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To join you must be on Facebook and have a cell phone to confirm you are a person. From there once you start earning you can add your earnings to your Jingit VISA debit card!

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L’OCCITANE is a French beauty care brand that has products for both men and women. Plus right now they are offering up a Valentine’s Day promotion!

Score a Valentine’s gift pack for just $18 with any 45 purchase. The gift packs have different items all with a small pouch that is great for traveling.

You do have to spend a little bit to get the deal on the gift packs, but they have plenty of skin care products and more to choose from. On top of that your order will have free shipping, so that’s always a bonus!

After you visit the page make sure to follow them on their social media pages. It looks like they do various promotions for discounts and more.

SurveySpot, created by Survey Sampling International, allows members to be a key factor in market research. FREE members are rewarded for participating in interesting research studies for major companies.

You also can earn prize draw entries every time you participate in a survey, with a chance to win up to $12,000 in our quarterly prize draw.

Click here to register.

If you would like you can read a review I wrote here a few years ago. It’s complete with screenshots with earnings.

An increasingly popular topic online has been how to make money online. Throughout the past year or so I’ve done a bunch of ‘reviews’ of survey and other companies that pay you online.

I thought it would be beneficial to have a list full of all the sites that we and our online community recommends. Remember when joining a survey type site you don’t need a credit card, otherwise it’s 99% a scam. Be careful with your information! This is who we recommend:

Global Test Market – This is one of the first survey companies that I started using. I’ve been able to cash out a few times. I’m not really a fan of “points” for survey sites, but this one is worth checking out.

Inbox Dollars – I do have to admit it might take a while to earn points with this one for a reward, but it can be worth it. For this one you can cash out just by reading their emails. However it doesn’t pay as many points… but it doesn’t take long throughout the day. Follow my drift? Regardless it’s still worth a minute or two each day! (read review here)

MyPoints – This is a site that you can earn prizes by participating in surveys, using their toolbar, and searching the web. (read review here)

Opinion Outpost – This one is a new one we’ve added that Shannon wrote for us. After seeing a bunch of nice checks on our Facebook wall it was time to start recommending this! (read review here)

Pinecone – This is by far the VERY BEST online survey company. The problem with being the best (at least for them) is that it’s limiting when you only have so much budget etc. Pinecone is a closed registration site, so you can either only be invited or have to wait until they open registration. It’s currently closed.

Survey Spot – This is the VERY first company I used to take surveys with. We made a few $100 over a year or two as well as some fun product testing offers. It appears they did change the site structure though so check into this one.

Swagbucks – This is personally my all-time favorite. Through this site I have been able to earn tons of gift cards that I have gladly used as giveaways for our awesome readers. Plenty of our regulars average several gift cards per month or two! (read review here)

Survey Savvy – This one appears to be one of the smaller companies, or it was when I used it. I was able to generate a check or two but it felt like the surveys closed faster (not as many people able to qualify). However they do have a way you can refer friends and you can earn $ that way.

Synovate – Another one we’ve reviewed in the past. Just by signing up and taking the initial surveys you are only a few surveys from cashing out at $5! (read review here)

Toluna – I have never used this one, so I asked a friend to give us a summary! “Toluna allows you to collect points for taking surveys and cashing those points in for rewards such as a check or entries into high value sweepstakes. You can also get points for taking polls and creating opinion topics for others to comment on. The results of the polls and opinion topics that you create can then be used on your own personal sites or blogs. The main difference with Toluna compared to other survey sites is that even though you can refer others to join there is no bonus or reward for doing so. I’ve been using Toluna for a few years and really like it.”

Do you use these sites to make money online? Please comment below on your opinions!

I haven’t used Global Test Market in years, although I have been paid from them in the past. So I asked a fellow blogger to do a review for me!

Virginia Higgins is a 34 year old Christian, wife, mother of two toddlers, and homemaker. Her blog is an eclectic mix of real life stories, anecdotes, photography, scrapbooking, and product reviews/giveaways.

I joined Global Test Market several years ago, after researching several different paid survey sites. I appreciated the fact that Global Test Market had a good reputation, was free to join, and that I was able to find several reports of people actually getting paid. Global Test Market is one of the leading paid survey sites available, and has been around since 1999.

Much like other paid survey sites, Global Test Market sends its members survey invitations by e-mail. Some weeks you may receive a few survey invitations a day, and other weeks only a few in that week. Most surveys have “screener” questions, and members may not qualify for every survey they are invited to. In the event that you are screened out of a survey, sweepstakes entries are granted in lieu of points.

With the current minimum cash out level at 1000 points, which is worth $50, I have been able to request payout at least four times over the last two years, and am only a survey or two away from being able to cash out again.

It is relatively easy to earn enough points with Global Test Market to reach the pay out level. I don’t respond to all the invitations I receive, and am screened out of a portion of the ones that I do respond to. The average survey that I do complete takes about 5-10 minutes and can easily be completed in between other tasks.

The think I like most about Global Test Market, aside from the pay out, is that the site is not spammy. They don’t ask you to purchase a product before giving feedback on it. If you are looking to earn a little extra spending cash, I highly recommend Global Test Market.

I love reading our readers stories about how they give back with samples, their items they score free with coupons, as well as other inspiring stories. We even have our own donation & giving roundup for more ideas.

Another way to give back is to donate $28 per month to ChildFund. You may have seen the commercials for it which are pretty sad. You can go online to ChildFund, sponsor a child and set-up your payment.

If you just can do it from time to time you can do a one time donation of $28. Each child has a different story, but essentially the same reasons for needing money.

A donation of $28 has been made by Its All Free Online.

Update:

I already got a letter from them I wanted to share…

As some mentioned they weren’t sure where the donation would go. In the letter they claim 80%. I would assume from commercials etc that the more people they reach of course that 80% is more $.

When I posted this last week I got mixed feedback, I just wanted to share my experience so far.

As some of you realized, Facebook finally took away the “Discussions” tab that many of our readers utilized. We had people sharing their referral links as well as vote for me requests.

I have finally got up our own forum where you can now join and participate. It is a pretty basic forum and very similar to how we ran our discussions area. However this way it will be more structured with people posting.

Feel free to join http://itsallfreeonline.com/forum and get started!

The California Wine Club is a perfect gift for people who enjoy wine. Not sure what to get someone as a gift? You can’t go wrong with a decent bottle of wine. But what if you don’t know what’s “good”?

If you join The California Wine Club they take the guesswork out of that. The premier club offers you a choice of 1 red & 1 white wine (or 2 reds or 2 whites) each month for $36.95 plus shipping/tax (total works out to be around $50).

I had never received wine in the mail before, but the process was simple. The only downside was that the delivery person was attractive and I had barely woken up my wine arrived. I got over it though

I received my package pretty fast, a red and a white. 2008 ZinMan Zinfandel and 2009 El Dorado Chardonnay to be more specific. I enjoyed both wines with a friend. I would definitely get them again, even though they are typically what I buy when I’m looking for wine.

Receiving things in the mail that I don’t know EXACTLY what is coming, is pretty exciting. Plus since I enjoy wine and trying new kinds, it’s fun too.

If you are thinking about giving one as a gift, The California Wine Club has offered our readers a special 10% discount. Use promo code freesample at discount. On top of that, they will send an extra bottle FREE just for being one of our readers. There is no obligation to stay past the first month.

There are two rules though, you can’t to be under 21 and they can’t ship to Utah. Sorry!

Win A Free Month

It just keeps on getting better. They are also offering a one month subscription to a lucky reader.

To Enter: Comment below about what type of wine you would be excited to try. Not sure? Check out this wine list for some ideas.

For an additional entry you can like The California Wine Club on Facebook or Twitter. For your additional entry you must leave a separate comment.

1 winner will be chosen at random. Comments will be closed at 11:59pm PST on October 14th, 2011.

The prize will be fulfilled by our sponsor. Remember you must be 21 or older, and no Utah residents.

I did receive a free wine subscription for this review/giveaway but the opinions are my own.

I saw a contest where we could be nominated as a top deal blog as well as get a chance to win prizes for votes. I posted it a few times and we ended up being a top 10 finalist!

Vote

The top 10 voting is up and you can help us win! Along with your vote, you will also be entered to win a $150 gift card.

Please take a minute and go to the Savingstar Facebook page. Scroll down until you see our blog and vote!

We are up against some great blogs, so I perfectly fine with not winning, but I know we can get into the top 3! However if we do win not only will I earn a nice prize, but we will also get another $100 gift card to giveaway!

I like to make sure a website is legit or going to honor the deal they provide before I share it. Remember the bad customer service from One Kings Lane? I do! I try to avoid that kind of thing as much as possible. I hate letting our freebie family down!

A reader asked about Cardilly.com and if I knew whether or not it was a good site or if I recommended it. Having never heard of it I went ahead and purchased a $100 Walmart card for $50.

It’s exactly 2 months later today and the order has still not been received.

This is how it went:

Ordered July 26th, 2011
Estimated Delivery August 21st – August 23rd
Contacted August 29th

Funny thing is they got back to me very quickly with this email:

Regardless I gave them the benefit of the doubt.

Contacted again September 13th, 2011 with no response.

Finally I contacted again today and asked for a refund. Assuming I wasn’t going to get one after reading about the scams other people posted I went ahead and called my bank.

Shout out to Chase for handling my dispute extremely well and fast. I should have my money back tomorrow.

Discount Gift Card Site

If you are really looking for a place to buy and sell your gift cards, Plastic Jungle is a good place to go. They offer discounted gift cards (up to 35% off) along with free shipping!