Welcome to our BigSpot Review!
One of the most obvious ways of making money online is by completing online surveys, but with so many websites out there offering you that opportunity, we wonder if BigSpot is actually any good or is Big Spot a Scam?
First off, it’s great to see you’re doing your research before buying into any “seemingly good” product.
That is how you avoid scams and find only legitimate ways to make money online!
To be completely transparent with you, we’re not associated with BigSpot in any form. We’re not here to pitch or sell anything to you.
Online Surveys do not bring you a huge return for your time, and you need to careful with who you share your personal details with. If you are determined to do online surveys, then we would recommend Swagbucks to you as a better option…
BigSpot Review Summary
Product Name:
Founder: Unknown
Product Type: Online Survey Intermediary
Price: Free to Join
Best For: The Owner
Pros
- Free to Sign Up
Cons
- Misleading
- Expect Spam Emails
- Surveys Don’t Offer a Good ROI
- BigSpot Complaints
Summary: BigSpot is an online survey middle-man, plain and simple. They are just benefitting from getting money from you signing up with the survey sites they promote to you, some of which are possible scams and not good to sign up with. There is no difference between this BigSpot and SurveySay and look like they are from the same company.
There are much better survey sites to sign up with and I would avoid going through an intermediary like these two. Survey sites are not difficult to find or sign up with, like Swagbucks.
Rating: 10/100
Recommended? No
Table of Contents
What is BigSpot?
At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that BigSpot is actually a website where you can complete online surveys for money. But that is clearly not the case.
BigSpot is actually an intermediary site or “middleman” that links you to other survey websites.
This means that you will not be taking surveys directly on the BigSpot website and it will not be BigSpot that actually pays you.
This is only the first “Red Flag” about this product, we will go through the other worries as we go through the review.
It isn’t what you would call a scam, but they are not being totally upfront with you either.
How Does BigSpot Work?
BigSpot advertises itself as a survey site, but this is not strictly true as they are actually just a website that introduces you to survey sites. Why, would they need to do this? It is because they will make money every time someone signs up with BigSpot and joins any of the survey sites they show you. They are using affiliate marketing as a way of introducing new members to these survey sites to make money.
My issues is with their marketing misleading people into believing they are the ones that provide the surveys. But that is not the case.
After signing up on the BigSpot website, you are led to a page where there are 5 survey sites for you to sign up.
If you sign up with any or all of the survey sites that are displayed to you, the unknown owners of BigSpot will make money and they will probably benefit as you complete surveys too.
But, whilst they may show you five survey sites to sign up with, this doesn’t increase your chances of having more surveys to fill in, necessarily. It might also mean you are bombarded with more suggestions for other survey sites for you to sign up with.
With no guarantee that any of them are actually legit. It also means you are sharing your personal information with more sites, and that will increase the amount of spam you will get into your inbox.
If completing surveys is something that you are interested in doing, there are much better options such as Swagbucks or Prolific Surveys. But I wouldn’t recommend BigSpot to anyone and I am not convinced all of the options they show you are legit.
There is something else that worries me about BigSpot too:
BigSpot Is Identical To SurveySay...
Recently I wrote a review about SurveySay. When you start looking into SurveySay & BigSpot, they are exactly the same platform. The only difference I could make out was the colour they use on their website:
The sign-up page is the same, and the survey sites they show you are exactly the same too:
I haven’t got a clue as to why they would need two separate websites doing exactly the same thing. But my assumption is that if they find one is classed as a scam or not, they have the other one to fall back on…
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What We Liked About BigSpot
Here is what we liked about it:
#1 Free to Use
This is the only advantage of this platform or that of SurveySay. But other than that, it is a pretty useless platform.
What We Didn't Like About BigSpot
Here is what we didn’t like:
#1 Totally Misleading
This platform is totally misleading, you will not get to know who the owner is. They claim to be a survey site, but they are actually just a middleman to other websites.
But as you could go direct to many of the survey sites, this platform doesn’t really offer any value
#2 Expect Spam Emails
If you do decide to sign up, expect your inbox to be inundated with spammy messages and other money-making opportunities. You will need to decide whether these are worth the option to earn a few pennies with surveys.
#3 Surveys Don’t Offer a Good Return for Your Time
Most survey sites do not offer a great return for your time, but there is a high-disqualification rate associated with the survey sites that BigSpot will recommend to you.
If you keep getting invited to fill in a survey, but don’t qualify you cannot make any money.
#4 BigSpot Complaints on SiteJabber
There are a lot of bad reviews, as we expected on SiteJabber. This is not a great platform for anyone.
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My BigSpot Review - Final Conclusion
I would avoid this website at all costs. It offers no value to you. You can find genuine survey sites like Swagbucks and Prolific Surveys without them selling your personal details to other sites that you don’t know anything about.
The survey sites they recommend are not all reputable. This means BigSpot and SurveySay are making your personal date more accessible to scammers.
I can’t get my head around why they would need two identical websites either.
Survey Site Intermediaries are quite redundant anyway, as normal survey sites do not make themselves difficult to find or sign up with, so I am not sure why anyone would need a survey site intermediary, but either way I would suggest you stay as far away from BigSpot as you can.
If you are still after a good opportunity to make money from surveys, our top suggestion would be Swagbucks.
But if you were maybe thinking there are better options out there to make money online, then our top recommendation is affiliate marketing.
How We Make Money Online
If you are looking for some pocket money, or shop online a lot then I can definitely recommend Swagbucks. Whilst completing surveys and watching videos is not a great return on the time needed, you could definitely benefit from the cash back offers to earn some money ready for Christmas.
If you are looking for a serious way of earning money online, then this would be not be a great choice and here is why.
It is down to amount of time you would need to invest to earn anything. 30 minutes of video to earn 2 SB points is not worthwhile. 30 minutes of survey to earn 75 SB points again is not a great return on your time invest.
If you are looking for some serious ways to earn money online, we can recommend affiliate marketing or blogging as a better way to earn money online.
But if you are just after some casual cash, or love shopping then it is definitely worth a try.
Thanks for checking out our BigSpot Review! If you have any questions or comments to add, then please write them in the comments section below. 😉
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Big Spot
Free
Pros
- Free to Join
Cons
- Totally Misleading
- Expect Spam Emails
- Not a Great Return for Your Time
There are so many survey sites these days that it can be hard to sort through the weeds to figure them out. They often make large promises, but once you do real research into the company, it seems common to uncover issues like the list of “cons” that you point out. Thank you for doing to legwork to bring this into light, as being mislead and ending up with spam emails is not a good way for anyone to invest their time!
Hey Aly,
thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments. Survey sites are appealing because they are easy, but when you start to calculate the actual return for completing them. But you are right, if you are going to go and do them, you are better off finding out ones that are legit and ones that are only going to sell your personal info away for their own gain.
thanks again
John
I think I have read a previous review on survey say and its just the same with big spot. They all claim to be survey sites but their plan is to make money off other people by being intermediary. I am not one who likes surveys so this platform is not for me. Anyway, thanks for educating me on this platform. Best regards
Hey Henderson,
thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments. Apart from the different colour on their homepages, from what I can tell they are the same site. Just a front to get you to sign up via their affiliate links to some questionable survey sites.
Whether surveys are your thing or not, these two sites are not worth your time.
thanks
John
Right from time, I hate getting myself involved in all these middleman survey platforms, they always end up turning out bad. Thanks for this discoveries unveiled in this review of bigspot. Going by the information provided on this review, I dont think big spot deserves anyone’s time since they are even misleading and that’s a wrong first impression by claiming to be a survey site. Also, I learnt that some of these survey middlemen ends up selling personal information of their users. How true is that?
Hey Rodger,
thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments. These intermediaries are only a front to earning themselves more money by getting you to sign up. But you have a great point, there is no guarantee either way – the point is you are sharing your information with them and as they are showing themselves as not being honest, how could you know whether they are going to protect your data or not.
That is why there are too many red flags to recommend this platform.
thanks
John