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Thank you all, really, I feel so much better now. I honestly felt none of these researchers cared what older people think, but maybe I'm not doing quite so badly as I thought. This is most encouraging.
OP, I have found you can find and miss a survey in the space of seconds: Yesterday, there was one (for £5?) with only 4 places which would not work with Chrome. I had not time even to wonder how to change browser before all the spaces were filled.
On the plus side, for only the second time, I managed to get the last place on a study last night, about 10pm... of course, that one was only 50p. I do seem to get the piddling small change ones.
The only time I have received an email notification was 4.05am... not a lot of use, really, is it?0 -
katykicker wrote: »Don't bother refreshing the site frequently... Instead you want to use a browser add on. For Google Chrome you can get 'VisualPing (previously Page Monitor)' which will check the page for you and then alert you when there is a change.
Yep, I sometimes use Check4Change for Firefox.
(Not when I'm screensharing though as that could prompt awkward questions....)0 -
I have now tried VisualPing and, just for a change, must have done something wrong as it tells me I am already out of free notifications... oh well, back to the old-fashioned way of doing it myself.0
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Thank you all, really, I feel so much better now. I honestly felt none of these researchers cared what older people think, but maybe I'm not doing quite so badly as I thought. This is most encouraging.
OP, I have found you can find and miss a survey in the space of seconds: Yesterday, there was one (for £5?) with only 4 places which would not work with Chrome. I had not time even to wonder how to change browser before all the spaces were filled.
On the plus side, for only the second time, I managed to get the last place on a study last night, about 10pm... of course, that one was only 50p. I do seem to get the piddling small change ones.
The only time I have received an email notification was 4.05am... not a lot of use, really, is it?
Obviously most aren't £5, but lots of little ones add up. And 4.05 am was probably a from a non-UK market!
But don't fear, if you're seeing occasional ones, you see what we all do. Emails are very infrequent0 -
I think I've fixed it. One shall see. Thank you all so much, again.0
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