Originally Posted by
lensovet
I had an account from years ago. Just spent 15 (? Let’s say 10) minutes doing a survey that netted me a whopping 1.5 points. The points convert at a rate of 25 points for 500 miles, so to net 1k EQM, I would need to spend 10k minutes = 167 hours doing surveys. At 8 hours a day, that’s 21 days of doing nothing but surveys. 1k minutes = 17 hours doing surveys.
at that rate I’d rather just spend those hours flying somewhere, earn a lot more miles, and actually get to go someplace new.
This is e-rewards, I assume? With theopinionterminal, most surveys earn 30-35 points, with 25 and 45 fairly often. If you "fail" you get 5, but that's capped at 5 per day. So 15 minutes earns me 30, which of course eventually becomes 10 SP as well. At that rate you'd need 1.5k minutes for 1k SPs rather than 10k minutes. It's not that simple, of course, because for some you earn more, occasionally less, and each fail takes a couple minutes.
As for quantity, I don't track totals, but based on what I do track I'd say 10 on a weekday is not unusual, so you can spend as much or as little time as you want on this.