Valued opinions a waste of time/scam?

LisaB85

I joined valued opinions a few weeks ago and have had a number of surveys sent to me, most of which have had me answer 10-15 questions then tell me they have reached the quota for my age group etc and end the survey meaning I waste my time answering the questions for nothing!

Fishingtime

You will find with a lot of these opinion surveys,that half way through,you either do not qualify or the quota has been reached

vyle

I find that if you get to them first thing in the morning and spot what they're going to ask you about and answer positively you get through a lot better.

I find opinionworld and vivatic seem to have the highest complete ratio for me. Valued opinions are good, though, I've got about £20 waiting to claim, and another £4 spare. Yes, they're slow to credit the actual survey points, but in the time it takes me to do £30 worth on valued opinions (about 2 months) I am STILL waiting for £15 from toluna -- and it took me a year to accrue that much, despite them spamming with loads of surveys.

Toluna suck
Opinion world and vivatic are great
Valued opinions is good
lightspeed has gone to hell.

I_luv_cats

You Gov and Harris poll at least don't screen you out.

My Survey is getting very tight and screens you out along the line. Loads of 5 points or so are such paltry amounts rewarded these days

Fridaycat

I find Valued Opinions to be very good! I do get screened out of some, but it is usually towards the start. Along with Global Test Market, I find them to be the most reliable survey site. Harris Poll and Justtheanswer are quite good, but send through so few that it takes ages to build up points.

But don't get me started on Toluna - grrrr! The issue I have with them is not being screened out (though this happens a lot), but spending time doing their surveys and then "technical faults" happening on the last page which means I don't get any points at all! This has happened 4 times in the last week - I am waiting to reach my 80,000 level and will then cash out and leave I think.

LisaB85

Thing is they say the survey will take 15 min but the screening questions take 10 minutes :mad: so surely a small token for simply getting that far should be paid, even 25p or something.

vyle

I usually see that as a challenge -- if it says the survey will take you 20 mins (well the EMAIL says that, the survey says 30, or 15 or whatever) I see it as a challenge. I can usually blitz through a 20 min one in about 5 to 10 mins.

zzzLazyDaisy

I used to do Valued Opinions but after my first payment I found that I was unable to complete any more surveys as I was screened out after answering most of the questions so I stopped doing it.

fluffnutter

I find the same with Valued Opinions. OnePoll's slightly better - smaller amounts but you do get lots of surveys and, if you're ineligible, you get screened out very quickly. For comparison, I joined at the same time (not long ago) and I've got over a fiver with OnePolll but only a quid with Valued Opinions (and I think that was for answering the first survey to find out a bit about you!).

rondetto_2

I've been with them for over a year and have just tried to get my rewards.
Now there's no way I can log in to them. Great!!! All those hours spent doing surveys gone down the drain. What a scam.

Azari

Any reputable company will ask the screening question before any others.

Otherwise if they have an 80 question survey they can say it's a hundred and bounce you after you've answered 80 questions.

Voila! Survey complete and they've avoided paying for it.