Pinecone Research

Kite2010

I found it was £3 for a 15-20 minute survey every 4 to 6 weeks on average, they weren't as frequent as the other companies. Certainly a case now they have dropped the reward to being a third of what it used to be like, and won't pay out until you reach £10 then a case of dropping it. Too much work for not enough reward.

The best survey invite I had from Pinecone in recent weeks has been a 300 point reward for a 65-minute survey involving watching a TV program (which will no doubt have something built in to stop you simply pressing play and doing something else, as normally those sort of TV programs are 'LCD' American rubbish

libra10

I agree about Pinecone now paying much less for each completed survey than they used to.

When I first started with them they were paying £4, which reduced to £3 each survey, and you could get a reward when reaching £5.

With the reduction to a £1, and needing to reach £10 before payment, it hardly seems worth bothering these days.

silvercar

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81911965#Comment_81911965

Until a few weeks ago, I was getting £3 a survey and cashing out to PayPal immediately. I really hope people don’t bother for a rate of £3-£4 an hour, plus waiting til £10 to pay out.

libra10

I received an email invitation this morning from Pinecone, to complete a survey for 75p. Their rewards are really going down to what they used to be.

sammyjammy

I think we will just have to vote witho ur feet! I remember the email about the new login/website and their reassurance that nothing would change!

CliveOfIndia

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81916734#Comment_81916734

Yup, I love that, nothing will change.

They used to be one of the better survey sites (I think I'm right in saying MSE referred to them as "the holy grail" of surveys ?) because they were invitation-only and paid well.

It used to be, you'd do a survey, get £3, quite often you'd get a free sample of something to test, then get another £3 for doing the follow-up survey. Brilliant.

But recently I've have had a few offers of doing a 20- or 30-minute survey for 75p. No thanks. Hopefully they'll get the message when they realise they're getting no respondents, but I may just cancel my account and have done with them unless things improve.