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  1. I agree with what was said above. I have been doing surveys on-line since 2007. I have also been tracking my income from panels since then as well. As time goes on I have dropped certain panels and signed up for others. I recently dropped Branded because the income I was making from the panel dropped by over 50% last year. I was also getting accused of rushing, etc. Overall though my income has dropped over time, which I primarily attribute to greed by the market research companies. The reason I stick with it is I like the extra income. I know the panels don't care about us. We are just "data" to them. They need data to sell their product (market research), so because they can't get it for free, they are forced to pay us to get it. But they are constantly trying to minimize payments to us because we are just a business expense. So I expect to get treated poorly because they just don't care. I don't like it, but that is the reality.
    3 points
  2. I was just going to start a topic about rushing answers. Tonight Branded Surveys is accusing me of rushing my answers. But how long do they think I should take answering the standard questions about my age, gender, race, etc.? I haven't changed the way I've been doing their surveys. I've been with them forever & I don't ever recall having had a problem with them before. Also the "proving you're not a bot" thing is ridiculous. I had one survey that required me to write an essay about my favorite childhood experience, then a Recapcha (& the pics weren't clear), then they rerouted me to another survey company just to do it all over again. But I'm not supposed to provide snarky answers to voice my frustration. I waste most of my time jumping through hoops. For what? A few pennies?! Maybe they need to fix things on their side to prevent bots. GRRR.
    3 points
  3. Honestly why should any of these companies care how fast we complete a survey as long as we don't just "straightline answers"..I type fast & finish surveys fast...it's just their way of you getting a "dq" & or an "error screen" at the end of a survey since you finish too fast..If we give them honest & legit answers they shouldn't care how fast we do any of their surveys
    2 points
  4. I don't qualify for that many, but between the ones I do qualify for and the points from the daily user-generated surveys, it adds up fast enough to keep me using the site.
    2 points
  5. Yesterday I received an invite to some survey that I have not heard of nor been a member of before. It was sent from CA Survey Research <[email protected]>. Has anybody else received an invite from this outfit and if so is it legit?
    1 point
  6. I saw this mentioned on another forum. I downloaded the app (which seems to automatically link up with your google account). It pays a few cents for short surveys and a little more for longer ones. I believe the cash out min is $10 for paypal. Others have posted screen shots to prove they were paid, but I'd imagine it would take a while to reach the $10 cash out, but if I get enough surveys, it may be worth it. Feel free to share your thoughts on this one.
    1 point
  7. Usually the first thing I do when I come to Survey Police is read the reviews. I find many of them entertaining, and it gives me ideas as to which survey companies I may be interested in signing up for; and which survey companies to avoid like the plague. I’m already signed up for the top five survey survey sites for 2020. Plus I have a couple of additional companies I am doing okay with. When I read reviews from others on many sites, there seems to be a recurring theme. Many of them have been with the survey site for at least a year, some for many more years than that. I am seeing people that have been loyal to a particular survey site 15-20 years, getting royally screwed. Unlike most businesses, survey companies do not appreciate your loyalty. It means jack squat to them. I find this appalling and very disappointing. People that have been with a site a long time are getting arbitrarily removed for no apparent reason, and being accused of cheating, rushing, or even being a bot. These survey companies are absolutely disgusting parasites. There needs to be a lot more regulation by the government of these survey sites. I know, nobody likes big government, me included. But what these survey sites are pulling is criminal. And it seems like the majority of them are doing these sketchy shoddy practices. Complaining does nothing. They go right back to being terrible. Make no mistake - these sites are raking in huge amounts of money off the backs of all of us taking surveys. There should be some type of minimum wage for survey takers. Oh, but we’re not employees, just “independent contractors”, so we have absolutely no rights or recourse. I spend on average of 4-6 hours a day, seven days a week doing surveys. It is actually something I consider a hobby, that I enjoy despite my constant complaining. I get pretty passionate about all my hobbies, and start noticing patterns and such. Yep, life ain’t fair, but I think we survey takers deserve a lot more respect and compensation than we are getting. Just me venting, which I believe I can do on this thread. Thanks for listening to me rant.
    1 point
  8. Lucid sucks, so I don't do those. I am also getting dq'd when I hit submit on a completed survey, again. So I don't do that many for them. The Peanut Labs ones are now down to 44 points for most of them. I don't rely on any of them.
    1 point
  9. Yikes! Yeah, I heard some bad things about Branded recently as well. They already failed to pay me a few times for completing full surveys, but so far no problems with their daily poll. Fortright is ok, but I never bother with their outside surveys, only the ones they actually give you DQ credit. I heard too many bad things about Swagbucks to even bother. I also hate inbox dollars...another company that scammed me several years ago. Tellwut is another one I fell out of love with since they require you take a few full surveys and not DQ from, in order to keep taking the poll questions. It became much too long to accumulate points with them. Yes, I check Paidviewpoint every day (where i make at least 10 cents). They are probably the best one around these days. Pollpass is fun too! I also enjoy Parttimeclicks, which pays 20-25 cents for each websearching task you complete. They tend to offer me 3-4 tasks per day.
    1 point
  10. Huh, hard to say, last encounter with them before it all happened was the 21st when I had a pretty good run being able to take 4-5 surveys back to back, maybe that set them off. In any case, you'd think they could just freaking TELL people.
    1 point
  11. No, but there again, I don't live in California, maybe you do and it's a perfectly legit thing you got sent simply because you take surveys. There again, the 'noreply' thing has me leery, suggesting there is no way to contact whoever sent you the e-mail. Curious what others have to say.
    1 point
  12. I barely ever qualify for ANY surveys. Does anyone else have this problem?
    1 point
  13. Well said. What I find with a lot of the support on 90% of the survey sites, are they are absolutely completely useless. You show them a screenshot and some still don't reward you. Also I think most of them don't even read your email as they ask you a question that you have already answered in your first email/ticket. Another classic that they use is "we don't get paid if you don't" they love that one. They take no responsibility either. I mean we are using their site, we don't get rewarded and they fob us off. Some are really rude as well.
    1 point
  14. Today, 1/25, it was 90. However, bit by bit it takes me longer and longer to cash out for $10 Amazon. At this rate I'll be lucky to cash out for $80 in a year if it doesn't get better. When I started Tellwut I could make north of $250/year. That's a pretty dramatic dropoff. And back then we didn't have to do external surveys.
    1 point
  15. Not going to argue with anything you said. Survey sites need to take a tip from insurance companies and give some sort of incentive for being a good driver or in this case, loyal survey taker. Only one I've encountered like this is Point Club. They have the whole 'streak' thing, that if you check in at least once a day, you get more bonus points per survey, up to level 10. Only catch is you do have to maintain it.
    1 point
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