Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Slinky

Just read the Prolific website and they say sometimes intant cashout doesn't go through and if so it'll be added to their next run, so will have to hope that it turns up on Tuesday.

I didn't put my password in on that scam thing so I'm fairly confident that's got nothing to do with it.

cobblers_boy

I cashed out Tuesday and it is normally instant. This time though it didn't appear in PayPal until this afternoon 

Martico

If I was in charge of Prolific cash outs, I'd probably put those who were caught up in the phishing thing onto manual payments for a bit, to check that the PayPal email address has reverted to the original one. 

silvercar

My phone has given me a phishing warning for prolific, even though I didn’t do the survey in question.

Sapindus

elsien said:

I was just screened out of a survey for not having the required experience over the last six months. Which I can’t help but think they could’ve sorted with some pre-screening questions. 

They have sent me a 1p bonus to make up for it, my cup overfloweth. 

That's this one I believe:

A study about your work behaviors

By Liang Meng

£0.30 • £6.00/hr

3 mins

1 place

We are studying employee work attitudes and behaviors. We cordially ask you to share some of your opinions and work experiences.

This is the first of a two-part survey. This survey may take up to 5 minutes to complete. If you complete this survey, you will be invited to participate in a second survey in about one week. We will pay more for the second survey to ensure good data quality.

 

So, if they wanted to screen for this particular experience, they should have explained it was a screening study for 10p (which is what they offered me to return it).  Cross!  I did report it but still haven't had my 10p, of course in theory they have 21 days but even then it won't be paid automatically as I returned the study so they will need to pay via a bonus.  Is it worth reporting it again for the sake of 10p...

whosthatrubi

Sapindus said:

elsien said:

I was just screened out of a survey for not having the required experience over the last six months. Which I can’t help but think they could’ve sorted with some pre-screening questions. 

They have sent me a 1p bonus to make up for it, my cup overfloweth. 

That's this one I believe:

A study about your work behaviors

By Liang Meng

£0.30 • £6.00/hr

3 mins

1 place

We are studying employee work attitudes and behaviors. We cordially ask you to share some of your opinions and work experiences.

This is the first of a two-part survey. This survey may take up to 5 minutes to complete. If you complete this survey, you will be invited to participate in a second survey in about one week. We will pay more for the second survey to ensure good data quality.

 

So, if they wanted to screen for this particular experience, they should have explained it was a screening study for 10p (which is what they offered me to return it).  Cross!  I did report it but still haven't had my 10p, of course in theory they have 21 days but even then it won't be paid automatically as I returned the study so they will need to pay via a bonus.  Is it worth reporting it again for the sake of 10p...

I did this study on the 31st, don't remember having any issues with it (can't even remember what the study asked) but it's still under review.

theonlywayisup

Sapindus said:

elsien said:

I was just screened out of a survey for not having the required experience over the last six months. Which I can’t help but think they could’ve sorted with some pre-screening questions. 

They have sent me a 1p bonus to make up for it, my cup overfloweth. 

That's this one I believe:

A study about your work behaviors

By Liang Meng

£0.30 • £6.00/hr

3 mins

1 place

We are studying employee work attitudes and behaviors. We cordially ask you to share some of your opinions and work experiences.

This is the first of a two-part survey. This survey may take up to 5 minutes to complete. If you complete this survey, you will be invited to participate in a second survey in about one week. We will pay more for the second survey to ensure good data quality.

 

So, if they wanted to screen for this particular experience, they should have explained it was a screening study for 10p (which is what they offered me to return it).  Cross!  I did report it but still haven't had my 10p, of course in theory they have 21 days but even then it won't be paid automatically as I returned the study so they will need to pay via a bonus.  Is it worth reporting it again for the sake of 10p...

Yes I had that too.  Got to the end and was told I was the wrong demographic.  Nothing been paid but told I could return it for 1p (perhaps it could have been 10p?).  I reported it too.



I have messaged the researching telling them this is against the rules and that it has been reported.   May be worth doing the same, if only to stop them keep doing this sort of survey.

I suspect we all fitted the demographic but they wanted to pay 10p rather than 30p

cloudylemonade13

Watch out for Randy Lee. Suspect this is the same person that used to change names a lot. The usual repetitive questions, offers 21p for 2 minutes which turns into at least 20 minutes. Keep reporting her/him. 

elsien

Yes I’ve just made the mistake of doing one of those of us out longer than three minutes before I gave up. reported it.

theonlywayisup

Sapindus said:

elsien said:

I was just screened out of a survey for not having the required experience over the last six months. Which I can’t help but think they could’ve sorted with some pre-screening questions. 

They have sent me a 1p bonus to make up for it, my cup overfloweth. 

That's this one I believe:

A study about your work behaviors

By Liang Meng

£0.30 • £6.00/hr

3 mins

1 place

We are studying employee work attitudes and behaviors. We cordially ask you to share some of your opinions and work experiences.

This is the first of a two-part survey. This survey may take up to 5 minutes to complete. If you complete this survey, you will be invited to participate in a second survey in about one week. We will pay more for the second survey to ensure good data quality.

 

So, if they wanted to screen for this particular experience, they should have explained it was a screening study for 10p (which is what they offered me to return it).  Cross!  I did report it but still haven't had my 10p, of course in theory they have 21 days but even then it won't be paid automatically as I returned the study so they will need to pay via a bonus.  Is it worth reporting it again for the sake of 10p...

I had a response from the researcher who said that the normal prolific study set up didn't fit his criteria and that no one had to return the study and they would still have been paid.  I explained that the wording didn't suggest that.

He paid me.  It isn't the 30p but the fact he is doing this and getting free research.