Offering $500 gift certificates for top US department store JCPenney, the process at Publicresearchpanels.com is very much like any other consumer incentive marketing program: answer a couple of surveys, test some products and refer one person who is willing to do the same thing and you’ll get your gift as advertised, provided that you are over 18, a US resident, supply the same contact address throughout the process, don’t return any of the purchases you might have to buy as a requirement to get your gift card and so on: just average industry formalities.
As is the case with most marketing tools like this one, offers are available in restricted areas of the US, so if you live in a rather isolated rural or mountain area, you might not be eligible to get the offer, and since you have to register and carry out a number of steps, plus talk someone into registering and completing the whole process, plus you have to wait four weeks to redeem your prize, the whole notion of quick money is a bit elusive, but hey, other than the waiting and some minimum hassle, you can get $500 worth of stuff. 
