EarningStation Reviews and Features

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EarningStation

Operated by: massfinity
300 Trade Center, Suite 3590 Woburn, MA 01801
Contact: [email protected]

Note: Earning Station permanently shut down on July 1, 2019.

EarningStation is a loyalty rewards website that enables users to earn cash incentives and gift cards by online shopping, participating in surveys, playing games, watching videos, and much more!

How Earning Station Worked

Complete actions such as taking surveys, signing up for other websites and e-mail lists, clipping coupons, etc. You can easily become a member by using your facebook account, or by filling out a traditional registration form.

  • Complete offers – EarningStation has a wide variety of advertisers who offer many types of different offers, available for completion. These are typically things like trying out new products or services. Most offers will credit to your account within 48 hours of successful completion. Some offers may take longer, especially if there is a trial period involved.
  • Take surveys – EarningStation posts online survey opportunities on their website, and for every successful survey completion, you will earn points. Surveys are typically available daily.
  • Watch videos about all the latest news, entertainment, music and more! You will be rewarded everyday just by watching the daily video, and for every other 10 videos you watch.
  • Shopping – Like most GPT sites, EarningStation lists a variety of different online retailers on their website. Simply click through to the retailer of your choice using EarningStations website, and get “cashback” on your purchases.
  • Referring Friends - EarningStation referral program offers you the opportunity to earn 10% (excluding bonus codes, sweepstakes wins, or account adjustment) of what your referral’s earn.

Payment and Rewards

You can redeem your cash for pre-paid gift cards, Virtual Gift cards and PayPal payments. Gift card options range from restaurants to retail stores. Physical gift cards are mailed, which means it takes between 4-6 weeks to receive the cards. Virtual Gift cards and PayPal payments are the fastest option to receive.

Community Features

EarningStation is a relative new kid on the block, as they were technically established in 2011, but have only really been active since 2014.

Eligibility: EarningStation is open to USA residents 18+ and eligible minors who have obtained parental permission.

EarningStation Alternatives

If you were a member of Earning Station, or are seeking survey programs to earn cash through, there are literally hundreds of websites to choose from. A good starting point is to consult our list of the Top Survey Sites (as decided by actual survey takers) and the Top GPT Sites. Alternatively, here are a few suggestions you may wish to explore. PrizeRebel is surveys-centric, offers PayPal cash, gift cards and more. Branded Surveys offers online surveys, a great referral program, and a $1.00 new member sign up bonus! Tellwut is a fun community where you can take surveys, create surveys and answer daily polls for gift cards.

EarningStation Reviews (36)

5 Star Reviews (13) 36.1
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4 Star Reviews (4) 11.1
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3 Star Reviews (3) 8.3
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2 Star Reviews (1) 2.8
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1 Star Reviews (15) 41.7
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Good so far

February 17, 2019 by Jean from United States

I have enjoyed so far. Not sure about support. i tried to contact and have never been answered. You get physical cards and they come pretty quick. Would like to see more $10 cards though.
Jean

Lately , this site has been going downhill. Few high paying surveys. In the past there was more to choose from. I now rely on Your Surveys. No surveys that lead to focus groups or product testing when in the past there were a lot. Sadly, my fave site is so disappointing. I consider it a loss.


Update... I have found this site to be quite good. They have added a daily quota of only.25 and each ten days it goes up by .25. I am now at $3.25. Then you get to have one spin. I could not believe I got $10.

This does not happen every day. But they have proven to be a trustworthy site.
I hope I am not jinxed now.
Jean S.

If I could give lower I would. Impossible to make $$ now. Draconian measures by the site have made it hard to eke out anything.
They were once a good site and now no one cares.

Crappy penny payout surveys

January 9, 2019 by John from United States

Signed up after seeing good reviews on some workonline forum. Was disq for every survey worth more than $1, several disq the second I started as if they duplicated the same survey or just disq me from another separate survey attempt. But I kept trying them until I got down to the $.23 surveys and so on. I did about 7 or 8 and they'd have me do more than 10 minutes of q/a before kicking me out and not paying anything. I just finished 40mins on a survey for $0.21 that was supposed to be 10 minutes. I spent the last 20 minutes just giving crap answers to end but it wouldn't end. I honestly told them things I bought and places I'd shopped and was grilled on every one from where I bought them to why I bought them, what they were used for, to did I consider x,y,z+20 other brands and so on over and over.


I don't see how this can be a good survey site when they disq you from all the surveys that actually pay anything and the only one of the crap $.21 surveys that worked was 4x longer than it was supposed to be WITH my finally giving up after 20 minutes of bs.

I expect that crap on other sites but not one that was 'supposed' to be good.

Maybe I'll try again in a few weeks but I can get paid $.20 doing crap surveys on other sites and not waste almost an hour on it.

There are other survey sites where you can actually spend 2-5 minutes getting disq and get a few pennies for the effort then you get a real survey. Here it is a waste of time unless you have nothing else to try.

bad site now

January 8, 2019 by shellie from United States

i started out making good money on this site now i get offered 21 cents...so crazy to me..it seems like after you cash out a few times you either get disqualified or low point offers...and do not get me started on samplicio us on this site they ask a million questions just to tell you...NO MATCH but yet claim to be trying to feed the hungry.....im about to leave this site

No customer support.

February 11, 2018 by Chris from United States

I mainly like this website because it actually offers many ways to make money but i'm disappointed at his Support Team, i asked them to please enable virtual rewards to me because it's a hassle that i can't even redeem the money into my paypal account, which would be much more useful anyway...

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EarningStation responded to this review on July 12, 2018

Chris, we are sorry to hear about your experience. Unfortunately, we are unable to just approve members for virtual rewards. This is a process that you must apply and be approved for. We do allow our members to apply 3 times, and again in 30 days if they are unable to pass. If you believe there was an error in this process, please feel free to reach out to us for further explanation.
Waste of time

August 18, 2016 by Jamie from United States

Next to impossible to qualify for surveys. Spent the past hour and half and didn't qualify for anything.

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EarningStation responded to this review on February 27, 2017

Jamie, we are sorry to hear about your experience. We wish everyone was able to qualify for every survey, however research companies develop surveys with specific criteria needed to fulfill. Unfortunately, EarningStation has no control over this, but we are working hard everyday to get more survey opportunities available for our members.