Paid Survey sites - Irish Opinions, Acumen, RedC etc

bmc58 · 30-07-2020 6:47pm

thesandeman wrote: »

Pulled out of that myself after two brands. What really pissed me off was that it was telling me it was 50 75 90% completed and then it started all over again.

Some people said they were were able to do it in 30 mins ,which I found questionable.

OmegaGene · 30-07-2020 8:03pm

bmc58 wrote: »

Some people said they were were able to do it in 30 mins ,which I found questionable.

Most of the questions were not relevant to the product being evaluated so it was just simply clicking the same answer over and over again, tedious but easy enough on the Mac and I checked my notes and it was 31 minutes spent on that survey so worked out alright in the end for €2.50 albeit one of the worst surveys I’ve done it was just a mess

alie · 30-07-2020 11:26pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

They will be sending cheques again once the pandemic is over and that’s why I said the option was there to wait for the cheque
PayPal takes a minute to join or another option is to transfer it to a credit union account online

There was no option to wait, which would have been fine with me

SourSessions · 31-07-2020 12:14am

alie wrote:

There was no option to wait, which would have been fine with me

The email said "If, for whatever reason, you do not wish to receive the digital payment, and much rather wait for a cheque (this will be sent only when our office reopens after lockdown restrictions are lifted), please reply to this email with â€˜CHEQUEâ€™ by 10th July."

kmart6 · 31-07-2020 12:26am

alie wrote: »

There was no option to wait, which would have been fine with me

The email I received in early July clearly called out a way to wait for the cheque:

If, for whatever reason, you do not wish to receive the digital payment, and much rather wait for a cheque (this will be sent only when our office reopens after lockdown restrictions are lifted), please reply to this email with ‘CHEQUE’ by 10th July.

SourSessions · 31-07-2020 12:42am

sugarman wrote:

Did you just add it the same way you would a normal debit/credit card? ...and did it temporarily take â‚¬1 from it? You know the way it sometimes does to verify the card and then it returns?

Yes, add as normal and no, it didn't take any preauth

OmegaGene · 31-07-2020 7:47am

sugarman wrote: »

Wow, didnt think Paypal accepted prepaid cards! That would be so much handier to have it in my PP account!

Did you just add it the same way you would a normal debit/credit card? ...and did it temporarily take €1 from it? You know the way it sometimes does to verify the card and then it returns?

add it as normal and the pre authorisation is just for adding a bank account

OmegaGene · 31-07-2020 7:48am

alie wrote: »

There was no option to wait, which would have been fine with me

there was an option in the three emails i have received before each payment and also it is on the red c newsletter

red-c

For the duration of the crisis, we will be sending out
your rewards in digital/virtual card format. This is the
quickest way for us to get you rewards at this time. The
digital cards will be sent to you by email from RED C,
the cards created by EML Payment Group. The cards
can be used for any payment that can be made online
or over the phone, in exactly the same way as a
physical card, but can’t be used in store. If you would
rather wait for the cheque, please let us know by the 5th
of the month in which the payment is due and the
cheque will be sent after the lockdown restrictions
have been lifted.
Please TAKE CARE and STAY SAFE.
Best Wishes
The RED C Live Team

https://www.redclive.ie/Documents/RED-C-live-June-2020-Newsletter.aspx

bmc58 · 31-07-2020 6:22pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

Most of the questions were not relevant to the product being evaluated so it was just simply clicking the same answer over and over again, tedious but easy enough on the Mac and I checked my notes and it was 31 minutes spent on that survey so worked out alright in the end for €2.50 albeit one of the worst surveys I’ve done it was just a mess

I thought you were supposed to read the questions thoroughly.Clicking quickly through questions could get you in trouble.I went through them all not daring to just click through them.

OmegaGene · 31-07-2020 6:28pm

bmc58 wrote: »

I thought you were supposed to read the questions thoroughly.Clicking quickly through questions could get you in trouble.I went through them all not daring to just click through them.

You shouldn’t just assume I didn’t read them properly, that’s like something Irish opinions would do
I read them properly and most of the questions were not relevant to the products being reviewed and the questions were exactly the same for each product so it’s not difficult

I’ve been doing surveys for ten years now so I think I have the hang of it lol

bmc58 · 01-08-2020 3:22pm

RED C non existant for me past week.First time in ages I didn't get at least my regular Friday survey.

ordinary_girl · 01-08-2020 5:21pm

Is anyone having any issues with Acumen? I put in a redemption request for my points about a month ago, got an email confirming my request and saying I would receive my voucher code shortly, but I've got nothing since. No voucher code to use on All Gifts, checked my spam folder, emailed them and still nothing...

DebJZ · 02-08-2020 3:07pm

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. Waiting for the allgifts voucher for over a week. No reply to email either. Hopefully it will be sorted soon. They are usually good.

laoise09 · 02-08-2020 4:54pm

Anyone have any experience of Focus Group Panel https://focusgroup.ie/ ?

The_Kitty · 05-08-2020 10:51am

Has anyone used the one4all digital cards shopandscan are giving out now instead of physical cards? Wondering if anyone has issues with them as theres reviews online saying they are a pain to use in shops?

OmegaGene · 05-08-2020 2:09pm

The_Kitty wrote: »

Has anyone used the one4all digital cards shopandscan are giving out now instead of physical cards? Wondering if anyone has issues with them as theres reviews online saying they are a pain to use in shops?

Not sure how they would be a pain, I’ve used loads of digital Tesco cards from other companies and digital Nike cards from shop and scan with no problem

bmc58 · 06-08-2020 7:35pm

Got my first survey from RED C today for €3 in ten days.Thought I was never getting another one.Hopefully more on the way after the drought.

Kh1993 · 11-08-2020 1:29pm

For anyone using MOBROG, have you noticed your balance go up by a tenner? I did a survey for 1.60 yesterday about TV providers and now I have a ‘extra incentive’ €10 added

OmegaGene · 11-08-2020 1:35pm

Kh1993 wrote: »

For anyone using MOBROG, have you noticed your balance go up by a tenner? I did a survey for 1.60 yesterday about TV providers and now I have a ‘extra incentive’ €10 added

i did the same survey yesterday, i got the €1.60 but no incentive bonus

enjoy the extra tenner

thomas anderson. · 11-08-2020 2:02pm

Opinion World are lashing out the surveys, on €10 today alone

Have given up on Mobrog, too much of a grind with the same surveys

bmc58 · 11-08-2020 7:29pm

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Opinion World are lashing out the surveys, on €10 today alone

Have given up on Mobrog, too much of a grind with the same surveys

IO giving out plenty too.

mickzer · 11-08-2020 7:50pm

Kh1993 wrote: »

For anyone using MOBROG, have you noticed your balance go up by a tenner? I did a survey for 1.60 yesterday about TV providers and now I have a ‘extra incentive’ €10 added

I didn't do the €1.60 survey but I did get the €10 "extra incentive":D:D

OmegaGene · 11-08-2020 8:10pm

mickzer wrote: »

I didn't do the €1.60 survey but I did get the €10 "extra incentive":D:D

I’m feeling left out now

kmart6 · 11-08-2020 11:59pm

Just after seeing I got the €10 from MOBROG too.

The_Kitty · 12-08-2020 8:30pm

Started Swagbucks and Attapoll apps this week. They seem ok but low amounts for surveys.

bmc58 · 12-08-2020 9:03pm

Kh1993 wrote: »

For anyone using MOBROG, have you noticed your balance go up by a tenner? I did a survey for 1.60 yesterday about TV providers and now I have a ‘extra incentive’ €10 added

Take it .Tell no one.

Toxica · 14-08-2020 3:55pm

Anyone redeemed a reward with Ideas Panel recently? I redeemed my points for an Amazon gift card which they said can take 4-6 weeks to be delivered but I have now been waiting over 8 weeks. Emailed them a week or so ago but as usual with them it takes them about 8 weeks to reply to emails too.

bmc58 · 16-08-2020 3:28pm

Getting this request from IO the past few days again to allow access to my mobile aps and advertising to give me more relevant surveys.Anyone allow IO this permission and are your surveys increasing because of allowing them to access your mobile?

OmegaGene · 16-08-2020 3:37pm

survey on irish opinions today about homelessness and i was almost finished and it came up i was answering questions faster than it takes to read them which is nonsense but just thought i would give people a heads up to go slow on this one

bmc58 · 16-08-2020 4:10pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

survey on irish opinions today about homelessness and i was almost finished and it came up i was answering questions faster than it takes to read them which is nonsense but just thought i would give people a heads up to go slow on this one

I would never speed through a survey as it only leads to trouble with the survey provider.I know you are very fast at doing surveys with repetitive questions(as you have stated) but sometimes you should read the questions and then answer.Otherwise you end up in bother.

OmegaGene · 16-08-2020 4:16pm

bmc58 wrote: »

I would never speed through a survey as it only leads to trouble with the survey provider.I know you are very fast at doing surveys with repetitive questions(as you have stated) but sometimes you should read the questions and then answer.Otherwise you end up in bother.

i did read the questions and did not speed through the survey, i was on the survey for 18 minutes and every question was different so there was no repetition involved.
you seem to be accusing of something for no reason and this is not the first time, best not to bother anymore or add me to your ignore list

Jim_Hodge · 16-08-2020 4:20pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

survey on irish opinions today about homelessness and i was almost finished and it came up i was answering questions faster than it takes to read them which is nonsense but just thought i would give people a heads up to go slow on this one

I had that one with Opinion World and the same thing happened.

Jim_Hodge · 16-08-2020 4:22pm

bmc58 wrote: »

I would never speed through a survey as it only leads to trouble with the survey provider.I know you are very fast at doing surveys with repetitive questions(as you have stated) but sometimes you should read the questions and then answer.Otherwise you end up in bother.

I did that one at my usual speed. I've never been thrown out of one for answering too quickly before and am doing surveys over 10 years on several sites.

bmc58 · 16-08-2020 5:30pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

i did read the questions and did not speed through the survey, i was on the survey for 18 minutes and every question was different so there was no repetition involved.
you seem to be accusing of something for no reason and this is not the first time, best not to bother anymore or add me to your ignore list

I am not accusing you of anything OG.You give much valued advice on all things regarding surveys,but we all get kicked out of surveys for various reasons at times.And I will not add you to my ignore list.

foreverme · 16-08-2020 6:56pm

Hi. Does anybody else have trouble with Morbrog accepting your irish postcode? It keeps telling me that my postcode is invalid. Thanks for any help.

OmegaGene · 16-08-2020 6:58pm

foreverme wrote: »

Hi. Does anybody else have trouble with Morbrog accepting your irish postcode? It keeps telling me that my postcode is invalid. Thanks for any help.

skip the postcode option is best, some of the mobrog surveys are from uk companies

Tazz T · 17-08-2020 12:10pm

DebJZ wrote: »

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. Waiting for the allgifts voucher for over a week. No reply to email either. Hopefully it will be sorted soon. They are usually good.

Had the same problem with Opinions.ie. They finally got back to me to say they were only delivering rewards at the end of the month.

Bit ridiculous. Ordered on the 2nd August. Will stop using them at this stage.

malcy · 17-08-2020 1:24pm

Impossible to go any slower on that homeless survey and still got booted out.

OmegaGene · 17-08-2020 1:38pm

malcy wrote: »

Impossible to go any slower on that homeless survey and still got booted out.

Yeah there’s an issue with the survey for sure, I was on it for 18 minutes while eating lunch
Maybe Irish opinions will pay out when they see everyone is getting kicked for rushing it

bmc58 · 17-08-2020 6:42pm

First survey from RED C in(€2} over week today.Very slow.€14 to go to get to the €50 this month,doubt it at this rate.

kmart6 · 17-08-2020 8:39pm

I've only got the one survey from RedC this month and was screened out, it has been very quiet. Had 6 complete surveys in June & July so huge drop-off.

SourSessions · 18-08-2020 12:40am

Same, none in ages. I got a 2 euro one today and was screened out... Almost makes me want to take up the lotto just so I can take the survey! :P

thomas anderson. · 18-08-2020 11:20am

Got the €50 virtual card today. Those things are the biz, can just use it on Amazon

downtheroad · 18-08-2020 12:29pm

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Got the €50 virtual card today. Those things are the biz, can just use it on Amazon

How did you manage that do you mind me asking? Tried using it to top up my Revolut and it wouldn't work. Tried buying an Amazon voucher it wouldn't work. Looking to buy something on Amazon over €50.

Curlysue76 · 18-08-2020 1:47pm

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Got the €50 virtual card today. Those things are the biz, can just use it on Amazon

Got mine today as well, got it on paypal now but don't know how to transfer funds to bank account, new to paypal, only use it for Prolific.

OmegaGene · 18-08-2020 1:54pm

Curlysue76 wrote: »

Got mine today as well, got it on paypal now but don't know how to transfer funds to bank account, new to paypal, only use it for Prolific.

if you have added the card to paypal then you can send it to someone as a friends and family payment then they send it back to you and it is then in your paypal balance which can be withdrawn to your chosen bank account, mine usually gets to revolut the same day

Toxica · 18-08-2020 1:55pm

Curlysue76 wrote: »

Got mine today as well, got it on paypal now but don't know how to transfer funds to bank account, new to paypal, only use it for Prolific.

Did you add the card to your PayPal? If so you will have to send the 50 euro to someone else then get them to send it back to you so you have it as your PayPal balance which you can then withdraw to you bank.

Curlysue76 · 18-08-2020 1:58pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

if you have added the card to paypal then you can send it to someone as a friends and family payment then they send it back to you and it is then in your paypal balance which can be withdrawn to your chosen bank account, mine usually gets to revolut the same day

Thanks, I'll do that:)

Curlysue76 · 18-08-2020 1:58pm

Toxica wrote: »

Did you add the card to your PayPal? If so you will have to send the 50 euro to someone else then get them to send it back to you so you have it as your PayPal balance which you can then withdraw to you bank.

Thanks

bmc58 · 18-08-2020 4:22pm

SourSessions wrote: »

Same, none in ages. I got a 2 euro one today and was screened out... Almost makes me want to take up the lotto just so I can take the survey! :P

It could be you.:D

Paid Survey sites - Irish Opinions, Acumen, RedC etc

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