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Every time I receive a Pinecone email offer, the first or second question in the screening process just freezes. I have not been able to complete a survey fot them in over a month. How do they not realize how much they suck now??

Hook

Over the last several weeks something has happened at SB and many people have had their account deactivated. If your account is actually legitimate and not breaking TOS you should get it back but it might take some time. I have no idea what's going on but from the aggressive way they are deactivating accounts it must be serious. Here are some examples of people complaining.

If you’re interested in speaking with an interviewer online or over the phone for health, consumer and work related focus groups, Respondent is a fairly straightforward site. I’ve used it once before and they simply required a Zoom login to review a medical product.

Are these emails inviting you to take a survey? If that is the case I don't know anybody else who gets emails from them that frequently.

Reel

I agree with you 100% Dawn and have written similar things in many of my posts. And did you hear what happened to me yesterday with Swagbucks? I wrote a very long post explaining the entire situation as best as I could and I think you will find it very interesting reading because it confirms I believe a lot of the things both you and I have written about. All I will add here is if you are very active with a panel and especially if you have belonged to that panel for a long time and have earned a lot of money you are very vulnerable and at high risk at some point of having your account paused, terminated, deactivated, frozen or whatever word they choose to use.

Steel

Beam

I don't mind doing Ipsos but lately I get a lot of emails from them but most of them lately seem to be finished by the time it gets sent to me ,like I get one and says sent 1 minute ago and I start it ,and bam says sorry here is 5 points .I am like okay fine but then I get another one ,and I start it answer a gob of questions and then I click next and then those lines come up I call them tapping fingers because of how they look ,and then next I know they have sent me to another survey so not only did I get nothing for doing the one I spent several minutes on before they shipped me to another one ,one which sometimes sends me to a 3rd or 4th all interwoven so you could never send a request because they just start you all over again ,this last one I got that 3 times and no 5 points and now not even the stupid poll predictor . I am getting fed up though .So much waste my time for nothing .

Yeah, for years Pinecone was one of those great sites that would come around now and then (like Paid Viewpoint or Forthright) and paid nicely for surveys unique to their sites. The Pinecone payout is still $3.00 for me, but no longer via Paypal. I accept amazon gift cards because I need to buy things there, anyway. But a couple of years ago, those Pinecone surveys, where you eventually click on a product label to indicate what you like or dislike, started popping up on other sites, but those only paid like 60 cents or so. I avoided doing those, so I wouldn't screw up my survey relationship with Pinecone. But in the past several months, I have found that 90 to 95% of survey offers I get from them are faulty. I recently got a couple that worked, and I was able to grab my $5 amazon gift card or whatever. But in the past year, I started doing those surveys on other sites, because they never go wrong there. Less money, but they work. I don't feel guilty, because Pinecone must have sold out or given up their exclusivity somehow. I haven't seen any indication that they recently got bought out. I generally won't switch my browser just to get a survey to work. I did have Microsoft edge set up as a back-up to my Firefox, after I eliminated Explorer because that was finished anyway, and it sometimes does clear up issues, but I stopped using edge due to some major security flaws that may or may not be related to it, or a recent Windows flaw/breach.

They are definitely not as good as they were a year ago I very seldom qualify and when I do no product to test anymore and your right sometimes it does freeze up

@Alexium - Don't be surprised or offended if nobody believes you. Posting proof of payment will not help so please don't. Honestly it feels like this thread is not genuine. You ask for advice then just days later post huge earnings. Also you said "My sister in law has 36-37 people already." then posted "proof" claiming it is you who has the referrals. I personally am not impressed and this now feels like a bait and switch type inquiry. @Everyone - MLM is not illegal at least in the USA. Avon, Amway, Herbalife are MLM and quite successful for some but a huge money pit for others. Pyramid schemes are illegal in many countries. I'm not going to try and explain the difference because to me there is little difference and I don't care to research it to the point of being able to clearly explain the difference. As always do your own research before joining any "be your own boss" company. I'll leave this thread open for now but am tempted to lock or possibly just delete it.

This is not something I would ever get involved with. No way. According to what has been written if I am reading it correctly you have to refer 40 other people after you make $200. I don't know even one other person who is willing to invest time to do surveys even though I have told a few people it is a good way to make a few extra dollars each month. It takes a lot of patience and perseverance which everybody doesn't have. All I will say is good luck to anybody who can get 40 people to sign up for this.

I just won the daily sweepstakes at Clear Voice. I won $100. I will get my money in 6-8 weeks. I did not even know they had a daily sweepstakes.

Hey! How come I'm not getting any soda from someplace?

I work for a school and so far, we are receiving pay until the end of this school year. I feel bad for your husband.

Everyone, including Survey Police, THANK you for your perspective on this. I agree with so much of what has been sad. GOOD LUCK to us all and STAY WELL!

I saw two or three red flags as soon a I looked at the website. Did you read the ridiculous reviews complete with stock photo images of the members on the front page? I wouldn't even consider joining. 1) $20 for 20 minute surveys (we all know that's a lie). 2) The TOS states that Paid Surveys at Home is NOT responsible for ANYTHING posted on their website. They own the website but are not responsible for it? How does that work? 3) Keep reading the TOS... Any information you give them (even personal information) can be used by them in any way they see fit including using it for marketing as well as selling your personal info. I also found a review that says they charge a fee to get access to the surveys but I have nothing solid to back it up.

I tried to log into my account tonight and was asked to enter my email and my country and was told they need more info about my account. It appears my account has been deactivated. I think things got triggered by me yesterday requesting a 25.00 PayPal payment which was denied. After trying to log in I got the following email from them. My account needs more information - Please review ASAP. Hello Michael, This auto-reply is to let you know we have received your email and will get back to you with a response as soon as possible. Generally, you’ll hear from us no later than 10 business days. Weekends and holidays may delay the response time to 30 business days. What is going on? I have had issues with them before. Once somebody set up an account in my name and cashed out with a 15.00 Amazon card and told them it wasn't me. They told me I had two accounts and never set the second one up and told them that. It took months to get that straightened out. Then more recently maybe a year or so ago I was banned from doing surveys but they agreed to remove the ban after corresponding with them. I was later able to get back into my account tonight but cannot earn any points. And the points for the denied PayPal payment never were put back into my account. I am thinking this company is crooked and a scam. Yes I can earn a lot of points very quickly but there are always going to be issues. I broke one of my rules by waiting to get to 2500 points before cashing out. Part of the reason was I am owed 2000 points for completing a survey last month where I had to document all of my payments for the month whether I used cash, check, credit card, debit card or whatever other method I used. I had maybe about 70 entries for the month. I had done this a couple of other times and always received my points although it took a while. I had been doing 5.00 cash outs but this time I was waiting for the 2000 points and then do everything together. But I hit 2500 points even without the 2000 so I decided to cash out and look what happened. Even if I get my account straightened out not sure I want to continue with them. There are just too many hassles to deal with. And I have been with them a long time. Maybe if I just continued with the 5.00 cash outs I would have been OK. Have no clue what I did to make this happen. I cannot recommend Swagbucks to anybody. It looks great at the beginning when you sign up because it is very easy to earn points quickly. But I will almost guarantee that anybody who has been with them for any length of time is going to eventually run into some kind of an issue. As it is now I am potentially out 45.00. The 2500 points I tried to cash out for a PayPal payment and the 2000 points I have yet to receive for completing that survey. I think this company is run by a bunch of crooks who are scam artists. I would advise everybody to stay clear of them. Plus I have earned a lot of bonus points this month for meeting my goal every day through today. Obviously that streak is going to end. But I may wind up losing those points as well. With the 136 points I have in my account now plus the bonus points I would get next month I would maybe have enough for another 5.00 cash out. So in total I could lose 50.00. And if someone asked me now what is the best survey company or my favorite not sure what I would say. There seems to be something with all of them I don't like. Either low payouts, too high of a threshold to cash out or having to wait too long to get paid. And the ones where you actually can earn money and have low threshold amounts to cash out like Swagbucks the negatives outweigh the positives and not sure it is worth it trying to deal with them. Latest update for Swagbucks today Sunday. Got points for Daily Poll and Daily Search. But nothing else works .I completed Daily Watch and never got the points I earned. Daily Discover the pickings were very slim a lot less than usual and I tried two 1 point activities and never received credit for either one so obviously I am blocked there. And when I click on any Gold Survey I get the message Not every survey can be a winner but keep trying. So I can't do surveys either. This thing is one big mess and I have no clue what is going on. But everything seems OK with My Points which surprises me because it is the same company that owns it. But I am not taking any chances. I was going to let my points accumulate so I could get a 10.00 PayPal payment but since I had enough for a 5.00 Amazon I went for that. I am almost expecting the same thing to happen with My Points that happened with Swagbucks and didn't want to risk losing money.

I spend 20 minutes on a survey and am at the end and then get declined? That sucks and it happens a lot!

I had the exact same thing happen to me. They emailed saying I was over-credited and when I went to check they took out 400 points and left me with zero.