Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MollyR

You may be able to withdraw it using the app, for all I know - look under Wallet, if the app has that.

libra10

I don't see Wallet in the app; there is a section about mobile wallet transfers, but that seems to refer to transferring money to other countries.

MollyR

Google is useful 🙂

From https://www.paypal.com/uk/cshelp/article/how-do-i-withdraw-money-from-my-paypal-account-help394%3A

To withdraw money in the app:

1. Tap your PayPal balance.
2. Tap Transfer Money.
3. Tap Transfer to bank. 
4. Follow the instructions.

elsien

The problem with that is you can’t differentiate what you’re transferring -if just asks how much you want to transfer and that’s it. I always keep a running balance in the PayPal account and I can’t use the app to decide to just transfer the dollars, for example.

So I am another one who always uses the website and converts dollars to pounds instead.

libra10

I've just been looking at the website, and it's easy to see the balance in both £s and $s.

I only have a small balance in dollars, and it was easy to transfer this amount. It's already landed in my bank account.

Thanks for the information.

Slinky

Just done a difficult Video evaluation study. If you have no idea what the 'this is fine' meme is, I suggest you find out as it featured several times and I hadn't got a clue. I've looked it up and I'm still not that confident if I came across it again. Also there were a lot of what I assume must be clips for video games with very crude video that was hard to distinguish whether it fitted the prompt or not, also with the images being obscured by on-screen keys and direction arrows. I got paid but it was the most difficult I've done for a while.

kipsterno1

I just received a temporary 1 hour suspension. I have previously had two speed warning, one about six weeks ago and one about two weeks ago. In both cases I had found the survey very straightforward and didn't feel I had rushed either. Today I completed several on the bounce. One I was screened out of and my last one I finished in around eight minutes when the listed time was ten.

Just posting for the info of other users as I have seen comments about the speed warning posted but not about suspensions.

CliveOfIndia

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82115268#Comment_82115268

I've had this a lot recently - in every case, the suspension occurs immediately after being screened out of a survey. I've complained to Prolific about this 3 times, in each case they reply with generic cow-excrement that the suspension is only temporary and won't affect my account. This, despite me explicitly asking them to look at their algorithms to take account of screen-outs.

PocketWatchMan

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82115283#Comment_82115283

Seen this too. just very recently, I've been with Prolific a while and done many thousands of studies with them.

I have long given up expecting much from support, I am regularly hearing stories of 2-5 months+ wait for any response regarding various issues' support tickets.

The overall pattern is appearing across the board now in many institutions. Many places are implementing automated [and/or] AI systems and simply using them to abdicate any real sense of responsibility. Certainly the NHS I have seen personally, them give incorrect medical and dosage information related to serious heart & lung matters, and refuse to accept any kind of formal complaint on the grounds 'it was AI's fault not ours'.

silvercar

I’ve just been paid for a scheduled interview that was cancelled by the researcher 2 hours before the interview. I’d messaged the researcher and prolific that I’d planned my whole day around this interview, so expected to be paid. One or other listened.