Houshold Insight Survey - get the chocolates!

Soldeed

I guess I'm not the only person to get the latest Household Insight Survey through the door today. It's basically a massive questionnaire of personal questions, including your houshold income, number of bank accounts, cards, credit problems, children's date of birth, etc. What's really unbelieavable though is that you're expected to leave the completed form in a bag outside the front door for them to collect in the morning!

In a time when we're all supposed to be carefully guarding our personal details, it seems at best reckless to encourage people to put as much personal info as they can muster and leave it lying out in the street for all to see. And what do you get in return for leaving yourself open to massive fraud - a small box of Thornton's chocolates.

So here's my suggestion of how to get free chocolates and screw them over for their irresponsible scheme - fill in entirely fake details on the form. Call yourself Bugs Bunny with 35 children and a massive debt problem. The guys collecting the forms and replacing them with the chocolates (a sort of evil tooth fairy) aren't going to give a damn what's written on them, so I say take the chocolates and run!

Searcher

I've got a better idea ... just dump the damn thing straight in the bin. It seems to me to be a lot of work for very little reward and all said and done its only a marketing survey anyway

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi guys

Maybe I'm really sneaky, but I would put the uncompleted questionaire in a sealed envelope inside the bag, that way you get the choccies and they get...nothing! This is what I do at work when I get forced into filling in "optional" questionaires, they're optional but it's a bad show according to our boss if they are not completed. So I just put them, uncompleted, into a sealed envelope and return them. LOL

That'll teach 'em!

CTFG
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Voyager2002

Is this the survey from Experian? It is a lot of work for a few chocolates, BUT if you read the instructions very carefully, you find that you don't even get them -- you are entered into a draw, and only the lucky winner gets any chocolates!