As far as I recall, the only welcome gift may have been a sign-up bonus of some amount of e-Rewards "cash." I've made redemptions in the past and have never seen this bonus reward before.

One of the accounts I registered for had a "welcome" bonus of 500 FC miles. I registered that through a PCR invite and also got some bonus PCR points.

I have a invite from Alaskan air. Do they limit my redemtion on other airlines? I mainly care about US Airways.

Got the same thing for Hilton Honors, which is what I signed up with. After I saw this post, I searched under Rewards and then Rewards by Company. This was under "Free 500 Bonus Points". :p

Do you mean that one of the entries in a pull down menu under the "rewards by company" was "Free 500 Bonus Points"? Or did you have to click on the HH to see this bonus?

Normally they do. If you sign through Alaskan invite, you'll have only Alaskan air and all other non-ailine partners (hotels and gift cards) available for redemption.

for the last 30 promotions I'm always getting expired offers....emailed them a few times and they said they would act on this abnormal activity....anyone having the same problem??

Lunardream, I had that same problem when I tried to access a British-based e-r account from the USA. I've heard from other FTers that when the country of IP address of the computer UR using is different from the country of the e-r account, it generates that 'expired' message.

Well, quite often it generates "expired" message for me too and I'm in US. They try to reply to me with this foreign IP solution crap. But they missed this time since I wasn't accessing those surveys from overseas. I replied and never heard from them again. Meanwhile, I completed a full survey on 09/02 for $12.00 and never had it posted. E-mailed twice. No reply yet.

***UPDATE*** I got an email today indicating that I was credited for that survey. Indeed, I got my $12.00 into the account. :)

Can we purchase credit?
 

I'm $0.70 away from the next threshold but I'm not sure if I'll get another survey before my points expire. Is there a way to make up the $0.70?

It seems some people can't redeem rewards on USairway. Can someone explain that to me.

I believe if the invitation you accepted when you signed up was through an airline, you can only redeem into that airline's program.

two months ago, i emailed them about and then it worked, started getting all kinds of promos and stuff, then it went back again to the expiration process.....i don't think it has anything to do with the IP...I mean I can try masking my IP but then, i don't think that's the idea here...i've passed on like 30 promos by now for expiration crap :S

No opportunities in years
 

[Sorry if this has been covered before!]

I haven't gotten e-rewards opportunities in YEARS, literally.

What should I do??

I tried changing my email preferences, making some changes here and there on my profile... but nothing..

Should I just cancel and hope I get another invitation somehow? I received one from US Airways recently.. But I prefer not to cancel since it appears my account is not linked with any airline in particular...

It happened to me and that's what I did.

If its been years, they tagged you as untrustworthy and stuck your account in the "do not send any more invites" bin. The only way out of that is to use a different address and get a new account.

I just noticed that some of my e-rewards accounts let me redeem for e-miles. This is a very interesting option since e-miles could be redeemed for the following FF programs:
Delta Air Lines®, Continental Airlines®, US Airways®, AirTran Airways®, Alaska Airlines®, Frontier Airlines® or Hilton HHonors®

This could be very helpful to some since not all of the e-miles programs are available for every e-rewards account to redeem for directly.

They have been very good at simply giving me the small amount of credit needed in this type of situation, if I ask them nicely.

I didn't get a survey invitation for over a year, and when I finally emailed them about it a few days ago, I got the following message:
"e-Rewards Member Services to me
show details Sep 24 (1 day ago)

Thank you for contacting e-Rewards. You inquired regarding the decreased frequency of survey invitations that you receive. We have reviewed your past participation in the e-Rewards program and have determined that we stopped sending survey invitations to you as a matter of policy.

e-Rewards serves clients in the consumer packaged goods industry, auto industry, and in general to companies who provide products or services that are sold to businesses and consumers around the world. These clients use survey results to make decisions that have significant financial implications for their companies. As such they rely upon the quality of the survey answers they receive from e-Rewards panelists.

From time to time our clients report that a specific panelist's answers to a survey are unusable because the e-Rewards panelist clearly did not provide consistent, plausible answers to survey questions. When we receive a number of such reports about the same e-Rewards panelist, we stop sending survey invitations to the panelist, as panelists who do not provide honest and thoughtful opinions are not of interest to our clients.

Panelists who are no longer invited to participate in surveys may still have use of their e-Rewards accounts, and may redeem any and all outstanding balances at their disposal.

Sincerely,
Member Services"

Wow, so they do this, after all!

Whoa... they're effectively calling you a liar in the face! If I had answered my surveys in earnest and receive this response because, for whatever reason, some clients have the "right" to say my completed surveys are "unusable" - I'd be extremely aggrieved.

Did anyone just do the water survey? Did anyone find that it took waaaay longer than the quoted 25 minutes and found it confusing on some of the question?

I feel like some of these surveys really push the envelope sometimes of time commitment vs. compensation.

I got a invite from Holiday Inn and it has al the irine and othr partners!! Muc better than he one I have with Alaska Airlines!!!!

Find e-rewards declined a lot after 2008 as companies spend less for surveys. That being said it been very lean in recent months and the process has changed where you'd be deep into a survey to find you didn't qualify or the quota has already been meet. Since survey frequency (revenue) is low could be they are on hard times w/o survey revenue so maybe best to cash out before the bank closes? Just a thought.

I doubt they'll close any time soon, they're probably just really struggling to get honest answers. If a company gets only about 50% legitimate answers from those who qualify, they're going to discount the payouts for everyone. Bad for those who legitimately participate, but that is what leeches do to everything that can be good.

That also explains why more questions are asked before "qualifying". It is an attempt to weed out the liars beforehand.

Did anyone else recently do a daily coffee "study"? The qualifying questions were tacked onto the end of a different E-Rewards survey. The survey company itself sent another link to complete the study. When I finished, they sent me email confirmation that I qualified for payment, but it didn't mention anything about E-rewards in it and I haven't received anything. I checked my E-Rewards account history and it doesn't list the project. :confused:

Wall Street Journal Question
 

I currently have about $85 or so in my E-Rewards account, of which 75% will expire at the end of the month. Last Spring, I redeemed some $ in my account for a 26 week Wall Street Journal subscription. I noticed they no longer offer the WSJ as a reward. Will this reward likely return sometime next year? I primarily joined E-Rewards for WSJ and Forbes magazine subscriptions. If the WSJ will no longer be a redemption option, which airline or hotel mileage program offers the lowest redemption level for the WSJ? I'm thinking I could start a frequent flyer account Delta, Alaska, Hilton Honors etc and then use my E-Rewards $ to redeem miles for those programs and then use those miles for WSJ and Forbes subscriptions. Thanks for any advice.

After skimming this thread about eRewards I guess I've just been lucky... I looked at my redemption history and over the past 3 years I've redeemed for an average of 14kHH points/year, 2.2k points and a free mag.

One time I really felt that I'd been cheated out of credit having answered endless questions without being compensated. I emailed customer service and they credited my account. The piece de resistace was this past summer when I took place in a panel where I agreed not to watch Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert for a week and got $75 in credit. Craig Ferguson is funny!

Did you wait the required amount of time for the rewards to post? Did you contact e-rewards customer service via their online email form to inquire about the credit?

Under the e-rewards Magazine Collection rewards, I see a 26-week subscription to WSJ available for 50 e-rewards "dollars."

I also see the following message once you click on it:

So, it doesn't look like you'll be able to receive a whole year's WSJ subscription solely out of your e-rewards account! :eek:

Oh, and another thing it says about the WSJ subscription:

So if you're not a new subscriber, technically you're not supposed to be able to get this.... (Seems contradictory with being able to redeem it once per year, though.)

I found that a bit confusing as well. It did mention in the email that it would take 2-3 weeks before receiving credit so I'll wait it out and see what happens. Seemed a pretty easy way to add 3k miles.

Yes, it has been a few weeks. I haven't contacted custome service because they ask for the link in your email, or your account history. Because it was tacked onto the end of another survey, I don't have a link.

I just got one that led me to sign up for a site called "My Money, My Voice". Apparently it is some kind of opinion forum where you get a few dollars in Amazon certificates for more of a free-style contribution to topics similar to that on e-rewards. Anyone else get this and/or know anything about this other site? I think the survey was labeled "Study About Consumers" and paid $4 e-rewards money for 15 minutes.

Today I received an survey entry about cell phone commercials. After replying to some questions, I was asked to view a commercial. After viewing, I was asked to view it a second time. After it completed the second run, my browser froze and I was unable to unfreeze it. I killed the browser (Firefox, newest version) and reopened, but when I tried to access the survey again, I was told:

"You have paused your interview before it was completed.

Unfortunately, this survey can only be accessed one time."

I'm a little ticked that their programming error caused me to waste 5 minutes of my time and lose out on $6.50 in e-Rewards. I would have gotten to $100 with it.

If you get this survey, it might be better to try it with IE.


Added:

I received a reply from e-Rewards Member Services:

"Thank you for contacting e-Rewards. We apologize for the difficulties you encountered with the study. Please be aware that our Web site works best with Netscape, Internet Explorer and AOL browsers, version 5.0 or higher. To access data securely and to fully participate in the e-Rewards program, please be sure that both the session and permanent cookies are enabled."

Seems like they're implying that it was a setup error on my side, even though I told them I was using the latest version of Firefox. Yes, cookies are enabled, and I've been doing plenty of their surveys recently with no problem. I guess they're not going to bother to check out the error.

Contact them anyway, with the ID of the survey onto which the other one was tacked!!!

Somebody should tell them that
on topic, how sad is this:

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Need only 65 points to be able to redeem, yet nothing came through for about 6 weeks now. I think if there are no emails by 01NOV and all those points expire, I might as well cancel it...

jms_uk,

I had a decent amount of eRewards $ (US program) that were to expire earlier this year and for whatever reason -- and without any request or prompting from me -- eRewards sent me an email stating that none of my eRewards $ would expire this year. I had originally signed up through American Airlines many years ago and I recall being offered special redemption choices after AA left eRewards, so I suppose that could have been the reason, but that has been some time ago.

In any event, if you don't get a chance to earn any points before the expiration date, you might consider contacting eRewards and asking if they could waive the expiration date for this calendar year since you're so close to a redemption level (at least I assume that you are -- I'm not familiar with the non-US program). Good luck.

Thank you - I will get in touch with them.

Yes, I am 65 points away from redemption, equivalent to a short(ish) survey.

I've had the expiration waived without any communication with e-rewards (and was not an AA member).
65 points are 2 to 3 non-qualifying surveys, so it may be a long wait to get them (non-US members get much less surveys I think).

I have a feeling this might be a case.

On my last non-qualifying survey I got 75 points, so I am hoping one more should suffice. Or two :)

Got an email tonight, got half way through, there was a problematic screen, continued, they thanked me and got partial points.

Current balance:

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5 points short - :mad:

Sent an email to customer services, especially about the error, I hope things get sorted out...