Tellwut Reviews and Features

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Tellwut

921 Port Washington Blvd, Suite 11 Port Washington, NY  11050 US
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Operated by: Paradigm Sample LLC

KEY FEATURES:

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PAYMENTS OFFERED

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HOW TO PARTICIPATE

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REDEEMING REWARDS

Minimum balance of 4,000 points ($10) required to request rewards. Some gift cards are mailed, others are e-mailed in the form of e-vouchers. The method of delivery is stated in the rewards catalog.

Tellwut is an online survey site that offers you the opportunity to answer surveys, submit your own surveys and refer friends in exchange for cash and gift cards.

The name Tellwut is short for “Tell us what you think” and is run by a well-known market research company based in New York, USA. To date, over 38 million surveys have been completed on the platform.

How Tellwut Works

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Earn Rewards for Surveys and More

Tellwut is an online community open to residents of Canada and the USA. Members provide their feedback and opinions on various topics through the Tellwut online survey tool and social media platforms. Tellwut members participate in surveys and social media activities, earning rewards while being engaged in the Tellwut community experience. It has been operating since 2010 and the panel grows every day and has over two million members.

A Survey Taking Community

The community aspect of Tellwut helps it stand out from its competitors. It allows you to create your own surveys, answer other members’ surveys and chat about them in a comments section. You can register for Tellwut with your email address, Google or Facebook account. The website will prompt you to fill out your profile as part of the registration process, as this will help you become eligible for more online surveys. Your address information is used to ship your rewards and the rest of information helps optimize which studies you can qualify for.

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Payment and Rewards

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Tellwut Rewards Cash and Gift Cards

Tellwut rewards you with points that can be exchanged for retail gift vouchers and PayPal payments (as of June, 2021). To calculate the value of these points, for USA members, 4,000 points can be exchanged for a $10 Amazon gift card, though a $10 Tango card will cost you 4,500 points and a $25 prepaid Visa debit card requires 13,000 points. For Canadians, a $15 Amazon gift card requires 6,000 points and $25 gift cards to Home Depot, Best Buy, etc. require 10,000 points.

Points Value: $1 in rewards requires 400-550 points. Therefore, 1 Tellwut point = approximately $0.02.

Gift Cards

You can receive gift cards in denominations of $10, $15, $25 for retailers including Amazon, Home Depot, Subway, Sephora, Walmart, Bed Bath and Beyond, Target, CVS, Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Domino's, and Game Stop. Amazon gift certificates are also available in extra denominations of $50, $100, and $250.

PayPal Payments

Redemptions for $25 PayPal payments are available with 11,000 points to both US and Canadian users. Payments are issued in your local currency and will take approximately 3 weeks to process.

New Member Bonuses

New members of Tellwut will receive 100 reward points immediately after signing up and a further 150 points are awarded for filling in their account information, for a total joining bonus of 250 points. Becoming a survey taker is super easy, and the registration process only takes a few minutes.

Member's Tip! Remember that your shipping information is required to send you rewards and confirm your eligibility to take surveys, so you might as well provide your shipping information to collect your bonus points straight away

Collect Points to Earn Rewards

Tellwut offers points whenever you take a survey. Points awarded can be anywhere from 5-2000 points, depending on the time and effort required, so you potentially have a chance to accrue points fast! For example:

  • Answer a member-generated survey: 5-25 points
  • Create an approved public survey: 10-20 points
  • Answer an external survey: 50-2000 points

Redeeming Your Tellwut Rewards

Tellwut rewards can be redeemed starting at 4,000 points ($10.00), though more rewards are available at 10,000 points ($25.00). Choose from a variety of gift cards options from Visa, Amazon, CVS, Sephora, Walmart, etc., a PayPal payment, or merchandise such as a t-shirt or even a Motorola tablet!

It’s also possible to convert your points into a prepaid Visa debit card. You’ll need to save up at least 13,000 points for a $25 prepaid gift card.

Once you have enough points to receive a reward, your order will be fulfilled within approximately 10-15 business days of redemption. Shipping times vary by location, though some gift cards are available in electronic format, and will be emailed.

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Survey Taking Experience

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Where some get-paid-to websites offer a huge range of ways to make money, Tellwut focuses almost exclusively on surveys.

Types of Surveys Offered

Fun polls are created by users (maximum of one posting per week) or are submitted by businesses. Users can log in to their accounts daily to take surveys and do not have to wait for e-mail invitations. You can find the most recent surveys listed in your account under Categories > Most Recent Online Surveys.

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Having said that, you can opt-in to receive email promotions of new surveys if you prefer. Note that Tellwut does not offer an app.

Survey Completion Times

Each Tellwut poll available typically takes less than 30 seconds to complete, and many new polls are available on the website daily. A higher paying survey usually takes between 10-15 minutes to complete. Once the surveys have closed, you may browse through the results to see how your answers stacked up when compared to others!

Survey Availability

Members of Tellwut can simply log into their accounts to take all of the available surveys for that day - invitations to complete surveys are not typically emailed.

Most survey points are awarded directly after you finish a survey, although occasionally some surveys must close before points are awarded. Allow for 10-15 days to receive your points from survey participation.

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Community Features

The community aspect of Tellwut is one of its most unique aspects. If you enjoy socializing with other members of survey websites, you may particularly enjoy this feature of the site.

You don't just earn points for surveys! Just signing up gets you started on your way towards earning rewards:

  • Create your account: 100 points
  • Provide profile information: Up to 200 points
  • Refer a friend: 25 - 400 points

Refer a Friend Program

For every friend you refer to Tellwut, you will immediately be credited with 25 points once your referral signs up and confirms their e-mail address. If you have completed at least 2 external surveys, once your friend completes just one external survey, you will be credited with an additional 400 points!

To start referring friends, simply click the "Refer Friends" button listed under your Friends to grab your unique referral URL which you can share with friends, on social media, etc.

Create Your Own Surveys

Tellwut allows you to create two of your own surveys per week. You’ll earn 10-20 points for each survey created, and it can be fun to see the results of questions that were playing on your mind. If you need to do market research for your own job, this feature may be particularly appealing. Member-generated surveys remain live for 24 hours.

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You’ll also earn 5-25 points for answering member-generated surveys. This is nowhere near what you can earn by answering Tellwut’s own surveys, but members may enjoy the brevity and added variety of member-generated questions.

Chat with Other Members

Member-generated surveys have a comments section below them, allowing you to engage in a lively discussion about the topic, of which there are hundreds.

This essentially makes Tellwut more of a social media website, as much as a surveys website. You won’t earn any points for getting involved in community discussions, but many members appear to enjoy it and they are popular, nonetheless.

Social Media Engagement

On Tellwut's various social media pages (namely Facebook), the company frequently posts opportunities for you to earn additional points. You’ll also learn about some of the more interesting results of Tellwut surveys on Instagram and Pinterest.

Customer service is offered via social media too. All in all, these are nice incentives to follow Tellwut on Twitter and Facebook.

Great Support Staff!

If you ever run into issues with the platform, you can reach out via the contact form online or email Tellwut at [email protected]. They will typically respond within 48 hours!

Is Tellwut Legit or Scam?

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Is Tellwut Legit?

Tellwut is certainly not a scam and is safe and legit. They have awarded over $3,000,000 in rewards to their members making Tellwut a legitimate survey website which you can use to earn rewards and connect with other survey takers. If the community aspect of the website appeals to you, you may particularly enjoy being a member. Check out our SurveyPolice Exclusive: 9 Question Q & A with Tellwut if you'd like to learn more about the platform.

You can also learn more and find out what users think of their surveys site in the Tellwut reviews section below.

Eligibility: Residents of Canada and USA, 18+

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Tellwut Reviews (585)

5 Star Reviews (393) 67.2
67.2
4 Star Reviews (70) 12.0
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3 Star Reviews (37) 6.3
6.3
2 Star Reviews (24) 4.1
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1 Star Reviews (61) 10.4
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Quota Filled

March 21, 2016 by Salvatore from United States

I just recently signed up with Tellwut. The site looked promising and I have been burned by other survey sites so with a higher rating I decided to give Tellwut a try. The first day was decent I earned 300 points just for filling out surveys about myself and interests. I managed to do one survey and was credited with no problems. Today was a whole different story. I've done 3 surveys gone through the entire survey then at the very end when I was suppose to be credited with the points for completing the survey the screen blanked out and I received a message saying "Unfortunately I don't qualify for this survey" I literally went through 25 minutes of one survey and completed it then received that message. So I spent an hour doing these 3 surveys and did not receive any points. Very disappointing.

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Tellwut responded to this review on March 23, 2016

Hi Salvatore,

We are sorry that you had this experience. We emailed you on Monday morning regarding these issues and we have made the adjustments required. On occasion there may be a connection issue with the survey provider. We go through a daily procedure to reconcile all missing points. We hope that we resolved this issue to your satisfaction. Please let us know if you have any further issues.
Used to be amazing!

January 20, 2015 by FRAN from United States

Tellwut was amazing, I was able to earn about a $10 Amazon gift card every four weeks or so answering questions daily, but now it seems they have enacted a what I can best determine to be a 50 point earning limit a day, so it will now take about three months to earn that gift card. A reward is somewhere in sight (unlike some surveys), so that's positive. It seems they are focusing their reward points for members to answer third-party surveys, which I rarely qualify for and the one time I did I was never rewarded with the promised Tellwut points. As for survey creation (another opportunity to earn points), they say you can submit 2 a week, but after submitting my questions I was told no more than 1 a day. Great, so 1 survey was approved but I am unable to resubmit my second survey because I already attempted 2 in 7 days, so the limit is applied whether the survey is approved or not. They should say 2 attempts every 7 days. Disappointed with this new direction that Tellwut is taking.

Takes Way Too Long

April 18, 2014 by Lance from United States

I don't fill out surveys for fun. It's better if they are fun but I will fill out dreadfully boring surveys if there is cash or a gift card coming soon. Tellwut requires 4000 points and all the "surveys" more like quick quizzes add up to about 1000 points. I took every one in one day. Now I have to wait and wait and wait to try to get to 4000. Not worth it, move along.

Not worth the time

December 24, 2019 by darius from Canada

Bombarded by surveys, sometimes 10/day with little rewards!!!
Unsubscribed.
Don't waste your time.

Cheap

September 29, 2019 by Mark from United States

I'm writing this because I finished a survey with them and then they tell me quota is full. So of course I'm not happy that I spent 20 minutes for nothing. It was worth 50 points so let's put it in perspective. It takes 10,000 points to get a prize worth $25 from them. So a point is worth a quarter of a cent. So had I got rewarded 50 points I made 12.5 cents. Crying shame it takes 20 minutes to make pennies. Hence the title of this review.
You are better off doing the questions from the website, generally making 100 points a day in 5-10 minutes.

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Tellwut responded to this review on October 1, 2019

Hi Mark,

Thank you for sharing your experience with everyone, we appreciate it and we're glad that you're a member of our community.
We apologize for the inconvenience and what you are experiencing is not a Tellwut related issue, but related to our suppliers.
You can always sen us the survey ID and we can look into the issue and allocate points accordingly. If you don' see a survey ID when you're re-directed back, its important that you send us a screen shot of this so that we can look into it.
When are you redirected back there should always be a survey ID.

We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks for being a Tellwut member.

Have you checked out the area of our site where you can instantly qualify for surveys? You can find them in the 'Most Recent' section (everyone qualifies)
- We have our weekly 50 point newsletter sent out over the weekend (everyone qualifies)
- We have monthly promotional giveaways of gift cards, and higher point value surveys. (everyone qualifies)
- We have various giveaways and extra point earning opportunities on our social media pages – on Twitter we have $5 Amazon gift card give away, on Facebook we have a 500 point give away, and a 25 point weekly survey. (everyone qualifies for the 25 points)
- Lastly, every time you participate in an external survey (these surveys are higher in point value) from the Available Surveys page or e-mail, you are entered into a 4000 point weekly give away.

Best Regards,
Tellwut Support