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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Horrible surveys and bad customer service

June 14, 2018 by Jason from United States

If you want to use the worst site, this is it. I can't comprehend how many times I took a survey where I was disqualified 3 questions away from completion.

Who's in charge of checking these surveys, if I spend 30 minutes of my time taking it, I expect to be paid. Customer service apologies but tells me there's nothing they can do. Why would the survey be accepted in the first place?

I'm done with using the site as there are a lot of other options out there.

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EarningStation responded to this review on July 12, 2018

Jason, 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.
Total Waste of Time!

April 17, 2018 by KIMBERLY from United States

I am getting ready to quit. It is a total waste of time. They will send me pre-qualified survey, and i always screen out.I am fortunate to make two cents once in awhile. I just did a survey, and made it to the end...and was not paid for it as of yet. If my score does change by tomorrow, I am quitting. Don't waste your time. I will never get paid for the time I put into it because it will take me forever to earn what I need to cash out.

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EarningStation responded to this review on July 12, 2018

Kimberly, 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. We push to ensure that our customer service team is attentive to every request we receive. We would love if you would give us another try and reach out to us with any issue you may have.
Unethical time wasters

December 11, 2017 by kris from United States

I do not recommend this panel for several reasons. Screen out is very high and prone to happen at the end of a survey. This means that they get to keep your work and not pay out. One of their strategies is to claimed that you've already finished the survey before. They also have a very active forfeiture scheme. If you get tired of not being rewarded for surveys, and take too long of a break, they seize your earnings.

Support is on autopilot, if they respond, they use canned replies. There are plenty of decent survey panels that will make it easy to reach a payout threshold. Save yourself the dismay and aggravation of these iniquitous behaviors.

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EarningStation responded to this review on July 12, 2018

Kris, we apologize if you feel that you have been duped out of your earnings. 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.

As for the issue regarding your earnings being seized, we do forfeit earnings from accounts that have been inactive for 90 days or more, as stated in our Terms of Use. This process is to ensure that we can continue to provide the highest payouts possible to our active members.
no help

December 1, 2017 by Mary from United States

I'm not even sure there is a way to contact E. S. i tried several times to contact them but i have never received a response from them. There's too many errors, some surveys won't load, videos won't play. Do they have a US based phone number?.

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EarningStation responded to this review on July 12, 2018

Mary, we apologize that you were unable to reach us, we strive very hard to ensure that our customer service team is attentive to every request we receive. We do have a "Contact Us" link on the footer of our homepage to ensure that our members are always able to contact us. We would love if you could give this process another try.
AWFUL WITH NO COMMUNICATION

December 12, 2016 by Rosemary from United States

I joined this site a week ago and only qualified and completed 3 surveys.
One for 720SD-one for100SD-and one for 520SD. The thing is. at the end of each one, I got a prompt from Earning Station that said "there was an error for this request". I e-mailed them 3 times with no answer or explanation at all. The only thing I can do is cancel my membership, NOT recommend this site, and give them an extra large ZERO!!

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EarningStation responded to this review on February 27, 2017

Rosemary, we are sorry to hear about your experience. We have recently updated our site making it more user friendly and hopefully issue free. We would love it if you could come back and give us another try! We take pride in our customer service team working very hard to answer every email we receive. It is possible that your past emails were not recovered and we sincerely apologize for this. If you would like to re-join, or have any further concerns please feel free to contact us directly at [email protected] so we can make things right for you.