BigSpot Survey Scam

BigSpot Surveys

If you watch TV, you’ve seen the ad for BigSpot Survey Company. As an avid survey taker, I perked up when the ad from BigSpot first aired but after visiting the site, I just shook my head thinking about all the poor people that would be signing up…

I received a few emails asking if we had used BigSpot and because I love my readers so much, we tackled Bigspot.com and have before you, the results:

The people behind BigSpot are very smart. The BigSpot owners like everyone, know that the economy is in the crapper and people are desperate for cash. Jobs are scare, there are more people looking for ways to make money just to get by… :(

Generally, I REALLY don’t think it’s okay to prey on the American people… And by “generally”, I mean NEVER.

When you head over to the BigSpot website, everything looks okay, to me, the website is a little generic to have a TV spot, but we’ll overlook one the major warning signs I look for in a scam for now.

I would like to point out the BigSpot commercials are targeted demographically, like all commercials, but try to remember what you were watching when you seen the Bigspot ad, what type of audience do you think BigSpot is trying to target….just some mind candy…

As we look over the web site, we notice ( how could we miss it…it’s the only information there ) a place to sign up to get in all those “great” surveys.

STOP.

SIGN UP??

By giving any 3rd party your contact information you have just opened Pandora’s box of junk mail and worst case scenario – identity theft.

If you want to do surveys, never:

1. Pay money upfront
2. Give personal information to a 3rd party company

Why does Bigspot.com need your email? They do not work for those companies. Your email SHOULD be worthless to them. Why can’t they just list the companies on the landing page / home page and just let visitors sign up? That would be more acceptable and upfront.

We did sign up, so you wouldn’t have to, and before we even had a chance to submit our form, we were offered 2 companies based upon our demographics. AND we did this more then once using MANY different demographics and we qualified for the SAME surveys NO MATTER what we put. How can EVERYONE qualify for the SAME exact survey companies?

Pshhhhhhhhh….

The 2 panels BigSpot offered to (us) the new user are the highest paying referral companies out there — those 2 panels haven’t been added to our list of scams yet…

By referral, we mean that Bigspot gets $ when you sign up for these panels. Which is fine by me. They can make all the money they want as far as I am concerned. But do it with the legit companies you know, the ones that pay … and WITHOUT requiring visitors to give their personal information to Bigspot.

My biggest issue with Bigspot, is that the create a false sense of security, do not state honest intentions upfront and don’t even refer the visitor to the REAL paying survey companies. If Bigspot were offer legit survey companies and didn’t require a visitor to enter their email, this post, wouldn’t exist.

Continuing on and after bypassing the first 2 offers, we are presented with an entire PAGE of even more spammy “survey” sites that we have “qualified for” that are infamous for redistributing your personal information to everyone and their Mama. Go ahead and Google ANY one of those companies and you will see THOUSANDS of complaints.

Finally, you get to a few legit companies after all. But, at the expense of what?? Why does BIGSPOT need your personal information and your email??? WHY??

There is no reason, which leads me to assume that they are doing horrid things with all that personal information regardless of what privacy policies they have plastered on their site. You can decide for yourself to give your personal information out. I personally, WOULD NOT.

BigSpot is a gateway to spam hell because of the sites they are affiliated with and as I said before, any personal information you give to a 3rd party site, can lead to the possibility of identity theft. And in theory, you are giving your email to 4th party sites as well, which is an entirely different problem in itself…

The information you get on BigSpot , you can get here at WebFloss, or Google, or… Without having to fill out any forms, being presented with spammy offers, or be at risk of having your information sold.

Please be careful online and don’t just take our word for it! Do your OWN research!!!

MORE LINKS TO COMPLAINTS ABOUT BIGSPOT.com

- Complaints Board

- Yahoo Small Business site

- Suvey101

- AccidentalMommies – leading Mommy Bloggers / followup

- Mylot

- Forum Post

SCAM = an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons with the goal of financial or other gain.

FINAL NOTE: MANY of the companies BigSpot list are well known for NOT paying out. The TV spot is misleading because they claim survey companies you sign up for at Bigspot.com pay out. While a select few might pay out, the majority have proven time and time again to only offer SPAM or resell your information.

REPORT COMPANIES that send spam to the FTC without giving ANY identifiable information. :)

AND another thing, is that you WILL NOT make “Big Bucks” with surveys. It just doesn’t happen… You will make money, but Bigspot will make more money just for one single person that signs up verses all the surveys you can do in a month.

Remember that. :)