Thanks for posting, looks like the options are now all reinstated.

I did a couple of Choice redemptions a few months ago because I needed some points for a stay we were planning. I think I redeemed three times and they posted within a few days.

Thanks a lot for the info. It sounds the Choice redemption is like the AA or BA redemption, they are being processed in a weekly batch. I know AA's always posts on Tue but bears Mon's date. The cut off of the batch might be either Fri or Sat the week before. BA seemingly works the same way when I looked back last year's redemption. They all posted on the same weekday. I can't remember it is a Mon or Tue now.

So if the batch processing is all the same for those non-instant processing, may be they all are processed at the end of the week. In this case redeemed on Mon/Tue would take more days to see the posting than redeemed on Thur/Fri, just my guess.

Survey invitation links
 

Hi,
Has anyone seen any live e-rewards invitation to join links recently?
My partner is looking for one that covers AA advantage.
Thank you

Not specifically but note that if you find a hotel invitation link, those would typically come with the ability to redeem for any airline redemption available in their country

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.