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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High Survey Payouts

December 8, 2016 by Matt from United States

This site has a lot of the same types of offers as the other GPTs, but they have the highest survey payouts I've seen, and always have a bunch of new surveys to take. Got my first PayPal payment this week - overall pretty easy to earn.

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EarningStation responded to this review on February 27, 2017

Matt, we appreciate your positive feedback. We try very hard to reward our members with the best payouts possible.
Better than a lot

October 7, 2016 by Adam from United States

Although I will agree with what others said about some of the negative aspects of Earning Station, especially not qualifying for surveys (Although realistically that is not earning station themselves, but rather the third party survey providers who determine eligibility), and not receiving credit for completed tasks (I also had to contact customer support and provide screenshots, which I did and was then credited what i earned), what I found that I really like about ES is that I earned my first $25 gift card within 4 days (2 of which was simply waiting for the credit to be applied that wasn't originally). Overall I think the earnings are fair and rewards can be accumulated somewhat quick. Also I have to give their customer service credit for how fast they responded. Again far better then others out there.

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EarningStation responded to this review on February 27, 2017

Adam, thank you for being such a loyal EarningStation member. We appreciate your kind words. We take pride in our customer service team responding as quickly and effectively to our members as possible.
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.
Waste Of Time

April 11, 2016 by Bridgette from United States

Survey Clearing House That Just Wants People To Sign Up For Their Paid (You Pay&Get Hardly Anything Back) Activities And "SignUps."I Emailed Them Several Times To Ask Why Their Video Section Does Not Work.They Tried To Blame It On The Typical "clear your cache."thing.Of Course Thats Not The Problem.The Next Time I Tried To Email Them Their Support Section Is Completely Nonfunctional.They Had Their Chance.

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EarningStation responded to this review on February 27, 2017

We are sorry to hear about your experience. Our tech team works very hard trying to diagnose and resolve issues. At times there may be a few different steps we need from you in order to get things working properly on the users end. It is never our intention to cause confusion or upset our members. We do understand it can be frustrating while we work though the issue, at these times we do appreciate our amazing members for their patience.
Not a Bad GPT Site

November 17, 2015 by Earleana from United States

I recently joined the Earning Station GPT Program. Right away I noticed that they had some good offers with a good cash out value. 1000 points equals $10.00. Fair right? Also a lot of offers credited right away.

Now to really delve into the meat of this review. This site also offers A LOT of surveys. If you are kicked out of one, there are many others to choose from. Survey reward points range in value from 50 to 225 points per survey. And offer points mostly range in value from 10-150 for free email offers and from 200-750 for various offer that requires credit card info or payment. (Note: they will not credit you for using false or prepaid cards in place of real credit cards.) You run the risk of being kicked off the site.

They offer bonus codes on their facebook page that you can enter in a Bonus Code slot on your dashboard. But the Bonus Codes expire pretty fast depending on a limit being reached.

There are also videos to watch,you get 2 Earning Station points per every 10 videos you watch. This is not personally a favorite of mine on the site. (Ususally the videos are slow,the ads take to long and the videos themselves are too long to be worth the points.) I usually just avoid watching the videos and stick to the offers.

Rewards: Lowest cahsout value is 1000($10.00) Highest cash out value is 2500 ($25.00) Rewards are Walmart,Amazon,Bestbuy,Home Depot,Office Depot,Boston Market,Starbucks,Chili's,Babies R Us,Romano's Grill,Macy's,Facebook,AMC theatres and the list goes on. All giftcards are prepaid except for Amazon.com and all cards are physically mailed to recipients.

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EarningStation responded to this review on February 27, 2017

Earleana, we appreciate your positive feedback. We work very hard to keep our members happy and to offer the best payouts around. We hope you are enjoying the new updates to our site.