Survey Stashing: Valued Opinion hints & tips

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I have been a member of Valued Opinions for 4 months and although in general I have found the rewards nice (not particularly good value but these pounds do accumulate! Ave £10pm) I have emailed them now 3 times regarding my increasing suspicions that not everything is being paid correctly - I have so far had 2 replies from them, both very vague, and awaiting a third - I will keep you informed of their responses...

hexpansion

I said I would keep a record of Valued Opinions responses...my last email highlighted 4 surveys which I had completed and which I believed had gone unrewarded and which had disappeared off the pending list, so most would not notice. Their reply states that
"Due to a technical glitch your account was missed at the rewarding time. Please rest assured that I have manually credited your account with £0.50."
- no mention of the other 3 surveys missing in action! I have contacted them again...
Is it just me or does the short and sweet reply seem a little patronising (only 50p, blah, blah)? I note that they state over 450000 members, that's a lot of 50ps!

henrypartridge

cootambear wrote: »

getting a little tired with them, last 4x after numerous question, told I do not qualify for the survey

Couldn't agree more: a big con, Martin shouldn't recommend them. Plus never got paid for 4 surveys I did complete.

LDH

Yesterday, i logged on to the Valued Opinions website to check a few things as i hadn't received any survey invitations for a couple of weeks where once a day was the norm. I contacted them via their email form and received a response today with a copied and pasted section (email was clearly in two halves) stating:



"Our database has blocked your account because you have failed one or more of our quality control checks.

This may include giving answers within a survey that contradicted each other, doing the surveys too quickly to have read them correctly, putting the same answer for each question without reading the questions, i.e. clicking question 1 each time, or failing to put a typed response to a question if required."



So they are telling me i have done something wrong but nothing more specific. I had nearly £20 in rewards waiting to be claimed which had accumulated since last year. I have tried to log on today in order to claim a voucher only to find my account has now been deleted (as a result of my email enquiry possibly) meaning i have answered surveys over many, many months, all for nothing. :mad:

GetRealBabe

Hi

Closed my VO account after I received my last Amazon voucher. Took way too long to receive my pending points.

Marteebies

LDH wrote: »

Yesterday, i logged on to the Valued Opinions website to check a few things as i hadn't received any survey invitations for a couple of weeks where once a day was the norm. I contacted them via their email form and received a response today with a copied and pasted section (email was clearly in two halves) stating:



"Our database has blocked your account because you have failed one or more of our quality control checks.

This may include giving answers within a survey that contradicted each other, doing the surveys too quickly to have read them correctly, putting the same answer for each question without reading the questions, i.e. clicking question 1 each time, or failing to put a typed response to a question if required."



So they are telling me i have done something wrong but nothing more specific. I had nearly £20 in rewards waiting to be claimed which had accumulated since last year. I have tried to log on today in order to claim a voucher only to find my account has now been deleted (as a result of my email enquiry possibly) meaning i have answered surveys over many, many months, all for nothing. :mad:

Hi,

I've just read your message and feel extremely sorry for you as it can take a long time to built points for vouchers.

I suggest you call them (020 7921 2261) and find out exactly what's going on! It's not acceptable

I am still awaiting my voucher (after 3 weeks) and have never experience this problem on the many other survey websites I use; yougov, panelopinion, toluna, surveyfriends etc!

Art_Vandelay_2

Previously I had ranked Valued Opinions as easily one of the better survey sites (and I've tried a great many).

However, like others it seems, I have also been inundated with 'technical errors' lately. Twice in the last 4-5 days it has happened directly after finishing the survey and about to "submit" the finished answers. They have (so far at least) refused to reply to emails.

I find this to be something less than coincidence, and will be dumping them as soon as I get my next voucher.

shabbadoof13

LDH wrote: »

Yesterday, i logged on to the Valued Opinions website to check a few things as i hadn't received any survey invitations for a couple of weeks where once a day was the norm. I contacted them via their email form and received a response today with a copied and pasted section (email was clearly in two halves) stating:



"Our database has blocked your account because you have failed one or more of our quality control checks.

This may include giving answers within a survey that contradicted each other, doing the surveys too quickly to have read them correctly, putting the same answer for each question without reading the questions, i.e. clicking question 1 each time, or failing to put a typed response to a question if required."



So they are telling me i have done something wrong but nothing more specific. I had nearly £20 in rewards waiting to be claimed which had accumulated since last year. I have tried to log on today in order to claim a voucher only to find my account has now been deleted (as a result of my email enquiry possibly) meaning i have answered surveys over many, many months, all for nothing. :mad:

I had that very email from them months ago

i moaned about it and they reversed it

Bunny82

I have a 'Completed not rewarded' status on a survey from 15/5/12 and a 'Miscellaneous reward pending' on one from 8/5/12. Is it worth me emailing them?

I've also have a completed survey missing from the Pending Credits list. :mad:

ukclare

Bunny82 wrote: »

I have a 'Completed not rewarded' status on a survey from 15/5/12

I questioned one of these recently and got a lovely, personal email back explaining that it was a very quick, one or two questions which was not payable. It is a bit annoying that they even put this on the account as I had one outstanding from January that I queried recently.

Definitely worth sending an email on any other questions. You have done the work and should be paid what you are owed!