Fooled by Survey Site Again!

[bostonphil]

First, I am not talking about Fusion Cash. I am talking about another site that I have been with many years and spend a lot of time on. I have taken many, many surveys on this site with a lot of good results. But in the last year or two, things have changed and more surveys have now become a very bad experience.

There is one survey site in particular that always fools me. There are some questions, sometimes many, and then you get into highlighting what you like and then what you don't like. Then you are asked about price and when would you find the product too expensive, etc etc etc,

These surveys are long and sometimes tedious.

However, I have continued until completion, submitted and got a "sorry". Not once have I ever been credited for these type of surveys and I have finished and submitted at least 10 if not more.

I keep getting fooled because I do not recognize the home page or the name of the survey company but I am on alert now and bowed out of surveys that might be a scam rather than continue.

Are you familiar with what I am talking about?

[surveygrabber]

I think I've seen error messages like that before when I completed and took me to that screen. Sometimes I completed a survey and never credits me.

[rob110]

Yup, when doing surveys on a regular basis you soon learn who will pay and who is just collecting all your information or wasting your time.

[bshee58]

No, but the name would help.

[bostonphil]

No, but the name would help.

this site always fools me. It seems so legit and I do not ever recognize the name as being a bad player. It is only when I am half way into the survey that I begin to realize I am getting fooled again. I have hoped that I was wrong at times and finished the survey but it always ended with me submitting the completed survey and getting the "sorry" and no credit.

As said, this is not on Fusion Cash but another site that I have been with a very long time and have done many many surveys for them.

[thoughtparticles]

There are certain companies that I'll back out of a survey immediately because I know it won't work. Then there are others that are like you described, they fool you into doing a survey then shut you out!

I usually only do surveys if I have some extra time to spend or if I'm waiting on someone, I rarely qualify anyway. My demographics aren't widely desired, I guess. Mid-thirties, unmarried male.

[metsrock69]

I hate when I take a survey and they say I can get in trouble for sharing this on social media. then i agree with it and they always say you are not qualified for it

[bostonphil]

There are certain companies that I'll back out of a survey immediately because I know it won't work. Then there are others that are like you described, they fool you into doing a survey then shut you out!

I usually only do surveys if I have some extra time to spend or if I'm waiting on someone, I rarely qualify anyway. My demographics aren't widely desired, I guess. Mid-thirties, unmarried male.

I, also, back out of some surveys when I see a particular home page come up but on the surveys that I am describing, I never recognize the home page if there is one. These surveys always look to be independent ones. It is only when I am half way into the survey that I recognize it as the bad player that I am trying to avoid. Next time, I am going to  check the address line.

[heypeg]

I have found that some sites have gone down hill lately.

[breazybu]

I've done a lot of those survey's but it's always been on FC. They've always worked for me. I know that a lot of sites require you to use Google Chrome. They do take a lot of time but I feel like I'm actually doing something b/c they're using it for brand marketing purposes.

[bostonphil]

I have found that some sites have gone down hill lately.

Yes, and the site that I have been writing is still a good site but no longer a great one. Today, I got an email invite from said site. I was 62% complete and never got the arrow to move to the next page and that was that.

[teenangel]

I was fooled about some of these survey site's they make you answer some questions about yourself and at the end of the survey they tell you that you don't qualify for the survey

[dwiley11]

I used to get fooled a lot, but not anymore.  When I get a survey that gives me the switcheroo, meaning it says 10 mins, and when I get there it says 35 min, its time to go.

[bluv213]

If it seems fishy then always use caution for sure, too many sites tricking people into doing long surveys only to bounce them out toward the end or even completing them.

[stretch1967]

There are too many surveys doing that anymore. It makes you mad when some of them are only worth 50 cents and you spend all of your time on them and they don't pay.