Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

mikep22

Makingabobor2 said:

mikep22 said:

Makingabobor2 said:

navidson said:

Been deleted today after being an active participant for almost a decade

No reason given and no chance of being reinstated

Great customer service 

Surely they can't do that without giving you good reason. Have you raised a complaint?

they can do whatever they want and no they don't need a reason for it. Swagbucks suggest you don't leave your cash in survey sites for just such an eventuality. 

No, I cash mine out soon as it reaches the right level

me too, it was just a general comment rather then thinking you had. But sadly these websites are quite unregulated and are pretty much a law unto themselves when it comes to things like this.

onemouseplace

I had the same issue with Valued Opinions years ago - my account was flagged and closed, conveniently about 10p from cashout.  No actual tangible reason given.

Slinky

Anybody struggling to get this one to work? Can't get it to start in Chrome (they specified this), tried in Firefox and am getting audio but no visual. Have contacted the researcher with no response. It was showing all 200 spots taken, but there seems to be more becoming available, think others may be struggling and returning.

Describing the emotional feelings of 8 short video clips

By Oscar Kjell

£3.00 • £12.51/hr

14 mins

26 places

Makingabobor2

Slinky said:

Anybody struggling to get this one to work? Can't get it to start in Chrome (they specified this), tried in Firefox and am getting audio but no visual. Have contacted the researcher with no response. It was showing all 200 spots taken, but there seems to be more becoming available, think others may be struggling and returning.

Describing the emotional feelings of 8 short video clips

By Oscar Kjell

£3.00 • £12.51/hr

14 mins

26 places

I had this one. Video wouldn't work for me. I returned it, but then got a message saying I must return it as hadn't completed it. I messaged back to say I have already returned it. 

silvercar

Slinky said:

Anybody struggling to get this one to work? Can't get it to start in Chrome (they specified this), tried in Firefox and am getting audio but no visual. Have contacted the researcher with no response. It was showing all 200 spots taken, but there seems to be more becoming available, think others may be struggling and returning.

Describing the emotional feelings of 8 short video clips

By Oscar Kjell

£3.00 • £12.51/hr

14 mins

26 places

Yes. Using Chrome on a laptop and couldn't see where the videos were. messaged researcher but no response, so I returned it.

Makingabobor2

Seems to be a day of having to return big paying ones today. Had to 3 totalling over £11 and none of them would work so had to return. Very frustrating

DiamondLil

I'm getting a tad fed up with studies that don't work and then being messaged by researcher asking me to return it. I'm currently ignoring two messages from same researcher asking me to return a study that suddenly ended after I'd completed a couple of pages.

Tommo2448

Saliency of mind and Legal decision-making

By ucl.ac.uk
£9.00 • £9.00/hr
60 mins
23 places

After consenting, you will firstly be presented with details of a legal (mock) case, followed by a face perceptual task, along with a few scales and questions to complete, and finally then some questions asking for some of your demographic information. You will then be thanked for your contribution through payment of £9 per hour for your time. The total time you will spend in a session will be no more than 2 hours.

I tried to sign up for this, but the consent form asked for my name and signature.  It was also not 100% clear whether they would want to record video or audio.   So I returned it, and messaged researcher saying why. 

PS 1517 1/9/23 - to be fair, the researcher messaged back quickly to say they were "using a free trial, so will have to upgrade", and then again shortly afterwards to say it was now working.  However, I had gone out for a walk and by the time I got back to it, it was off my dashboard.    No matter, hopefully other folks got into it once it was resolved !

MollyR

I had a study an hour or so ago (on concentration in the elderly) which asked for name and signature;  I just put my initials in both boxes and it seemed perfectly happy with that.  Paid out instantly on completion.

Tommo2448

MollyR said:

I had a study an hour or so ago (on concentration in the elderly) which asked for name and signature;  I just put my initials in both boxes and it seemed perfectly happy with that.  Paid out instantly on completion.

Ah right, never thought of that - a useful tip for the future, thanks   I have edited my earlier post above with an explanation from the researcher, hopefully now resolved for others.