Survey Spot.com+ Survey Head.com Review

This shit is REALLY REALLY starting to get on my nerves. No, that's not true. It's already on my nerves and it's "starting" to get to the i'm going to waste 20 minutes out of my life emailing "customer service" and explaining exactly how unjust, unethical, wrong, and just plain fucking irritating what they are doing is knowing damn well whomever happens to open it will either A. spit out his subway grinder laughing by the end of the first paragraph and call in a few buddies to check this one out or B. Will end up deleted and no one will have so much as an afterthought as to who "employee" 375b294a  is, thinks, wants, QUITS!


How ironic that I actually just now had another survey from an entirely different company, about different things, paying different amounts, etc just did the EXACT same thing to me. Well, CONGRATS WWW.SURVEYHEAD.COM YOU SUCCESSFULLY MADE IT INTO THE REALM OF THE CUSTOMER REVIEW WORLD. HOPEFULLY YOU ADHERE TO THE EDICT OF ANY PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY. I will say this caveat though in Survey Head's defense: As far as I can recall it has not been a constant, reoccurring, ALMOST DAILY problem like in the case of Survey Spot.


I bet your just dying to find out what my issue is. No it's not the fact that i'm getting paid .50 cents to answer a survey that is "estimated" to be about 20 minutes(yeah, that's $1.50 per hour. I'm NOT EXAGGERATING) Im not even complaining(at least not right now) about how wrong it is to agree to answer that 20 minute survey for .50 and in reality spend 35-40 minutes answering honestly and thoughtfully like I was asked to do. I'm mad because after spending that 35 minutes that was supposed to be 20 not only do they have a automated prompt pop up that alerts you that you will not be collecting your funds but it states a list of 4 reasons which "MAY" have contributed to this decision.


1. Inattentive behavior such as speeding through a survey.
2. Your IP address is showing as a different country then you currently listed in your profile.
3. Someone in your household has already taken this survey.
4. I'm not positive.


Survey Spot.com Support Center Link
Survey Head.com About us Main Page Link

Ok, so now your telling me, AFTER I spend an exorbitant amount of time helping YOU make a better product that your customers like and therefor BUY, THEN you tell me that you DECIDED ACTUALLY, NOPE, NOT GOING TO PAY YOU, BUT THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND INFORMATION, WE'LL BE USING THAT TO GET YOU TO BUY FROM US AND OUR PARTNERS IN THE FUTURE. GOODBYE.


ASSHOLES.

Mindfield Online Internet Panels

Want to know one of my pet peeves? Not sure why I even ask that because regardless of your answer if your reading this your going to know....well, I suppose if you really don't want to then you can close the page now though and save yourself. It's taking the time to start to answer one of those "paid internet surveys" and then after you spend a few minutes "qualifying" your told, "I'm sorry, we've already filled the field that your quota fits into today, thank you, hope to see you again soon." 

Link to Mindfield Online Contact Page

You know what goes beyond being a pet peeve? An online company taking up 15-20 minutes of my time which I spend answering questions about products I use, why I like them, which I don't like etc etc and then letting me know that they have my quota filled but they thank me for my time. WHAT? You asked the fucking qualifying questions nearly 20 minutes ago and they took me about 90 seconds to answer! Remember? I do! They asked my age, race, sex....why the hell didn't you stop me from answering questions then? No, instead you let me answer 95% of the damn survey that was supposed to pay $3 and take 25 minutes so now I get paid NOTHING AND SPENT 20 MINUTES TO GET THAT FUCKING NOTHING. 


I usually don't write a review until I have spent a reasonable amount of time using a product, service or site because I want to be fair and objective and for this reason i'm not going to say anything else negative about Mindfield Panels because it hasn't been very long yet. But, THIS IS THE 2ND GOD DAMN TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED OUT OF THE LAST 3 SURVEYS I HAVE TRIED TO ANSWER. THAT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE AND ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. It's bad enough that these survey companies pay like crap and still ppl like myself sit here and spend the time blindly trying to answer honestly under the guise we are helping shape the companies that we buy from, but now your going to actually rip us off for those measly few bucks we get for the hours we put in?


It comes out to less then $2 an hour usually. LITERALLY. AND I'M NOT EXAGGERATING. COME ON GUYS, STEP UP.

So, think Snap Dollars is your answer to your dreams or even a tank of gas a few times per month? How about a tank of gas monthy? A single tank, that's not much to ask, RIGHT?

Snap Dollars Paid Survey Site

I'll tell ya right off the bat, this is going to be one of the only places, items, things, sites, etc that I have given an almost entirely negative review....the thing is, I intentionally waited 3 1/2 months after starting to use the snap dollars site for that fact. I could tell it was not very user friendly the first day but wanted to see if it got better elsewhere. Sometimes, sites or items have 1 nagging little issue but they blow you away everywhere else, i've even literally forgot the thing that bothered me when someone asked before(about my toshiba thrive tablet actually) Unfortuneately, that was no where near the case here....just kept getting worse and worse until finally, here I am. Snap, you had your chance, we dated, we tried, we gave it another chance, but seriously, you need to get away, go somewhere quiet and far away, let yourself unwind, relax, think, and then start fresh....REALLY, I'M NOT KIDDING. DO IT!!!

Ok, here's the deal. Most ppl find out pretty quick that "reading" (or clicking on and quickly closing) the "paid email offers" is something you should do everyday to add some much needed money to your account. That's pretty much a rule of thumb for any of these types of sites, it literally takes 4 seconds per email, and that's if your just waking up, groggy, half awake, and can't find your delete button. The thing with this place is that they are literally the ONLY SURVEY SITE, ONLY ONE, OUT OF THE 12 I'M TESTING RIGHT NOW, THAT SIMPLY WILL NOT "REMEMBER" MY PASSWORD MORE THEN A FEW TIMES IN A ROW BEFORE IT SOMEHOW GETS DELETED AND IM FORCED TO REENTER IT AGAIN...OF COURSE THAT'S AFTER I'VE ALREADY CLICKED THE EMAIL AND DELETED IT....

AND NOT GOTTEN CREDIT. i FIGURED OUT THAT i LOST OVER HALF OF THE MONEY I SHOULD HAVE EARNED BEFORE I FIGURED THIS PART OUT. 

To make things exponentially worse, no response from "customer service" either. Nothing. Dial Tone. Crickets. That little buzzing sound when you turn the tv off. After the 3rd attempt, I cut my losses on way too much time, effort, honesty, and knew it was time for the big ending, the final scene, the kiss of death, execution was necessary but i'm no killer. If even 1 person reads this and avoids the feeling of putting in a weeks work, finally getting your check in the mail, and getting half what you expected.....well, with the time you put into these things and the little reward it's more like seeing 1/120th of what you expected per week. AND THEN TO SEE THAT HALF OF THAT SHIT WASN'T EVEN CREDITED??? 

Beyond Disappointing. It's to the point that it's comical. BUT, it's only funny because it's not money I was relying on obviously, I know it's hard to believe but there really are ppl out there plugging along, answering hundreds and thousands of questions daily, just trying to make whatever they can, wherever they can and I guarantee you, GUARANTEE YOU, that there's men and women around the states and other countries that have had some heated, pointless, yelling matches with themselves and the computer screen....

because Snap Dollars isn't great, isn't even mediocre, put it this way, if someone told you they are awful, Snap Dollars should publish that and be happy that some news station hasn't found some guy that put in 180 hours and then got a check for $30.14 4 months later. 

If you owned a business would you rather inform all your customers that you accidently rewarded them too much so your taking it back or just build some positive brand equity with them and come out looking like your a stand up company???

For me the deciding factor would have to be exactly how much monetary value was actually being credited whether it be cash, points for gift certificates, prize raffles or gift cards along with exactly how many customers were credited too much in the first place.

I bring all of this up because this situation occured to me, I haden't even noticed that my account had been credited with an extra 0 to my reward after I completed a survey. Instad of being 110 it was 1100. I checked out what the value of points would be in relation to gift certificates and it's about $2.50 that MYVIEW had incorrectly paid their "employees". By employees I mean unemployed, bored, retired, possibly desperate, broke, or sometimes its just someone who has extra time on their hands and are on the computer basically all day anyways, ppl like me who were answering their surveys online.

Now, I have no idea how many participants/employees they have filling out surveys in total or how many of those said employees actually fillled out THIS survey so obviously I have no idea whether they would have sustained a loss of $10 million or $100 but if I had to guess I think it'd be a pretty safe bet to say that it's somewhere in the middle. I myself think its probably on the lower end and would have thought the users they alienated would outweigh those losses but they took the opposite stance.

Although I received an apologetic letter it certainty didn't make up for My View's policy of "Indian Giving" to take a term from my childhood.  Even if they did something along the lines of give 220 points instead of the 110/1100 then that would have shown they understand THEY made a mistake and still want their users to feel appreciated but to just take back 990 points with an "i'm sorry" does not cut it. If the grocery store had given me change for $10 instead of $1 would they email me and ask to come in because they are taking my money back???

All in all it just seeems like TERRIBLE BUSINESS POLICY TO ME, WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK?