I have noticed that some website are giving so called "tricks" or "tips" on Pinecone. I just want to point out I would NOT recommend anyone to listen to those "tricks". For example, when you see the sign up banner says they are looking for 18 - 24 year old or hispanics, don't say you are hispanic or you are 19 when you are not. It is not right to lie to get into the Pinecone panel (or any other market research survey panels), and you might get caught later on and get kicked out. If your demographic fits what Pinecone is looking for very likely you will be accepted and given survey opportunities.  If for some reason you have trouble get accepted by Pinecone, pleae don't get discouraged, it's really not a big deal - because there are so many other good or even better survey sites you can join!

Another thing I want to remind everyone is it is AGAINST Pinecone's policy/Term of use to talk about your survey and product testing experience with Pinecone publicly. When you sign up with Pinecone, you agree to keep everything confidential. And this is actually what you should do for ALL paid survey/market research companies.

A few more things I like to address:

First, I have read somewhere on the net (couldn't remmber where it was lol) that somebody saying you have to use IE brower to take Pinecone Research surveys - this is simply not true. I have been taking Pinecone surveys with Firefox for a long time and never had a problem.

Second, a while ago Pinecone Research asked members to download a program/plug-in, again some website are warning everybody saying there are possible Trojan in the plug-in. Again it's another false alarm, lol.  I don't want to get into the detail, since it reall doesn't matter - because I have never downloaded the plugin, but I continue to receive surveys from Pinecone Research.

Third, sometime at end of a survey, Pinecone might ask you if you are intersted in testing a certain product for a manufacture, if you answer yes, it doesn't mean you will receive the product to test. I have been asked numerous times of the same question, but I have only got a few chances to test products for Pinecone Research.

Okay that's about all I want to address. I really like Pinecone Research a lot. Yes I make more money with a number of other paid survey sites, but Pinecone is still my favorite. They have interesting surveys and product testing opportunities, surveys generally are easy and short.  Pinecone Reserch is fair and very reliable, and they are the fastest paying survey company.

I highly recommend Pinecone Research! But once again, remember to sign up with other great paid survey sites on the FREE Paid Survey Lists as well to make more money with paid surveys!