I Find This So Annoying With Surveys

I'm starting to have the same problem with some of the surveys. When I first started about 10 years ago I had no problem getting accepted. But I was younger then, I owned my home and I was still working. All good things. They figure you will be among the group they are targeting. Then... I turned 50 and went beyond, even.(I'm now 57) I retired and I sold my home. So now I'm old, I don't work any more and I rent. Top that with the fact that i live in a rural area instead of a city and I'm just about off everyone's aceppted list. There are some older tried and true, really legitimate survey companies out there. They still send me just as many surveys as always. Two I can reccommend are PineCone Research and My Survey. I have been with PineCone for 10 years and My Survey nearly as long, I can't remember exactly. Some of the other places that call themselves survey companies are really not. They may be using your information to target you for sales or whatever. Another good one is HotSpex. I have had good luck with them for about 7 years now. You get amazon gift cards from them or points you can use to enter sweepstakes. I always go for the gift cards. And they are a lot of fun to do. Another site that is good, not a survey site, but easy to earn gift cards is My Points. I've been with them several years also. All of these I have mentioned are legit and good paying. With survey sites you have to be careful, do your homework and you can find the good ones.

The only survey I have completed in years is one for AARP (American Association of Retired Persons). Even when I worked I did not qualify. I had a friend a year or two ago who said they just want our demographic info, and they get it with these screeners. I am more like another poster and think it is age, or it may be my conservative location. Middle of the country middle of the road. I do not do surveys. If you want some things to do that will earn money, I will send you some links, just let me know.

Yes, I do several surveys and I get that quite often. And I do find it annoying, but what the heck! it's pin money anyway! I've been out of work, (AKA semi-retired)for the last two years, maybe it'll be better after I "officialy" retire this summer! but I'm not counting on it.

I wish I qualified for as many surveys as I am offered. If I did I would have a lot of money by now. I dont make it to the end of many surveys so I dont earn very much. What is the worst is going through a half an hour or a survey and having it mess up so you dont get credit or simply not qualifying for the survey at that point and that whole time was such a waste. I accomplish maybe one survey every other day. A lot of effort for not much gain.

I believe that survey sites are ageist. When I turned 50 I suddenly discovered that I was receiving all the messages that you get. Only one site is reliable and they only send me one survey a month. There is nothing more irritating than spending 15 minutes answering questions only to be rejected. I used to do mystery shopping too. But they only had chemists and noisy pub jobs and there's only so much cough linctus and sausage toad in the hole that I could stand! LOL.

I can discribe them all in one word SCAM. Dont waste your time. What ever you do dont waste money buying a list of survery either. Warning from experience.

oh.you don't even want me to get started on this one. i'm beginning to think some of them do it so they can get as most info as possible without paying.if i don't qualify,don't wait til i'm 75% in to tell me that BS.

I know what you mean about when it says about reaching the number of respondents and then when you do a few questions and then dont qualify. Dont think it has anything to do with not working, I work and get loads of offers but when it comes to completing them it doesn't usually happen for some reason so dont take it personally :-)

I don't know what's more annoying, doing like 10 - 15 minutes, and then getting disqualified, or inputting just my age and gender and getting disqualified!

Surveys really one of the good to earn cash online. But this is not available in our country. That is why I said your very lucky doing it...

I do surveys with an Australian site that has been around forever taking stats on this and that. They have been around longer than online surveys have and they are a good company. They do not pay in cash, but in reward points which I redeem for shopping vouchers. But I have a similar problem to you and even more so in recent times. I get the same errors as you at least 50% of the time. Sometimes it is because they do not support my operating system. I could go and do it on the lap top with Windows, but that is too much of a hassle mostly. Other times as soon as I type in my location as being regional and not a state capital, then it tells me where to go! Other times they ask me straight up about buying a certain product from a list and when I tick the none of the above box they tell me where to go. It is not my fault that I am not a mass consumer of crap foods! "Do a healthy survey for once" I scream at the computer! Once I did lie as I was fed up with being rejected.

Anybody who has done surveys has been screened out or the survey has been closed or enough respondents have replied. When it happens one after the other, it is annoying making you think, "WTF? I must be some clueless airhead whose opinion doesn't matter!" I have learned that usually the companies that send you daily surveys are hit-or-miss and 99.5% of the time, you 'miss'. There are other companies that you may rarely hear from, but when you do, you almost always qualify and get paid immediately, such as Pinecone or ACOP. I've also noticed surveys seem to go in cycles for demographics. In January, I was scarfing up the surveys and cranking out the bucks, but this month, I have not yet reached ¼ of what I made last month. It is also important to fill out all the personal info in your profile, so you DO get surveys targeted for your demographic. Surveys aren't for everyone. You do have to learn which ones seem to cater better to your demographic and weed out the ones that are a waste of time. I've got my proven favorites, but I've kicked others to the curb, too.

Oh, this happens to me a lot too, but I just move on. Sometimes I participated in surveys that takes forever and I quit in the middle. I wish it would just say that I'm disqualified. I prefer survey that is short rather than takes more than 20 minutes or so unless if I'm really dedicated to taking surveys, which I'm not. G.

I also find this very trying. I waste 5-10 minutes on a survey just for them to tell me that I don't qualify. Then why did you have me here this long. After 1 minute they should know whether they want you or not.

That's the way surveys are. They only want a certain number fitting a certain criteria...that's mostly gender & age. I used to collect surveys in the field, going door to door. What annoys me is they say it's really important to keep my profile up to date so they can target me with relevant surveys. So how come they send me surveys which don't fit my profile??? The other side of it is they ask me the demographic questions then say,: "Will you be buying a car in the next 2 years? "Will it be new or used?" I answer these and then they tell me I don't qualify yet I have just given them vital statistics that they can build on. They have the info that one 55+ yr old woman living in country NSW will or will not purchase a second-hand car within 2 years. Put the numbers together and it might turn out something like : of the 60 women aged 55+ in country NSW 12 will be purchasing a new car in the next 2 years and 3 a second-hand car. But I get nothing because I've been screened out.

I find that it is the same for me. I almost always get screened out. I think I have been able to do maybe a dozen surveys in over 5 years of off and on trying. Most of the time right now, I just delete invitations because I never qualify. Oh well...

That is one thing I hate about surveys you never seem to qualify. I wish I knew how you can qualify for these surveys. I feel like I waste my time doing surveys when I never seem to qualify.

Janey. I really don't think it's cause you don't work because when I tried to do the survey thing a couple of years ago, the same thing would happen to me and I worked full time. I honestly think its an age thing cause when I would put in my proper age it would tell me the same shi* that they had the required need etc etc, but when I would make myself 20 years younger, I would almost always get accepted. Try that..I don't bother with them anymore because I don't have the patience to sit for 20 minutes answering the same questions just worded differently over and over. too much time for too little money, and thats if you get paid. Not for me..

I find it annoying also. Sometimes after I have put some qualifying info in I will get a message that the survey is closed. Why don't they say that at the start. Sometimes I will also be told in the first screen that I don't qualify. Then why send it to me? I don't work and don't have a husband or kids, so I am rejected for a lot of surveys. I also don't have a cell phone or diabetes and I get a lot of surveys for that. I agree that if I lied about my circumstances I would qualify a lot more.

I've been doing surveys for several years, and, yea, it is very hard to qualify most of the time. However, there are some sites that have been mentioned in other comments that are good. I do earn money from about 5 or 6 survey sites, and I will keep using them. Of course, there are scam survey sites out there, but they are easy to spot. I NEVER, NEVER pay any money to any survey site to take surveys. I'm not gonna get rich doing surveys, but I do get paid. I think it is an age thing. I remember hearing one time that Pinecone research was seeking members in an age group that was between 25 and 39. I think a lot of older people try to take surveys, and that category fills up fast. Try the ones mentioned in another comment. They are all good ones.....good luck.