Survey firms are interested in your opinion. Sometimes they are interested over and over and over again - to the point where you wish you had never heard of doing surveys.
One such survey, which is frequently posted by Global Test Market but is also posted on many survey sites, has to do with what movies you've gone to see in theaters. You'll recognize the survey when the first page has in large letters the word "integrity' showing urging you to conduct yourself with honor and honesty when taking the survey. Of course, that is a one way street because if you start the survey the chances are that no matter how much of it you complete - or even complete all of it - you'll never get points for doing so.
Of course you can always close out the window as soon as you see such a survey appear, as I've started to do, but you have to wonder why any survey company would keep posting these surveys. Yes, they are paid to do so but is it worth it to risk the wrath of survey takers to have their time wasted? Moreover, of what value is it to post a survey that knowledgeable survey takers refuse to take (as you should do dear reader)?
Perhaps they need a stronger reminder that survey takers are not to be trifled with so easily (not that we aren't already; after all we're taking surveys that reward us with a few cents at best). I'm calling on all survey takers to boycott these bogus movie surveys. Just refuse to take them. If they pop up on your screen just close the window and reload a new window. This may have no effect at all, but perhaps when the data stops flowing in to them they'll realize that perhaps this tactic isn't working so well.
Give it a shot - it can't hurt. After all, you're not going to be earning anything from these phony movie surveys anyway.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
That Cash Out Amount Got Skinnier - Fees Now Applied
It's really not fair, nor right, but iPoll (formerly Survey Head) is now charging you to cash in.
I recently cashed out rewards totaling $35, but when I received confirmation of my pay pal payment that $35 had shrunk. That's because iPoll now charges a 3 percent transaction fee when you cash out. Why? I have no idea and it really doesn't matter what concocted reason the company gives - the bottom line is that it isn't fair nor right. It's not like you are making a lot of money by doing these surveys, right? Plus, it's not like the survey company, which also offers the Focusline survey site, isn't making tons of money, right? But, they've decided they need to ding you for the measly amounts you earn after months of tirelessly doing their surveys.
I never promised you'd get rich doing online surveys - but now your path to what little wealth you can accumulate got a little bit longer.
I recently cashed out rewards totaling $35, but when I received confirmation of my pay pal payment that $35 had shrunk. That's because iPoll now charges a 3 percent transaction fee when you cash out. Why? I have no idea and it really doesn't matter what concocted reason the company gives - the bottom line is that it isn't fair nor right. It's not like you are making a lot of money by doing these surveys, right? Plus, it's not like the survey company, which also offers the Focusline survey site, isn't making tons of money, right? But, they've decided they need to ding you for the measly amounts you earn after months of tirelessly doing their surveys.
I never promised you'd get rich doing online surveys - but now your path to what little wealth you can accumulate got a little bit longer.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Those Annoying Screeners
If you are going to do online surveys you are going to have to put up with screening questions designed to see if you match a particular survey or not.
They are REALLY annoying. But of late a new method of screening has appeared that makes the process even more annoying. I'm talking about online screeners that ask you the same questions over and over and over again. You come to recognize these surveys the minute they appear on your computer screen. You'd like to disregard them, but you can't because you can't tell if you will be screened out or not.
What's even more annoying is that you'll often find yourself going through the long screening process, answering the same questions in the same way as you always do, only to be screened out. You're left wondering how come answering the same questions previously gave you entry to a survey and this time you are bounced out? I wish I could give you an answer to this phenomenon but I can't. If any of you can figure it out I'd appreciate hearing from you.
That doesn't mean you can't do anything, however. There are some survey hosts that I studiously avoid. For example, any survey offered by Hall & Associates I avoid like the plague. There has rarely been an instance where that company has acted in a way that benefits survey takers. Their surveys are invariably long, boring, and all too often after spending a good deal of time on the survey you are told you don't qualify.
But, the long, long screeners are being used more and more frequently. Even stalwart Toluna - one of the best survey sites - has started using them.
For now, I guess we have to put up with it. But, it certainly isn't fun.
They are REALLY annoying. But of late a new method of screening has appeared that makes the process even more annoying. I'm talking about online screeners that ask you the same questions over and over and over again. You come to recognize these surveys the minute they appear on your computer screen. You'd like to disregard them, but you can't because you can't tell if you will be screened out or not.
What's even more annoying is that you'll often find yourself going through the long screening process, answering the same questions in the same way as you always do, only to be screened out. You're left wondering how come answering the same questions previously gave you entry to a survey and this time you are bounced out? I wish I could give you an answer to this phenomenon but I can't. If any of you can figure it out I'd appreciate hearing from you.
That doesn't mean you can't do anything, however. There are some survey hosts that I studiously avoid. For example, any survey offered by Hall & Associates I avoid like the plague. There has rarely been an instance where that company has acted in a way that benefits survey takers. Their surveys are invariably long, boring, and all too often after spending a good deal of time on the survey you are told you don't qualify.
But, the long, long screeners are being used more and more frequently. Even stalwart Toluna - one of the best survey sites - has started using them.
For now, I guess we have to put up with it. But, it certainly isn't fun.
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