surveys bullcrap.

frugalpam

magentadreamer wrote: »

Not strictly a survey thing but another site I'm a member of is www.shopandscan.com. - run by TNS. Basically I scan the bar codes on all my shopping and once a week download the scans to them - sounds a hasle but takes me about 5 mins to download and I scan the stuff as I'm putting it in the cupboard. For your first scans downloaded they give you 10000 points which is the equivilant of a £10 voucher -loads to chose from. Then every week they give you 1000 for downloading your scans. At Xmas they did either double or treble points for 3 weeks plus they send out the odd survey -and no you don't get cut out half way throw lol I've been doing it since October and now have £60 of vouchers

It is by invite only - I got an email via I think testandvote but two of my mates just emailed them and asked to join might be worth a go if anyone is interested.

Looks good - I've emailed them to see if they'll let me join. I don't know anyone who's a member to invite me

Pam

magentadreamer

Hope it works for you Pam, unfortunately the invites come from shopandscan.com themselves otherwise I'd have happily sent you an invite!

cazbarfeatures

emmaroids wrote: »

ok i signed up for lots of paid surveys blah blah,

but when i come to do one i get about half way through and it says `sorry you dont meet the criteria for completing this survey`.

this is bull pants, it gets most of my info and then cuts me off without paying.

im not doing anymore cos its just a big time waster.

anyone else had this problem?

The message sounds like Ciao ... am I right? They are hopeless. However, I would agree with someone else on here that YouGov don't do that ever. Also, Globaltestmarket.com give you points whether or not you qualify.

surveypolice.com will give you the best and worst of the survey sites.

I keep plugging this lot because I'm having the worst time with Ipoints at the moment and I want to get my own back on them for not rewarding and not answering my emails.

rls1973

magentadreamer wrote: »

Not strictly a survey thing but another site I'm a member of is https://www.shopandscan.com. - run by TNS. Basically I scan the bar codes on all my shopping and once a week download the scans to them - sounds a hasle but takes me about 5 mins to download and I scan the stuff as I'm putting it in the cupboard. For your first scans downloaded they give you 10000 points which is the equivilant of a £10 voucher -loads to chose from. Then every week they give you 1000 for downloading your scans. At Xmas they did either double or treble points for 3 weeks plus they send out the odd survey -and no you don't get cut out half way throw lol I've been doing it since October and now have £60 of vouchers

It is by invite only - I got an email via I think testandvote but two of my mates just emailed them and asked to join might be worth a go if anyone is interested.

that sounds great, where are the vouchers for?

magentadreamer

rls1973 wrote: »

that sounds great, where are the vouchers for?

Argos,Dixons,Debs,Next,Virgin,Homebase,Arcadia Group,Kingfisher group,WHSmiths, House of Fraser,JJB sports plus aload of others.

frugalpam

magentadreamer wrote: »

Hope it works for you Pam, unfortunately the invites come from shopandscan.com themselves otherwise I'd have happily sent you an invite!

Thanks! I had a reply back from them and they invited me to complete an application form, which I've done. They've said they'll e-mail me when they have vacancies - fingers crossed!

thanks again for the tip off,

Pam

kathfisch

Just thinking about not being paid after completing screening questions... has anyone tried pureprofile? I've found them to be good and you ususally get something like 20p for answering the screening questions but not qualifying or £1.50 if you qualify and complete the survey. And if you click a link in an email invite only to be told the survey's full, you get 10p for making the effort You can also get credit for answering questions every now and again and searching for products or services (a bit like kelkoo or similar). You can only redeem when you get to £25 but it is as a bank credit, not vouchers, so I'm working my way there!

Hope thats helpful to someone

cazbarfeatures

kathfisch wrote: »

Just thinking about not being paid after completing screening questions... has anyone tried pureprofile? I've found them to be good and you ususally get something like 20p for answering the screening questions but not qualifying or £1.50 if you qualify and complete the survey. And if you click a link in an email invite only to be told the survey's full, you get 10p for making the effort You can also get credit for answering questions every now and again and searching for products or services (a bit like kelkoo or similar). You can only redeem when you get to £25 but it is as a bank credit, not vouchers, so I'm working my way there!

Hope thats helpful to someone

I would just be a little wary of Pureprofile ... I got quite excited about the money building up quite quickly and how much they were paying each time but it took several reports to the Surveypolice and daily emails for 1 1/2 months to Pureprofile before they paid up.

Other people have experienced the same problem.

It took over 3 months in total to get paid but I'm not sure if that's because they got fed up with me or because they were genuine after all.

Caz