Pinecone Research

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Pinecone Research Sign up and review - Make Money Taking Online SurveysJoin Pinecone Research via our exclusive Pinecone Research Sign Up Banner or Sign Up Links Below!  Please make sure only ONE household member to sign up with Pinecone Research, since multiple registrations of the same house hold will VOID all registrations. Age requirement is 18 and older.

Pinecone Research – USA sign Up – OPEN

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Important: After you submit the sign up form, you will receive an email contains a link to your “profile” survey, you must complete the profile survey in order to be accepted into the panel. You will receive a “Welcome” email shortly after (usually one day later) you fill out the “profile” survey if you are accepted into the panel.

Is Pinecone Research Legit or Scam?

Pinecone Research is absolutely legitimate. In fact, it is one of the most reputable market research panels. I have been a member with them for almost 10 years and I have always been paid.

Pinecone Research Rewards

Currently members earn points for completing online surveys. Each survey usually worth 300 points, and you can redeem points for:

  • Cash – can be paid by check or Paypal. Minimum cash out 300 points ($3)
  • Gift cards – including amazon gift cards and popular store gift cards such as walmart, target gift cards. This is new reward option!
  • Various merchandises/prizes
  • Charity donations

Who Can Join Pinecone Research?

  • Minimum Age Requirement: You must be at least 18 years old to join
  • Open to Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany & France (they have separate panels for each country)

How to Join Pinecone Research?

Pinecone Research doesn’t accept members at their website, instead they recruit new members through advertising or member referrals. You need to find a Pinecone sign up banner or link in order to join Pinecone Research Survey Panel.

Usually you can find sign up links or banners right here at this page.

To join Pinecone Research, just click following sign up links which take you to the sign up form. Fill out the form and submit. Please make sure only ONE member per household to sign up.

Pinecone Research – USA sign Up – OPEN

Pinecone Research – UK Sign Up – OPEN

Pinecone Research – Canada  Sign Up – OPEN

Pinecone Research – Germany  Sign Up – OPEN

Pinecone Research – France  Sign Up – OPEN

After you submit the sign up form, you will receive a confirmation email from Pinecone Research. The Email contains a link to your “profile survey”.

Important – You must complete the profile survey in order to be accepted into the panel.

Note about sign up:

Filling out the sign up form and profile survey does not guarantee your acceptance into Pinecone panel.

  • If your profile doesn’t match the demographic they are looking for at the time you might not get accepted.
  • Pinecone runs comprehensive quality checks to screen out fake registrations, and for security purpose the first survey payment will always be in the form of check to further eliminate fraud.

You will receive a “Welcome” email shortly after (usually one day later) you fill out the “profile” survey if you are accepted into the panel.

The “Welcome” email confirms that you are accepted into Pinecone Research panel.

Please Note: If Pinecone Research Banner or sign up link is not available, please subscribe my Newsletter and I will send out email alert to my Newsletter subscribers when Pinecone registration is open again.

Pinecone Research Review

Pinecone Research is one of the best market research paid survey companies out there. They have a great reputation of being a reliable paying paid survey company, and have consistent survey opportunities for panel members.

I generally receive 2-3 surveys from Pinecone every month, and members can choose how often they want to take surveys by updating your profile. Pinecone surveys usually are easy and relatively short, take about 10-15 minutes to finish, and majority of their surveys are related to grocery/food products. I have done quite some product testings (such as cereals, yogurt and frozen dinners) for them.

Currently Pinecone Research are paying panel members $3 (300 points) for each surveys completed (they used to pay $5 per survey). In the past, members are rewarded a sweepstakes entry (no points) for each “household” survey. Household surveys are “screener” surveys used by Pinecone Research to determine potential paying surveys for panel members.). And members are guaranteed to qualify for a paying surveys if they receive the survey invite.

Now Pinecone combines the “screener” questions into the paying surveys which means after the first few questions you might get screened out (disqualified) of the surveys. But if you qualify and complete the survey you will earn 300 points. I generally qualify about half of the surveys invited, and the screening processes are pretty quick.

Pinecone Research offers members various popular gift cards and cash rewards. You can get paid cash by check or Paypal. Paypal payment is really fast – pretty much the next business day. Before they offer Paypal option, checks arrived very quickly as well (I once received a check even before invited for the survey!).

Following are screen shots of the Paypal payments I received from Pinecone Research:

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Pinecone Research Survey Paypal Cash Payment

Notes & Tips

#1: First, 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.

#2: You can choose how frequent you want to receive surveys under your profile page (Frequency). such as one study per week, three study per week, one study per day etc…

#3: If you will be out of town for vacations etc and won’t be able to take surveys,  you can also let Pinecone know by updating your profile under “vacation” section.

#4: Sometime at end of a survey, Pinecone might ask you if you are interested 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.

Pinecone Research Scam Security Notice

Pinecone Research publishes a “Security Notice:” warning the public about scammers using their name and logo to scam people. Currently there are two kind of scams:

#1: Mystery shopping fraud check scam – the scammers provide you a fake check and advise you to cash it and use some of the money to test a service, and keep the balance as survey payment. DO not cash the check!

#2 Facebook Fraud – which is a fake Facebook page that may ask for your login information. Pincone claims that it does not have a Facebook presence, and will not ask you for your login credentials.

Besides the above two scams, personally I have received the so-called “business evaluation surveys” before – be careful of those phishing email scams, at first you might get tricked by the fake sender emails address if you don’t pay attention and clicked the link inside the emails.

Pinecone Rewards Physical Orders Delay

Due to Covid-19, shipping for physical reward orders might be delayed. Today I logged into my Pinecone account and noticed this on their website:

We are all experiencing changes and challenges as a result of regulations around COVID-19. We are committed to providing our members the best service possible in these difficult times. As such, we are working to fulfill physical merchandise and physical gift card orders as quickly as possible. Several of our distribution centers are in locations impacted by City and/or State requirements and, as a result, items being shipped are more likely to be delayed. If you have an item that is experiencing delay and would like to cancel the order, you may contact us. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please note that all digital cards will continue to be fulfilled as normal.

Pinecone Research FAQs

In this last section, I will try my best to answer your questions about Pinecone Research that have not been addressed in this review. Some questions are from the comments, and some are from emails I received from my readers. Feel free to let me know if you have questions that are unanswered!

First 300 points automatically redeemed for a check?

After you complete your first survey, the first 300 points you earn will automatically be redeemed as check and sent to your home address. This is done for security purpose, and to establish your profile and account. Once this initial transaction is complete, your point balance will accumulate as normal and you can redeem for a wide selection of rewards including cash, gift cards and brand-named merchandise.

How Do I Request Cash (check or Paypal) Payment?

Many of you know Pinecone switched to a point reward system a while ago, and some members are having trouble finding the cash payment option. To request cash reward, either by check or Paypal, do the following:

Step one: Login into your Pinecone Research account;

Step two: In your account page, at the bottom, click the “Redeem My Points” button link, which takes you to reward catalog site/page.

Step three: at the reward catalog page, click “Featured Award” link on the left, there you can see the “Cash Option” at the bottom. From there you reach the $3 (300 points) cash reward page.

Enter the Quantity based on your point balance. For example, if you have 900 points, you should enter “3” in the “Quantity” field. Then click “Add to Cart” button. You can also choose $5, $10, or $15 cash-out amount.

Does Pinecone Kick Out existing members?

Yes, Pinecone sometimes remove members from their database for no reason. I have heard many members complain about this. Personally my account had been deleted once but I re-joined Pinecone a couple of years later.

Does Pinecone Research have mobile apps?

I couldn’t find a Pinecone mobile app, neither Android nor iOS. However, Pinecone website is mobile friendly,  so I assume that you can take Pinecone surveys from your mobile devices.

Final Thoughts & Get Started

I really think anyone who are interested in online surveys and product testing should join Pinecone Research. Yes I make more money with a number of  other paid survey sites, but Pinecone is still one of my favorite. They have interesting surveys and product testing opportunities, surveys generally are easy and short. Pinecone Research is fair and very reliable, and they are the fastest paying survey company! I highly recommend Pinecone Research!

Pinecone Research Sign Up & Review

To get started with Pinecone Research, please click following sign up links to join their panels, make sure to fill out your profile survey to be accepted!

Pinecone Research – USA sign Up – OPEN
Pinecone Research – UK Sign Up – OPEN
Pinecone Research – Canada  Sign Up – OPEN
Pinecone Research – Germany  Sign Up – OPEN
Pinecone Research – France  Sign Up – OPEN

Are you a member of Pinecone Research Panel? If not, I suggest you sign up with Pinecone Research and give them a try! If you are a member, please feel free to share your Pinecone review and survey experience and let me know if you have any questions!

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376 thoughts on “Pinecone Research”

  1. My name is RoseMarie and I would like to join your panel after being reffered by my friend Nicole Elliott. I would apprecite you sending me the link to join.

    • Hi RoseMarie – just click the pinecone sign up link which takes you to the registration form, fill out the form and make sure answer the following up profile survey, and you should be able to join. good luck!

  6. No longer giving out checks!!! Now you are given 300 points per survey, and it takes tens of thousands of points to get any items from the store. Not worth the time!!!

    • Hi Lindsay, they still have the Cash Option. Just click the “Featured Awards” link on the left side of the Category page, then you will see the “Cash Option” at the bottom under the “Featured Awards”. After you click that you will see the “$3 Cash Option” page and it says:

      300 Reward Points

      Free Standard Shipping

      Turn your points into cash with this reward option! Upon receipt of your order a payment will be issued for the value of your order. Please note that if you request multiple cash payments it will be combined and issued as one payment for your convenience (i.e. 3 x payment will be one payment of $9). Your payment will be sent to you via your previous preferred payment method (check, Everywhere Reward Debit MasterCard, or PayPal). If your previous payments were loaded to your Debit MasterCard, you can expect the funds to be loaded onto your card. If your previous payments went to PayPal, this will be sent to your PayPal account. If you wish to set up PayPal payments, please email scott@pineconeresearch.com to do so before redeeming. For further information please contact the rewards team who will be happy to assist you.

      I just re-joined Pinecone (used the sign up link on this page) recently after they dumped me a couple of years ago. I just received and completed a survey today. Points have not been credit yet but once it does I will cash out and update on the payment.

      Hope it helps!

  8. Hi I am from India does the site pinecone accepts the sign up request from other countries.

    • Vamsee, unfortunately I don’t think they accept anyone from India. Check out the Asia=Pacific Survey list, there are a few good survey panels open to India.

  9. This was an excellent read; I’m stunned! Not by you obviously, just that it took me 25 minutes to uncover your site in the big g. That is way too long for a high-quality site like this

  12. 🙄
    i’m interested in joining pinecone,but the link brings me to the homepage, not the sign up page..can you help? thanks much!

  13. I would love to join pine cone, but I cant find a banner even through your site that works. How do I join in US??????

  15. I really would like to sign up for the US, but te link didnt work… someone please invite me.. it would be greatly appreciated

  17. Hello, would someone tell me if Pinecone accepts sign up’s now? If so where can I find the link used to sign? Thank you very much Also if I need to sign up for your newsletter, I will be happy to.

  24. 🙁 I’ve been looking to come back and I finally found you. I want to come back. this is my user ID:341702

  29. Hello everyone. I missed the window to sign up in the US but noticed that existing members can refer new participants. I’ve been trying to get on the panel for over a year. If anyone could help me out I’d appreciate it. My email is:

    griffonsclaw@aol.com

    Thanks in advance. 🙂

  31. [quote name=Evelyn Schlader]I did your surveys for years/ Then I got an illness where I could not type. Now I can. Can I come back? My number is 55776.[/quote]Hi Evelyn, please contact Pinecone directly for any issues/problems you might have! Good luck!

  33. I did your surveys for years/ Then I got an illness where I could not type. Now I can. Can I come back? My number is 55776.

  34. Hi Dave, I am aware that the UK link has expired. Definitely will post update once new link is available to my knowledge. 🙂

  35. Hiya, has anyone got a spare invitation to send me, the UK link just goes to the home user log in page… cheers

  36. I was wondering if anyone would send me a invitation

    jakehowe2004 @ yahoo.com

    Thanks so much in those who read my request.

  38. The US registration link just takes me to a sign in page, with no noticeable link to registration.

  39. [quote name=maria]hei the uk link sends you to the home screen :cry:[/quote]Hi Maria, Pinecone UK Link just been updated. Please try again. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂

  41. [quote name=George]Hi Folks, your Canada sign-up link is broken[/quote]Hi George, the Canada sign up link has been “fixed”/updated. Please try again. Thanks for the heads up. 🙂

  43. Hello,
    I want to Sign up for Pine Cone Reserch UK but i dont know its not working or what can u please guide me with it thank u.

  44. Update – I receive and qualify for 2 surveys a month and sometimes I get product tests. I haven’t had any problems with them. They are in my personal top 12 best survey companies!

  52. :sigh:
    hi,
    i was wondering if you guys would consider filipinos, because there’s no link for philippines i really wanna join.thanks

  57. For me, after registering it said that nothing was available in my area for the information I submitted. Has any of you tried out Cashle/Points2shop yet? Just curious. Not spamming at all. I did not see it on the list on this site. Here you go:

    http://www.points2shop.com/us/1566/Battlefield-3?ref=bottomofthemap

    At least if you’re like me and can’t get into Pine Cone right now, you can make a few easy bucks with them too. There’s only $1 minimum needed to pay out, and I have been with them for years.

    Anyway, If anybody else knows another REAL site that actually pays, let me know. Thanks. I need the extra cash.

    All of those other sites (that I find) want you to build up money for 10 years b4 they pay…lol Not happening.

  60. Hi Cathy & Erin, PInecone Research US link has been updated, it’s working now, please try again. Thanks for the heads up!

  66. Hello, i tryed to sign up on the UK link, but it says Unfortunately, there are no available openings for members with a household make-up that aligns with yours at this time. 🙁

    what does that mean?

  68. Hi Hailey & Rosemary,

    I just updated the Pinecone US sign up link, It is working now.

    Thank you very much for the heads up!

  69. I just tried the US link and it just takes me to the member log-in page. Any tips would be great! Thanks! 🙂

  70. The link you provide only took me to the home page. Could not find the sign up page anywhere. Please help!

  71. [quote name=mlynn]Hi MiraLor, Pinecone US link has been updated/fixed, it is working now.. Thanks for the heads up![/quote] I tried the USA one and it said it is not taking people with my hosehold stats. ughh

  73. Hi MiraLor, Pinecone US link has been updated/fixed, it is working now.. Thanks for the heads up!

  75. The US link is just taking you to the member login page as well. Any idea when they are going to fix it?

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