Surveys are a learning process

[Duck]

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. 

[dawn_b_adams]

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.

[peach6]

I have only qualified for the varies survey on One Opinion a couple of times and it always paid 500  but I always click on it just for the 50 points only takes a second to get DQ

[sp1]

Uncertain if its the lockdown, but Mindfield Online Internet Panels have been stating that they have received adequate amounts of participant survey completions

after I've spent hours of completing several 3 - 5 minute and 8 - 10 minute surveys within this past month. So, I explained to them that I am considering contacting the BBB about this false advertising when these short surveys should only take up a few minutes of my time, not hours.

 

[Duck]

4 hours ago, peach6 said:

I have only qualified for the varies survey on One Opinion a couple of times and it always paid 500  but I always click on it just for the 50 points only takes a second to get DQ

Peach,  I quit doing One Opinion surveys a few months back.  I noticed it was taking me a long time to get the the 25.00 cash out point.   Maybe it was my imagination but it seemed that when I got near the cash out point all the sudden it became very difficult to get to the 25,000 point level  because it got harder to qualify for surveys.    My survey philosophy is  take the point of least resistance.  Engage with the panels where the surveys are easiest to get qualified for and they don't jerk you around with surveys that let you get most of the way or all of the way though,  then kick you out.  (JD Power surveys for example).