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Has anyone done them?

I'm at Uni and got an email through it offers Amazon vouchers and there's a few things I fancy I can get off of Amazon. I've looked at them before but been put off by the whole 'EARN £1000 A WEEK!' kind of thing - this one looks a lot more respectable. How do you feel giving your personal stuff for a bit of cash?
 
normally its only 'for a chance to win'. What they get in personal details from all the entrants far out weighs what they are offering
 
MowyTone said:
normally its only 'for a chance to win'. What they get in personal details from all the entrants far out weighs what they are offering
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This. If I've interacted with an organisation, them am asked to fill in a survey, a prize draw is usually enough to convince me.
 
my wife is addicted to them, she found them through that money saving expert site.
she set up a spam email and has already earned £50 in amazon vouchers.
she sits and does them while watching the soaps.
personally I don't have the time or patience for them, but whatever keeps her happy.
 
I tried a couple of them. They were very long - 30-40 minutes of tedious questions. Does this brand make you feel good about yourself, slightly agree etc etc. Lots of cross referencing questions to check you aren't just clicking your way through or it kicks you out.
 
Yougov surveys pay more than minimum wage and they pay cash but the limited number of surveys means that you can't really earn more than about £100 a year.

Most others pay a lot less than minimum wage and pay in crap like vouchers which they frequently stop offering through their website before you get enough credit for them.

All in all they are not worth the time.
 
I did http://www.opinionpanel.co.uk (The Student Panel) whilst I was at University, netted myself a few £25 vouchers over the 3 years I was a student. Very simple stuff, no spam emails with thousands of surveys, just the odd one every few weeks.
 
pinecone research pays ok. £3/4 for a 10 - 15 min survey maybe 1 - 2 times a month. Just get it paid into my paypal and use it pay for small stuff.

If anyone wants an invite just messgae me in trust and I'll foward you on the sign up email ( it's referral / invite only ) although there is no referral incentive.

Also they sometimes send you stuff to try. Mainly been food products. I tried that Activia pouring yoghurt before it went on the market. Also new flavours of magnums.
 
nick.lidgett said:
my wife is addicted to them, she found them through that money saving expert site.
she set up a spam email and has already earned £50 in amazon vouchers.
she sits and does them while watching the soaps.
personally I don't have the time or patience for them, but whatever keeps her happy.
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I would watch this film, if directed by Mike Leigh.
 
Nah, sod em, market researchers already know way too much about me for my liking, it is disgusting how much data they're allowed to collect and hold.

And as for these lazy *****s "hey I'm doing research for my dissertation" then no way, if you think a third year undergraduate level is "I done a survey to a random spread and size population of people and this is what they said" then you're severely mistaken and I refuse to feed into your idiocy.
 
I occasionally fill in surveys from Populus Live - Still pretty tedious but they pay £1 / 5 minutes worth of survey time which is fairly decent. Up to around £30 so far and they apparently send out a cheque at £50....
 
I signed up for some survey thing in my first year of uni back in 2005, I think it was the opinion panel mentioned above. I was told all I had to do was complete a number of surveys for Amazon vouchers. Different surveys had different numbers of vouchers associated with them, but you had to earn £25 before you could claim them back.
Started pretty well and racked up a few quid but then as I approached the magical £25 mark the surveys dried up and any they did send through had tiny value or I was not eligible for.

TL; DR;
After 4 years of uni and 4 years since then I still have not received a single penny of a voucher and wasted several hours filling in surveys I couldn't care about.
 
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