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I quit that one too. I am tired of those. I quit "A study about your perceptions" yesterday , the first question asked about the % of co2 between soy milk and regular milk and it kept saying my answer was wrong. I just quit, I don't know those percentages.

Several months ago, I kept running into this weird question about the color of the *night* sky. Its choices were: orange, red, green, purple and black. Because it kept coming up, I had multiple opportunities to answer it--and I went through ALL of its choices, but got kicked out with each one! Note that there was no 'other' choice, it was not a trick question (like "don't answer this question" buried in the instructions at the top), and it was a must-fill question, so skipping it wasn't possible. Since all five choices failed, I'm left wondering two things: what color *is* the night sky?, and what was the survey-maker smoking when they provided those five possible answers?! I'm also curious as to when they finally figured out that there was a problem--I mean, they COULDN'T have gotten any completed surveys, because there was no way to get past that question.

Why can't survey sites be honest from the get go? 95% of the time surveys are MUCH longer than indicated. Do they want to lure us in and then tell us a 5 minute survey is 28 minutes?? I back out of this ploy over and over again. Wish they wouldn't waste our time. And sometimes it takes five minutes to see if we qualify for a supposedly five minute survey. In five more minutes we are told we don't qualify! (I won't even mention all the times that you finish a survey and then you are told that you don't qualify after the fact!. Well, I just mentioned it, sorry!) Why are we even getting surveys that we don't qualify for all the time anyway?? We fill out the profile. If we don't qualify, don't send it! Bottom line, be honest with us from the start, survey sites. If a survey is 30 minutes long don't say it is 5 minutes! AND if we don't qualify, don't send us the survey in the first place! (PS Steam is coming out of my ears right now!)

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Prolific. That's the only one I've been doing regularly. I have just started back with all my regular sites and I'm having a hard time trying to get back into them after not doing them for over a year. My patience with them is very thin now and it will take me a while to catch up.

I don't do the web cams. I don't want to get presentable enough to be on camera. I run into a lot of webcam surveys lately. And it seems like all of 2020's surveys are web cam.

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Well, I'm pleased and surprised that I got my GC just now. I sent another email late last night, so not sure if pestering them helped. I just hate that I have to chase around to get what I earned. And I like the ratings, those are always fun. But it's not worth the stress. Maybe I'm getting old, I just want to yell at YouGov to get off my lawn. lol

I think you even being generous with the 40 cents quote. Most of them listed for 20 minutes would yield you about 25 cents.

Nope, you're not missing anything. Tellwut pays crap. I dumped them because it was a waste of time taking a survey for 20 minutes and maybe getting 40 cents for it if I was lucky. There are many sites that pay considerably more than that.

I should have posted this earlier, but I did reach out to the survey owner from the U of Tennessee (at the start page they provided an email address to contact if there were questions or issues). I did reach out to him and was surprised to receive a very courteous reply. He told me he was sorry this happened, that he's not sure why but he would like me to be compensated for the time it took me to complete the survey. He asked me how much it was worth and then sent the compensation to me on Venmo. I was pleasantly surprised. I guess even though Survey Junkie can be really frustrating, the individual survey owners really do want to help sometimes.

A few years ago I found out the survey sites get paid more money to give to us but they end up keeping most of it and give us very little of it, especially the university surveys.