InboxDollars Reviews and Features

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InboxDollars

Operated by: Prodege, LLC
100 N. Pacific Coast Highway,
8th Floor, El Segundo, CA 90245
Contact: http://support.inboxdollars.com/hc/en-us

InboxDollars is a cash-based online rewards club that passes on the revenue it generates from advertisers to its members. By participating in paid surveys, reading e-mails, playing games, redeeming coupons, and more, you can get cashback on your activates.

How InboxDollars Works

Earn cash credited to your account when you complete particular tasks. These include:

  • Using coupons – find hundreds of printable grocery coupons, and earn additional cash back when you use them!
  • Playing games – select from dozens of card, strategy, sports, and word games, and get paid when you play.
  • Shopping cashback – visit the InboxDollars website and get cash back for your purchases from hundreds of merchants including Walmart, Target, Old Navy, and more.
  • Answering surveys – take online surveys when they become available, and earn cash every time you successfully complete a study.
  • Using the toolbar – earn additional cash by using the toolbar for your web searches, and have an easy way of staying informed about the latest free offers, surveys, etc.
  • Reading e-mails – receive emails with special offers, and earn cash when you open some special emails.
  • Referring friends - refer friends and earn 10% of what they earn. Banners and links are provided in your account.

Payment and Rewards

Once your account reaches a balance of $30, you can request a check or a Visa Cash Card.

For non-Gold members, it takes around two weeks for payments to be processed. For gold members, payments are processed weekly. Payments are issued in US dollars, regardless of where you live.

Becoming a Gold Member

Once you cash out for the first time, your account will automatically be upgraded to gold. Gold members enjoy additional perks including faster payments, more sweepstakes entries, more loyalty rewards, and additional referral rewards.

Community Features

Got disqualified? Still have a chance to win

If you try to complete an online survey but get disqualified when attempting to do so, you'll still receive an opportunity to win a prize by earning a spin on Billy's Spin and Win wheel. The number of spins you've accumulated is found on the 'Surveys' page.

Prizes include: $0.25 tokens (after your next successful survey completion, get an extra .25 credit in addition to the survey credit; 5 tokens maximum can be sitting in your account), $5.00, $1.00, and $0.05 cash bonuses credited immediately to your account, or Scratch Off Progress which will be credited immediately to your account; win and you'll see the Scratch Off progress bar will move forward towards the next scratch off card.

Is InboxDollars legit?

InboxDollars was founded in 2000 and has over 17 million members, and over 2.5 million Facebook fans. They have awarded over 80 million dollars in rewards to their members and have a mobile app available.

InboxDollars is run by Prodege, who also runs Swagbucks, InboxPounds (UK focus) and DailyRewards (Canada focus). Collectively, these sites have awarded more than $700 million dollars to their members since their inception. As such, Inboxdollars is not a scam, nor is Prodege - their parent company. InboxDollars has been reviewed thousands of times online, and although people's experiences with the site may vary, they are real and are certainly not a scam.

Eligibility: InboxDollars is open to international residents 18 years of age and older.

InboxDollars Alternatives

If you're already a member of InboxDollars and are looking for something different to join to make extra income, there are literally hundreds of alternatives out there. Here are a few of our suggestions. Branded Surveys offers online surveys, a low $5 cash out minimum and a $1 joining bonus! Tellwut is a fun community where you can take surveys, create surveys and answer daily polls for gift cards. TGM Panel is a popular survey platform with tons of survey inventory.

InboxDollars Reviews (169)

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Horrible

December 6, 2016 by Christy from United States

It took me 2 months of taking surveys 4-5 days a week to make $30. Once I requested payment they charged $3 to get paid. I waited weeks and never received it. When I contacted them about the payment I never received, I was told nothing could be done. I got so many headaches to take these stupid surveys just to try to make a little extra money that I never received. I have nothing at all good to say about inbox dollars.

Never do any surveys

November 23, 2016 by Dustin from United States

TL;DR - 19/20 survey attempts end up wasting upwards of 5 minutes each on average. Surveys? Worthless.

First, 8/10 surveys I spend a couple of minutes on a presurvey to find I don't qualify. Second, those surveys I end up qualifying for? 9/10 of those keep me going for 10+ minutes to finally kick me out and tell me I don't qualify for a survey I've basically completed for them. So, 19/20 times, I've wasted a couple to several minutes.

Basically the whole site is not worth the time. I now only do /anything/ at InboxDollars when MTurk is slow. I've found the VERY occasional interesting offer. But be careful- the amount of data ID has and can share with partners is a lot (I say "can" because they don't share data with every partner). I ended up with a trial subscription to Shape magazine because the offer was something like "3 issues of 4 different magazines for a year!" and I tried to bail on the offer when I realized there were 6 magazines total to choose from, none of which interested me. I bailed, canceled, but ID still shared all my data with the partner, so I've got 6 more months of crap to recycle...

30 Days to Credit

October 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn from United States

I don't like that if you have an issue with a credit, it takes 30 days to receive the credit, other than that the site is fine.

Fair

October 22, 2016 by Maribel from United States

Sometimes it takes too long and sometimes you aren't given anything for ever trying, sometimes it seems like a waste of time.

My experience with Inbox Dollars

October 19, 2016 by Patricia from United States

Nothing bad to say about Inbox Dollars, but it takes a long time to earn the $30 before being able to redeem my earnings. A lot of surveys I don't qualify for. The upside is that you do receive spins or sweeps chances if you don't qualify for a survey; and there are a lot of opportunities to earn various amounts of money. Plus, I had a question and was able to chat in real time with a representative online. I was pleased with that. I put a little time into it everyday, but kind of tiresome trying to get to the $30. Just wanted to add that I am now using the Inbox search engine. It is slowly adding up. But, when I reach my $30, I might just let this one go.