Surveoo Review: Worth It? (Full Details)

According to Surveoo, you can earn up to 8 euros for each completed survey, or the equivalent in dollars.

Eight euros for a single survey? That’s rare. I’ve been testing sites like this for years, and I’ve rarely come across one that pays that much (most don’t, though some do). I’m not saying Surveoo is lying, just that it’s a bold promise. And a bold promise should be checked before you give the site your time.

Still, I like the idea itself, because you don’t need any qualifications or special skills.

You get paid for your opinion, you take surveys whenever you feel like it, and what you earn adds to the income you already have. It’s not much, but it’s something.

But is Surveoo legit? Is it a safe place to earn money, or is it a scam? And if it’s legit, is it really worth it?

I’ve gone through the site from top to bottom, and below I’ll answer all these questions and cover everything else Surveoo has to offer, so you know from the start what to expect. Whether you join the panel is entirely up to you.

What is Surveoo and how does it work?

The company behind Surveoo is S. GOBERT EURL, a French single-member limited liability company registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register.

But a Paris registration doesn’t tell you how much the site pays or how much work you have to put in for that money.

I also checked the WHOIS record. The domain surveoo.com was registered on May 7, 2020, through Amazon Registrar, Inc. (I’m noting the date only for reference, not as a good or bad sign.) I don’t know how interested you are in these details about the domain and the company behind it. But I looked into everything so you’d have all the information you need.

On Surveoo, you take surveys about products, services, and brands and get paid for them, as you saw above.

Does it pay? Yes, you get paid for the surveys you complete.

It’s clearly legitimate. Whether it’s worth signing up for is a different question.

To answer that, you need to understand how the site works. And I think the best way to see that is to look at the ways it lets you earn, because they show how much time and effort it takes to make money on Surveoo.

Share your opinion and get paid

Surveoo doesn’t have any surveys of its own. They all come from partner providers, and most of the ones I got were from CPX Research (and not by a slim margin). So if you click on a survey and end up on another site, that’s normal. Is that confusing? No, it’s just another site hosting the survey. And surveys are the main way to earn money here.

Earning money takes four steps, and they’re the same for every survey:

1. Log in to the member dashboard, where you see all available surveys right away.
2. Check the reward and the estimated time, which are shown next to each survey from the start (I really liked this, because you’re not left guessing).
3. Answer the screening questions, which the provider uses to check whether you’re the right person for the survey.
4. If you qualify, complete the survey and get the reward you were shown. If not, move on to the next one.

However, there’s no guarantee you’ll pass the screening, so not every survey you try will earn you money.

The selection of surveys, on the other hand, is decent. I counted about 21 surveys in my account when I tested the site, ranging from 3 to 18 minutes and paying between $0.10 and $0.97. That’s enough to give you a good chance of earning something every day. But the official page says you can earn up to 8 euros or $11, and up to $263 per month. And from what, exactly? From surveys that pay less than a dollar and that you’re not even guaranteed to qualify for. I think it’s very unlikely you’ll reach those amounts. Not with rewards counted in cents. Not when my test showed nothing even close to that.

If you want to compare, I’ve also written reviews of Ipsos iSay and GreenPanthera. Read them and see which one suits you best.

Missions and bonuses

Log in to your member account and click “My Bonuses” in the left-hand menu. This is the second way to earn rewards on Surveoo.

There, I found a list of bonuses, each with its own conditions (as shown in the image above) and a small reward you get when you meet them. Most of them ask you to take surveys or do certain things on the site, and among them I found these four:

• Add Surveoo.com to your phone.
• Subscribe to push notifications.
• Come back tomorrow and complete a survey. All this one takes is remembering to do it. The others you can check off right away.
• Click a link in a daily email.

And how much do they pay? Between 2 and 10 cents in most cases, so fractions of a dollar that won’t add much to your balance.

They’re small. They’re also easy, because many of them take just one click, so you shouldn’t have any trouble collecting them. But they do run out. Some unlock only after you reach a certain threshold on Surveoo, so when there’s nothing left to collect, just check the page again in a few days to see if anything new has appeared (it might, but it’s not guaranteed).

However, this page doesn’t look the same for everyone.

If you open “My Bonuses” and the page is empty, you haven’t done anything wrong, because the bonuses don’t seem to be available in every country.

They simply haven’t reached your country yet.

Refer a friend

If the people you refer don’t complete surveys, you won’t see any money from Surveoo’s referral program.

This is the last way to earn money on the site. If you haven’t come across something like this before, a referral program is designed to promote the platform (you bring in people, they give you a cut).

I logged into my account dashboard and found the invitation tools in the main menu, under the “Referrals” or “Sponsorship” tab. There you’ll find a link generated just for you (a surveoo.com link). Copy it and send it to anyone you like, friends or family, or post it on social media. When someone clicks on it and creates an account, the system automatically links them to you as a referral. The official documentation also calls a referred user a “godson,” which is a word I didn’t expect to see on a survey site.

But just signing up doesn’t get you anything. They have to be active and complete surveys. And how much do you get out of it? Ten percent of what they earn, as payment for bringing them to the site.

I compared each of their promises with what actually happens, and not a single one held up.

• They promise to help you reach the withdrawal threshold faster. The threshold is $35, which is pretty high, and the commissions barely make a difference.
• They promise 10% of everything your friend earns. Ten percent of $0.50 is about 5 cents per survey.
• They promise unlimited invitations. True, but an inactive user brings you nothing.
• They promise 10% for life, but most users leave after 1 to 2 weeks because they’re disqualified from surveys too many times, and that’s where your commission’s “lifetime” ends (a short one, as you can see).

So who should you invite? People who actually want to earn money on Surveoo. We all have a friend who signs up out of politeness and never logs in again. Real interest is the only condition that matters here, I think, because without it you won’t get anything out of this option.

I wouldn’t send the link to just anyone.

How do you get paid?

$35. That’s the minimum withdrawal amount for my account (set to the U.S.), regardless of the method.

I found that strange, because in other regions I’ve seen the threshold set at $20 or 20 euros. As far as I know, the $35 applies only in the U.S. and the U.K. Why? Because that’s their strategy. In places where surveys pay a bit better (the U.S., for example, compared to Eastern Europe), they set the threshold higher. They set it higher so it takes you much longer to reach it. They also set it higher to keep you on the site for as many months as possible before you can request your money.

You won’t find the same threshold or the same methods everywhere, so check what’s shown in your account before you decide anything.

In short, the payment methods are:

• Direct bank transfer via SEPA or SWIFT. It’s not available in every country, but it is available in many countries where most survey sites don’t offer it at all, and I think that’s Surveoo’s biggest advantage.
• PayPal, with the money sent directly to your digital wallet.
• Prepaid Visa (a virtual card that works anywhere online).
• Gift cards.

On the U.S. version of the site, I found PayPal, Bank Transfer, PayPal USA, Virtual Visa, Physical Visa, Venmo, Instant Debit Transfer, and Cash App. For gift cards, I found Columbia Sportswear, The Cheesecake Factory, Old Navy US, Hotels.com US, Bath & Body Works, Crate & Barrel, Krispy Kreme, Red Robin, Taco Bell, Starbucks US, Best Buy USA, and many more (I’ve listed just a few to give you an idea).

Every survey you complete earns you money, which is added to your balance. How do you withdraw it? When you reach the threshold, choose a method, enter the amount you want to withdraw, and you’re done. But what we all really want to know is how long it takes for the money to arrive. Surveoo says it takes up to seven days for the money to reach your PayPal account or bank account. And don’t expect to see the money the moment you request a withdrawal.

The system itself seemed pretty simple to me.

I liked the withdrawal methods. They’re convenient. I’d just like a much lower threshold, because at $35 it takes a long time before you can withdraw what you’ve earned. If that matters to you, check out FireFaucet or TimeBucks, which have low thresholds and pay more.

How much money can you make?

In the ad on the official website, they say we could earn up to $11 for a single survey.

Eleven dollars for a survey? I don’t think that’s possible. After the surveys I completed, I checked my account and saw amounts ranging from $0.10 to $0.97, even though you’re normally supposed to earn between $0.50 and $1.50 per survey (none of mine reached a full dollar). Maybe it was just a bad day.

It’s the same story with the monthly maximum. The site says you can earn up to $263 a month (some promotions even list $340), but for someone who only takes surveys occasionally, the reality is $10 to $20 a month, because eligibility requirements rule you out of many surveys. And the amount displayed, which you see in your local currency, is the maximum per survey, not the average. How often do you come across surveys that pay the maximum? Very rarely, in my experience.

How much you earn depends on how many surveys you complete and how much the site pays for them. You don’t choose how many surveys you’re shown. You also don’t choose which ones you qualify for. What’s up to you is answering honestly and consistently every time, because Surveoo has a system that checks whether you’re telling the truth. If your answers don’t match up, you’ll receive fewer and fewer surveys, so telling the truth is the easiest way to keep getting them (you have to remember a lie, but not the truth).

But to be fair, Surveoo pays decent rates and offers a wide range of surveys, many of which pay more than on other survey sites, so you have a good chance of earning money regularly.

Just don’t base your expectations on that $11 ad.

Surveoo Trustpilot

Up to about 20 euros, this site makes a good impression.

Signing up is easy, the interface is user-friendly, you get through the first surveys quickly, and the points add up the way they do in a game, so at first it’s hard to find anything to complain about. Almost all the positive reviews I’ve read come from this stage. And this is also where the story starts to go wrong, because the tone changes once people get close to the minimum payout threshold. I found 39 reviews on PissedConsumer and a rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, with 71% negative and 29% positive (I did the math: that’s about 28 dissatisfied people and 11 satisfied ones).

I’ve read the complaints, and almost all of them are about money and accounts, with the same problems showing up once you reach 20 euros:

• PayPal payments that stay “pending” for weeks on end.
• Rewards that never show up in your account, even though you completed the survey.
• Sudden disqualifications from surveys.
• Accounts closed on the spot, with the entire balance still in them, on the grounds of “fraud detection” (this one seemed the worst to me, because you lose the exact money you earned by completing the surveys).
• Support that doesn’t respond or keeps you stuck in a loop with an automated assistant.

Why does everything fall apart right at 20 euros? Because that’s where payouts are supposed to start. Because that’s where you already have a balance to lose. When different people describe the same thing at the same amount, I think the problem is how the rewards system is set up, not anyone’s bad luck.

I also looked for the Trustpilot rating. I couldn’t find it.

The site has over 20,000 reviews there, but the score is hidden, and in its place there’s a consumer warning, after the company broke Trustpilot’s rules. The page also says that several fake reviews have been removed.

I can’t tell you how many people are satisfied there, because without an overall score, we have nothing to go on. And the five-star reviews that are still up? I wouldn’t count on them.

If you’re signing up here for the money, think carefully before you get to 20 euros, because the complaints about withheld earnings are directly about your payouts and whether your account stays open.

Red Flags you should never ignore

You request a withdrawal, and instead of getting paid, you’re asked to confirm your identity over the phone or hand over your card details so they can “verify your account.” Several users on Trustpilot and PissedConsumer say this is exactly what happened to them (this is their claim, not something I’ve been able to confirm myself, but it seems credible because different people describe the same thing). Why would a survey site need your card information to send you money? Well, it doesn’t. This tactic is common in phishing and data collection, not in payments.

I then read the terms and conditions for Surveoo and its sister sites, went through the reviews, and found plenty of reasons not to spend a single cent there:

• The clause in Section 8: if the company stops operating, any balance under 20 euros cannot be claimed under any circumstances.
• The clause in Section 19, which gives them the right to close any account for any reason, with no liability on their part, which means any unredeemed rewards are lost immediately.
• The network of clones. Surveoo shares a SIRET number with identical websites such as KingOpinion, OpinionPartner and WorldEoo (and the list goes on). The privacy policy and the terms of service have a blank space exactly where the company’s name should be: “The company, EURL.” These are mass-produced templates, and it seems clear to me that no one had them legally reviewed or filled them in properly.
• The address for legal notices is a Gmail address: [email protected]. For a company registered in the EU, this is very strange.
• The reviews on Trustpilot. Trustpilot hid the site’s rating and removed the fake reviews for breaking its rules, which shows that someone made a coordinated attempt to artificially boost the company’s reputation.

And I didn’t pull any of this out of thin air. I found it in their public documents and on Trustpilot. When we take surveys, we expect that at least the money we earn will be ours, but here the terms clearly state that the company can keep it, and according to user reports, you also risk handing over your data when you withdraw.

Who can use Surveoo?

Over 100 countries. That’s how many I found where Surveoo recruits members, and among them are a few where it’s genuinely hard to find a survey site that’s worth it. The full list isn’t published anywhere on the site (I got the number myself by searching, not from them), so there’s no way to know for sure in advance whether your country is on it.

So how do you find out? From the country menu during sign-up.

If your country shows up in that menu, you can sign up without worrying, but if it doesn’t, I’d stop right there and not fill in anything else, because I don’t see the point of an account you can’t use.

Signing up takes five steps, and three of them are the ones shown on the site:

1. The “Sign up for free” button in the top-right corner.
2. The survey category, where you pick one of six: Tech & Apps, Travel & Leisure, Finance & Insurance, Health & Wellness, Fashion & Beauty, and Food & Beverage. I picked the one that fit me best overall and didn’t spend any more time on it.
3. Frequency, with three options: “several times a week,” “once a week,” and “occasionally.” Which one? Normally the first, and that’s the one I went with.
4. The form asks for your email, a password (at least 5 characters), and your country.
5. Once you confirm your email address, you can log in.

“All done,” you might say after logging in for the first time. Not quite.

The profile is required, and until you complete it, your account is on hold. You can’t take any surveys. You can’t do anything else with it. But it’s easy to fill in, because every field asks for things about you that you already know.

The profile has 4 steps:

• First and last name.
• Date of birth and gender.
• Country of residence, where there’s nothing for you to do, since you already entered it in the sign-up form (I’ll admit I was glad to have one less field to fill in).
• Home address, including postal code and city.

And only after the fourth step do you get to what we’re all really after: the surveys.

Can you use it on your phone?

Open your phone’s browser, whether it’s Safari, Google Chrome, or whatever you have installed, and type in app.surveoo.com.

That’s all you need to do, since Surveoo doesn’t have an app to download. I tried the site on my phone (and it looks great even on a small screen), read through everything, and moved between sections without any trouble.

In the members’ area, you’ll also find instructions on how to add the site to your home screen, on both Android and iOS. It’s worth doing, since that way you can open it with a single tap, without having to type in the address.

Why does it matter that it works on your phone? Because you don’t need a computer to earn anything here. You don’t have to wait until you get home, and you don’t have to put off a survey until you’re sitting at your desk. For a survey site, I think that matters more than having an app.

But if you go to the app store and search for the name, you’ll come across a few apps that aren’t theirs.

On Android, I found “Surveoo App Survey Hints,” which is just a guide made by someone else, not the platform itself. There’s also “Surveo” (note the single “o”), which is a business app from a different developer that has nothing to do with Surveoo.

I left both of them there.

Is Surveoo real or fake?

S. GOBERT EURL, the French company that runs Surveoo, only guarantees that you’re dealing with a real, registered business. However, it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll actually get your money. Surveoo is a white-label survey network, not malware, so it’s legitimate. But how fairly it treats its users is another matter, because rewards sometimes disappear from accounts, and the 20 euro minimum payout works like a trap.

I signed up without any trouble, and registration was as simple as it gets. I’ll give them that.

What’s the biggest downside? It doesn’t pay out, and we’re not talking about bad luck here. Your account gets banned. Your PayPal transfer gets frozen. And all of this happens right as you get close to the threshold, the point where you’d be getting ready to withdraw your money. I went through the user complaints that can be verified, and the stories are too similar to be a coincidence (and it’s not just one or two of them, there are many). So who would I recommend it to?

Only someone who doesn’t mind throwing their time away, since it’s very doubtful you’ll ever see that money. I didn’t take the review scores into account, because they’re artificially inflated.

I’ll admit my own take is more forgiving. As a survey site, it didn’t seem bad to me. Nothing about it stands out, but the rewards are pretty decent and you can make some money from it. It’s just hard for me to say that with all those banned accounts in mind.

The withdrawal threshold varies by country, and so do the payment methods (so 20 euros isn’t necessarily your threshold). You’ll need patience anyway, because you won’t qualify for every survey. That’s not their fault. It’s how every survey site works.

So you don’t have to rely on Surveoo alone, I’ve put together a separate article with the top 7 survey and GPT apps. They all have good earning potential, so you can build up a decent amount pretty quickly.

If you’ve tried Surveoo yourself or have a question or comment, let me know below, because I’d really like to hear how it went for you.