Paid Survey sites - Irish Opinions, Acumen, RedC etc

Dark Stanley. wrote: »

Beverages - 49137904 €5.50. Has anyone received payment for this survey yet.
I've been waiting so long I've grown a second head.............:mad:

Have you been paid for this yet. I'm still waiting and waiting.... getting royally annoyed!!

Irish Opinions are a <SNIP>. I've received €30 worth off online Amazon vouchers from them, the code number in all of them is 000000 and it shows in my account history as such. I contacted them twice, haven't got any answer. I'm actually thinking of placing posters in town warning people from using them.

Well, I received online vouchers promptly too, only they are all invalid. Here is my account history with the codes:

28-5-2012 Rewards Payout (Online Vouchers) - 000000 €-10.00
28-5-2012 Rewards Payout (Online Vouchers) - 000000 €-10.00
28-5-2012 Rewards Payout (Online Vouchers) - 000000 €-10.00

It's basically the same thing as robbing someone's money using his credit card. It's been a week since I've e-mailed them twice to send me the codes and still I haven't got any answer (even though in my second e-mail I warned them that if I don't get any answer, I'll go public about them). They have no contact number and besides, there is no way of tracking your e-mails to them since they only have an online form, so if this is not a <SNIP>, then I don't know what is. By the way, the fact that they didn't answer my second e-mail warning them would indicate that they do not care about their opinion.
Zero euro is not a fantastic payout for many hours of my wasted time. I wonder if someone else had a similar experience to mine, from what I red here there are people who have been <SNIP> by Irish Opinions, but not in that particular form (usually their vouchers just never arrived and like in my case, there was no answer).
Maybe Irish Opinions are sort of a pyramid scheme - only those who joined early got paid?

The codes should be BOTH e-mailed to me AND given in my account history and I haven't received any e-mail while my account history shows bogus codes. This is what their website says and I quote:

"If you ordered a digital voucher, you should have received a confirmation email with the voucher code via email. The code of your voucher can also be found in Reward History section in your account."

I don't know if I'm extremely unlucky or what, but one thing I know is that the Irish Opinions don't seem to care about their customers since they don't bother answering their e-mails and furtermore, they seem to make it even more difficult to query them by not having any phone number to phone them. Like I said, perhaps they've just paid those lucky ones who joined them first so that they spread a good opinion about them (in good faith) and the rest of their customers are there to be <SNIP>? I cannot see any OTHER reason why they would have BOTH sent me invalid voucher codes AND wouldn't reply to my e-mail.
Supposing I bought book vouchers from a bookshop. Now, imagine that not only the vouchers would be worthless, but noone would answer your queries in that bookshop. Would that not be sufficient to call that bookshop a <SNIP>?

Dear lisar816, try to order your 60 vouchers from them and see what you'll get - I got 3 online vouchers with codes 000000. I was at the 30 euro mark and yea, I was getting surveys not every week, but every day. After I had ordered my vouchers, not only they sent me invalid codes, but they never replied to my e-mails. I'm not the only one here on boards.ie with bad experience with them, just read the posts of people who never got paid (one guy says that only at the Tesco till he realized that the vouchers are invalid).

It's a good couple of hours of wasted time you'll never get back, it's better to go for a walk.

That's another boards.ie user (yvonnebb) opinion:

'I have 3 x 10 euro tesco vouchers outstanding dating back to 01/12/2011.
I sent 2 mails to Isobel and got the automatically generated reply
Sorry delay in receiving vouchers will be sorted im the coming WEEKS.
I am already waiting 11 weeks and they are sorting it im the coming weeks. I did 41 surveys to get this amount all very time consuming.
Its a disgrace as the company get well paid and they give us a pittance and when they do they delay as long as possible.
Once I get this lot of delayed vouchers Im out.
It is a scam. '

Dear SerialComplaint,

Why would I cut/paste all the positive feedback about IrishOpinions if they don't care about positive feedback? I wrote two e-mails to them, in my second e-mail I warned them that if they don't answer my e-mail about €30 they've stolen from me I will go public about them to make people aware that they are <SNIP>. They didn't answer, therefore they don't care.
Secondly, I want to warn people not to use them because there are so many other things people can do with their time rather than wasting it on <SNIP> company. Positive feedback would actually mislead boards.ie users as to there is tons of people who either didn't get paid/are still waiting for vouchers/never got any response from IrishOpinions (I quoted only the first few).

Are you going to cut/paste any positive feedback on the Anglo-Irish bank (I'm sure there was some in the past)? Nope - why should you?; well, neither I should cut/paste any positive feedback on IrishOpinions - why should I?

Maybe that's a good idea ;-) - I was on Pat Kenny during their presidential debate; let me know when he's having a program on Irish Opinions and I'll go there lol.
As to the Irish Times, I prefer to write to them on economy - do you think I should bother myself with Irish Opinion and give them free publicity ;-)? Hmmm... ;-)

But as to the "2gb menory stick after 18 months", I think that after my adventure with 3 Amazon vouchers with codes 000000 - you can use them if you manage to buy any books with them - I'm done with surveys for good. It's my fault - I should have checked them out after first €10 instead of naively going to €30 and then realising the vouchers are bogus. You live and learn :-)

Dear Srameen, you know what? If you think that Irish Opinions are not a <SNIP>, I'm offering you a great deal - my password to Irish Opinions with €30 worth unused Amazon vouchers in return for €20 cash. Think of that - you're getting a tenner for free - that's 2 pints, dude - and it's not a <SNIP> (or so you say). Now put your money where your mouth is :-)

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Srameen -
A. That's a valid point - like I said, I want to warn people from <SNIP> companies so that they don't waste as much time as me.
C. why do you ask how would you get €20 to me if you're not going to do it? Where there's a will, there's a way. It looks like you don't believe in their vouchers that much after all. On reflection I thought of giving you those vouchers and password for free if only you could show me and other users how you can use the 000000 codes.
D. Keep your opinion about me to yourself, particularly if you're not willing to put your money where your mounth is.

homer-simpson -

1. I didn't however receive any e-mail with codes, nor did I receive any e-mail from them after I had asked them why I didn't receive any codes. My account details and e-mail address are correct and I'm checking all my spam e-mails too. But calling their office is a good idea, thanks - where did you get their number from? - on their website there is only a form. I will call them, deffo

lisar816 -

1. Did you receive any e-mail with codes from them?
2. If not, try to e-mail them and see if you get any reply. I've sent 2 e-mails and I didn't, which shows they don't really care (try to ignore 2 e-mails from a customer in most jobs and they'd probably sack you)

dudara -
"Please bear in mind how your continued negative posting is received by other posters. It is not gaining you any friends here." - you are probably right, but my aim is not to gain friends, but to prevent people from being conned like I believe I was. When I was warning people from taking mortgages between 2003-2007 it wasn't gaining me any friends either and they were also saying "I was negative". And who's negative now, me or people with mortgages?
I hope I'm wrong about the Irish Opinions and this can be explained - after all I can see some people are getting some money from them (and if the outcome is positive, I'll let yous know), but so far they've done everything to avoid any explanations and that alone is very unprofessional.

Anybody had any dealings with a crowd called Opinion People?. They are based in the UK.