Originally Posted by
bob12403
Gnomie, I respectfully disagree. I think calling e-rewards a "scam" (a fraudulent business activity) is a stretch. Yes, I've gotten a few abusive surveys over the years, where I ended up answering a lot of questions only to be told that I didn't qualify. In my experience, these have been a very small percentage of the surveys I've been offered. (I just checked my records and found one complaint to e-rewards in the past two years, and they subsequently credited my account for the $10 in e-rewards currency for that survey.) I'm sorry that it's happening more and more to you, but my experience is very different.
Perhaps e-rewards could do a better job of vetting some of the survey sponsors, but I don't see it as a critical issue with the program. I earned 6,000 airline miles via e-rewards last year, and have enough e-rewards right now for another 2,000 airline miles. I receive something of value from the program every year (as does my wife), and I don't feel like I'm being scammed.
+1 .... occasional problems/issues .... yes .... a scam .... no way!
Three times, in the last 8 months, I have complained to eRewards concerning surveys that took a long time then I was rejected and all three times I was rewarded extra $; twice I received the full value of the survey (as I spent almost the estimated time of the survey before being rejected). I don't complain when there's a minor issue just when there's a major issue (i.e. more than 15 minutes then rejection). Although I often have surveys (which I have completed for full credit) take longer than estimated but I can't remember any which took more than twice as long (i.e. such as gnomie's one which took 50 minutes when it was estimated at 20 minutes). I wonder if that was one where gnomie's connection or the survey's web site was experiencing "overload" issues (i.e. significant time lost in processing pages, going to the next page, etc)?
I think they do the best they can but they don't create/do the surveys so the only way they know of "issues" is if someone complains.