Taking paid surveys...how many can you take?

I know! THere's this one that has been going around for over a year...yes I mean a full year...about hospitals in your area. I took it once, then twice and the third time I stopped and didn't do it anymore even tho offered. It is the longest most detailed, intricate, specific, LONG survey I have ever taken. I didn't finish it any of the times I gave it a try....30 minutes and still answering questions about hospitals (and doctors and insurance there) and with this current "you don't qualify" thing going on...I stopped the third time and now just delete it when it pops up.

That's one reason I stopped using various sites because of the "you don't qualify, but are entered in our sweeps" bs after you've made it thru the inital questions to qualify for the survey but get disqualified during the survey. I found one that I knew of someone else who got paid for their survey's fairly often but when I tried it I didn't qualify so I opted out of their and I've done that with others after getting sick of wasting time.

I would think that with IP address, that if they were to concerned...they'd monitor surveys that way if they wanted to. I haven't had to many dup in recent years, but this one was a duplicate survey site that had me wondering.

I guess it could complicate, but then again... I am not the only person with my criteria in the world so if I do take it twice...could be said that I am just taking it for another person with my criteria and thoughts that doesn't do surveys. But I would think if they were to concerned about this...they'd track via IP address. I haven't had but a very few duplicates, this one wasn't a duplicate, but a survey from another survey site that I am on, and wondering why I didn't get it on that survey site. I have only seen one that has been routed so many times...about hospitals in my area....it is LONG and tedious and complicated so I only tried it twice and didn't finish it and now, just by pass it by. And what about our end? I don't remember every survey I have ever taken. If I do take one, it is not realizing I have before...I don't remember (as I am sure most don't) every one I take or where I took them. IF they don't want repetition...they shouldn't submit their survey to multiple survey sites.

Also, I don't remember what a survey pays. I just look at the initial invite, and if I have the amount of time required...I take it. I hardly ever even look at points or price. They "pay" what they want to pay and there is no changing that, so time is what I look at and decide by. I've seen some pay $2 for 10 minutes while others pay $2 for 50 minutes. So I just look at the time required and go by that.

There have only been a few that I have realized I had taken before. I didn't mean to make it sound like it happens all the time. I just recently had one I recognized as a duplicate and then that hospital one that has been circulating for months. I started it twice but it was so involved and repetitive, I have never finished it and it popped up again last week and I pass it by. But what made me think of this was I was on one site...started the survey and then noticed at the bottom is was "sponsered" by another survey site I am on. I didn't remember taking this survey, but wondered why it was sponsered by another survey site and not an agency like OTX or GDF ... but another survey site.

Good for you then. I guess I won't worry about it. Like you said, as long as they approve it.... I can't imagen doing 50 survey sites! I have a couple, but can't hardly keep up with all of them! Life gets in the way and I even put time aside for doing them! I have 5 or 6, and even then not all of them send every day. And still...I'll take them for 15 minutes or so and then get told I don't qualify. I can't imagen doing that for 50 companies! But hey, if it works for them...more power to them!