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I've been on Swagbucks for 6 years and have ALWAYS been limited to 5 DQs. I will make more on Bing this year than on Tellwut. I can cash out for $5 Amazon card about every 15 days on average with Bing. Tellwut really went down hill about mid year this year. Tellwut cash out for $10 about every 40 days.

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Oof yeah the characteristic questions are already bad enough, but I agree with neminem on the extremely personal questions you wouldn't actually know unless your knowledge of the company/brand is super indepth, or you worked for them yourself. I always get nervous as I legitimately can't answer them and am forced to just have a long line of clicking the 'i don't know' option :s While afterwords praying the survey company don't think I'm just one of those people who click down the whole line without any thought lmao

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Probably even more infuriating than ridiculous questions are the logic fails I encounter almost every day. You know the sort of thing: 'Do you have children? No. How old are they?' 'Do you have a car? No. What make is it?' I've lost count of the number of times I've been forced to supply false data in this way.

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I noticed that SB had tried something new with the dq's. And then it went back to 5 per day. I did log in last night and there was an survey that was 1 minute for 75 points. I entered the survey and the dog had to go out, so I put the laptop down and went to let her out. When I cam back there was the "congratulations, you completed the survey, you earned 75 points" message. Huh? So for all the times I have gotten stiffed, I took the points and counted myself lucky. I do Bing as well, and I can cash out there every 4 weeks or so. I noticed, after some time of not paying attention, that they now have a $10 Amazon card, so I am saving up for that. I know there are others as well. I just keep plugging away at them.

I've always been limited to 5 DQs. Been like that for the last few years.

That's probably just the screening process to filter out the bots and shysters. It's a lot better than a Captcha put together by an AI that can't tell the difference between an 18 wheeler, bus, or RV.

The characteristics are the absolute worst. You have to click on the tiny dots (which makes my eyes hurt). Are they exciting, friendly, intelligent, etc..OMG if I've not invested too much time in the survey I click off. I think I'm getting survey burnout. I find myself frustrated and angry when I do them.

I wish I could share a raw survey document or two containing the questionnaire along with the entire back-end logic of the survey, but unfortunately I can't since it's not my property, so you have to trust me when I say that the disqualification logic can get quite complex. Sometimes you can get disqualified seemingly in the middle of your survey participation based on your answers to the last 5 questions. It's not always as easy as designing a survey that asks you a qualifying question, then disqualifies you if you gave a certain answer, then asks you another qualifying question and again disqualifies you if you gave a certain answer, and so on. Even if you could make a survey straightforward like that, there could be 10 or 15 qualifying questions, and you might get disqualified on the 10th question, which may make it look like you've completed half the survey before getting disqualified. Sometimes you can even get disqualified on one of the last questions in the survey. Surveys vary quite a bit from one another in this aspect. On top of that, there may be quotas set up, which introduce even more complexity to the survey. Also, let's not forget that these surveys get programmed and managed by people, and human errors happen from time to time. If you get disqualified, your data will not be really used.

As you can imagine, business professionals (especially different kinds of decision makers within a business) are a highly sought-after audience. Hence, the cost per survey completion for business studies can easily be 5 or 10+ times higher than that for consumer studies. There are also panels that have quite an elaborate verification process when it comes to business professionals, i.e. they don't assume that you're a CEO of a company just because you said so in a poll; they actually make sure you are who you say you are. And these companies, naturally, charge even more per survey completion. Now, the higher cost of business studies does not always translate to higher incentives for the respondents who take these surveys, especially when you're dealing with not-so-great survey companies. Sometimes you get into a router and without really knowing it, take participation in a business study, where you get $3 if you complete it, while the company operating the router gets $20 from their client. Whereas other survey companies will pay you a fair share of what they get, say $10-12.

I also think that routers don't offer the best user experience, but for some companies having a router is pretty much the best way to match people to surveys. Others don't have to or even shouldn't use routers. Sometimes the company that operates a particular router is a vendor of a vendor of a vendor of the company that hosts the main survey. Meaning that you will be passed around and possibly asked the same questions by each of the daisy-chained vendors, until you end up in the main survey, if you don't get disqualified before that, and then the main survey will ask you these same questions once more. There are ways to pass information from one vendor to the next one in real time, so that the latter won't ask you the same questions since they already know your answers, but in reality not many vendors share information this way, for different reasons. There's a couple other solutions to this problem, but they also have their limitations. There are companies that are usually higher in the vendor hierarchy, hence if you take their surveys, you will have to answer fewer repeated questions. There are also companies that use technical means of avoiding repeated questions, as I mentioned before. And then there are the companies that host the main survey and at the same time own the panel you're registered with. In these cases, you will go straight to the main survey, without any intermediaries. And the incentives are usually as high as they can get, since there are, again, no intermediaries to take a cut.

As promised I NOW can log into my new account and most of my points were transferred. I had three surveys to take and took them all, spent a LOT of time on them. I got an error message for one, did not get any points for another, and got two points for the third survey that I completed in full also. I contacted the help desk for all three surveys...sigh. Same old thing another day. I am seriously considering cashing out and forgetting about Lifepoints!

Interesting. I did that study and haven't received my reward yet but it said 2 to 3 weeks so I guess I'll wait until the end of the week.