Exactly. For instance, HHonors points rewards (last time I looked) were limited to once per 90 days. Some airline awards are just once per year. And so on.

(And this has been discussed numerous times on numerous threads on e-rewards in this forum... and the info is readily available on the e-rewards website as well.... ;))

I've noticed that if you change up your profile a little from time to time you can trigger new surveys. Since your profile is matched to a survey grouping by changing it you can re-shape your profile and attract new surveys....works for me.

Dealing with it
 

I've found a number of them pull this nonsense. They'll say that they only need a certain number of surveys and then the offer is closed and you only get partial credit. Of course, you actually have to fill out the whole thing before you find out they've met their "quota".

The easy-hard solution is to feedback E-Rewards on the matter.

Get the affiliate's link (they'll ask for it later) and point out that there is no excuse for them to do this - some of the offers play it legitimately, and you can't open the offer if it's already met "quota" or whatever other prerequisite. And really, there's no reason they can't - if they have qualifying questions, they should be placing those first. So basically, they're (the affiliate) running you through a 10 minute gamut, wasting your time for $0.25 partial reward and walking away with the data you've provided for them.

Point out in a non-accusatory manner (politeness works wonders) that while the affiliate's are responsible for this behavior since they're the ones doing it, their behavior reflects very badly on E-Rewards as the company is allowing the affiliate to get away with doing it to their customers.

I don't know how this affects their relationship with each specific affiliate, since that's in their park, but I've noticed a difference. More importantly, I got full credit in the two complaints I registered after getting fed up with a pattern of this. The number of available surveys does go down. It's a step towards finally cashing out if you want something back for your time.

Once I get my reward, I'm done with it and will be looking for a better offers program. This one has too many problems (these weren't the only issues I had, just the ones I did feedback on).

The process of getting credit through feedback can be slow, but you're getting more out of it than you do on a survey that cheats you.

I thought I was the only one who was pissed off by these practices from e-rewards. "Quota is filled for your location" - ZIP was one of the first questions. To me this is a total scam - they get all the info they need and then pay just a couple of cents on a dollar.

Yeah, it pissed me off from the start, and it took a few before I fully understood what was happening and decided to pound on customer service's virtual door. The important thing to recognize is that it's a three-party system - there's the surveyee (us), the provider (e-Rewards) and the surveyers (third party affiliates). The problem seems to be certain less ethical affiliates, but I'm not interested in sticking with the program to verify it. Not worth the time.

I have had some success with MyPoints. You get 5 points just for a click-through and, as an example, need 5100 pts for 2500 UA miles.

But for me the most positive aspect of this program is that they offer lots of points for purchasing Entertainment Books. Earlier this year it was 1500 points per book, now its 1000. We would buy the books anyway, since they have $20 in Safeway coupons alone that just about pay for the book. Plus a couple of others that add up to about $50 in savings. Three books at 1500 pts each gets you almost to the level to redeem 2500 UA miles.

This is the very reason I don't participate in eRewards anymore.

Thanks, I'll look into MyPoints.

Erewards needs to control the abusive survey clients. I've received numerous surveys that waste well over 10 minutes of my time, only to suddenly deem me unqualified. This is annoying and smacks of bad faith. If anyone receives a survey about planning for Funeral Services, don't waste your time answering, I wasted over 20 minutes on this survey - it was endless.

Some of erewards clients are sincere, and I have been paid up to $30 for completing an extensive survey.

3000 points?
 

I've just completed a survey for 3000 points with e-rewards + 100 points for screening, the highest points offered till date for me, quite a surprised actually, however, it required cutting and pasting the link to a compatible browser, IE, in my case. The points have not posted yet and I have contacted E-rewards. I would be really pissed to have spent 35-45 mins on a survey and not get the points. Also this survey was completed to the end. I was surprised the points did not post immediately as with previous surveys. also it required installing a software and plug in which I deleted immediately after the survey. Is this another scam?

Points? The only payoff in e-rewards is in their pseudo dollars. Are we talking about the same website?

Yup, points for British airways, I think each sponsor is different, and you can chose what you want, in my case 2000 points for 500 BA miles.

As I understand it I need to get an invitation from on of the sponsors to join e-rewards. Is there any way to get one other than waiting for one to show up by email? (who knows if that will ever happen). I want to join through continental, delta, or american.

American is not a sponsor. I emailed Priority Club about it. Eventually they sent an invitation.

e-rewards/Wall Street Journal - new subscribers only?
 

I am considering using e-rewards for WSJ sub. Spouse got WSJ with miles but that sub. is about to end. e-rewards terms say for new subscribers, and I will be new but though the name is different the delivery address will be the same. Also, I had the sub. in my name over a year ago. So can I get the sub. with e-rewards? Also, seems odd that e-rewards lets you redeem this reward only once per 12 months if they do indeed require that you be a new subscriber. The miles offers I have used do not specify new subscribers only.

I got tired of MyPoints pretty quickly. Tons of emails, and it takes tons to get anything of value. Seems more than half were just spam and you didn't get points at all. I actually purchased two items sent in MyPoints emails and didn't get credited with the points for them. When I contacted MyPoints they gave me a long list of hoops to jump through to try and correct an error on their part. I cancelled after almost a year - and nothing to show from it but a lot of wasted time.