Paid product testing gigs

For foreigners and their spouses living in Japan, one thing which is universally appreciated, is oppurtnities to earn $$ money $$. When paid product testing research gigs fall in our lap, the race is on to not only gather friends, but make sure as many friends as possible get to earn some well deserved yen.

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Gigs (Active and Past)

Latest active gigs

Survey	Deadline	went / accepted / gathered	Pay / person (yen)	Total (yen)

Printer Testing Yokohama -- US Canadian UK and Australian (need 4 ppl)	Mon May 7th, 2012 10AM	-- / -- / --	11,000	--
Interpreter for Printer Testing Yokohama (need 1 person)	Wed May 2nd, 2012 6PM	-- / -- / --	50,000	--

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Past paid product testing gigs

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Survey	Deadline	Confirmation	went / accepted / gathered	Pay / person (yen)	Total (yen)
Beverage taste testing English interview -- Australian women student 20s	Tues Apr 20th, 2012		2 / 2 / 3	8,000	16,000
Oral care interview -- Chinese Thai Korean Indonesian women	Tues Apr 3th, 2012 12 noon		-- / -- / 0	10,000	0
Cosmetic preferences interview and home use trial	Fri Mar 23th, 2012 6pm		3 / -- / 7	14,000	42,000
freelance native editor for financial research firm	Wed Mar 30th, 2012 6pm		-- / -- / --	Provide rates	0
f/t Jap 2 Eng financial research translator	Wed Mar 21st, 2012 6pm		0 / 2 / 17	4.5M - 8M yen	0
Web site usability testing in Tokyo -- US, Canada UK	Fri Mar 9th, 2012 6pm		-- / -- / 26	10,000 or 8,000	--
Product testing printer in Yokohama -- most western foreigners 20-65yo	Mon Jan 30, 2012 10am		9 / 9 / 39	11,000	99,000
Interview on Cosmetic Preferences -- Latinas 25-45yo	Mon Jan 26, 2012 8pm		3 / 3 / 3	7,000	21,000
Play with car nav system -- French guys 30-49yo	Mon Jan 20, 2012		2 / 2 / 3	11,000	22,000
Interview on Cosmetic Preferences -- Foreign ladies 25-45yo	Mon Jan 26, 2012 8pm		6 / 6 / 22	7,000	42,000
Archived survey work	2010 and 2011	16 paid surveys	165 went		~2,248,000

News

(2012 Mar; Osaka, Japan) Archived 2010 and 2011 paid survey work into a seperate list, so as not to clutter the main page.

(2012; Osaka, Japan) Added social links and an fackbook comment box.

Notes

Work with promoters both for the gigs. The promoters help to gather people when there is a new gig. And more importantly, they get paid for their efforts. Of course!! The amount the promoters have been paid is not shown.

The acceptence rate that i've been told is 80%. Which is very good. Meaning most people are accepted. Are we gonna take their word for it? Cough No! So the Latest and Past gig lists track the accepted vs. gathered ratio. From this we can surmise the actual acceptence rate.

When gigs occurs and when payment is made is also not shown in the listing. Look at the gig details if you're curious. See the dates is not what gets me hot. It's how much money has been spread around to both promoters and friends.

Are the survey's painful?

As the Japanese population goes down the only way to keep their current standard of living is either to increase productivity (fat chance) or increase population. The only way the population is gonna increase is through immigration. So Japanese gov't is really curious about the behavior of foreigners living in Japan. So expect lots of paid research on mostly silly things.

The surveys are usually two hours long and conducted within the Tokyo area. Nice and secure within the Yamanote line. Which i refer to as the foreigners safety zone. Anything outside best your going to get is convini food. Yuk!