the legitimate ones. Their existence won’t dent the overall confidence of wholesaling from China. And more importantly, they are easier to spot and get rid of than you think, with this guide.

Check Reviews & Exclude Proven Scammers

What does your wholesaler look in the eyes of other buyers? Sometimes one thing that has happened to your wholesaler is enough to rule it out forever. You just need to take several minutes to find if your supplier has any priors.

The tip is to make a search on Google with the wholesaler’s business name, domain name, email address (prefix especially), telephone or cell phone number and other uniquely identifiable information. The aim is to see if your wholesaler has appeared or involved in any complaints, scam lists, and other negative conditions.

It should be mentioned that a legitimate company isn’t equal to that it should be of zero complaints.  You need to make an analysis about each of your supplier’s cases, to make sure whether it’s of scam nature or just due to an unsatisfactory product or service, though wholesalers of the latter case are often not comfortable to work with too.

You are lucky if your wholesaler has been proven in a scamming activity. But most times no such confirmation is available. On the one hand, new wholesalers emerge like mushrooms these days, too rapidly to get reviewed; on the other hand, bogus websites are created faster than they die out. A latest listed scammer you have discovered is often out of date. So it rarely happens a wholesaler you are talking with has already been listed. In fact, you may be shocked to know a fake company could set up hundreds of websites in order to maximize their victims.

Checking reviews won’t help you decide right away which wholesalers you should buy from, as it calls for further evaluation to choose your business partner, but it gives you clues which wholesalers you should dismiss.

Examine Wholesale Websites

Check the following indicators of your wholesaler’s website. When isolated, they may not mean anything. When coming together, however, they should ring some alarm bells.

1) Is it an independent site or hosted on another website?

If the wholesaler is hosted on another site, like free space, and B2B portals such as alibaba.com, try to track down its own website. If you can’t find the wholesaler’s own web presence, leave it.

Many would trust wholesalers or suppliers on B2B portals and take it for granted all suppliers on these portals are trustworthy simply because these portals are real. Not like that. B2B portals are the most abused web resources by bad guys, especially the second-tier B2B portals, which have almost become the hunting grounds for scammers. Don’t trust recommended companies or products on those sites too. The status of these listings is bought with money, not earned with their quality.

Whenever you get a wholesaler on a third party, never stay there or try to send an inquiry. Instead, you should try to find the wholesaler’s own website. If you can’t track it down, drop it.  Don’t waste your time.  You have to make your purchase 100% secure.

2) Look at the Website Name

Cheaters look like cheaters. Though the name of a website doesn’t decide the nature of the company, there’s something in the domain name.

Several types of domain names should call your special attention:

1) domain names that contain numbers;

2) domain names that are meaningless;

3) domain names that sound too big or sound like hype; and

4) domain names that pretend to be official.

The following domain names are from a scammers list:

1st-phones.com

16988.cn

adidas-nike.net

3seal.biz

5y8l.com

bag-trading.com

super-electronics.com.cn

shopping-kingdom.com.cn