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I've had an on and off problem since last night. I even was at the end of a long survey and lost it due to a connect problem with them. Thanks for posting. I thought it was my ISP!

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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.

Sigh, here we go again. I was unable to log into lifepoints today. After repeatedly trying and getting the following message I contacted the Help Center TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE Sorry, your membership is temporarily unavailable. Please contact our Help Center for support. I have no idea what is wrong but the last time this happened a few years ago they told me I resigned from their site which I absolutely did not do. After a LOT of back and forth they said that they were giving me a one-time chance to rejoin using a different email address and they would transfer all my points. After jumping through loads of hoops I did rejoin but lost a majority of my points. I do believe a few other Survey Police members experienced this same problem when I did. This just seems like deja vu and I am NOT happy. I wonder what they are going to say I did wrong THIS time?? I just cashed out for a $25 GC and still had over 600 points left. Wonder if I will get to keep the points or the GC. will come through. Anyone else ever get this message or have any idea what it means?

YIKES, that is totally insane. I have never had anything like that. And I back out of all surveys that ask for personal information..

This is a type of undisclosed omnibus router. The heartless bastards have a change of heart deep into a survey that you really didn't qualify and give us another survey instead of promised consolation points for survey termination. If the survey is positioned as an omnibus and I agree, I don't gripe, unless the survey becomes really long. This way to save pennies worth of points for the survey panel on each panelist, multiplied by hundreds to thousands of panelists, and the employees can afford to get a latte at Starbucks. This is a little bit common. This can be a bit disconcerting when you're enjoying an in depth banking survey of the Fortune 500 banks and it unceremoniously changes to pizza toppings of the discount chain pizza wars. I've had this happen on IPSOS/i-Say, Honey, InnovateMR, Prolific, and others. YouGov does this too, but is transparent that it is going to happen, just not the number of changes. This change is often accompanied by significantly different URLs, AKA the web address, the page layouts and the look and feel of the questions.

In my experience a sure fire way to get thrown out of a survey is to give them your name & address. It seems like a lot of time that is all they are interested in. As soon as they get that they cut you loose. May not always be the case but that is how it has worked out for me more often than not.

You are so right. But once we get to the point where we CAN cash out it is nice to get that incentive!

There are browser cookie manager extensions that can be configured for site specific cookie control. FYI:Mypoints has a vey devious personal information practice Y'all should be aware of. Mypoints runs numerous panels and if you join them, mypoints will compare your supplied information across all of these panels, even discontinued panels. If there are discrepancies, then Mypoints will inhibit you ability to do surveys. I discovered this in a support ticket, trying to resolve no surveys. Apparently I had registered for other panels and discontinued some of these panels. The information was nolonger updated and enough became stale that mypoints used it against me.