Ditto for United.

It hasn't improved.

After a few months of not filling out surveys (the usual- being disgusted at getting kicked out with pity points 90% of the way through the survey) I took them up on an offer of bonus points if I completed 3 surveys. Did that, got the bonus points.

But.. my dashboard shows available surveys for 1.5 points, 5 points and 6 points, among others. I click on the higher-value ones, answer irrelevant and repetitive screening questions, get told I don't qualify but here's a 1.5- point survey. I try another high-value survey and again get bounced back to a 1.5-point survey.

Nope. Not gonna happen.

As indicated by subsequent comments, this belated exclusion from surveys is indeed a persistent issue. For these reasons, I have stopped participating.

However, E-Rewards likely considers there to be an endless supply of new participants.

Maybe this is even intentional?

I�ve got the opposite problem- I like many of the 1.5 point surveys because a lot of them are quick and pretty reliable in crediting but then I get kicked over to the 5 point entertainment survey that I know is going to be a lost cause so I don�t even try those.

How often do you think you are getting disqualified because of your age? Since I turned 70 it has become more difficult to remain elegible for surveys. Enter my age, terminate surveys. I have found this to be the case with Mypoints, E-Rewards and Opinion Miles Club. Just curious to know if anyone else has experienced this.

You give them your actual age?

I am 78 and my wife is 75 and we both do surveys. I feel like we are eliminated based on age on 5 out of every 6 surveys we attempt. They always try to mask it by not disqualifying you until after they ask another question - like zip code. We used to be able to cash in a reward 2-3 times each per month - now it's taking at least a month to get enough for one reward. It upsets me because E-Rewards knows I'm a white male that is 78 years old - yet they send me surveys AND tell me they think it's a good match for me - then disqualifies me after I enter my age. Someone suggested not giving them your real age - might have worked years ago but now they have all our data and if I tried opening a new account as a 21 year old - the data match would get me :-) If you refuse to give your age you are normally (every time I tried it) disqualified.

Yeah. it seems odd that the survey people think old people have no value to them. We have a lifetime of experience, we vote, we travel and often have disposable income that we are not afraid to spend. I realize some surveys are interested in learning about twenty somethings experiences in Las Vegas, but it seems odd that as bj2757 mentioned above as soon as birthdate and year are entered, instant disqualification. I am hoping as the election gets closer there will be more surveys asking about opinions on various candidates.

I have received quite a few political surveys already. What gets me is when they ask what party you are registered for and when you answer it disqualifies you - don't want any opposing views I guess :-)

Kind of discouraging that after a lifetime of experience we are, once again, not the target audience.

A lot of political surveys are looking for a very specific polling pool- say 1500 Republicans, 1500 Democrats, and 2,000 independent likely voters and if you�re Republican #1517 to try to complete the survey that quota is full.

I believe you are correct beachmouse. I realize this is the E-Rewards thread but as a data point I just attempted a Mypoints survey and the first question was political party and I was immediately disqualified after I answered.

Just to offer a somewhat different perspective. I too aim for those higher point surveys first. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But if I get kicked out of a couple of them (sometimes almost immediately), I will go back and if possible complete a 1 or 1.5 pointer. Then I return to my dashboard, and with some frequency I once again not only see one of the higher point surveys from which I was disqualified (same point value, same topic) but I'm actually able to complete that survey...sometimes. It's happened often enough that I suspect they are forcing you to attempt the low-hanging fruit before giving you the opportunity to try for the five or six pointers.

And even though I have been complaining in recent months about A) getting disqualified from a lot of surveys and B) seeing too many low-point offers, I just realized that in the last seven days I've earned over 80 points from completed surveys only, including a couple of surveys worth 20 or more points. That's something that I have not seen in a long time. Maybe things are changing?

I would expect their survey selection/offer process to try to get you into surveys with low completion rates that are harder to fill first. They may use other factors to try to avoid too much bias in the overall group of people completing each study, but I'd be amazed if we weren't being pushed into low qualification/high rejection rates first most of the time.

What would be the point in pushing people into low qualification/high rejection surveys? Isn't the point of these survey companies to collect data for the creators of the surveys? I'm not sure I understand your point.