Surveys?

United States
December 3, 2008 6:47pm CST
Does anyone find it hard to be qualified for surveys? I can never find myself qualified and what makes really mad is like they get all the answers and then tell me I am not qualified so they dont have to pay me. Why do they ask a zillion questions then say no? Does this happen to you? Am I the only one? It is so frustrating. Is there a trick?
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18 responses
@hildas (3031)
4 Dec 08
I am glad this has happened with you also (not glad) but at least I was not the only one. I think they just get the right answers they are looking for right at the very start of the survey. I think they are all scams also. I have done one complete one last year and I never got the money I was promised either. Yes it is all frustrating. I have never heard of anyone getting paid out on a survey come to think of it.
@hildas (3031)
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@Gorzata (182)
• Poland
4 Dec 08
i can totally refer to U i am registered in about ten survey things and got the same impressions that's annoying!
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• India
4 Dec 08
Same here same here same here…I subscribed to GlobalFrontDesk and man…its one infuriating place if there ever was. See I never solicited them, they just came to my inbox with the lure of 5dollars on joining (or something similar) and I answered a dozen questions and I was joined. Now maybe one or two years later, I have not qualified for a single payment simply because I have not been able to complete more than a handful surveys. Same story…after about a dozen questions, I am not qualified somehow or the other. Its definitely a scam, I’m sure of that. They have my details, when I joined, so why do they send my surveys from which I don’t qualify at all?
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@Wyldrose (1216)
• United States
4 Dec 08
It happens to me too. When I do happen to qualify, though, it seems the surveys take FOREVER and they keep asking the same questions over and over only in different contexts. It gets so frustrating. That's why I don't do them. My husband does them and seems to have better luck than myself.
@violeta_va (4831)
• Australia
4 Dec 08
I will give you a tip "no one in your family works anywhere" (in my case 95% of the time its true). I was memeber of few that I never reached pay out and stoped doing them I had one that used to pay me in sweets which was cool geting a box of sweets once very 2 months or so. I have 2 that actually pay me from 1 I get about $60 a year and the other one $100 and plus at least 2 times a year I get to test products and as my husband is in it as well (I do the surveys for him) we get double. Last time it was full size cerial 2 boxes. I hate when I spend 2 min or more answering questions and they say sorry cant go on. When its a longer thing I always write to them to complain. Few days ago I did 89% of it and it said sorry you do not qualify and this took me 15 min and I was suposed to get $2.50 for it and I got 50c instead. I wrote to them and I got an answer back that it was a mistake.
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• United States
4 Dec 08
I have been doing surveys for months now, and I find myself not qualifying to. You are not alone. I think the more you have, the more you get qualified for. For example, I dont have the new tvs like lcd and flat screen and hdtv. I got turned down for one survey just for that. I also got turned down for one because I am not employed. So I think it just depends on what you have, and if you work, ect ... I love pinecone research. They pay everysingle time you do one. I don't think there is a trick either. They try to qualify you by asking all those questions. Like trying to screen you.
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@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
4 Dec 08
I find that I've quit doing surveys, they email and say such and such a reward for qualifying and answering but then you spend 20 minutes answering and get told you don't qualify. They get the answers but you get nada for your time.
@Anne18 (11029)
4 Dec 08
I gave up doing surveys a very long time ago as this is what was happening ot me, so I decided it wasn't worth my time and effort, and then I found mylot so put lots of effort into mylot now
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@afparks (49)
• United States
4 Dec 08
yes sometimes its hard to qualify. the trick i use is i sometimes lie, it depends on what they are asking like if the survey is about food and i work on some food industry i check no because they will disqualify you of you answer the truth. lol
@lefty13 (21)
• United States
24 Dec 08
I do not have trouble qualifying for surveys because I've learn the trick to them. You see, surveys have a quota. They can not possibly have everyone take the same survey so they need to be selective. And they do that by "asking a zillion questions." You just need to learn how to answer these questions and you will be good. So yeah, there is a trick to this. I would post my site URL where I have two videos that show you how to qualify but it is not allowed.
• Nigeria
4 Dec 08
i think u r right about this survey of a thing.. this companies r nothing but theives ...am so sorry to say this..
@liquorcs (194)
• Malaysia
4 Dec 08
I joined this one legit survey program and this happen to me sometimes. But if I am not qualified for the current survey, I do get my point and it is about $0.25.
@laladida (151)
• United States
4 Dec 08
its not that hard if you have those automatic ones.
@callysto (20)
• Portugal
4 Dec 08
surveys is always scam to me :P offer big amount of money but when you complete all surveys never came more to you review so never pay
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@annjilena (5618)
• United States
4 Dec 08
i got one today telling me i had the survey but when i started it they said i had to qualify and don,t you know i did not qualify for it at all. on all the ones i have tried is a waste of time.so i have decided not to particpate in anymore survery.it,s a dream that has no end when they tell you they will pay you 25 to 100 dollars and you never qualify it,s a load of crap.
• United States
4 Dec 08
Yes I have the same problem all the time. The only company that seems to send me a decent number of surveys each week is Opinion Outpost, which seems like a decent site but I have only been able to earn 10 points so far because of being turned down for many surveys, and also having many that just wouldn't load. I would play around with your answers to the demographic questions without outright lying and see how you do.
@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
4 Dec 08
yes , this happens to me on a few. if it happens over and over from the same company I just take myself off their list. But it happens rarely with the ones that I still use. your2cents and pineconeresearch. and esearch is good. the best one was opinionsquare (although they stopped sending me surveys) they would give you points and if you did not qualify you got at least 50 points- sometimes more. and with those points you can pick from merchandise- I got free- Dvd and bed for my cats- I also won an ipod there so I really enjoyed that site- not sure why they stopped sending me surveys. so keep looking you may find some good survey sites..
@warrior_777 (1392)
• Philippines
4 Dec 08
That's really quite frustrating. After answering their surveys then they will say your not qualified. Why didn't they know that your not qualify before giving you the surveys.