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Folks, Some of Y'all may find this observation interesting. The mobile provider Virgin Mobile shut down over six months ago. However, they continue to be included in surveys about Cell providers. Has any one else notice high latency with survey panels keeping their surveys up to date and find obvious out of date questions included for a long time? I also notice this about electric cars and Tesla as a selection for a manufacturer in automotive surveys. I started doing surveys in 2015 and didn't see this acknowledgment by including electric cars until 2019. I also noticed that the car maintenance surveys still don't have selections for electric car. For some reason, these yokels think that people change the oil on electric cars. What are your experience with these out of date surveys? Kris

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It makes me guffaw when I notice ads that boast about high ratings from J. D. Power. Their surveys are so dull that people just race through them and their results imho are meaningless. Now and then, I take one and get credit but most of the time I exit as fast as I can. Frankly, I've found that the dullest, cheapest surveys are sponsored by the biggest companies: J.D. Power, and Harris.

Of course when it comes to surveys, YMMV. I did Paidviewpoint for several years until last month and has an attribute score of 10,000. PaidViewpoint throttled my account to 10 cent profile surveys from Nov-May, 55 surveys in a row, and didn't bother to tell me until I asked. They stated the reason for throttling was because a client didn't like by responses. By then I had done about 750 surveys through PV. So because of one client, 0.01% of my activity, my account was hobbled. These panel was probably hoping I'd just cash out and leave. I downgraded my SP review of PV and interred all their emails to the junk survey folder. PineCone for a long time has an intermittent slog of a survey panel, $10 every 6-8 weeks.. However, starting last month the frequency of reaching a $10 payout more than doubled. in July, I've had two already. IPSOS annoys the heck out of me with operational glitches, and support is capricious, fickle, disingenuous and more likely to show incompetency. IPSOS has also greatly increased the use of routes, like CINT. It's a race to the bottom.

I’m in a mood today for some reason. I think it’s the heat. Very hot and humid, and that kind of weather makes me irritable. Anyhoo, I thought I’d post some survey companies I think are good, some middle of the road, and some badder than bad. First the good: 1.) Prolific - This survey site is top notch in my opinion. I don’t get screened out of surveys through them. The pay for most of the surveys is excellent. There is a mix of very short surveys, some longer ones, and ones that may go an hour but pay really good. The minimum you need to cash out is only £5.00. They have PayPal, and they get it in your account usually within a day of cashing out. At this point, I make more money through them than any other survey site. Highly recommended. 2.) Paid Viewpoint - This one is a little different. It took me like a year to get my trait average up to 10,000, the maximum, and took some time to get to the $15.00 minimum to cash out. Once I did though, on average, I can cash out once or twice a month through them. I don’t get screened out of surveys with them. Their surveys are very brief, and don’t pay a lot, but some days I might do 6-8 surveys, and it adds up pretty quickly. Highly recommended. Noticing a theme here? JMHO, but I think the top sites are those that don’t screen you out and waste your time. I do not like having my time wasted. Okay, now middle of the road (runs hot and cold) 1.) PointClub - The longer you maintain a consecutive streak of logging in every day (and I do mean every day, including Christmas!), the more of a bonus you get on top of points earned. Now the max was 100% bonus. Those were the days. I usually cashed out twice a month. Cash out threshold is high, 25,000 points or $25.00. And the surveys you take will pend for weeks until they approve them and add the points to your account. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, they unfortunately reduced the maximum bonus to 10%. So I can usually cash out about once a month. I have contacted them many times when I think they are too slow in approving my points or getting my cash out to PayPal. They take 3-4 weeks to get it into PayPal now, and it’s starting to irritate me. And I have filed one complaint with BBB over them trying to rip me off after doing a $2.65 survey, and them screwing me out of the points. But they do respond, so I guess that’s better than nothing. If you keep at this every day, it should work out okay. Middle of the road. 2.) One Opinion - Now owned by Dynata, who we all know sucks. Cash out threshold is high, $25.00. I used to be able to cash out twice a month, but since the slow down, only once a month if I’m lucky. They have a stupid useless AI. If you are having issues, demand to the AI that they escalate things to a human. That usually gets results. They have quite a few surveys, and send quite a few emails. They run hot and cold. Before COVID-19, I usually made about $50/month. Middle of the road. 3.) Forthright - This used to be my #1 money maker. That ship sailed some time ago. No minimum cash out, and they get it to PayPal pretty quickly. They have a lot of surveys, but it’s difficult and takes time to get one that you can successfully complete. I don’t spend anywhere near the time I used to spend on this site. Most of the surveys are partner surveys. The range in pay is anywhere from $0.50 to $5.00 per survey. They run hot and cold. I used to make about $80-$100/month from them back in the day. Not so much anymore. 4.) Pinecone - It took me forever just to get accepted on this panel. Most of their surveys are $3.00 each. You can get screened out though. Not a lot of surveys. Best to login every day to check and see if you have a survey. For some reason, there is no longer PayPal. I just put the money on a Visa gift card and let it accumulate. They are having some issues with their site, so I’m not sure what’s going on there. 5.) YouGov - Started out slow, but now is going pretty well. I cash out once or twice a month, and put it toward Amazon. Good surveys, not too lengthy. I can’t remember what the cash out threshold is, but they go by points. I don’t think I’ve been screened out of any of their surveys. 6.) Tellwut - The good thing with this panel is that people on the panel can submit their own “mini surveys”, 1-5 questions, and you can get a few points for these. Not too many points, but if you login every day, they do add up. Otherwise, the usual panel surveys and stuff. I like to put this towards my Amazon too. I’ve created three mini surveys so far on there. You can also comment on the mini surveys. I like the social media aspect of it, like to read others comments. Now the bad/ugly/total time wasters/survey panels that suck: 1.) IPSOS - Avoid this one. I was on there less than two weeks, and suddenly they booted me out, said my demographics didn’t match what they were looking for. Why the heck did they even let me in to begin with? I hear they are notorious for just kicking people out for no good reason. And when I get them as a partner survey, I will X out. Total waste of time. Avoid. 2.) Opinion Outpost - I did a bunch of surveys through them, took a lot of time. After about six weeks, I had enough to cash out. So I tried to cash out. No dice. I emailed their “customer service”, total joke. They sent a canned response telling me to clear my cache and browser settings, blah blah blah. So I did that, tried again. Still wasn’t working. So I copied and pasted the error and emailed them again. This time I got something back with step by step instructions, which I followed to the letter. Got the same error. Tried it several times, tried it in different web browsers and everything else. I emailed them again, and they never got back to me. So I sent another email requesting that they remove me from the panel and stop sending me emails with surveys, as I wasn’t taking any more surveys until I got my money. Crickets. Tons of emails from them. I finally blocked them. Avoid. Terrible. 2.) JD Power - Total scam. Another partner survey that I take through other sites. After spending 20-30 minutes on a survey and then saying I completed the survey, got something saying their quota was full. Happened to me several times. Now if I see one of theirs, I will X out. Time waster. Avoid. 3.) Peanut Labs - Partner surveys through PointClub. I tried a few of these, and always the same thing. No points whatsoever, and would get kicked out after spending 20-30 minutes on a survey, or their quota was full. Total scam. Avoid. 4.) Review Robin - Partner site through Forthright. Total scam and ripoff. They will boot you out at the last minute, and their surveys are always longer than they say they are. They are notorious for saying the quota is full after you spent 20-30 minutes on what was supposed to be a five minute survey for $0.50. Avoid. Whew, glad I got that off my chest! I know, these opinions of mine are subjective, don’t mean squat. That’s all right though. Take these all with a grain of salt. Different panels work for different people.

Schludermann, so sorry to hear that PaidViewPoint throttled you like that. That is just downright sketchy of them to do that. These survey sites are always telling us to give our honest opinion. Then we do, and they get all offended and turn into whiny little snowflakes and decide to punish us even though we did nothing wrong. I think most of them are pathetic hypocrites and I will start blasting these sites on Facebook. Let’s see how they like being blasted where everyone can see their sketchy ways. Idiots.

Yeah, I noticed the Virgin Mobile thing too, because I had them before I was switched to Boost Mobile. Still seeing many surveys where they list Virgin Mobile. It’s been a few months since the switch over, so these survey sites need to get with the program. I just roll my eyes when I see these. They are brain dead enough and clueless without being behind the times.

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Numerous times lately I've done surveys that ask me if I would support Nevada legalizing recreational use of marijuana if the question is on the November ballot. WTH?!? Rec pot has been legal in Nevada for over three years already! And then there's usually a question in those same surveys that ask about my support for raising the Nevada state income tax. We don't have one! At least not yet. If I'm the company/organization paying for this slop, I would not be happy.

Are these survey junkie authored surveys? Perhaps they are router based surveys. You can tell by looking at the URL in the web address field. I dropped survey junkie years ago because they were blatantly dishonest. They would have you sign up for special activity tracking and weasel out of paying.

As soon as I can cash out I think I will be done with Opinion Outpost It's becoming a waste of time Not worth it anymore

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