Originally Posted by
ShopAround
My issue with them is when the surveys are designed so that you have to answer many questions before screening out. I just had one on paper towels and was pretty far into it when I was disqualified - a waste of time and they mined far more data than they should have for a lousy .25 payout.
Happens all the time. E-rewards has no control over survey design, but I have often gotten six or eight minutes into a very involved survey, provided a lot of usable data, then been filtered out.
Three other irritating things are:
Survey writers demanding an insane degree of recall and consciousness about trivial things -- every furniture polish you have ever used in your life, or how many ounces of hot sauce you consumed in 1987. The more unrecollectable detail they ask for, the greater the odds that a user will, um, just make stuff up.
Higher incidence lately of surveys asking to download applets or turn my webcam on and watch me as I react to things. Absolutely, positively no.
Since I marked a certain birthday I am automatically filtered out of more surveys without discussion. Marketers are much less interested in the views of those older than a certain target demo.