If you want to earn some extra money by taking paid surveys, you have likely heard of LifePoints Panel.
But is LifePoinst legit and worth your time, or is it a scam?
I have tested it thoroughly myself over several years, and I have compared it to the hundreds of other survey sites I have tested.
Let me reveal right away that it has potential, and you can earn by joining (you can see payment proof below), but it also has some unknown factors you need to consider.
In this LifePoints Panel review, you will get all the details and get an inside look so you know exactly what to expect before you join.
What is LifePoints Panel, and what does the site offer?
LifePoints Panel has been around for years, but it has just not always had this name.
The company behind it is called Lightspeed and has been doing market research since 1946, which shows it has an established company behind it, which is always great.
It has millions of members from all over the world (more about who can join later).
The LifePoints Panel itself is a merger of the two sites GlobalTestMarket and MySurvey. At the beginning of 2019, they merged into one, which is now called LifePoints.
Below, I will go over both the potential the site has as a member and also some cons it has so you can get a balanced view before deciding to join or not.
I have created a video that shows you everything and gives you an inside look. You can also find all the details below the video:
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Option 1 – LifePoints Surveys
The LifePoints Panel is a very simple survey panel after you log in.
I do not mean this in a bad way. Sometimes the simple panels are great because they do not have a lot of distractions and are very easy to start using.
That is also the case for LifePoints Panel. After you sign up and confirm your email, you just have to answer a few questions and it only takes around 1 minute. Then, you get access to the member area and your dashboard.
When you first join, you will likely not see any available surveys there. Do not worry about that. You will soon start receiving invitations for surveys via email.
I started receiving email invitations after around 1 day as a member. After this, you will see the available surveys when you log in.
However, you do not have to log into LifePoints to check for available surveys. You can just wait for the emails and then click the link there that will take you to the survey.
In the emails, you can always see the reward you will get before you start.
In my experience, the rewards for the time spent are pretty decent compared to other survey sites.
Also, even though you will likely not qualify for all the surveys you are invited for, the percentage I have been accepted for has been quite high.
And the surveys I have taken have been highly relevant and about relevant political and societal topics.
This makes them interesting, and a point to remember that is often overlooked when it comes to paid surveys is that you will have your opinion heard on important topics.
Just be aware that some surveys only need limited respondents, so to get the best chances of qualifying, it is a good idea not to wait too long to take the survey after you receive the invitation.
Overall, LifePoints Panel is very user-friendly, and the amount of survey invitations you get is decent, in my experience.
The exact amount, of course, depends on the country you live in, and it is also a good idea to join other sites to get enough options – especially because this is the only way to earn on LifePoints.
The LifePoints surveys can be worth participating in, but you just need to be aware that there might not be options every day.
Option 2 – Participate in Free Contests/Community Tab
No doubt, the main way to earn is by taking the LifePoints surveys, but the panel also sometimes offers another chance for you to earn.
You can sometimes participate in free contests as a member.
You do not have to log in to participate, but you can find an overview of the current contests through the community tab inside the member area.
However, they will usually just link to the LifePoints Facebook page, where you need to take a certain action to participate.
It can be to answer a question, stage a friend, and similar.
No matter what, they are usually very easy to participate in.
In my experience, these contests have become more frequent compared to how previously, and you can usually find one around once per week. The reward is usually worth $10.
Just be aware that this is a contest based on pure luck, and there are often more than 1,000 people leaving comments and participating, so the chance of winning is not great. But as an extra chance, it can be nice to participate as it does not take long.
Option 3 – Joining Bonus
There is one more way to get a bit of points on LifePoints. You get a small joining bonus after signing up. You get 10 points just for signing up and then 10 points for confirming your email.
So the total joining bonus will only be worth around $0.30, so not a big bonus but still nice to at least get a few points right away. Depending on your country, you can, however, also earn extra points by taking some extra profile surveys, so they are worth keeping an eye out for.
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How do you get paid?
Every time you take a LifePoints survey, you earn points.
You can then get these points paid out in various ways. There is a whole store where you can select between getting paid in cash through PayPal, gift cards, or donating to charity.
The exact rewards available will depend on the country you live in. I think it is great you have the option to get paid in cash through PayPal or get gift cards, depending on your preferences.
What can be a bit confusing is, however, exactly what your points are worth because that depends on the reward you choose.
If you want to get $15 through PayPal, it will cost you 1150 points, but if you want a gift card to IKEA for the same amount, it would cost you 1100 points (where I live).
So, this makes it a bit difficult to calculate exactly how much your points are worth. But a rough average estimation would be that 10 points are approximately worth $0.15.
The payout threshold varies, depending on the country you live in. In some countries, it starts at $5, whereas in others, it is around $10.
Just be aware that your earnings will be in your local currency.
Overall, the payout threshold is not too high, but the point system can be a bit confusing at first.
I have made a short video that shows exactly how to redeem your earnings, and I also show LifePoints payment proof so you can see it does pay:
How much money can you make?
The big question many people have about most survey sites is how much money they can make there.
When it comes to LifePoints Panel, it is a way to make a bit of extra cash on the side.
It does have a decent number of surveys, but it will not give you more than some extra side cash.
I would say that you should also make sure to join some top paying survey sites in addition to LifePoints to get enough earning opportunities.
But as LifePoints is so simple and easy to use, it can be a nice extra addition and a nice extra survey site to join, in my opinion.
Can you use it on mobile?
Yes, you can use LifePoints Panel on mobile and take surveys from there because it has a mobile app you can download. That makes it easy to use on the go, and it is always great when a survey site offers this option.
The LifePoints app is available for both iOS and Android devices. But the website is also fully optimized for mobile, so you can also just use it that way from your mobile.
But to be able to participate on mobile, the most important thing is that you have access to your email, so you can check if you get a survey invitation and then click the invitation link in the email.
Who can join LifePoints Panel?
LifePoints is available in around 45 countries at the moment of writing this review. To join, you have to be 16 years or older.
The countries it is available in are:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vietnam.
So as you can see, it is available in big parts of the world. And its panel is regularly expanding to new countries and has already expanded to more countries since I first started using it.
Can you get support?
It is always good to know you can get support if you should need it as a member of a survey site.
This is an area where LifePoints Panel has improved. When it first launched, I saw in other LifePoints reviews that there were some frustrations at times.
You can see an example of a review from Trustpilot that mentions this issue.
Most of the complaints I have seen are about problems with the merger of GlobalTestMarket and MySurvey into LifePoints Panel and the frustrations about not getting proper help about this.
Naturally, there will be some issues when several sites merge, and there might be some issues with memberships. I think most people can understand this.
But that is now several years ago, and they seem to have improved this aspect, and I see very few complaints like this now.
I have also contacted the support ones myself. I must say that I got a fairly quick reply, but it seemed more like just a standardized reply that did not answer my question fully. Luckily, it was not a technical issue, so I could continue using the platform.
But if you join and need help, it seems the support has improved a lot since it was first launched – just be aware that it might still take some patience to get an answer.
Final verdict
LifePoints Panel is a legit survey site with long-lasting companies behind it. I have been paid by it several times myself.
But that does not mean it will be the right site for you. It has both pros and cons so let's finish by summing these up so you can get a better overview before deciding to join or not.
Pros:
- Free to join
- Easy to use
- Good payout methods
- Decent rewards in relation to time
Cons:
- Support is slow at times
Overall, I think LifePoints Panel can be a great extra survey site to join.
In my experience, it is very easy to use, gives decent rewards, and has good payout methods.
I do not think you should join it as the only site, as that would give you too few surveys. But as one of your chosen sites, it can be an easy way to get access to surveys.
How to join LifePoints Panel?
It is very easy to join LifePoints Panel. You just click the button below, choose your country, and you will then be taken to a short sign-up form.
Remember you need to confirm your email to get access to the surveys. You will get bonus points both for joining and for confirming your email.
If you have any comments, questions, or experiences with LifePoints Panel, I would love to hear from you in a comment below.
I have had issues with support myself as I am still awaiting payment from November last year, I get different messages from I will see the payment in 6 to 8 weeks, to I will see payment next week, and have yet to receive. and then they want to close your support ticket by just a reply from them which I’m not gonna rate the ticket because it is not solved yet, (just by them replying) is not solved.
Sorry to hear you are still having problems with this. This is the issue from when it was MySurveys, right?
Really hope they will solve it for you soon.
yes it is, and another thing now, you are right in the middle of surveys and the site times out, but they are for the most point decent paying surveys and not that difficult so i take the good with the bad. another feature, you cannot see the survey number anymore in the history, only lists the date and the points, (redeemed or earned), you have to write that down immediately so you can keep track. The best advice i can say is write down EVERYTHING with lifepoints and screenshot as well, and then…just hope they reply and actually FIX the issue within 9 months
Thanks for adding that Darlene. That is good to know.
Membership just got cancelled and I lost my points! I have messaged them continually as I can log in, read stories, but when I click on “START” a survey I always get “router cint refused to connect” I always got an automated reply, and absolutley no help for the past 2 months. Many people have said exactly the same and their accounts have been suspended. Shame on Lifepoints!
Very sorry to hear this Lynda. But thanks for sharing your experience.
Mikael
Similar to the above, I was a member of MySurveys which became LifePoints, and while the graphics and colors are ‘new and improved’, the perform of the website and customer support is no better than before, and in several ways worse.
At any given time I will have 6 to 10 surveys in my “Ongoing Surveys” box, but at best only one of them will be an actual ‘Ongoing’ survey. The others will be surveys which did not open, surveys which froze while I was working on them, or surveys which I completed but did not receive points for. If I submit a “Help” request either through their ‘Chat’ function, which is seldom active, or through their “Help” button, the first reply is seemingly grabbed randomly from a list of potential answers. So if I say “I completed survey #xxxxxx and was not credited with my 100 points” the reply might be “Don’t be discouraged, you’ll have an opportunity to complete another survey soon” or “Sometimes surveys have a limited number of respondents, next time be more prompt in responding to the email invite you receive”.
Frustrating.
Sorry to hear that. But thank you very much for sharing your experiences.
Mikael
Are all your responses automated Mikael?
All my responses are 100% manually added by myself.
If people have any questions or anything I can help with, I will do my best to answer. But if there is not much I can say or help with, I will just approve the comment and thanking for sharing the experience as I think it is important people can see other experiences as well. If you look around my site, I am sure you will see I give a lot of very personal responses whenever people ask questions or need help.
Life points app has been discontinued .
There used to be an app that was called LifePoints app – that does not exist anymore but the website itself is working as it was just launched earlier in 2019. So it is true the app does not exist but it is still possible to use the website itself on mobile just without an app.
I too, have been locked out of my account. It took weeks for them to reply, I was told my membership was cancelled. I was told I probably cancelled it by mistake. I did everything I was told to get my account up and runing by registering under a different email address with the promise of transferring my existing points worth $25.00. Now my new account is temporarily closed. I signed in once to check on the account and bam, no more. I’ve sent 2 emails pleaing to open my account and nothing. I don’t think the company wants to pay out points.
Sorry to hear that Beverly – but thanks for sharing your experience.
Well, after numerous emails, and tickets, (and i mean NUMEROUS), Requesting my points for 3 large diarys, including a home study, from November 2018, I have finally been compensated with the points. Now, I am still doing surveys with them, but I note everything now, and still not happy completely with them, in fact, i finally told them to just close the tickets and keep the points. I have had a couple issues recently and they in fact have responded and taken care of. I am sorry to hear others have had issues. But their are alot of survey websites that are legit that you can go to , so do not get disappointed and just move to another. I wish all of you luck, and thank you Mickael for all you do. Darlene
Great to hear you finally got your rewards Darlene. And thanks for sharing so many of your experiences here with the rest of us.
yes lifepoints paid for some past diaries, but it has been a nightmare, different answers from different support employeees, and still owe me for a couple more, but i just told them, keep it, im not sending anymore tickets, and i just stopped doing diaries, they do not pay when they are supposed to and give you the amount that the email says, just easier and less stress to forget the diaries, too many other companies that handle business much smoother.
Thanks for the update about this Darlene. I have not had any problems with them at all. But I have also only been doing regular surveys and not done any diaries. But with your experience with them, I definitely understand you focus on some of the many other options instead.