Millie's Comping Diary

mh1923

Saturday Nov 23

Comping: Caught up on the November due date competitions in my bookmarks, as well as most of the dailies. Considering dipping into the Regular subforum

Surveys: One from YouGov and one from OnePoll

Wins: Still hopeful!

Hopeinhell

Hi Millie. Sorry to hear about your illness, these 'silent' long-term illnesses are soul destroying. 12 years ago I was told I had MS, only this year my new neurologist arranged a new MRI scan for me and found I had had encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) which has left me disabled and it was not MS at all! Looking on the bright side I should not get much worse.
Comping gives me an interest and the odd little prize.:)

mh1923

I hear you, Hope. Comping is, for me, something relaxing I can do in bed that doesn't require much concentration.

Sunday Nov 24

Comping: Most of the dailies, and continued plugging away at the December due dates. Still haven't dared to peek at the Regular subforum yet.

Surveys: Got ruled out from 3 or 4 from Crowdology, and did one from OnePoll that actally earned me £2. Score! :rotfl:

mh1923

Monday Nov 25

Comping: Keeping up with the Mag dailies and the forum posts, but didn't make as much of a dent in the bookmarked comps due to a long afternoon na.

Surveys: One OnePoll survey. Signed up with Toluna, but am having trouble with their site. Might be too much trouble to bother.

cagsd

mh1923 wrote: »

Signed up with Toluna, but am having trouble with their site. Might be too much trouble to bother.

Slightly off the topic of comping - I have been signed up to Toluna for about 2 years but have recently deleted my account for several reasons,
1. They send about 15 invitations a day, of which at least 10-12 of them you spend 5 minutes answering initial questions before you get cut off and told you don't qualify - grrr!
2. It took me over a year to amass enough points to get a £15 Amazon voucher!
3. I took a break from them for a month or two, came back and found they'd "expired" 40,000 of my points (80,000 would have been needed for another Amazon voucher as above!)
so I decided to quit.


I am currently sticking with Valued Opinions, MySurvey, Panelbase and Ipsos - enough to be going on with, especially with advents coming up here - eek!

LadyMorticia

cagsd wrote: »

Slightly off the topic of comping - I have been signed up to Toluna for about 2 years but have recently deleted my account for several reasons,
1. They send about 15 invitations a day, of which at least 10-12 of them you spend 5 minutes answering initial questions before you get cut off and told you don't qualify - grrr!
2. It took me over a year to amass enough points to get a £15 Amazon voucher!
3. I took a break from them for a month or two, came back and found they'd "expired" 40,000 of my points (80,000 would have been needed for another Amazon voucher as above!)
so I decided to quit.


I am currently sticking with Valued Opinions, MySurvey, Panelbase and Ipsos - enough to be going on with, especially with advents coming up here - eek!

Grr. That would explain why alot of my points have gone missing! :mad:

cagsd

LadyMorticia wrote: »

Grr. That would explain why alot of my points have gone missing! :mad:

I know! Couldn't believe it - I had almost enough saved up for a second Amazon voucher, done a few surveys when I came back after my break, checked my points and lo and behold they'd been expired for non-use!! The cheek of it! That was the final straw for me, and why I decided not to use the site any more.

mh1923

Wow, that sounds dreadful. I think I'll cancel my account, since I can't the profile to work anyway.

Just did an Ipsos survey that was actually not boring. Who'd have known?

mh1923

Tuesday Nov 26

Comping: I entered most of the mag dailies, a few from my due date bookmark folders, and I peered into the Advents thread to sort through the Web Entry listings. About 2/3 of the comps were eliminated after I looked through to see the sorts of things being offered, and the others have been moved into the Advent bookmark folder.

Surveys: Deleted my Toluna account, did one survey from Ipsos and another from One Poll.

handmadetsunami1

Toluna closed my account down as I "wasn't spending enough time filling in each survey" which was a load of rubbish, I just happen to use tab and the arrow keys instead of the mouse as its faster and I can read fast. I did manage to get £75 Amazon vouchers out of my time with them but had to fight to get the last 2 vouchers as they shut my account before I managed to get the codes out.