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wolfrat14
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 184 Bounty Hunter
Seems like Perfect World and Peanut Labs have a perfect scam going with the http://offers.perfectworld.com/ URL, where you can earn Zen by doing surveys and signing up for free accounts and whatnot. 90% of the links I have completed have awarded zero Zen, and I have at least 3 tickets open with Peanut Labs for Zen I earned that was never credited.
Why don't you fix this scam instead of cheating people out of their precious time?
Why don't you fix this scam instead of cheating people out of their precious time?
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95% of the time I did an offer with them I had to open a ticket to get rewarded.
Try to avoid them as much as possible.
Also, take screenshots of everything you complete (final page); they love to dispute things if you have no proof.
PC specs: http://forum.daow.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4#p99
I got 0 Zen. It's a scam.
'But hey, atleast you have that 1 free offer'...For a shiny 10cents costing HD camera, only have to give off my credit card info and pay them...totally not a scam.
So yeah, sucks.
Yes, I wish I had been taking screenshots.
I dont mind doing the free surveys (the ones listed at the very top). One was to help the FDA on an anti-smoking campaign, so I got 90 zen for doing something I probably would've done anyway.
YMMV, but they aren't scams.
None of the offers I do ask for any information other than email, address and sometimes birthday. I HIGHLY recommend a seperate email account for this, since you will get flooded with spam.
Only managed to complete two of them, but I got my Zen both times.
Those surveys get very annoying when you are at 97% and they decide to disqualify you, personally I think it is BS and they have simply gained all the information they needed/wanted and do not want to pay out for it.
9/10 the response I get from peanut labs automated garbage is "Whenever you notify us about an issue with a survey or offer, we make every effort to mediate with the offer provider or research client. If this resolves the issue, we will certainly send the credits your way. Sometimes we are unable to verify your eligibility for the reward. In those cases we can often issue you a credit out of our own pocket. Unfortunately we can only do this a limited number of times. At this time you've reached a limit on the number of support credits we can issue you, or you're asking for a credit amount that exceeds the limit. This limit goes up the longer you stay with us, so please feel free to open a new ticket for this issue in a week or two." Tickets however are never closed, so you cannot reopen the ticket. You also never find out what the limit is. Pretty shady.
This is total BS in my opinion. Survey completed, the survey company got their data, I have proof of survey completed, Peanut Labs got paid for hosting the survey, and I'm left without the rewards I should be getting. The fact that PWE is either unable or unwillilng to ensure their players get the rewards (and I'm sure PWE gets a cut of the money paid to Peanut Labs, you get about $1.00 worth of zen per survey, and PWE is in no way going to take a loss on these) from something they are pushing on the launcher, website, and forum is disheartening.
Ooo, that'll sure show them
And almost all the 'watch this ad' not working in firefox!
What Class Are You?
they are the better business bureau.
What is sickening is that only 47 people complained about peanut labs in the last year and they still have an A rating with the better business bureau. They need to stop doing business with F rating BBB companies and need to do much better business themselves report them and get your issues resolved. Help them learn how to do business in America. Also if you do use a credit card use a prepaid one so they cannot simply leech onto your bank account. Simply pull up the bbb site search peanut labs in san Francisco and submit a complaint. Its funny how fast they respond to that as opposed to all u get from peanut labs is an automated response.
sure when you fail they say they wont use your answers but they do, all those that are disqualified go into a pool of other information. being unemployed myself taking the survey is a decent distraction from the grind of looking at jobs but when you spend the time just for a little more enjoyment out of a game only to get dumped to a page saying they cant use you after you gave them your life story its really disheartening to say the least.
You do realize the BBB is pointless right? It's nothing more then an Angies List. There is NO requirement to be apart of it, and you can PAY to have things removed from it. Thus giving you a better rating. This isn't the 50's anymore. No one gives a **** about the BBB.
"Whenever you notify us about an issue with a survey or offer, we make every effort to mediate with the offer provider or research client. If this resolves the issue, we will certainly send the credits your way. Sometimes we are unable to verify your eligibility for the reward. In those cases we can often issue you a credit out of our own pocket. Unfortunately we can only do this a limited number of times. At this time you've reached a limit on the number of support credits we can issue you, or you're asking for a credit amount that exceeds the limit. This limit goes up the longer you stay with us, so please feel free to open a new ticket for this issue in a week or two."
So what they are saying if I am interpreting this correctly it says...
"We are sorry you didn't get what you earned. If you let us screw you over some more we may give you what you have earned and look into your problem."
This is my favorite one. I went through and filled out a lot of demographic information for at least 15 minutes. At the end I was told I was disqualified. If I put in a significant amount of time I expect at least some compensation.
#$%& that and #$%@ Peanut Labs and $%&# their wall of scams...
"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James T. Kirk
One problem with third party partners that sometimes they don't give you the zen. Your dealing with a host of third party people, who for example ask you to take a survey for zen. I did that on another site but obtained gold for another game. The survey never ended, it asked for every piece of information about me.
Is giving away all my personal information, taking half an hour to complete it, really worth it. I think not, how can we trust when we do one of these specials for zen, they won't do anything shady with information. I mean they're already still profiting off starter packs, renamed from zen packs, making money off zen store.
It just seems tad much, as we speak I'm seeing an offer on the site in an ad, saying "do you like free zen, complete this offer" if anything bad happens with personal information after we got the link from this site, then this site make look really shady for giving it to us.
For example people who work in a newspaper or accountants who have information about companies. They want to question people like this since obviously those people know a lot of things that nobody else does. This is why "99% disqualify" you.
Funnily enough if you worked in any of those industries then you probably have a good income and would buy every item from the zen store without thinking twice about it. No point. Just pathetic greedy companies trying to get information from people who are stupid enough to give it to them.