Funny how quickly good sites turn to bad (or they seem to be good until you go to cash out). One horrible site I used to be a member of initially had a $10 minimum cash out. That changed to $15, then $20 then $30 and then $50 and it took me ages to get to $50 (they didn't get many surveys and then when you would get the invite, you were lucky to get it as EVERYONE needed it). As soon as I got to $50, I cashed out and left the site (as did many others). Not surprisingly, that site does not exist any more.

The sad thing is that there are times when you get a higher amount of surveys that screen you out at the end or fail for some other reason in spates and droves and this goes on for days before it tapers off and normalises to "oh good, I am finally getting paid for answering questions"/

The only good thing about this is you are not alone and it has happened to many of us. It should never happen but sometimes it feels like it always happens to you (one of those days when all the surveys are naughty). On the bright side, I like Halo (the survey was Horns of the Devil as it was so long and LIED about how long it was AND it didn't credit) and it feels better to share the frustration and let it go :)

This is disgusting that this survey is still doing the rounds. I just did a survey on cameras and camcorders and I was near the end and it said that the survey has been reset so "click on original invitation" and start again (this is not possible and even if it were, I am not wasting ANOTHER 10 minutes on it when I already gave them 10 minutes). Why should I start it from the start again?

thanks emma this I didn't know

Your welcome

What I find is irritating is there are lots of surveys that do the rounds that say they are a 5 or 10 minute survey but they are not: it is the prescreen, screen and jump through hoops to prove you are not a robot to the DUMB AI that is taking 5-10 minutes.

That's ok as I love me.

I hope you are not allergic to nuts.

no but they do stick in grommie's teeth when he eats a peanut brownie

and of course, a cint one that let me do it until the end only to screen me out and give me 30 points...another waste of 20 minutes. I really dislike surveys that come from cint as they are most likely to fail, most likely to have technical glitches, most likely not to credit and also most likely to "ban" you when they are the ones that are being ridiculous in their prescreens, screening, questions etc. You can get marked down and banned from their surveys if your answer was not long enough, you took too long, you didn't take long enough, your answers apparently don't match (when the real problem is the nuances in the wording of their questions which are designed to illicit differing answers to "same" and "similar" questions) All part of the fun and games. Good mental exercise. You have to laugh.

OK!

Better to be kicked out at the beginning (even though you can often waste time getting to the survey with all the pre-survey bs of proving you are not a robot, word association games, "most likely" and "least likely", click on the top of picture a but none of the rest, click on the car etc, type this phrase...it could be a good 10 minutes before you actually get sent to a router for a survey just to give your profile. This level of proving to robots that we are human is just unacceptable. The companies that are responsible for this should be forced to live a day in a life of a survey taker to see how ludicrous and frustrating it is just to get to one survey and then let it fail for them or kick them out at the end because it was "full" or they didn't qualify. They should also ensure that those surveys contain stupid questions like how many chocolate bars have you bought in the last 3 months, how much you have spent in the last three months on groceries, bills etc, how many surveys have you done in the last 6 months and other wonderfully stupid questions that no normal person could possible answer. If you are able to answer these questions accurately then you are a savant or have a high functioning brain where remembering the name of every person you have ever met is possible (yet answering honestly to this anit-bot question will have you disqualified).

and my other personal favourites of "how many times have you tapped your card this month?" "how much was each transaction?" "how many direct debits do you have and what are their values?" "how many times have you used a method other than tap, which methods and how much for the last month or three months?" "how many times have you logged into online banking via desktop, phone etc and how many transactions and average value for the last 3 months?" This is another topic. Do they know or even care how stupid these questions are and how any normal person could not possibly know, remember or care to remember?

Not just here: every site that hosts surveys (even gamers who take surveys to earn "currency" for games complain). Why would you want to do surveys for that or even for free (chance to win) when so often, when you are paid for it (even when the amount is not good enough for the survey they give you) the surveys fail.

Just finished a survey and it didn't credit as it said "missing session" at the end of it. Too many of these these days

It is super annoying because things like this have been happening for decades yet none of the companies that make the surveys or companies that pay places to make the surveys care to fix it.

On a good note, on Rewardia we can take a break and play games and do the polls, etc lol. When I first joined, I thought those things were silly. Now I'm submitting silly polls :) I also like that we feel validated since we can post discussions and vent on this site and not think it's just us having the issues.

In this case, it was not optional and you had to answer multiple choice questions AND give a text based response about what you thought of the survey BEFORE it got to some more crappy profiling and other random questions.

Unfortunately, this is very true. Why should people care about survey results when they are published when we, as survey takers know that because we gave the "wrong" opinion or there were already too many people who voiced that opinion, we were screened out. How can we trust what these results say when they are made public when for many surveys, the opinions are weighted to what the survey owner wants the result to show?

yeah, I might bet I booted 1 in 20. I guess I don't know why ,i think i pull out of surveys more than i get booted

I know what you mean as sometimes I just close the survey and refuse to do it before it asks me anything. This survey I did not close as it said 20 minutes, it was paying a good amount (had it paid me) and it was on a topic I liked. If the survey was honest BEFORE it got to the survey (saying it was 1 hour viewing plus questions etc, I would have closed it for 2 reasons: 1/ it wasn't paying enough for a survey of that length 2/ the longer a survey is, the more likely you will be screened out because by the time you finish it, they may have already garnered the answers they needed