Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MollyR

I am with Plusnet, and was on dynamic IP addresses.  At one point Prolific told me that I was in France and therefore was not allowed to take its studies.  I contacted Plusnet, explained that I was being allocated IP addresses based in France, paid a one-off charge of £5 for a fixed IP address and insisted that it should be one based in the UK, which they happily complied with.  I have had no problems with Prolific (or other survey companies which don't like people logging in from abroad) since then.

elsien

BarryT said:

I've read that Prolific only regards certain ISPs as providing the required level of security for its surveys and rejects the others. I'm thinking of joining Prolific and as I'm coming to the end of my broadband contract with The Post Office thought I'd try to find out which ISPs it accepts. Apparently Prolific do not provide a list of these. At the moment I'm looking at Plusnet, John Lewis, Vodafone, TalkTalk.  Who are you guys with or any info on this?
Thanks

I’m with John Lewis, previously Plusnet, no issues with prolific accepting my surveys with either. 

olliebean

No problems here with Virgin Media, nor with Plusnet before them.

ndf9876

olliebean said:

I just got a £3 bonus for a study that I returned, which I'm guessing must have been a mistake, but I'm not complaining!

Wasn't "Decisions Between Lotteries" by any chance? I completed that one, it was painful to say the least....

olliebean

ndf9876 said:

olliebean said:

I just got a £3 bonus for a study that I returned, which I'm guessing must have been a mistake, but I'm not complaining!

Wasn't "Decisions Between Lotteries" by any chance? I completed that one, it was painful to say the least....

No, I completed that one too - it was very tedious, but less than half an hour long so not too painful. This was one called "HomeCooking" which was worth £8 but after clicking I realised it was 90 minutes long and I wasn't up for that at the time, so I returned it.

BarryT

MollyR, elsien and olliebean,
Thanks so much for your advice, I've joined Plusnet.
Without your advice I'd have had to take a punt with fingers crossed. 

ndf9876

olliebean said:

ndf9876 said:

olliebean said:

I just got a £3 bonus for a study that I returned, which I'm guessing must have been a mistake, but I'm not complaining!

Wasn't "Decisions Between Lotteries" by any chance? I completed that one, it was painful to say the least....

No, I completed that one too - it was very tedious, but less than half an hour long so not too painful. This was one called "HomeCooking" which was worth £8 but after clicking I realised it was 90 minutes long and I wasn't up for that at the time, so I returned it.

Fair enough - just wondering, as I also received a bonus (same amount) but not for that cooking study (which I didn't take!).

MollyR

BarryT said:

MollyR, elsien and olliebean,
Thanks so much for your advice, I've joined Plusnet.
Without your advice I'd have had to take a punt with fingers crossed.

Darn, I wish I'd offered you a referral code!

yupiteru

BarryT said:

I've read that Prolific only regards certain ISPs as providing the required level of security for its surveys and rejects the others. I'm thinking of joining Prolific and as I'm coming to the end of my broadband contract with The Post Office thought I'd try to find out which ISPs it accepts. Apparently Prolific do not provide a list of these. At the moment I'm looking at Plusnet, John Lewis, Vodafone, TalkTalk.  Who are you guys with or any info on this?
Thanks

I am with EE and regularly get my IP address rejected (happened this morning again).  I turn the router on and off and it gives me a new IP address which works for a few weeks and then I get it again.

Mildly annoying considering EE is owned by BT and is one of the biggest Telecommunications companies in the world now!

I have never 'lost' a study because of it mind you but is all a bit frantic for a few minutes waiting for the reset.

MollyR

That can be the problem with dynamic IP addresses - some of them are actually based in different countries (outsourced, I suppose) and of course some of them get contaminated by scammers and are on various blacklists.  This is why I decided to pay a one-off charge of a fiver to Plusnet to get a static IP address which is clean of scammers and based in this country.  Whether mobile phone companies offer that kind of service I don't know, but you might want to ask them.