Paid Survey sites - Irish Opinions, Acumen, RedC etc

RoYoBo wrote: »

Anyone else struggle with the Acumen surveys that asks about great food or drink advertisements and good promotional deals? I don't pay any attention to ads on TV, so never can come up with a good one when asked.

Still, Acumen is my favourite survey company and I make the most from them. I have 100 in TK Maxx vouchers squirreled away since March for Xmas now.

I must be completely in the wrong demographic for RedC now as I rarely get any surveys from them - and then get eliminated from them more often than not. I only manage to get roughly 1 x 50 in a year now!

I just say "none" on the Acumen survey and the survey progresses. I get it every couple of months.

I couldn't think of any either. I always find answering questions about ads tough as I only watch tv on my laptop and don't see many of them.

I'm lucky to get 100 Euro from RedC in a year.

Are there still people in here that work with MTurk? I haven't seen any posts on it since last year and I'm wondering how does it work regarding tax? If you or your spouse have a part - time job and in receipt of Working Family Payment , I'm assuming everything must be declared as they request your PPS number (I think!) , does this mean that you're self employed and no longer entitled to WFP??

L1011 wrote: »

The tax situation of all of these things is a bit unknown; a lot of the surveys and so on are considered (by the company - possibly not by Revenue!) as gifts and nobody is going to breach the gift limit (3k a year from one source) on them, but MTurk could be considered work.

You would need to speak to a tax advisor about that - this is far too important to take advice online about.

Thanks L1011. I didn't know the others were considered as gifts, which Mturk could possibly fall into if you accepted the amazon vouchers/credits instead of cash. (?)
I haven't signed up for anything yet, just seeing what different options are out there and any implications they might have. Would love to hear other peoples experience though with MTurk.

Abiya041 wrote: »

Has anyone had any problems with IO recently. I redeemed an Amazon Voucher yesterday and they usually come immediately but this time I haven't received it yet

I redeemed a tesco voucher yesterday and got it nearly straight away

Abiya041 wrote: »

Has anyone had any problems with IO recently. I redeemed an Amazon Voucher yesterday and they usually come immediately but this time I haven't received it yet

Same - redeemed one on Saturday and no e-mail confirmation or voucher received.

Libera wrote: »

Same - redeemed one on Saturday and no e-mail confirmation or voucher received.

Try requesting the voucher again. That worked for me today

The option to redeem via PayPal is back on Triaba if anyone is waiting!

Loubox wrote: »

The option to redeem via PayPal is back on Triaba if anyone is waiting!

Claimed a couple of rewards today(again),last time it was sent back to my Triaba accountt..Waiting now to see will it appear in my Pay Pal account

bmc58 wrote: »

These IO E vouchers come to me straight away also.Have a few in store for Christmas (printed them out).Anyone scanned a printed version at Tesco lately? How did it go?Can't see us getting back to the old physical Tesco card anytime soon from IO.

I’ve used a few, both at self service and serviced checkout, no problems at all.

Deleted User wrote: »

I missed out on a €6 survey wow! But my boyfriend got it I’m not jealous at all

Just got that one and a very handy one it was too.

123654789 wrote: »

I'm tempted to delete all my survey accounts and reinvent myself in a new demographic! I can't believe how many surveys some people get. Eg I've received 7 from red c since mid June going by my emails and only accepted for 2. I've opened the emails fairly quickly and my profile is up to date.
I wonder how I'd get on as say an elderly lady

Red C has all but died for me recently - as in the last 12 months or more. Constantly being screened out, even half way through, which is very frustrating. I'm also wondering what demographic is gaining the edge, though as a somewhat 'elderly lady', that doesn't work for me!

There was an older man on here a while back who got phenomenal amounts of surveys across the board with every provider. I think it may also be related to income, location and occupation. Perhaps a 90 year old professional man in D4 with an income in excess of €100k? Probably not too many of those spending their time on €3 surveys. :pac:

RoYoBo wrote: »

Red C has all but died for me recently - as in the last 12 months or more. Constantly being screened out, even half way through, which is very frustrating. I'm also wondering what demographic is gaining the edge, though as a somewhat 'elderly lady', that doesn't work for me!

There was an older man on here a while back who got phenomenal amounts of surveys across the board with every provider. I think it may also be related to income, location and occupation. Perhaps a 90 year old professional man in D4 with an income in excess of €100k? Probably not too many of those spending their time on €3 surveys. :pac:

My survey invites from RED C have almost gone in the past three months .Used to get 3 or 4(didn't qualify for them all) every week.Now some weeks I get none.Don't understand why?