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k8e_2

T h a n k Y o u f o r S i g n i n g U p !
Thank you! You are now on your way to becoming a PineCone Research Panellist!

If you qualify, you will receive an email in a few days which will include your own unique Household ID number and password. Then you are ready for your first survey!

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Thanks for the info! I've been looking for that for a while! Hopefully I will be accepted and they don't just accept the first so many people who sign up from that particular link

thomas0735

This is a good survey company. I had to do an online focus, which was fun in itself, and I got paid £40 which took about a month to arrive by cheque once I requested it. You need to have £20 to make a withdrawel though. Global Test Market is good, I've had cheques from them. You Gov, I'm also at the £50 to get my first cheque from them. Valued Opinions, I've had a £10 Tesco voucher from them and I'm nearly there again. Juicy Brain, I've had Amazon vouncers from them and also from Toluna, and Lightspeed.

Rachel

patchwork_cat

I have been with pinecone for years and would receive regular paid surveys with only 1 or 2 houshold questions evrey year.

I have had 8 requests for household surveys in the last couple of months with only 2 paid surveys since april. It is getting so that I have a household question survey every couple of weeks, but non paid. I feel that they are using these questions as a cheap way of market research as they are much more in depth than they used to be.

In fact I have just logged in to find 2 household questions waiting. These are much more in depth than previous and if they are genuinely trying to filter to find people that use the products they are going to pick biased panellists. I would not be joining these people at the moment as I think they are starting to take the pi**.

Anyone else found this.

I am considering giving up as each questions survey takes about 10 minutes and with 4 of these plus an in depth for £4 that is not fair pay for my time.

Jvic28

I have just received my 1st payment from Pinecone in the form of Luncheon Vouchers. I can see they can be spent at Asda. Do I just use them as regular vouchers at the checkout or do I need to buy particular items to qualify for the voucher?

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Tiggerlilly

Jvic28 wrote: »

I have just received my 1st payment from Pinecone in the form of Luncheon Vouchers. I can see they can be spent at Asda. Do I just use them as regular vouchers at the checkout or do I need to buy particular items to qualify for the voucher?

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I used some in Sainsbury's a few months ago and I basically had normal grocery items in my basket, they scanned each voucher through the normal barcode reader, it did take a while as they come in such small amounts and I Used £11.00 worth. Initially they did not scan, but I insisted they try again and eventually worked, if they give you any problems, simply insist they call a manager as Asda and all those listed on website and booklet do accept these as valid payment. Enjoy your shopping.

financialfreak

Has anyone else found Valued Opinions to be really quiet lately? I've had almost nothing from them in over 2 months.

cookinmummy

financialfreak wrote: »

Has anyone else found Valued Opinions to be really quiet lately? I've had almost nothing from them in over 2 months.

sorry to say but no - I'm still getting at least a couple a week.:o

smellslikemarmite

Home of Research are quite good and generous, and I like GTM but the other day I had to watch a video only to be told when I revealed my age that I wasn't eligible!
OnePoll are easy little surveys especially if you're decisive and a quick reader.
Nothing from itsyourview yet, pureprofile and panelbase have been a bit pants as well.
Oh well, persevere I must!

xenadog

Hi
I am considering signing up to these companies (if they will have me), can you tell me, do you receive loads of junk mail, phone calls etc since you signed up with any of them?
thanks

financialfreak

Hi xenadog

I'm signed up with Toluna, Lightspeed, Valued Opinions, Global Test Market and IPSOS and I haven't received an increase in junk mail or telephne calls (I do have TPS though - but nothing barring junk mail)