MarketAgent is an official company with the location in Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Switzerland. That alone does not make them trustful. It shows only in which market they are active and which law they have to respect and where they are responsible in front of the law court.
If you are taking a look at their locations then you'll see that the English speaking market is not really their market. Austria, Germany and their location in Switzerland is German speaking. So it does not really make any sense to promote their services if you read their conditions at their website:
Registration as a survey participant: 150 Points
In principle, the invitation to participate in surveys is done by random selection. Which means, that our system uses randomly our address pool and selects the number of participants automatically - this is methodologically necessary. Often, participants must also meet certain characteristics (e.g.: male and living in Berlin or Vienna). Because of this, there can be greater distances between the surveys from time to time and then it can go back quite quickly.
Friend invited by the survey participant : 100 Points
You will receive the points for recommending new member only, when the referred person has completed his/her first survey.
Updating your personal information (1x per year): 50 Points
Please note that the points for updating your personal information will only be credited, if we have asked you to do so via email.
Participation in the online survey: 20 - 250 points
Conversion: 1.2 dollar = 120 cents = 100 bonus points
Bonus points will be awarded to your account immediately after completing each survey. Anytime you can convert Exchange Area the survey points into cash or rather products or services of our cooperation partners. Each time after you collect 200 number of points you can exchange them.
Bank transfer, Paypal, Skrill
From the above statements is ony "Conversion: 1.2 dollar = 120 cents = 100 bonus points" against the European Consumer law, because the U.S. members are getting a better conversation as the European members - actually is € 1.00 ~ US$ 1.09829.
In any case are their conditions only for their own benefit. If you invite someone to their system, then you'll get only paid if he is usefull for them. As you don't know it in front which kind of people they are searching is it nothing else than mass collection of data.
The result of this system can get seen in the comments from Web Of Trust. There has written Rayven_redeye on 04/21/2011 (translated to English):
A little extra income, as I said, you can do so about 30 € per year, to be made depending on the amount of surveys.
You get the surveys sent by mail, if you do not want to participate in the survey, the mail can get ignored because there is no "minimum" that must be met. The transfer works without problems, however, can take up to 3 weeks.
The user azereus has written on 03/28/2011 at WOT (translated to English):
you get around 1x survey per month sent. if make the survey until the end you get up to 2.5 €. adds up to € 30 / year. the money can be transferred on their own account.
Yes it works !!
The user ZLazarow has commented on 04/16/2012 at WOT:
I have completed few surveys and get 600 points(6€), at ask to payout to my paypal acount, onthe web page shows transfer succesful, but money I never get to my Paypal account, I wrote many times to marketagent.com, but not answered to any my mail sent...
I thik this is SCAM
Summary: If we take a look at the above comments then we see that they have not enough surveys that their members can get a higher income. I received never an invitation for a survey from them. It did not make any difference if I have been living in Vienna or at country side near to Vienna and I have been every time a typical consumer (living in a family with kids).
The European consumer data protection law keeps you save that your data are not getting traded.
Only people, which are not able to read and think, will promote marketagent.com at the English speaking part of the world. In any case such people are only wasting their time because they have even not enough surveys for their German speaking members and the referrer gets only paid if the refferal participates on his first survey.
This case shows even that all these other survey sites, which are offering you a high monthly income are only SCAM and they willnot pay you. The worst ones are these, which are asking for a membership fee from you.
The domain registration data from marketagent.com:
Domain Name: marketagent.com
Registry Domain ID: 3176618_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.rrpproxy.net
Registrar URL: http://www.domainname.at
Updated Date: 2015-02-27T07:15:49.0Z
Creation Date: 1999-01-23T05:00:00.0Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-01-23T05:00:00.0Z
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Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +49.68949396850
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Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name:
Registrant Organization: Marketagent.com Online Research GmbH
Registrant Street: Muehlgasse 59
Registrant City: Baden
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Registrant Postal Code: 2500
Registrant Country: AT
Registrant Phone: +43.2252909009
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Registrant Fax: +43.225290900999
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: t.schwabl@marketagent.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Thomas Schwabl
Admin Organization: Marketagent.com Online Research GmbH
Admin Street: Muehlgasse 59
Admin City: Baden
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Admin Email: t.schwabl@marketagent.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Florian Folkmann
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Tech Postal Code: 2500
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