InboxPounds.co.uk Review – Is it a scam?
Inbox Pounds of InboxPounds.co.uk is a rewards site available to people in United Kingdom. Just like any rewards site, Inbox Pounds will pay you for doing activities online that you usually do for free. These include reading mails, playing games, and for answering surveys.
Signing up at Inbox Pounds is free. Registered users will be rewarded with cash for every task they do online. Inbox Pounds let you earn extra cash by reading mails, searching the web, taking surveys, playing games, and many more.
What are Rewards Sites?
Rewards sites such as Inbox Pounds are websites that let you earn cash or certain material gifts for doing things that you usually do online. These sites would either ask you to download a software which will track your activities online or send you surveys and promotional offers in your email. Although these sites are legit and really reward you for your time, it takes some time to reach the amount needed before one could cash out.
In Inbox Pounds, one is rewarded with a small amount (just cents) for the tasks performed online. You can only cash out when you’ve reached 20 pounds, which may take some time to do it.
Final thoughts on InboxPounds.co.uk
Some people accused these reward sites as scams because it takes some time before they can actually earn something from it. Thus, before you sign up in this kind of site, make sure that you use an email address different from your personal mail. One thing to note too is that this will only provide you with extra cash, not really meant to replace your full-time job.
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I was initially very enthused about Inbox pounds but now the novelty has worn off.
I was being credited correctly until I was reaching gold status, then everything changed. I completed two surveys and was not credited so from that point I decided to take down the time, date and nature of every survey completed so that at least I would have some proof should this happen again…
It did happen again – several times. I dutifully completed more surveys only to find that I was being credited for only a third of them.
Inbox pounds has no phone number and no email address, so your only option is to contact them via their live support button when it is operational. You spend about 20 minutes speaking with their online operator only to be told “You will be credited within 1-2 business days” – but you never are.
If you choose to use their site – fine, but do not expect to be reimbursed for every single survey you complete (whether you keep notes of the surveys you have completed or not) and bear in mind these surveys can take up to 25 minutes to complete! I was very enthusiastic about this company in the beginning but now I no longer go on the site as I feel that this failure to credit me shows a marked lack of respect for my time and effort.
I too echo Sohpia’s comments- I don’t do the surveys because 50p for 30 minutes of pretty boring work seems like the worst deal ever (and if you give one ‘wrong’ answer on a survey you can be screened out
so I mainly just signed up to the emails they send me, (1p a time and usually a 20p bonus for signing up- something that take maybe 1 minute to do) but as soon as I hit £4 they stopped paying out, so i’ll likely never reach the £20, and as soon as I do i’m never going on inboxpounds again
I wonder who really uses this site- if you’re out of work then you’re time is better off spent learning a skill, and if you’re employed then spending your time off doing surveys for very little money seems stupid
I have a similar experience, as soon as I have reached £17 (the payout level is £20) I have all of a sudden stopped being credited for cash searches (you can do 30 searches via their ‘search’ box to get 15p credited per day) and for surveys. I have tried to contact them via ‘live chat’ where all I get is them telling me only ‘searches that meet the criteria’ are qualified cash searches but I’ve been searching for the same style of things each day for 2 months and was credited daily with 15p every day ok until i’ve become close to the payout level. It seems odd that now i’ve got to within £3 of the payout threshold that my account stops being credited for searches done or surveys. Also paid emails are not arriving with the ‘confirm this email’ button — I’M NOW CONVINCED THIS SITE IS A SCAM AND THEY WILL NOT PAY OUT !! ps- i’ve been using other sites like onepoll, swagbucks etc for 6 years and they are both reputable so i have had lots of dealings with online similar sites!
this is a total rip off they take your answers on a survey and then after doing the survey for 90 – 100 percent they decide you do not qualify. I have spent hours doing surveys for them to say i do not qualify, how can they say that when i have completed the survey or almost completed it RIP OFF! When you tell them they say they cannot be responsible for the individual companies so I have cancelled my account as they have ripped me off too many times.
If you are desperate to earn a little and not in a hurry (probably a contradiction in terms I know) then it is possible to make money from this site. But it has taken me since April 2012 – nearly 2 years to get 8 cheques at abot £20 a go, £167 in total. I agree with others that surveys are frustrating and barely worth it. I go for 1) emails – Inboxpounds is my start up page so I click on each mail in my “box”. 2) searches – always search initially through their search engine – its no Google but its not too bad. I have had no problem about being credited, so far as I am aware 3) watch videos -this area is less user friendly now, but can still pay out. You can open multiple windows to run several vids at a time. 4) Special offer rewards. If you are careful, you can join betting sites, Graze, Netflix, Lovefilm etc etc. using a card, then cancel. You will almost always get the “reward” even if you cancel. I failed with my free bet from William Hill – they never sent the £10 reward to my account. I did win £185 on a double with the free bet though! Good luck.
I ditto all that other ‘members’ say regards restricted payments, non payments, being disqualified after completing 90% of survey time quoted by inbox pounds and such like. Furthermore the online chat ‘help’ of inbox pounds which I have recorded is as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike! Inbox Pounds appears to be abusing peoples time and not responding to their clients concerns.
Don’t waste your time. At the beginning it was pretty good because I earned 15 pounds in 12 days. I though that I could earn my first 20 pounds in max 15 days but when I reached 15 pounds there started happen odd things. When I was ready to accomplish a survey – there was not any for me during a whole day!!!! Before that there were about 30 surveys per day but I of course didn’t qualify to most of them but that was ok. Before that I accomplished about 15 surveys per day (they paid me just for 3-5 per day, the rest of them should have been paid in 2days-3 weeks but that was of course a lie because they have never pay me for them). So if you see sentense “Your account will be credited between 2 business days and 3 weeks depending upon which survey you completed.” – don’t even dream about your money. The will not pay you. Besides till I reached 15 pounds I got everyday 1 or 2 simple and short surveys for about 15 or 20 pencese and then I started receive surveys for 1 or 2 pence. OMG. Besides when I done this stupid and cheap survey for 1 pence I got response like “We’re sorry. This survey already received all the answers it required before you submitted yours (this happens rarely). You will not be paid for this submission. “. I don’t believe in coincidence like this. So now I am stuck on my 18 pounds and I wasted a lot of my free time. They stopped sending me paid emails, they stopped paying me for using their web searchers. And I stopped qualified to most of surveys… So thank you for waisting my time inbox pounds. And I spend on that a loooot of my time (over 5h per day). I am going to do everything to get my 20 pounds and then BYE BYE INBOX POUNDS.
Oh and one other thing. When I see there is some surveys and I try to enter them, I see new thing “Sorry! We’re having trouble contacting this partner’s website. Please try something else and we’ll get this fixed soon.” 🙂 Yeah, right. My Internet connection is just fine so it is just a cheating. Like I has written today above – dont be stupic and don’t waste Your time. It is better to watch tv than do such as humiliating thing.
At some point later on this year I might even be lucky enough to actually see the cheque I’ve requested on 4th May but never received it. The other thing is part of this payment is for some offers I have completed as long ago as last December. Now how quick is that – you complete cash offers and have to chase your payment for months (I’ve actually managed to make them admit less than a half of the money they owe me for my December activity), than they supposedly send you a cheque, than after over a month free replacement cheque than almost another month later still no sign of my cheque. They keep asking to double check my address etc. on every occasion but hey – I have previously received my cheques and my address never changed in over 8 years now. I think they are just getting worse and worse, there are many other places that offer similar things (cash offers, videos, surveys etc.) and they actually always pay on time, like ClixSense. Don’t want to spam in comments but if anyone is interested to join ClixSense than I would ask them to sign through my referral link clixsense.com/?6143532 and I personally guarantee you will always be paid on time.
So far the searching And surveys have been interesting, but I do think the payments for tasks and jobs could do with being higher. .
I sympathise with al lthe members that have posted they had trouble with this site.
It has taken me 2 years to get my first £20 payment, but as they promised, I got it a few days ago in the timescale they stated.
Part of the reason it took so long to reach the £20 payment threshold is, I follow the advice below.
NEVER DO ANY SURVEYS. They ALWAYS waste your time and even IF they credit, the rate of reward is far worse than dedicated Survey sites.
I agree with the person that said 50 pence for 30 minutes is a joke.
I never do any OFFERS either, again Inboxpounds is a Business, not a charity, and they seem to take a far greater share of the advertising and affiliate revenue than many sites do.
So, if you want to have a go, and realise that just doing Searches (1 pence per 2 searches), only watching Videos (if they ever have any, not lately it seems) and clicking on the email “confirm” links, will take at least 2 years, then join from my link.
I have to admit that when comes to surveys, inbox pounds ARE a complete rip off; they tend not only to disqualify at the end of survey (which I believe is due to enormous screening time set up for their surveys) but also they LIE WITH DECLARED VALUE of their surveys. I happened to avoid low paid surveys but any time I take one of those (rare) better paid surveys on inbox pounds – I got paid much less than supposed. Only recently I have completed one survey there, priced £1.00 – took me about 20mins to answer all those questions and even though I got paid (wow?), it was only £0.20 – a fifth of promised.
I won’t ever bother with surveys there as they are complete rip off but I do have to admit I somehow managed to get £90 in cheques from ibox£s since July 2013, so – yes, they DO pay. I even got one cheque resent once when it got lost in the post and eventually I had two of them delivered (although obviously I only cashed the latter one), so I can confirm the user support works fine when complaining about payments.
All in all inbox pounds, even thoug paying, is not worth it – I have had experience with another places which pay for similar activities (including surveys) and the best paid is clixsense.com with which I make around $50 a month since February 2014.
I have to disagree with most of you I have been with inbox pounds for about ayear and a half and so far I have been paid over £200 maybe I am just the lucky one
As other people have stated, you will fill lengthy surveys, just to be told at the end that you do not meet the criteria. Despite filling in many of these to ascertain if the website was legit or not, after several months, I earned nothing at all, not one single penny. I would strongly recommend people avoid this site like the plague, you will waste your time, and earn nothing, yet still fill in all these surveys that they themselves will be making money from. The only conclusion I can ultimately come to, is that the website is nothing but a con.
dave maybe you are not a good liar if you tell the truth to these surveys you will get nothing