yougov.finance bribe

Kim_13

friolento said:

 

Kim_13 said:

£35.05  for me and was ~2 weeks from another round of points. 

Very poor of them. When other cashback type services have ceased they've either: 

a) Given notice - which might have prompted people to make an extra effort to make it to the payout threshold.
b) Announced an immediately available replacement, not just vague plans for one
c) Given extra credits as a goodwill gesture

and sometimes more than one. If they weren't going to do any of these things, they could have at least offered a limited window to cash out what was there.

I'd happily give my Netflix and Amazon history to Safe to speed up the process of getting to £50, but don't seem to have the option for it when I log into YouGov. Installed Pulse last week and the 100 point survey that appeared didn't even credit any points.

How did you get an amount of less than £50 paid out?

I think it is disappointing that they stopped this gravytrain but I am really suprised they didn't do it earlier. It must have costs them a minor fortune, for probably very little value as the accounts we let them monitor weren't 'real' accounts in the main. Comparing yougov.finance with other 'cashback' sites seems a bit unfair as I don't think there has been any other site as easy to make money from as yougov.finance

I didn't, that was why I was saying that I thought they should have done so if they weren't going to offer any kind of goodwill. People already at 10 accounts wouldn't have been able to do anything even if they had given say a month's notice, and it would look a lot better than an email out of the blue like this.

I will leave my consents on until I eventually make it to £50, in case they claw back those points. 

masonic

I've only got about 1000 points left over, so not worth doing surveys to bring that number up. It was good while it lasted, and hopefully the new option they mentioned won't be too severely nerfed.

MikeJXE

Kim_13 said:

friolento said:

 

Kim_13 said:

£35.05  for me and was ~2 weeks from another round of points. 

Very poor of them. When other cashback type services have ceased they've either: 

a) Given notice - which might have prompted people to make an extra effort to make it to the payout threshold.
b) Announced an immediately available replacement, not just vague plans for one
c) Given extra credits as a goodwill gesture

and sometimes more than one. If they weren't going to do any of these things, they could have at least offered a limited window to cash out what was there.

I'd happily give my Netflix and Amazon history to Safe to speed up the process of getting to £50, but don't seem to have the option for it when I log into YouGov. Installed Pulse last week and the 100 point survey that appeared didn't even credit any points.

How did you get an amount of less than £50 paid out?

I think it is disappointing that they stopped this gravytrain but I am really suprised they didn't do it earlier. It must have costs them a minor fortune, for probably very little value as the accounts we let them monitor weren't 'real' accounts in the main. Comparing yougov.finance with other 'cashback' sites seems a bit unfair as I don't think there has been any other site as easy to make money from as yougov.finance

I didn't, that was why I was saying that I thought they should have done so if they weren't going to offer any kind of goodwill. People already at 10 accounts wouldn't have been able to do anything even if they had given say a month's notice, and it would look a lot better than an email out of the blue like this.

I will leave my consents on until I eventually make it to £50, in case they claw back those points. 

I will be leaving my consents on too for many reasons

I have been with Yougov for many years doing every survey they offer even though it took a long time to get 5000 points, I was invited to Yougov finance 

As soon as the account sharing hit MSE many others  and their dog jumped in, some consenting on numerous accounts,10,20,30 even 

Fairly obvious that was OTT 

Now it's all come crashing down and the ones who were only here for the quick cash are jumping ship and complaining of no compensation, for what ?

I hope Yougov have learned to stick to the members who contribute to their surveys, big rewards or not 

I know it's a money saving site but that doesn't mean morals should go out the window.

allegro120

MikeJXE said:

Kim_13 said:

friolento said:

 

Kim_13 said:

£35.05  for me and was ~2 weeks from another round of points. 

Very poor of them. When other cashback type services have ceased they've either: 

a) Given notice - which might have prompted people to make an extra effort to make it to the payout threshold.
b) Announced an immediately available replacement, not just vague plans for one
c) Given extra credits as a goodwill gesture

and sometimes more than one. If they weren't going to do any of these things, they could have at least offered a limited window to cash out what was there.

I'd happily give my Netflix and Amazon history to Safe to speed up the process of getting to £50, but don't seem to have the option for it when I log into YouGov. Installed Pulse last week and the 100 point survey that appeared didn't even credit any points.

How did you get an amount of less than £50 paid out?

I think it is disappointing that they stopped this gravytrain but I am really suprised they didn't do it earlier. It must have costs them a minor fortune, for probably very little value as the accounts we let them monitor weren't 'real' accounts in the main. Comparing yougov.finance with other 'cashback' sites seems a bit unfair as I don't think there has been any other site as easy to make money from as yougov.finance

I didn't, that was why I was saying that I thought they should have done so if they weren't going to offer any kind of goodwill. People already at 10 accounts wouldn't have been able to do anything even if they had given say a month's notice, and it would look a lot better than an email out of the blue like this.

I will leave my consents on until I eventually make it to £50, in case they claw back those points. 

I hope Yougov have learned to stick to the members who contribute to their surveys, big rewards or not 

Started to get bigger, I've recently had 100 and 150 points instead of the usual 50+10.  

friolento

Here goes about morals

Moral is when you are cashing in on an opportunity that you don't tell others about.

Moral isn't when others find out about the opportunity anyway and are also cashing in

Moral isn't when the opportunity disappears and we both lose out.

t1redmonkey

I'm sort of lucky in that I randomly decided to go in to yougov yesterday and renewed a bunch of accounts, which I've got the points for today.  However like a few others, I'm also in 'no mans land' with my total, just over 3k, so going to have to crawl along very slowly with the Safe redemptions to hopefully reach the 5k points in a few months.

In hindsight, I am amazed this was ever a thing, because for those of us with loads of current accounts, it was essentially free money.

friolento

t1redmonkey said:

In hindsight, I am amazed this was ever a thing, because for those of us with loads of current accounts, it was essentially free money.

Agree, it was free money for many. I made several hundreds myself but I came to the game late and I wouldn't be surprised if some made thousands of this scheme.

atlantis187

Oh man I just need another £5 for a cash out.
Anyway to get to this amount now?

pecunianonolet

Morals have left this planet a long time ago, if leaving something is even possible, which may has never been there in the first place?

Money and power have always been a key driver, with the former ultimately leading to the latter and that will prevail. Anyone denying this is a dreamer.

No need to whine, it's a simple business decision. If data is available in abundance the value of the data decreases, so does the sale price and in turn what yougov can pay out to receive it. 

It was a good opportunity while it lasted. I didn't jump on it straight away, I was hesitant about data shared so probably missed out on a lot of the first wave before the 10 account limit was introduced and a bit after too. 

Opportunities come, opportunities go. Some made maybe more, others maybe less but without @Bridlington1 sharing it with us in the first place most would have made nothing.

Let's not jump to conclusions, maybe what they roll out will be even better, although I doubt it, but let's wait for the announcement and once we know we can scrutinise. 

masonic

The most likely reason for the closure is they gathered enough data to move to the next phase of development. That will have come about quicker through more people signing up, but it isn't to the detriment of the end user of the data.