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katgirl3 · 05-21-2009, 11:25 PM

I am so sick of these survey companies ripping me off. I just took a survey through Adpaid. The 80 cent daily survey. Sponsored by Greenfield online. It was a survey about various products but mostly toilet paper. I watched their stupid commercials (about 8 in all). Used their stupid remote control during them. Answered their stupid questions. Watched another commercial about toilet paper. Clicked on the scenes I like most and least and explained in detail why. Told them which brands of TP I was likely to buy in the future and how many. Got past the questions for classification purposes. Got to the last page that said thank you very much for taking this survey. Clicked the little arrow thingy only to be told, Thanks alot, but unfortunately you do not qualify for this particular survey. WTF? I took and completed the damn thing. *******s got all that input and it didn't cost them a dime. I do not hold Adpaid responsible. It's that freakin' Greenfield Online. 30 minutes of my time and I end up with diddly.

SLance68 · 05-21-2009, 11:31 PM

I am still amazed at how many people still do surveys and waste their time with Greenfield. I gave up with them years ago. You would do better flipping through You Tube and earn nothing than doing a survey "qualifier" for Greenfield.

whatever · 05-21-2009, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by katgirl3

I am so sick of these survey companies ripping me off. I just took a survey through Adpaid. The 80 cent daily survey. Sponsored by Greenfield online. It was a survey about various products but mostly toilet paper. I watched their stupid commercials (about 8 in all). Used their stupid remote control during them. Answered their stupid questions. Watched another commercial about toilet paper. Clicked on the scenes I like most and least and explained in detail why. Told them which brands of TP I was likely to buy in the future and how many. Got past the questions for classification purposes. Got to the last page that said thank you very much for taking this survey. Clicked the little arrow thingy only to be told, Thanks alot, but unfortunately you do not qualify for this particular survey. WTF? I took and completed the damn thing. *******s got all that input and it didn't cost them a dime. I do not hold Adpaid responsible. It's that freakin' Greenfield Online. 30 minutes of my time and I end up with diddly.

Greenfield and OTX are the biggest rip off companies IMO. They do the classifactions AFTERWARDS on purpose IMO so that you won't qualify. Even if you do, they can tell you didn't so they don't have to pay you. H@ll they already have all the info they need. Most of the time if I see a survey sponsored by one of those companies I click right out of it.

ilovecats · 05-21-2009, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by whatever

Greenfield and OTX are the biggest rip off companies IMO. They do the classifactions AFTERWARDS on purpose IMO so that you won't qualify. Even if you do, they can tell you didn't so they don't have to pay you. H@ll they already have all the info they need. Most of the time if I see a survey sponsored by one of those companies I click right out of it.

I never heard of Adpaid.I agree with whatever though,they are a joke.Sometimes I still get sucked in and always regret it.I wind up giving them all the info they wanted and I get nothing.

katgirl3 · 05-21-2009, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SLance68

I am still amazed at how many people still do surveys and waste their time with Greenfield. I gave up with them years ago. You would do better flipping through You Tube and earn nothing than doing a survey "qualifier" for Greenfield.

I quit Greenfield years ago. I do these surveys through Adpaid and unfortunately, these are the companies they're dealing with. I make pretty good money doing them daily. I get paid by Adpaid. Not Greenfield. It's just so frustrating when something like this happens. I just had to ***** about it this time. The survey was boring and tedious. And I did it for what? Nada.

katgirl3 · 05-21-2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ilovecats

I never heard of Adpaid.I agree with whatever though,they are a joke.Sometimes I still get sucked in and always regret it.I wind up giving them all the info they wanted and I get nothing.

Adpaid is a Paid To Click site. But the most money you can make through them is doing the daily surveys. If you qualify for all 3 you can make $2.60 a day. I cash out all the time there. They are a great site and always pay. And most of the time, I get through the surveys, no problem. It's not Adpaid screwing me. It's Greenfield.

katgirl3 · 05-21-2009, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by whatever

Greenfield and OTX are the biggest rip off companies IMO. They do the classifactions AFTERWARDS on purpose IMO so that you won't qualify. Even if you do, they can tell you didn't so they don't have to pay you. H@ll they already have all the info they need. Most of the time if I see a survey sponsored by one of those companies I click right out of it.

Yeah. I tried to do one through OTX tonight and kept getting error pages. Luckily this time it was at the start of the survey. And not the end.

gmyers · 05-22-2009, 01:05 AM

I've had the same thing happen. They even thank me for my opinion and then under it say but you didn't qualify for this particular suervey. After doing the survey completely and submmiting it.

kaylasmom1 · 05-22-2009, 09:40 AM

Yeah, I know the feeling. It is crazy all the time that you take all that time to go through the surveys and then they say you don't qualify. It makes me so mad. At least if you do surveys through harris polls or zoom they give you something if you don't qualify and they usually disqualify you quickly not 30 minutes later.

cathych · 05-22-2009, 11:29 AM

Most of these survey companies, as well as the referral ones are big rips offs. Think about those referral programs where it takes you months to earn $30.

Cxcelica · 05-22-2009, 12:02 PM

This is the exact reason I stopped doing surveys. To many times you get to the end only to be told you did not qualify.

It gets to the point where you just say .80 is just not worth it if every other survey I do I spend 30 minutes on and get screwed in the end.

Heck I could have taken those 30 minutes and probably gone and recycled some cans for more money!