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.