How do you become a product tester?

Question

I am thinking electronics.

From home...is this stuff real?

Answer 1

you can, at ZDnet

Answer 2

Most product testers work full-time for the company involved.

When I worked for Drackett, a defunct company that made Windex, Drano, and other home cleaning products, they owned a company called Homemakers Institute. We'd package up different formulations of cleaning products and ask housewives to evaluate them.

However, when you set up something like that, you do NOT want people to volunteer to be testers. That introduces a lot of bias into the results. Instead, they would select people at random, and invite them into the panels.

You're probably getting spam suggesting that you can get shipped various products to test and evaluate, especially valuable electronic products. As a rule of thumb, if someone feels entitled to spam you, they won't feel guilty about scamming you as well.

The way to get that to happen is to get a well-read column in a big newspaper. You might also get that to happen if you happen to be a well-read blogger.

Or if you don't want to go to all that bother, I have this super-sekrit list that companies use when they want people to test their products. If you send me $10,000 to put you on this list, I will guarantee that you get shipped at least one highly-desirable electronic product to test, and to keep, for free....

Answer 3

Unless you are an expert and have a wide readership of your views, why should any company waste its time and other resources to give you their products to be tested and reviewed?