BA has returned and now it is instant!

Choice is instant and does extend the expiration. A redemption of 30 for 1000 today extend the expiration to Feb 2027. Whew!

What's the biggest one you've seen?
Yesterday, a 21 pointer popped up!
Started with basic typical questions on classification and household utility providers, cruising along thought I'm scoring big time with this one, then this question what format I watched some 24 hour Russian News network. Assumed it was trick question so said NO and I got kicked out. Wonder if it was actually about that and I should've said yes in some form.

I was kicked out on an 8 pts vaccines survey, specifically related to a particular pharma a particular vaccine. At the beginning it already asked if participants want to share contact info or opt out. I opted out. Finish the survey all the way till the LAST question which said Thank You for completing the survey. Our researchers would sometimes like to contact participants in following weeks for more info, Answer Yes or No. I answered No and immediately got the Not Target Group screen. I immediately filed a ticket with not so subtle language to give them hell on such unethical practice. They came back to award the full credit 2 days later.

I notice last week all technical issues met with zero credit claiming some software detected whatever issues that nullified the survey. Also since several weeks ago all surveys disqualification happened after 90% complete still not giving any credit, and you are fed by the crap about none of the input would be used. Yeah right.

However since last weekend, these crappy scenarios seemed to change a bit. They now award partial credits based on the length of time spent, and they also returned back to award credit on technical issues.

A bit of e-rewards history, if I may: Several years ago, when e-rewards was still denominated in e-rewards currency, I would occasionally get diary surveys that might last anywhere from a week to an entire month. The amount of the reward varied, but it was always a very nice number that made it worthwhile to keep the diary.

Then I did a panel discussion, where IIRC the compensation was around $150 USD and was accompanied by a disclaimer that said I would receive my compensation in whatever form of rewards my particular survey program offered. I'm assuming that meant the diary was being offered across several different programs, not just e-rewards. I believe someone here figured out that for those kinds of offers the ratio was often something like 1 survey dollar (generally USD)=$3 e-rewards dollars, but I can't be sure.

When the e-rewards dollars for this discussion showed up in my account, I was pretty much stunned: $416 and change in e-rewards currency. At a redemption rate of 100 e-rewards dollars=2,000 United miles, that translated to 8,000 United miles and change in one shot. I haven't seen a diary or panel discussion survey in ages, and today if I can get 10 points from any survey it's a big deal.

Yeah, remember those diaries, only got in one but then I forgot about it and was rejected.
These days never really see anything bigger than 10, hence why I was flabbergasted when that 21 showed up on the screen. All in on Russian News if I see something like that again :tu:

A heads up on Choice redemptions. It had always been instant for me, but has now been changed to 8 weeks. This was confirmed by customer service when I contacted them regarding missing points.

Update: This was an issue on Choice's end. I recently made another redemption and it was an instant transfer.

Special Offers
 

The E-rewards surveys have dried up for both my wife and I - I open 10, get through the first screening, then get booted out shortly after, or an error pops up, or it never goes to the reward screen - it's frustrating. Seems I am sending notes to E-rewards everyday - and so far they have been very responsive except for when I ask them (every time) why they aren't doing their job and sending me surveys they know I'm not qualified for based on data they have. At any rate - I have seen the "special offers" and while I glanced at them they all appear to be games, and most seem to require you to pay something to really get any points.

Has anyone found any of those "offers" to be useful? I'm madly trying to find something to replace the surveys....

In a word: No.

After years of racking up lots and lots of points with surveys, I've pretty much accepted that I will be lucky to get 100 points per month without beating my brains out clicking on every survey that I'm offered. That translates into 2K United miles on a monthly basis, and I can live with that.

Thanks - that's pretty much what I figured - and we're in the same boat, just trying to get UA points when we can. A year ago, between us we were getting a 2,000 airline reward each, two $25 Home Depot and Target gift cards each and every 3 months a Hilton reward. Now maybe a UA reward each. Heck, 2 years ago I got an 1099 from E-rewards because along with all the airline miles I went over the limit on gift cards... It was fun while it lasted :-)

bj2757, you and I are indeed pretty much in the same boat. As I posted after the program change, I used to be able to make monthly 2,000 United miles redemptions, as well as two Apple and two Best Buy rewards every three months (2 different denominations). I was also able to regularly redeem for 7K Hilton points every two months or so, and an occasional Home Depot, Macys or Target GC was in the mix as well. (Like you, I only received a 1099 once, in a year when I had a nice number of high-return surveys.) All of that is pretty much gone now, and I just plug away at United miles. Every once in a while I'll have a great month or two and be able to grab an Apple GC, but very infrequently. I feel like 24K free UA miles per year is worth a little effort every couple of days, but that's about the extent of my commitment to the program any more.

I've been getting pop-ups to register for double points on those so imagine they already aren't getting the traffic they projected

It’s the same offer walls that a number of other GPT programs have. The high point value ones often involve you having to put your own money int othe game or whatever.

Speaking of changes
 

I don't recall seeing anything about it - but I finally hit $100 so I could get 2,000 United Miles (wife did hers 2 days ago) - and now it says you need $115 to get them. I looked and AA is still $100....

That’s annoying. I suspect there will be more ‘tweaks’ like that as new contracts come up. But at least they didn’t get rid of them altogether like with Hilton.

Another survey - another issue! Surveys are getting harder and harder to find anymore for us - and most aren't worth the time - 50 cents for 16 minutes. But because times are tough I just accepted a survey for $1.30 for 16 minutes (I normally won't bother if less than 10 cents a minute). Easy survey, no issues and at the end it aske me if I had an comments - and I did because there was a technical issue I wanted to point out, and when it was over it said thank you and here's 50 cents for your trouble. What???? That's a new one on me - take a $1.30 survey and they give you 50 cents???

A quick follow up since I just heard back from E-rewards. They said what happened is I took a $1.30 survey but was screened out early and change to a 50 cent survey that I completed. Huh? With no indication they were switching me to a lower level survey. This company really sucks. I get really nice responses from the poor people that have to respond - then get a survey to ask how nice they were. But everytime I say the response was ok but your program sucks - it's ignored. I have a feeling I'm on the verge of getting banned - again.

It actually happened to me yesterday on a $5 survey successfully finished but only awarded $0.50!

I sent a support request but have not heard back from it. All screen shots in file, from the beginning of the survey, half way thru and till the end 97 or 98% complete then got the successful $0.50 awarded.

There was a $2.5 survey at 98% finish then met with technical issues. A guy named Dwight replied at 3am Eastern Time saying I was not eligible, I found this guy was the only one always interpret tech issues as ineligible. Most other would credit the owed pts. I plan to resend the request Monday.

Oh, for a day or two last week, their system reverted back to the stupid auto reply about not knowing what you contact them for. IURC thus was a prevailing issue last year for several months.

After three emails I gave up trying to get my $1.30 :-) But the last few weeks I have been bombarding them with issues, reviews etc - to the point I expect to be banned (again) soon. These days if I get a $4-6 survey I am shocked and maybe actually qualify every 5th time - maybe. But last night as I was getting ready to close things down I opened E-rewards to see if something posted and there on my screen was an offer for a 30 minute survey for $30!!!!! I figured no way. It was a Nielsen survey and all it did was ask shopping questions - what do you buy and where - on and on - very simple - and I go it! Maybe it's like makeup sex... Maybe.

I saw a $30 survey twice but they are 144min long! Both were for streaming TV services. Both of course I was screened out but at least only after 5 min. I cannot imagine your easy and quick $30 survey went so smithly. Though 2 days ago I had 3 back to back to back 4pt survey went short and sweet in a total of 20ish min. I will take that any moment.

In light of the United reward cost went up I decide to redeem AA and AS whenever there are $50 in the account so would not be caught by unpleasant surprise. AA AS and BA are much more valuable to me than UA anyway.

The $30 survey I had was 30 minutes long and was basically just click on answers - very easy. AND in the last week since then I have received several (for me) high dollar surveys - $10, $8, $6 and more than a few $4-5 surveys. Yesterday I was able to cash in for 2,000 AAmiles and I had just done the 2,000 United miles a week ago! I was going to do UA again but as you indicated they raised the cost to $115 so I went with AA. I hope this keeps up - but I doubt it. I also completed a couple of $4 surveys that sent me to the "Sorry" screen after it had said I completed the survey then asked a few demographic questions. They gave me the points for one and haven't responded to the other yet - but while they usually give me the reward - their replies are pure BS as to why it happened.

I never qualify the high value surveys as most of them were related to health. The last time I saw a $10 survey and actually completed without hitch was over a month ago. Lots of 1.5 2.5 sprinkled with 4 and 5 but unfortunately over 1/2 of them disqualified right after clicking the survey offer before the actual survey even loaded, let alone answer any question! How this could happen is beyond me but it happens A Lot!

I'm starting to notice a pattern of the relatively higher point (4 or more) offers disappearing, and seeing a lot more 2.5, 1 and too many <1 pointers. Maybe just a dry spell, or perhaps this is the start of another devaluation?

Oh, yeah, and I received this magnificent "special offer" this morning: "Enjoy an easy 3 points with Offers. Your next reward just got closer! Complete 3 goals in a Special Offer within 6 days and earn 3 points." Be still my quivering heart.

8/21/25 EDITED TO ADD: And just like that, in the last 3 days I've completed a 6, a 5, and five (!) 4 point surveys. Maybe there is hope after all...

Got logged out couple days ago. When I try to log back in, I get the error message "Incorrect login. Please try again".

Ok, no problem. I change my password. When I try to log in using the UPDATED password, I get the same error message "Incorrect login. Please try again". Is my account nuked?? I havent reached out to customer support yet.

Many technical errors and disqualification the past 2 weeks. At least now they would manually issue credit, though sometimes only partial credit if the system does show you spend considerable time on the survey. That is a bit better than previous practice that completely denied credit when disqualification happened at the end of the survey.
May be they are trying tactics when participants becoming too discouraged and no longer taking surveys as frequently as in the past therefore not enough survey results to fulfill their contracts.

Lately when I complain about the survey having issues they don't offer any more credit and just blame me. Even though it's their site and surveys fault.

That was the case several weeks ago. Then we totally stopped doing any survey for about 10 days and only resumed it sporadically. Their approach suddenly changed. I suspect the system has a "scoring" mechanism. Try to go hiatus for a while and see if things improve to a more tolerable scenario.

pls share an invitation link incl AA, BA, IB if possible (DM) - TYSM

So I got a email the other day saying that my account has been suspended due to fraud and all that BS. It wasn't from e-rewards but from AA milesforopinions. Ive been with them for a long time and was always in good standings with them. Anything you guys suggest to write to them to hopefully get my account back up and running???

This is confusing. You've posted on the e-rewards thread that you received a suspension notice, but the notice came from AA miles for opinions, which is NOT e-rewards. So which account has been suspended, e-rewards or the AA opinions account?

There is not a milesforopinions thread on the forum this is the closest thing. Also its run by the same company.

What I've noticed lately, is instant kickouts even before getting to the Survey, especially some 8 pointers that regularly show up, but click on it and get a sorry.

Some of these special offers seem interesting though, with double points or something.
I saw one for SoFi or Chime saying like 1200 pts or something, for Alaska that would be like 25000 miles...

As someone who has had unjustified suspensions from both programs, I can tell you that it makes a big difference which one suspended you. Two somewhat similar programs being run by the same company does not necessarily mean the same treatment of the account holder if they suspect fraud, whether or not the suspected fraud is real (which in my case it wasn't). My e-rewards account was reinstated each time, my Opinion Miles account was closed. (Not a great loss, IMHO.)

So that's why if you want some advice from the FT members, it might prove helpful to you if you're clear about the actual program in your request, given that you're posting on the e-rewards thread.

A while back I posted a response that I received from e-rewards about this annoying issue. They took some time to explain that the surveys sometimes go out in waves, and it's entirely possible that by the time you receive one of those highly desirable 8 pointers, enough people have jumped on them that the quota has been filled even before you see your offer. Frustrating for sure, but at least it's a plausible explanation of why the instant kickout.

What did you write them to get re-instated?

The truth. That I was a very long-time member, very regular participant, and I had done nothing that would be considered fraudulent or a violation of the rules. I was polite, expressed my appreciation for the program, as well as any help they could give me in reinstating my account. E-rewards did, Opinion miles did not. Of the two programs, losing e-rewards would have been a much greater loss.

Here's my caveat: This is going back several years, so no telling if either program is currently receptive to a request for review. I do recall that at least one of the incidents seemed to be the result of a technical problem on their end, but they never explained what happened, just that I was reinstated.

EDITED TO ADD: I'm a pretty fast reader, and it's my understanding that some of these survey programs will ding you if they think you're blowing through the survey without giving much consideration to your answers, so that might have tripped me up, not sure. I have since made an effort to slow things down a bit when I answer surveys, just to be safe.

Yes, experienced many instant kickouts from even 4pters. 1 out of 5 8pts proceeded to a very long survey. Personally I would rather do the much shorter 2.5pts 3 times than the 8pts which makes me sleepy towards to the end.

Recently there are 2 very annoying items on the surveys

1) A surveyor which I forgot its name now but it always has a long list of Least Important / Most Important choice screens that I have never been able to get thru no matter what subject it might be - buying a house, a car, or whatever. NEVER manage to finish the screening. Towards the tail end of the screening it is very hard to decide which to choose because each item has shown before, more than once. I always stumble on that.

2) Several short surveys would direct you to Swagbuck sign up screen when you are about to finish the 5 - 7min 1pt survey. WTH is that? Is this just a fishing hook to induce you to sign up?!

What were the suspensions reasons if you dont mind to share? Like redeeming too many 2K miles rewards?