How do they do Zoom studies? Do they just use the chat function for participants to type in the answers to the moderator's questions or are participants expected to turn on their cameras and speak?

It varies based on the company actually doing the study. (e-Rewards is often only the connection and compensation point and not the company runnign a specific study) I�ve had ones that are chat and others that were talk and speak.

Has anyone figured out how the 20 cent credits work? It seems like I get a few surveys each day that offer the 20 cent minimum for trying and then it reverts to zero for trying. I wonder if they give you like five 20 cent tries each day or something like that. But yesterday, it gave me a bunch of zeroes and then a few 20 cent ones later in the day and then back to zero. I am trying to figure out the pattern but I haven't got it yet. Anyone?

Several of the emails I received said you could get five 20 cent awards per day - after that you get 0 if you don't qualify. It seems to do that most of the time, but I have had more or less at times.

Thanks. So basically one dollar per day for unqualified surveys. Too bad. There were days in the past where I would not qualify for 20 surveys and that was worth five dollars.

And I complained to them when they changed it. They know everything about me through my profile. They know I am a 77 year old white male. But I get disqualified from 85% of the surveys I get because of one or more of those. E-Rewards says they are responsible for matching us with appropriate surveys - but they don't, they send them out regardless of whether you meet the basic criteria - wasting our time - NOW wasting it even more by not compensating us for them not doing their job. Their response was a typical "we didn't even bother to read what you sent us but here's a reply - now go away" response.

that is all very true as to what they do...

I don’t mind the ones where you screen out pretty quickly because I realize that hey, they need a certain mix of respondents and it’s not quite getting the right demographic responses in real time if they’ve hit their quota for white 50 year old women from Florida yet and all.

But you shouldn’t be hitting a screen out point once you’ve gotten more than three minutes in.

I know- I encounter these offenders in almost every session. I wish there were a "report this survey" button but we know who the real customers are. We're just the merchandise.

I've sort of made my peace with the new structure. I don't click on the low-reward ones (even though the high-ticket ones may be looking for a very narrow category of people so I might get kicked out because I have no plans to buy a new car right now). I have a good success ratio on the high-reward ones because I invest and I have a a lot of electronic toys. If I realize early on that they're looking for someone who has a specific health condition, buys "luxury" brands, uses vaping products, etc. I close out immediately. I may choose lower-value ones if I can still get 20 cents.

Usually I can get Hilton points every 2 months and AA miles every month. This month it will be Hilton point sonly. So be it.

There seemed to be a sign up link, at least for some countries, in the All Accor general e-mail on point earning I got today. Which is IMO not a bad hotel program to be locked into- IHG and Choice are the other good unlimited earning hotel options- and would give you the airline options for the country your account is located in.The current Accor option of transferring 2,000 points to Flying Blue at 1:1 is actually not a horrible cut in the process, though I don’t know how long that will last.

Has anyone ever been asked to upload a photo of their government issued id to reactivate their account?

Yes, it happened to me for the first time last week. I did some research on the third party company to which they ask you to upload the ID. The company is legit, and identity verification is one of the services they offer their clients. My account was reactivated about 48 hours later. I still have absolutely no idea why it was frozen at all--I've been participating with e-rewards for a very long time, and have done nothing that would cause them to freeze the account. I've now earned and redeemed, so everything seems to be back to normal.

Wow. I would think that is very odd but evidently it is legit.

I completed the verification process yesterday, and my account was re-activated early this morning.

About 10 days ago I stopped getting surveys offered. All I get is this message -
"No surveys available. Complete your member profile to receive more studies."

I sent in a few "contact us help" messages but no one has ever replied.

Anyone has this happen to them> Any suggestions?

I am a Diamond member of the e-rewards program since at least 2010