are these survey sites worth it?(merged)

pinkladyvenus

if you can check site couple times a day I find the best time for surveys to appear is at around 10.30am to 1.00pm.

redagila

pinkladyvenus wrote: »

if you can check site couple times a day I find the best time for surveys to appear is at around 10.30am to 1.00pm.

Thanks for that info - just checked and qualified for 1 of the 2 available. Now just have to remember to log in more!

ollieb84

I personally never like the survey sites as they're fishing for data. Has anyone ever actually won a prize/freebie from any of these...

JDPower

ollieb84 wrote: »

I personally never like the survey sites as they're fishing for data. Has anyone ever actually won a prize/freebie from any of these...

Of course they're fishing for data - that's almost the dictionary definition of a survey. And I'm happy to give them selected data and info in return for £500-600 a year. Better that than them taking it subversively through web trackers and getting nothing from them in return.

jay56

ollieb84 wrote: »

I personally never like the survey sites as they're fishing for data. Has anyone ever actually won a prize/freebie from any of these...[/QUOTE


I won an Ipod Shuffle from a survey site a few years ago. :j Possibly Onepoll.

tomvox

I've won a few Prize Draws with various Amazon Voucher prizes but hit the Jackpot last year winning an iPad Air 64GB

wiorika

I won £50 L2S voucher from survey Friends

olliebean

I had a similar experience with Survey Friends: having confirmed that I had won a voucher, it didn't arrive, and when I contacted them to ask where it was they sent me an email saying I'd broken the rules of the site so I was now banned and wouldn't receive the voucher. A further email to them asking what rule I was supposed to have broken (there is no-one else at my address with an account) met with no reply. It seemed very convenient that I was suddenly deemed to have broken the rules at precisely the time that I was first owed a voucher.

JDPower

thriftymanc wrote: »

My OH won a voucher from Survey Friends once - it never turned up and when he queried why he was told it was because they thought he and I were one person using fake accounts and refused to let him have it on the basis of cheating! He offered to prove we were different people (copies of ID) and they didn't even allow him to do that, they replied with all of my account details including my password in an email to him, and said our passwords were similar so that was proof enough that we were one person! (Our passwords were similar as we'd based them on the same thing e.g. using a pet's name). Shocking that they think it's ok to breach data protection like that, even if they did think they were sending someone 'their own details', they should have waited for proof first. I stopped using them after that as god knows who else they freely pass people's details on to - and their website can't be very secure as passwords should be encrypted and they shouldn't even be able to see them.

On a side note, it's worth knowing a lot of survey sites won't allow more than one member per household.

thriftymanc

JDPower wrote: »

On a side note, it's worth knowing a lot of survey sites won't allow more than one member per household.

I know, this wasn't one of them though - they simply decided we were 'the same person' to get out of paying my OH anything it would appear! :mad: All surveys sites we always check if we can both have an account, and if it's one per household we divvy them up.