Originally Posted by
jpr1953
I clicked on an email from United Airlines suggesting that supplying additional information under the auspices of Opinion Miles Club would be beneficial to the airline and customers.
I did that, too, and now I find two invites to take a survey arriving in my e-mail inbox, generally about an hour apart. They both seem to take me to the same survey, so I ignore one.
After supplying a lot of initial information (20 minutes of time) I started to get a vast number of emails with surveys - and the time request was 10-20 minutes and they were offering less and less miles - its effectively 50 miles for 15 minutes surveys. I am not going to do this and I decided to opt out. THERE IS NO OPT OUT! nowhere on any survery or email offering surverys is an opt out. There is also no opt out on Opinion miles club.
I'd be tickled pink if I could reliably get 50 miles for 15 minutes of my time. As someone who is no longer a frequent flyer, and never flies at full fare, I don't accumulate miles as fast as I did before retiring. Looking at my history, I've racked up about 3100 miles in about the past 18 months, but I've had many "uncompleted" surveys, where I've answered questions for about 10 minutes and then got the dreaded "This is not the right survey for you" message. Then, dammit, I let myself get sucked into taking another survey, out of which I'm usually kicked.
As far as opting out, you need to look a little closer. There's usually an "Unsubscribe" link in the e-mail announcing the survey. That takes you to the
https://www.opinionmilesclub.com "My Account" web page, and that's where you find the real "Unsubscribe" link. I've never tried it so I can't say that it works, but that's where you start.
I understand United Airlines gets $$ or something for everything they offer - but this Opinionmilesclub offer is a real scam in my "Opinion"! Has anyone worked out how to opt out?
I wouldn't call it a scam, but I do think it's unfair that they don't at least give you a consolation prize of maybe half the miles if you get a "wrong survey for you" popup after answering a reasonable amount of questions.
Oh, and about the "1 minute" survey - That's something that started fairly recently, and it's the pre-survey survey where they ask if you've read any of the listed magazines or work in advertising. That takes about a minute and then you get a survey which you may or may not be suited for. They should do a better job of pre-selection.
I want a scam for myself to give answers that won't get me kicked out of the survey. Should I be 45 instead of 73 years old? Should I be hispanic or Native American? Should I have 5 people in my household instead of one? Should I check that I read a couple of the magazines even though I haven't? Is there anyone here who has better than a 50% record of completing surveys?