Toluna Discussion (merged)

pennychu

davester wrote: »

we was talking about the points being added not the 8 weeks wait for vouchers.

Sorry, in that case it varies hugely from days to months - I usually email them if it takes longer than 6 weeks which it has done before.

pennychu

thriftymanc wrote: »

I received points today!

...for one survey I took a month ago. But hey, it's a teensy, weensy, microscopic wobble in the right direction.

Also I have found a trick to get the calendar to work better. As I mentioned in an earlier post, when you select a date from the calendar it always swaps round the day and month, so the search doesn't work properly - and you can't edit the date manually as it wipes the box clean. Make sure you choose a date where the day and month are the same. E.g. if you need to view August 15th onwards - select August 8th to October 10th instead. It can't swap round two numbers that are the same (08/08 and 10/10) and that way you cover the whole period you need to see. Probably obvious, but it only just occurred to me after spending the best part of 20 minutes trying to see what survey points I'd had credited!

Thank you Thriftymanc :beer:, you have ended my frustration with the malfunctioning calender with your clever solution - perhaps it is obvious as you say, but I'm not sure it would have occurred to me . Now at last I will be able to check out whether my points have been credited from July.

hannahO_2

Makeandsave wrote: »

Just thinking perhaps they are working on the site and this may be the reason why it keeps crashing? I hope they have all the errors fixed by the start of next month. They owe me for 41 surveys in my points area and a few more surveys that are not showing up. They also own me for my 80 words and opinions done. Plus i hope i get VIP status next month lol. I am showing up on hot users.

I know exactly what IS going to happen or shall I say what IS going on. But I won't tell you in case I hurt your feeling.

GweekyRocks

Sounds ominous. Are you going to tell us?

pennychu

Checked my points, only one pending from June - not as bad as I feared. I also have 3 from May which I have been told will credit at the end of September. It does make me feel I'm a pernickety so and so, and the points aren't worth that much when I do the maths but Toluna should be pulled up if they aren't doing what they promised.

The site worked okay for me today, in fact I did some sponsored polls for the first time in a long while and can't believe how awful that 'survey-router' is, looks like a sneaky way of getting survey responses for no points to me.

mjm3346

fly-catchers wrote: »

Hi
What are Toluna points worth?
I am with ciao which is now merging with Toluna. A while back I did a dairy survey with ciao which involved during a week long diary. The initial survey e-mail was worth 30p. But it mentioned getting 3000-5000 points on completion. I assumed that was £30-£50 because ciao always paid in cash. But as they are joining with Toluna perhaps its not the case.

4,000 points are worth approx 75 pence but you need to collect 80,000 to redeem for a voucher worth £15.00

thacky

thriftymanc wrote: »

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Also I have found a trick to get the calendar to work better.

Thanks so much thriftymanc for this - it works a treat!

pennychu

mjm3346 wrote: »

4,000 points are worth approx 75 pence but you need to collect 80,000 to redeem for a voucher worth £15.00

Yup about 75p, you need to do the maths to work out your Toluna points real money value. I made a little chart to remind myself, if 80,000 = £15.00, then 40,000 = £7.50 and so on all the way down to 500 points being approx 9p.

I do think quite a few new unaware users don't quite understand exactly what the incentives are actually worth, and unknowingly do long surveys for pennies. The cynic in me thinks Toluna use an unclear points system exactly for that reason.

misssarahleigh

Can somebody please explain why they send some surveys in points and some in monies value?

And, do the money value ones then get converted to points?

libra10

All the survey invitations from Toluna that I have received are for points. Caio used to do surveys for monetary value, but now incorporated with Toluna, they are all for points to be added to account.