yougov.finance bribe

masonic

I'm not going mad... see this post for what it used to look like: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79934439/#Comment_79934439
(it took us a while to figure out that "rewards" were the points added for consenting a new account, not the £50 payouts)

Middle_of_the_Road

masonic said:

I'm not going mad... see this post for what it used to look like: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79934439/#Comment_79934439
(it took us a while to figure out that "rewards" were the points added for consenting a new account, not the £50 payouts)

Been reading onwards from the link you posted, and all the confusion about the rewards. Think I remember seeing
"You have 1 reward left to claim" message at some point, could have been after I deleted one of the accounts, so that makes sense now.

VXman

Thought I'd inform of a problem we had with the you gov £50. Both my wife and me registered and linked enough accounts. This was the 2nd time round for me. I got my £50. My wife got enough points and exchanged them with no problems but the £50 never came. She contacted yougov several times but no response. She eventually got a response via twitter I think. Shortly after she recieved an email saying her account had been shut down and she lost all her hard worked for points. Apparently due to the fact we both lived at the same address! 

Eventually she got to speak to someone on the phone and they agreed to reinstate the account and points but the advisor told her not to request the money to be paid into our joint account.

Apparently this was the problem, I had used our joint account for points and when she entered the same account details for the payment of her £50 they decided we were the same person!

Might be useful info for someone.

pecunianonolet

VXman said:

Thought I'd inform of a problem we had with the you gov £50. Both my wife and me registered and linked enough accounts. This was the 2nd time round for me. I got my £50. My wife got enough points and exchanged them with no problems but the £50 never came. She contacted yougov several times but no response. She eventually got a response via twitter I think. Shortly after she recieved an email saying her account had been shut down and she lost all her hard worked for points. Apparently due to the fact we both lived at the same address! 

Eventually she got to speak to someone on the phone and they agreed to reinstate the account and points but the advisor told her not to request the money to be paid into our joint account.

Apparently this was the problem, I had used our joint account for points and when she entered the same account details for the payment of her £50 they decided we were the same person!

Might be useful info for someone.

Looks like it was detected by their systems as multi account. Thanks for sharing the experience, might be very useful to some, especially with their CS being so difficult to reach.

OH requested payout on Tuesday and it still hasn't been paid. Put down the same address to our accounts but different individual bank accounts. Never had problems in the past. I requested payout on Friday, so let's see if my payment arrives.

Bazzalona13295

pecunianonolet said:

VXman said:

Thought I'd inform of a problem we had with the you gov £50. Both my wife and me registered and linked enough accounts. This was the 2nd time round for me. I got my £50. My wife got enough points and exchanged them with no problems but the £50 never came. She contacted yougov several times but no response. She eventually got a response via twitter I think. Shortly after she recieved an email saying her account had been shut down and she lost all her hard worked for points. Apparently due to the fact we both lived at the same address! 

Eventually she got to speak to someone on the phone and they agreed to reinstate the account and points but the advisor told her not to request the money to be paid into our joint account.

Apparently this was the problem, I had used our joint account for points and when she entered the same account details for the payment of her £50 they decided we were the same person!

Might be useful info for someone.

Looks like it was detected by their systems as multi account. Thanks for sharing the experience, might be very useful to some, especially with their CS being so difficult to reach.

OH requested payout on Tuesday and it still hasn't been paid. Put down the same address to our accounts but different individual bank accounts. Never had problems in the past. I requested payout on Friday, so let's see if my payment arrives.

Which bank were you paying the money into? I used to have problems with Santander so steer clear of them now.

pecunianonolet

Bazzalona13295 said:

pecunianonolet said:

VXman said:

Thought I'd inform of a problem we had with the you gov £50. Both my wife and me registered and linked enough accounts. This was the 2nd time round for me. I got my £50. My wife got enough points and exchanged them with no problems but the £50 never came. She contacted yougov several times but no response. She eventually got a response via twitter I think. Shortly after she recieved an email saying her account had been shut down and she lost all her hard worked for points. Apparently due to the fact we both lived at the same address! 

Eventually she got to speak to someone on the phone and they agreed to reinstate the account and points but the advisor told her not to request the money to be paid into our joint account.

Apparently this was the problem, I had used our joint account for points and when she entered the same account details for the payment of her £50 they decided we were the same person!

Might be useful info for someone.

Looks like it was detected by their systems as multi account. Thanks for sharing the experience, might be very useful to some, especially with their CS being so difficult to reach.

OH requested payout on Tuesday and it still hasn't been paid. Put down the same address to our accounts but different individual bank accounts. Never had problems in the past. I requested payout on Friday, so let's see if my payment arrives.

Which bank were you paying the money into? I used to have problems with Santander so steer clear of them now.

We both use Lloyds to receive the funds

Bazzalona13295

There are some strange happenings with Yougov Finance, reconsented all my due accounts, got my £50, lovely.

10 days later another account is due which is correct so go to reconsent that but it then says 2 more require reconsenting - but they don't. I did those 2 weeks ago and got the points. Anyway I do as I'm told and try to reconsent, won't go through.

No because they've already been done! This happened a few weeks ago too, renewed an account, reverted to 91 days access etc etc, got my points.

2 weeks later it comes up requiring reconsenting again.
Very odd.

PloughmansLunch

After the first three months it went wonky and only gave me half the points I was expecting, so I binned all my accounts then re-added which seemed to work. This time round (Saturday just gone) I reconsented all 10 with 14 days left, and got my 5000 points today.

I think I know the answer to this, but if I have already exceeded this year's £1000 trading allowance from freelance/selling tat on ebay etc, these Yougov £50s should be classed as income on my tax return, is that correct?

ColdIron

I reconsented all of mine a couple of weeks ago, got my £50, all good

Today Lloyds and 2 * BoS need reconsenting. Did it and it went though but 91 days instead of the previous 78

Doubt I'll get more points

masonic

I had the same with my Halifax accounts. I only noticed by chance last week, but I did nothing as I had points from them in January. I'd rather not risk being unable to earn more points at the original expiry date.