yougov.finance bribe

CuriousGirl

sparkiemalarkie said:

I can't log into my yougov account as I'm not getting sent the verification code.

Any idea how to fix this please?

tia
sx

Same happened to me in January after receiving my first £50. No luck with emailing them as every time I was receiving a generic email about having lied about my details etc. ( what a lot of crap!). And apparently I was not alone, so many people had the same issue. What did help it was posting a negative review on Trustpilot, they came back almost immediately and started fixing the issue. Taken them over 2 month  , had to chase them and posted another bad review but eventually it was fixed by March and no problem since then ( touching wood). 

So if contacting them by email is not working I would recommend to use Trustpilot and express your dissatisfaction by posting a review. 

SAC2334

I have done three surveys from Office of  National Statistics which take 5 minutes to fill in for  ,I think it was £10 which they sent via a voucher to use in shops like Argos.
I ve just joined the YouGov survey, spent 20 mins answering questions and so far have only collected 150 points . I need 5000 points just to make £50 so its going to be a long drawn out affair .Looks like to speed it up and get out with £50 I will have to start adding my bank accounts I ve opened .

sparkiemalarkie

CuriousGirl said:

sparkiemalarkie said:

I can't log into my yougov account as I'm not getting sent the verification code.

Any idea how to fix this please?

tia
sx

Same happened to me in January after receiving my first £50. No luck with emailing them as every time I was receiving a generic email about having lied about my details etc. ( what a lot of crap!). And apparently I was not alone, so many people had the same issue. What did help it was posting a negative review on Trustpilot, they came back almost immediately and started fixing the issue. Taken them over 2 month  , had to chase them and posted another bad review but eventually it was fixed by March and no problem since then ( touching wood). 

So if contacting them by email is not working I would recommend to use Trustpilot and express your dissatisfaction by posting a review. 

Thanks...I contacted support and now I'm completely shut out with the message 'sorry somethings gone wrong'.
I'll give it a couple of days and then try your Trustpilot trick.

sx

Bazzalona13295

My 3rd lot of £50 was completed today, after 2 total faffs with Santander which took 2-3 days (really should have remembered 2nd time around), the Nationwide paid me within the hour.

Slight contrast!

wiseonesomeofthetime

Bazzalona13295 said:

My 3rd lot of £50 was completed today, after 2 total faffs with Santander which took 2-3 days (really should have remembered 2nd time around), the Nationwide paid me within the hour.

Slight contrast!

Yeah, I avoided Santander this time and landed very quickly in my Monzo account. Was pleasantly surprised tbh.

Edit: And, as if by magic, I get a survey

150 pts for answering questions on the Metaverse  🤔

Bazzalona13295

wiseonesomeofthetime said:

Bazzalona13295 said:

My 3rd lot of £50 was completed today, after 2 total faffs with Santander which took 2-3 days (really should have remembered 2nd time around), the Nationwide paid me within the hour.

Slight contrast!

Yeah, I avoided Santander this time and landed very quickly in my Monzo account. Was pleasantly surprised tbh.

Edit: And, as if by magic, I get a survey

150 pts for answering questions on the Metaverse  🤔

Think I had that one a few weeks ago. It all adds up 😀

MikeJXE

I had that a few weeks ago, I have been with Yougov a long time, surveys were few and far between and it would take 6 to 18 months to build up 5000 points for £50

Having checked my bank (Santander) I had received £50 in October 2022 then Yougov Finance was released so 

£50 May 26th and £50 August 2nd a mere 10 weeks

So looking at my account I am expecting another at the beginning of October so down to 9 weeks 

That should work out at £250 per year at least just by doing a few short surveys and keeping 10 banks active 

Bazzalona13295

MikeJXE said:

I had that a few weeks ago, I have been with Yougov a long time, surveys were few and far between and it would take 6 to 18 months to build up 5000 points for £50

Having checked my bank (Santander) I had received £50 in October 2022 then Yougov Finance was released so 

£50 May 26th and £50 August 2nd a mere 10 weeks

So looking at my account I am expecting another at the beginning of October so down to 9 weeks 

That should work out at £250 per year at least just by doing a few short surveys and keeping 10 banks active 

Yeah the surveys make a difference.

I have 8 current accounts and 2 savers so 4200pts every 3 months but I usually get 2 surveys a week so its a help, even those little 10pt add on bits at the end.

MikeJXE

tg99 said:

Finally getting round to looking at getting this set up. I’m going to set it up with 10x current accounts or credit card accounts rather than savings so as to get the max 5000 points per quarter but just wanted to check a few things:

- how ‘active’ does the account generally have to be to be deemed acceptable for points? Some of my current accounts / credit cards have 1 transaction per month - though with quite a long history - so wondering whether this will be sufficient? I can see their website refers to a minimum number of transactions but can’t see anything on how many.

- for current accounts that have not had any transactions for a while, anyone have a general idea of how long before they would be deemed active from the point where I started to do a few transactions? Website says accounts must be at least a month old hence if I did a few transactions over the course of the next month then tried to connect then should be successful (in theory!).

- presumably every three months when you reconnect then the accounts will be ‘tested’ for whether they are active or not / have had minimum number of transactions else would be rejected even if accepted the first time?

- is it best to connect accounts one by one every few days to try and help you work out which one was rejected as I don’t recall from reading previous posts on  this thread that Yougov tell which which ones are rejected?

Thx

In my set up I have 9 current accounts and 1 credit card

The only way to see if one is accepted or rejected is to do 1 at a time

No idea how active they should be but mine are 3 very active and all have a £5 standing order doing the rounds once a month

I have had 2 £50 since May from this setup and expect another at the end of the month

A reconnect can be available up to 13 days before it's due (so someone on here observed)

My accounts are very spread out over Yougov Finance and I have no idea if that makes a difference, also I do surveys on Yougov so that might have sone influence 

Bazzalona13295

MikeJXE said:

tg99 said:

Finally getting round to looking at getting this set up. I’m going to set it up with 10x current accounts or credit card accounts rather than savings so as to get the max 5000 points per quarter but just wanted to check a few things:

- how ‘active’ does the account generally have to be to be deemed acceptable for points? Some of my current accounts / credit cards have 1 transaction per month - though with quite a long history - so wondering whether this will be sufficient? I can see their website refers to a minimum number of transactions but can’t see anything on how many.

- for current accounts that have not had any transactions for a while, anyone have a general idea of how long before they would be deemed active from the point where I started to do a few transactions? Website says accounts must be at least a month old hence if I did a few transactions over the course of the next month then tried to connect then should be successful (in theory!).

- presumably every three months when you reconnect then the accounts will be ‘tested’ for whether they are active or not / have had minimum number of transactions else would be rejected even if accepted the first time?

- is it best to connect accounts one by one every few days to try and help you work out which one was rejected as I don’t recall from reading previous posts on  this thread that Yougov tell which which ones are rejected?

Thx

In my set up I have 9 current accounts and 1 credit card

The only way to see if one is accepted or rejected is to do 1 at a time

No idea how active they should be but mine are 3 very active and all have a £5 standing order doing the rounds once a month

I have had 2 £50 since May from this setup and expect another at the end of the month

A reconnect can be available up to 13 days before it's due (so someone on here observed)

My accounts are very spread out over Yougov Finance and I have no idea if that makes a difference, also I do surveys on Yougov so that might have sone influence 

Yes I have reconnected 13 days ahead of the due date. Whether that is common I don't know.