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Yep, they are everywhere and if you don’t agree with this one or that one, you wasted your time. Gives me a headache by end of day.

Your opinions must conform to the narrative the survey sponsor wants to promote.

Just got this on Tellwut, I was offered the equivalent of $1 to provide this information, including personal details. I was thinking, perhaps there are situations when these high value individuals go "slumming" with the teeming minions.

Marketing companies that commission surveys with such audience specificity and then use consumer panels to field the surveys, show how low regard there is for the panelist community. The JD powers surveys were often like this and I just abort JD powers surveys when they come up. Often the qualification questions would ask for company revenue and the lowest annual revenue was a million, up to several billion and no selections below it. I tried a number of panels, example Opinion Bureau or MOBROG and they were a total waste of time. If the panels that fielded these surveys would just use the panelist profiles, there would be much less of this.

I remember that too. I also remember when you tested a product, not only were you paid for each survey, but you were also paid $5-$10 just for your time of testing the product also. Watching tv shows paid a minimum of $5. With all the panels I was a member of, I made over $120 pr mth and over $250 pr mth during the Holidays. Now I'm lucky to make $50 pr mth and $100 during the holidays and that's not saving up cashouts either for holiday shopping.

I was on a survey panel, not going to mention which one, when I suddenly scored $5.00 worth of surveys in 20 minutes. This on a panel where I hadn’t gotten squat in the last couple of weeks, despite being on there for an hour every day. It then hit me that I was on there at just the right time to get and successfully complete those surveys. It also occurred to me that it was pretty random, like no real control over being able to complete surveys. And it reminded me of something that I seldom do. That would be gambling, specifically slot machines. The reason I seldom gamble is because it’s so random, and mostly relies on luck and timing. And I’m an admitted control freak. Control freaks usually don’t like gambling. It’s a waste of money for me, money I can blow on so many better things like wine, chocolate and costume jewelry. Think of it. You go on a slot machine and hope it hits. It takes absolutely no skill whatsoever. You’re just pushing a lever or hitting a button. And maybe if you’re real lucky, you’ll leave the casino with more than what you came in with. The odds will always be against you and for the house. It’s random luck and timing. I think it’s a good analogy for survey companies. With these surveys, based on what I’ve observed in the 15 years or so I’ve been doing them, loyalty doesn’t mean anything to these companies. It doesn’t matter whether you’re with a company for two weeks or 15 years. They will continue to screw you out of money, dump you, accuse you of being a liar, etc. They’re happy to take the money they should pay you and pocket it after disqualifying you. They do not care nor have any sympathy if you spend hours a day trying to complete surveys. You get close to nothing for making an effort. When you do actually successfully complete a survey, you almost feel like celebrating because it happens so rarely. It’s easy to get discouraged. Then you have a great day where it seems like taking candy from a baby, like you make $20 in a day. I did that once, and only once. I felt like I was invincible. And that happens so rarely, it really is just luck and/or good timing, all random. I don’t think it has anything to do with being truthful and actually working hard and completing surveys. There is a lot of chicanery going on in the background from “the house” or survey company. They keep you “hooked” because you successfully get say $0.50 from a survey you worked on for 30 minutes, and you just keep going, and get nothing after that. It really is like gambling. I felt like I hit a jackpot after getting that $5.00 worth of surveys today. Now I’m sure I’ll get nothing for weeks after that.

Corridor.

Hall

I was qualifying for most of them until lately now I'm not

Yep, I’ve been screened out of many of these surveys. It’s too bad I can’t figure out which party is doing it so I can X out and not waste so much of my time.

I can’t remember which site I was on, a couple of days ago, but wound up working a JD Power survey for 25 minutes and got screwed, didn’t get squat. I won’t be doing any more JD Power surveys. They are a total scam. I’ve had so many surveys where I get all the way to the end, only to have it not redirect back to my original site. Complaining just wastes my time. I’m down to three survey companies where I do surveys regularly. There are a couple I’ll go to every few days or so, and over a dozen that I’ve dumped.

Town

I dropped them some time ago

Close.

I've been doing it part-time about 5 years. One of the oldest survey companies, Harris, recently closed and took our money with them. I've dumped many other companies, not worth my time, and other have consolidated. I'm putting in more time, getting disqualified more, and earning less.

Has anyone else run into this phenomenon? I’ve seen so many surveys across many survey sites where they want someone who is an executive, usually a CEO, CFO, etc of a company that has hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. For something like a $0.75 survey. Yeah right. Like the average highly paid executive of a major company is going to just happen to sign up for a survey site and fill out a survey for pennies. Just no. And anyone who answers in the affirmative for these surveys is pretty likely lying through their teeth. Why in the world would survey sites even think these surveys are legit? I came across one today through Survey Cube. Unbelievable. This just adds to my thoughts that these survey sites are not only nasty to their long suffering survey takers, but dishonest and unreliable for their multi million dollar clients. I think they’re making it up as they go along. Total scam. Because if they’re passing on the kind of info from these surveys, I would think it wouldn’t be worth a pile of cow dung.

Terrible site they are, with one of the worst and rude customer service I have come across. If you leave a review for them on trustpilot they will do everything they can to take that review down. They are forever accusing you of using a VPN. They have lots of surveys and offers but very hard to qualify for any of them in my experience. Waste of time.

I received a check also. This last time I used amazon. I think they're at a stale mate with paypal over processing fees. I remember an email from pinecone last year about if I preferred paypal as a cashout option. I later emailed Karen suggesting she put the paypal cashout minimum at $10 to help save on paypal fees so we don't lose the option all together nor get the paypal fee taken out of our pay like other panels do.

Good post.

They are a bunch of liars. It has been 6 months of lies and lies about getting paid, they try to put the blame on paypal. Since they are in the UK cannot use the BBB to go after them. If anyone has a good website for a similar organization in the UK that can go after them t would be appreciated. They refuse to do a check for less than $50 even with paypal problems. I contact them thru their FB site and get promises and lies and lies and then more promises and lies. I checked with paypal and the problem is with uniquerewards not paying, not paypal. If and only if (IFF) i have no other attractive surveys I may answer their email surveys and do the daily clicks to get a few cents so by in about 10 months (clicking on their emails and doing the daily clicks) I get to $50. They are crooked as far as I am concerned despite what they say on their site. There must be an organization in the UK that can contact them similar to the BBB in the U S...if anyone has a website for this please post it. Thanks

I hear what you’re saying about remaining your own boss and not having to travel to work. I’m retired with a pension, and do these surveys for beer money and travel.

I checked at the end of last week and they added a $5 AGC that I could afford, so I cashed out. That was mighty nice of them, most won't do that for everyone. Guess I will quit complaining about it then.

I so agree. A shame

I'm sure at one time or another everyone on this site has done a political survey for at least 10 minutes working on it and tells the truth and gets screened out! I guess you are not allowed to give a real opinion in these turbulant times. This was on Inbox Dollars for $3.00. Sorry about ranting!

I am getting sick and tired of completing surveys and not getting the reward. Already this morning I have done three surveys that I got shafted for. I think these companies think we enjoy doing surveys for sod all. Oh I just love filling out a boring survey for 30mins and getting NOTHING for it! My blood boils when I see that I haven't received the reward. Also tired of the crap support that you seem to get from mostly all of the survey companies. They are hopeless. The main site I use is getting worse. They have upped the price for the rewards, giving away less DQ points and taking some DQ points away completely. Just feel like giving up taking surveys if I'm honest at the moment.

I agree with you so much. I did three with PrizeRebel the other day. They have been going on and on about improvements on social media. So, I devoted a good bit of time trying. The three I did were twenty plus minutes each. I got to the thank you each time and the redirects failed. They were for YourSurveys(loathe them but...). I complained about YourSurveys onPrizeRebel FB page. This morning,I got an email from PrizeRebel stating my account was closed due a new screening system they use for newer users. #1-I have been with them 2+ years, 2-I have 3-5 cash outs. They wanted a copy of my driver’s license and cancelled my $5 payout that I had finally reached. I went back to the FB page and told them they weren’t worth the trouble to verify and they could keep their lousy $5. Not so classy but I, too, am fed up.