‘Avios for Thoughts’ - points for doing surveys, replaces ‘Rewards for Thoughts’
Oct 10, 2014, 6:03 pm
#17
Join Date: Oct 2012
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 90
Someone more knowledgeable will correct me if wrong, but unless your computer has its own fixed ip address how can anyone know that particular machine has been used before? Most ip traces will return a server address usually belonging to a corporate network or your service provider. Those addresses will be shared by multiple users!
Oct 27, 2014, 11:19 am
#18
Join Date: Oct 2014
Programs: BA, Avios
Posts: 1
Time Wasters
Have had exactly the same experience. Half completed many surveys and get dumped for the reasons mentioned by others. Seems to me they are just collecting private information. I belong to other survey outfits who do not do this to nearly the same extent. Time wasters, I think I will dump them!
Oct 27, 2014, 12:57 pm
#19
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 116
I managed to get up to 1,000 avios within a couple of weeks, but now 7 weeks later they still haven't posted to my BA exec account. I've emailed them about it several times, but they just keep claiming technical difficulties and they'll get back to me.
Oct 27, 2014, 1:34 pm
#20
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: scotland/EDI
Programs: BAEC , M&M , VIRGIN FC , FLYING BLUE
Posts: 1,438
if I have nothing better to do I will spend a bit of time completing surveys--cant say any have lasted much more than 10-15 minutes
if they start getting too long or I don't have time I wont do them
Oct 27, 2014, 3:06 pm
#21
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 674
Agreed, I have nothing to do while sat on standby at work so I do surveys despite the paltry earnings. Rewards for thoughts is certainly more annoying than e-rewards for late screening and I already sent them a ranty email complaining about such practices. It also earns less than e-rewards.
Oct 27, 2014, 11:46 pm
#22
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,105
Just take the 600 Avios and close the account. It worked for a while (with the same inconsistencies as described above - halfway thru "non-eligible", bait-and-switch amount of time/Avios, etc) but for the last several weeks it was as described in the OP. I just closed the account, no more spamming my inbox.
Oct 28, 2014, 5:03 am
#23
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London and Zurich
Programs: AA, BA, Mucci: Sir Roger des Directions Routičres, PCR
Posts: 13,609
Oct 28, 2014, 5:22 am
#24
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: scotland/EDI
Programs: BAEC , M&M , VIRGIN FC , FLYING BLUE
Posts: 1,438
Oct 28, 2014, 5:29 am
#25
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London and Zurich
Programs: AA, BA, Mucci: Sir Roger des Directions Routičres, PCR
Posts: 13,609
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Oct 28, 2014, 5:41 am
#26
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: North Yorkshire, UK / Pasadena CA
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,311
I did sign up to e-rewards some years ago. In many (most?) cases the email says it will take n minutes but if you click through to the landing page it says more. And yes, it's common for them to harvest not only data but also opinions before saying you're not eligible. Since they take us for mugs it seems best to reciprocate in kind. They're mostly multiple choice so if you click at random you can get through a survey very fast. I've had 8k avios from them.
Oct 28, 2014, 2:24 pm
#28
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Marriott Bonvoy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Englandshire
Programs: SPG LT Plat, BA G, BD*LG, MG Blue+ ...
Posts: 16,032
Originally Posted by Rewards for Thoughts, a Genuine Survey
Have you travelled to Australia in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Have you been issued a speeding ticket in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Are you born in January? Yes / No.
Have you visited a shopping center in the last 12 months? Yes / No.
Can you ride a unicycle? Yes / No.
Have you had Lasik surgery in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Do you own a crab pot? Yes / No.
Purchased or replaced your garbage disposal in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Have you received a vaccination for malaria in the past 6 months ? Yes / No.
Do you own a fly rod? Yes / No.
Have you been issued a speeding ticket in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Are you born in January? Yes / No.
Have you visited a shopping center in the last 12 months? Yes / No.
Can you ride a unicycle? Yes / No.
Have you had Lasik surgery in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Do you own a crab pot? Yes / No.
Purchased or replaced your garbage disposal in the past 6 months? Yes / No.
Have you received a vaccination for malaria in the past 6 months ? Yes / No.
Do you own a fly rod? Yes / No.
Nov 14, 2014, 8:21 pm
#30
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 3,925
Cancelled mine. It was the long series of screening questions that annoyed me together with being rejected as suitable well into a survey. Just took the 600 and cancelled.
I do do e-Rewards surveys and find them much better. Yes, I get rejected for surveys but after just a few screening questions and you still get 25 points for your trouble. Some of the surveys are tedious but I have enjoyed others.
I do do e-Rewards surveys and find them much better. Yes, I get rejected for surveys but after just a few screening questions and you still get 25 points for your trouble. Some of the surveys are tedious but I have enjoyed others.