seven Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Anyone else doing a snack diary where they send you a cell phone that is programmed only to let you do the diary. I have it connected to my Wi-Fi because it is a Sprint phone and there is no Sprint service in my area. Zero. It's been working great though. Each time you make an entry it uploads it when you hit submit. I've been doing it for over a week now. It's a 2 week diary. Will end on Sunday and then Monday I am to mail the phone back to them. For doing it you get a $35 pre-paid Visa Card. To be sent in 6 to 8 weeks. I've never done one like this but it's really not hard and I have actually enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neminem Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Heh, that's crazy, they give you their own cell phone? That seems like it'd cost them a lot of money; why couldn't they just rely on people who have their own cell phones - who doesn't have a cell phone these days? I'm not doing that (that's crazy!), but I am doing a diary right now for an airline, that wanted me to text them every time I heard or saw a fairly common thing. I was like... no, I don't want to text constantly, that's crazy, I don't have unlimited texts. Then I saw that they admitted, in the fine print, that we could also just visit a web site and do the same thing, which we'd have to visit anyway - I guess they think it's more convenient for us to memorize crazy codes and text them to a number, so we don't have to go back to our computers? Particularly silly, since there's a thing called a smartphone, so we could just as easily visit their website on our phones, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footfree Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 When I had the opportunity years ago they would send out palm pilots and they paid twice as much as they do now.I had almost forgotten about palm pilots- boy does that seem like eons ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957horses Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Anyone else doing a snack diary where they send you a cell phone that is programmed only to let you do the diary. I have it connected to my Wi-Fi because it is a Sprint phone and there is no Sprint service in my area. Zero. It's been working great though. Each time you make an entry it uploads it when you hit submit. I've been doing it for over a week now. It's a 2 week diary. Will end on Sunday and then Monday I am to mail the phone back to them. For doing it you get a $35 pre-paid Visa Card. To be sent in 6 to 8 weeks. I've never done one like this but it's it's really not hard and I have actually enjoyed it. Yes I had done 2 or 3 a few years ago, and it paid $35 then also.............................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven Posted November 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Anyone else doing a snack diary where they send you a cell phone that is programmed only to let you do the diary. I have it connected to my Wi-Fi because it is a Sprint phone and there is no Sprint service in my area. Zero. It's been working great though. Each time you make an entry it uploads it when you hit submit. I've been doing it for over a week now. It's a 2 week diary. Will end on Sunday and then Monday I am to mail the phone back to them. For doing it you get a $35 pre-paid Visa Card. To be sent in 6 to 8 weeks. I've never done one like this but it's it's really not hard and I have actually enjoyed it. Yes I had done 2 or 3 a few years ago, and it paid $35 then also.............................. What did you think about them? How long did it take to get your card? I'd like to do more like this. Maybe more will come my way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beare Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 what site did you get it through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avemaria Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 I had one back in 09' and it was like a PDA with a stylus.. 2 weeks of snack entries.. I remember it being $50 back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957horses Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Anyone else doing a snack diary where they send you a cell phone that is programmed only to let you do the diary. I have it connected to my Wi-Fi because it is a Sprint phone and there is no Sprint service in my area. Zero. It's been working great though. Each time you make an entry it uploads it when you hit submit. I've been doing it for over a week now. It's a 2 week diary. Will end on Sunday and then Monday I am to mail the phone back to them. For doing it you get a $35 pre-paid Visa Card. To be sent in 6 to 8 weeks. I've never done one like this but it's it's really not hard and I have actually enjoyed it. Yes I had done 2 or 3 a few years ago, and it paid $35 then also.............................. What did you think about them? How long did it take to get your card? I'd like to do more like this. Maybe more will come my way. Mine was for drinks and through my Survey it took about 3 weeks to get paid but that was 4 years ago................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven Posted November 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Thanks guys. @beare -I got it on http://www.instagc.com @1947horses and avemaria - Did you guys also have to scan the barcodes on your snacks if there was one? I've been doing that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cilana86 Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 I remember doing this on the Palm Pilot probably like 8 years ago lol. It was worth $50. I did it through Lightspeed panel before they and mysurvey Merged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957horses Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Thanks guys. @beare -I got it on http://www.instagc.com @1947horses and avemaria - Did you guys also have to scan the barcodes on your snacks if there was one? I've been doing that as well. No scanning, just what I had to drink all day and you had to do 12 of 14 days. It was done on a smart phone that was set to only do the loggings in daily............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njsurveyman Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Seven.......so this instant gift card site is the actual website who offered you to complete this snack study diary? I never heard of them before. How legit are they? Have you already been paid for doing other surveys for them in the past? Just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj07208 Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Seven.......so this instant gift card site is the actual website who offered you to complete this snack study diary? I never heard of them before. How legit are they? Have you already been paid for doing other surveys for them in the past? Just curious. There is a topic on the board labeled, "BTW", which talks about the instant gift card site. Seems like you gotta go through a lot of spam to get a few good surveys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njsurveyman Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Oh ok. I must say "BTW" is a bad heading to use as a topic. The survey company's name or web address would've been a better heading in my opinion. The last thing I need is more spam, so thanks for letting me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven Posted November 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Oh ok. I must say "BTW" is a bad heading to use as a topic. The survey company's name or web address would've been a better heading in my opinion. The last thing I need is more spam, so thanks for letting me know. I apologize. I was very sleepy at the time. It is what it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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