The problem with paid surveys online is that it is difficult to find out if they are legitimate or not before you have already put in the time. A lot of paid online surveys are actually just ways to get you to buy a product or try out a service. It is not that difficult to figure out which paid online surveys are scams and which are not, but it takes a little bit of effort to do so. Once you have taken the time to start to fill out a survey just to discover it is a scam, you will realize that it is difficult to make money doing this. You spend so much of your time trying to find legitimate focus group surveys that you end up making very little money.