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I've only been out this survey business for about two years but I have learned a few things. After awhile you learn which surveys and survey providers will waste your time, also those that will let you take a good portion of the survey then kick you out. I have a little bulletin board above my desk, on it are the survey companies that I have had consistent bad experiences with. When I run into one of those I just X out. Another thing that has helped me is to stay away from surveys that don't tell you how long they are. Even then some will lie to you and the survey ends up being twice or three times longer than advertised. Again, after a while you learn to spot these dishonest surveys and stay away from. My approach on any given day is to get through as many surveys as it takes to get to my daily goal. I don't let myself get bogged on one of those long boring surveys that may last 35, 45 minutes or even longer. Not when I know I can find another survey that is much shorter and pays the same or more. . I would appreciate any tips others might have on how to improve the survey taking experience.

Maybe it is my imagination but it seems like survey panels run hot and cold, some days you can get qualified on a lot of a panel's surveys and other times it is just one rejection or another. It also seems to have something to do with the time of day too. If I run into a panel where I am having a cold spell, I just move on to another one of the dozen or so panels of which I am a member. I try to follow the point of least resistance when it comes to taking surveys.

I think your post is spot on! I agree that it’s important to set a daily goal. I do that too. And I have an idea of which survey companies will waste my time. I also agree it’s a better idea to take a few shorter surveys. They may not pay as much, but if you’re taking a longer one, you’re say 30 minutes into it, and it kicks you out, that’s a lot of time wasted on one survey. I won’t do “varies” surveys on One Opinion either. My minimum requirement is that it tells me how much it is and an estimate of how long it will take. If it won’t do that and wants to play games, I don’t deal with them. In addition, any survey companies that are gonna try to screw me over will get a bad review on here. PointClub found that out the hard way after it made it very public that I was reporting them to the BBB for screwing me out of over $2 for a survey I worked over 30 minutes on. Hold survey companies accountable for all the sketchy illegal things they do.

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Swagbucks for my money. I usually cash out three, fours times a month with them. Inbox dollars has that 30 dollar threshold that takes forever to get to. Swagbucks allows you to cash out at a much lower point. Also the point amounts on Inbox Dollar surveys are smaller and it seems like it is harder to get qualified. At least that is the way it worked out for. me. I would still do Inbox Dollars if they would let you cash out at 10 bucks but last I checked it was 30.

LifePoints are total incompetents and they are likely going to make it very difficult to recover your earnings and rewards. Being nice will not gain anything. I suggest you make a very structured and emotionless series of requests for your points to be awarded, which very likely will be declined. Request support to carefully explain the reasons for the unsubscribe. To be ready for an unreferenced referral to the 100 page Terms of service policy, you should read it and not find anything that applies, support doesn't read this either. They are using canned replies written by an unknown project manager at LifePoints.. You want your points? Right? Read. If Support is still responding, it could be slow, like six months, that's a ploy they use sometimes. Ask them which section and version are they referring to. If they refer to a version you haven't agreeded to, add that to your reply. They may or may not reply to that, it doesn't matter if they ignored you. You will be able to use being ignored when you turn the heat up. It's going to take work, and not worth the effort for the points alone. Your mission, should you choose to accept it will be to prove them incompetent and exhibit conduct unprofessional for the marketing industry. Once you have some reasons from lifepoints, the research work starts because you will give up on support and start engaging another part of Lightspeed Research Limited, a Kantar Group company. Post your experiences as a FB review and copy paste into a message to LifePoints. Next write reviews on site jabber, trust pilot and others, forwarded those to support and FB messenger as an FYI. Remember, you're on the up-and-up, Lifepoints is not. To find others within LifePoints, turn to Linkedin, Crunchbase and corporate email address lookup services. Find someone related to community, support, operations or public relations and roll out your experience with support and how you are informing the world of their atrocious conduct. Give them a third to half of your posts, save some for later. Always write in a dry, emotionless, professional tone and avoid slang. You want them to content with you, not dismiss you. If you are doing this well, you will start receiving responses from upper management or even C-Level. If Life points still stonewalls you, then write an ESOMAR complaint. I've made posts to that in the forum. Now if you decided to blow that off and just register with a "new ID", you had better do that from a different web browser, machine, OS and ISP. This because survey panels construct an ID for panelists based on your information, where you are located, your ISP, your cookies, machine hardware address and so forth. They also share this other panels. This is done ostensively to prevent you from completing the same survey multiple times from different panels. Since you have agreed to this sharing during signup, they can share all and anything. So, if they figure out you are trying to do and end-around on LifePoints, other panels might also throttle your survey opportunities. GOOD LUCK! and remember, it doesn't get easier, it get's better.