I would like to know if these work from home on your computer jobs
will allow you to really make money.  All of these sites require you
to pay a fee up front for the "software," or "access," so I'm
wondering if you really do pay their fees can you actually make money
or if these sites are a scam.
 I am interested in any information on the following sites or sites
like them:

http://www.paidsurveysonline.com/?hop=admantest1.surveys2

http://refundprocessor.biz/special.htm

http://www.shoppingjobshere.com/?hop=coursepal.shop4pay

http://www.paidresponse.com/join.html

I really would like conclusive data or experience, not just
speculation from reading the information on these companies' websites.
 I have surfed them extensively and am looking for 3rd party
conclusive
validation.

Thank you.

Dear dwk020-ga 

Companies like these are mentioned 1000s of times on the internet as
they operate affiliate programs, post numerous message on bulletin
boards and some run recruitment schemes where the introducer receives
an introduction fee. The general advice appears to be that you should
be extremely wary of any company asking for money up front.  How many
jobs have you been in where they wanted money from you so you could
work for them? How many people do you know pay their employer so they
can work for them?
Read the advice on the Better Business Bureau pages detailed below.

PAIDSURVEYSONLINE
http://www.paidsurveysonline.com 
No contact address on the web site.

Look at http://www.acidics.com/
The Acidics web site declares itself to rout out ‘Make Money Online
Scams and Hoaxes’. It has some useful general advice and information
on the subject.
On paidsurveysonline it states:
"This is a sort of fraudulent scheme, which asks you to pay nearly $35
to create an account. For this money they'll give you a list of links
to other GPT Do Surveys sponsors. Thus your $35 will be just wasted
away. Paid Surveys Online has absolutely no surveys of its own except
the sign-up form. Moreover giving your credit card number to such
tricksters can create the danger of identity theft. SCAM."

There are six forum messages on users’ experiences of the company
paidsurveysonline.
http://www.acidics.com/alert_paidsurveysonline.htm

There is a drop down box detailing many other similar schemes.

The company paidsurveysonline also appears in Newsgroups in spamming
reports:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=v67uh5t2t8sg1d%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=12&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpaidsurveysonline.com%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26start%3D10%26sa%3DN
and
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=paidsurveysonline.com

The Better Business Bureau ‘BBB’ has prepared a report on the company
– please read the advice on this company.
Address of company:
PO Box 432 
Lavallette, NJ 08735
http://www.trenton.bbb.org/nis/newsearch2.asp?ID=1&ComID=0221000009003250

News board posting on marketing surveys in general
http://www.voy.com/113109/77.html


REFUND PROCESSOR
http://refundprocessor.biz/
This page is under construction
and yet this page works:
http://refundprocessor.biz/special.htm

Cheques payable to 
Transconnect Enterprise, 1770 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10457
(nothing on BBB)

According to BBB report the company is 
REFUND PROCESSORS, P.O. Box 1023, Elyria, OH 44036
Read their report:
http://www.cleveland.bbb.org/nis/newsearch2.asp?ID=1&ComID=0312000016002573
I could find no adverse bulletin boards information on this company. 


SHOPPINGJOBSHERE
According to BBB their address is the same as that of
PAIDSURVEYSONLINE (see remarks above)

SHOPPINGJOBSHERE.COM, P.O.Box 432 , Lavallette, NJ 08735
http://www.trenton.bbb.org/nis/newsearch2.asp?ID=1&ComID=0221000011004981
I could find no adverse information on bulletin boards on this
company.


PAIDRESPONSE
http://www.paidresponse.com/join.html

No information on the BBB site about the company
Paid Response Inc, RR2 Hopetown, ON K0G1K0 CA 

However, you should view these bulletin board messages. (they are
cached on boardreader.com)
http://www.boardreader.com/scripts/texis.exe/viewthread?query=Paid%20Response%20Inc&postid=3e9c533522
http://www.boardreader.com/scripts/texis.exe/viewthread?query=Paid%20Response%20Inc&postid=3e9c7802b0
http://www.boardreader.com/scripts/texis.exe/viewthread?query=Paid%20Response%20Inc&postid=3e9c5d0bcd
http://www.boardreader.com/scripts/texis.exe/viewthread?query=PaidResponse.com&postid=3e9c772391


I hope this answers your question in that it gives you some
experiences and views from an agency. If it does not, or the answer is
unclear, then please ask for clarification of this research before
rating the answer. I shall respond to the clarification request as
soon as I receive it.
Thank you
answerfinder

Search strategy
Variations of the company’s names and scam, fraud, scandal, problems

Top notch answer.

My mom did the refund thing. I remember she received a couple of reams
of names and old addresses. She ended spending a couple of hundred
dollars, but never even recovered one person.

And even if she had been lucky enough to find someone, the Federal
government advises people to recover their money without going through
an intermediary and without paying a commission.

I put the name of the company - Transconnect Enterprises - in keyword
and I got the following results:
http://ripoffreport.com/results.asp?q1=ALL&q5=&q4=+refund+recovery&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search%21