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In the vain hope that I would see some of this "free zen" so beautifully advertised like a piece of Ferengi art on every page in the forum, I took up several offers, and am now the proud participant in surveys regarding sock selection, the owner of a delighful herbal tea package, and will soon experience my first hull extension *guaranteed to leave you satisfied*.
Okay, that might not be "exactly" what I went for, but you get the point.
Unfortunately, despite having followed, and dutifully signed up my spam folder for another wave of emails (same email as the account is linked to, just to be clear), I have yet, several days later, to see a single zen point, free or otherwise.
I'm assuming this must be a problem with my account, but can others confirm that they have been able to benefit from this, or is it essentially, a PWE scam? I don't mind going through the hassle of clearing out my inbox, and remembering to unsubscribe from Lobe Lube deals, but only if I'm actually going to see those aforementioned "free" zen points.
Okay, that might not be "exactly" what I went for, but you get the point.
Unfortunately, despite having followed, and dutifully signed up my spam folder for another wave of emails (same email as the account is linked to, just to be clear), I have yet, several days later, to see a single zen point, free or otherwise.
I'm assuming this must be a problem with my account, but can others confirm that they have been able to benefit from this, or is it essentially, a PWE scam? I don't mind going through the hassle of clearing out my inbox, and remembering to unsubscribe from Lobe Lube deals, but only if I'm actually going to see those aforementioned "free" zen points.
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Don't need to. Search the forums for free zen and you can see discussion about this.
edit: Actually surprised you got along that far. Last I knew, they were still having issues with linking accounts. Many folks where getting a "You don;t have a level 10 character" error when they tried to do that stuff.
edit: Just realized that we can;t search for zen on the forums. Sorry about that. Some links though from a google search:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=276501
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=276271
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=277331
There's more if you follow that google search.
The issue I've had is a little different - though I grant my flippancy might not have helped with clarity. I kind of guessed that some of the survey ones would prove to be duff - and avoided them in favour of a couple of the deals (Netflix, and a couple of credit sites), but still didn't get any Zen, despite going through with everything.
Use it and file reports there, you can attach a prove via images or mail, and see what happens then.
The sponsors are really bad at paying out ...
Of course, due to their simplicity and quick pay out schedule, I usually stick to videos.
Almost all of the "Earn ZEN through Offers" have been TRIBBLE for me. NONE of the "sign up" offers have paid, including the ones that want you to sign onto a third party survey company - even though those companies themselves are fairly reputable, there's some critical flaw preventing it from registering as a success. Or it's a huge scam.
The only 2 Offers that cleared was installing a Facebook App for 50 Zen and watching a CM for 3 Zen. A few of my friends already had and used that Facebook App, so I figured it was ok. The CM was only 1:30 minutes selling Tetley water or something.
The "Earn ZEN through Surveys" have all worked for me, assuming I qualify for the survey. I've made over 300 Zen going through them when I'm bored.
Here's the ones I've had success with (please not this is NOT an endorsement of any particular offer, product or survey - care should be taken on anything involving your details, and especially money)
http://i45.tinypic.com/2u8eck2.png
http://i47.tinypic.com/71h577.png
http://i48.tinypic.com/2q1hv5y.png
Shame I don't seem to have that offer on my list.
It's a time gated event ;-) Seriously.
Yep.. it's kind of rediculous you're not told you're taking a survey to find out if you're qualifying for a survey.
Apparently my opinion is never wanted under any circumstances from the PWE offers.
Certainly less hassle than the Zen advertisements and pay is guaranteed, sometimes even in advance.
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This is just a huge joke and something needs sorting about it, there are people out there who refuse to use a credit card due to fear of fraud, who take this option up and begin to thank god they didn't use their credit cards after all!
All while not giving out my Email or any real pertinent info.
It's not much, but for a few minutes time it's worth it.
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That said, I DO occassionally do them when I am bored, or while waiting for patches, or drinking beer, or whatever when I'm not up to something. Today for instance, while waiting for my 3gb prepatch, I did some healthcare survey and netted like 175 zen, so yeah, occassionally you do get lucky.
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Thought he surveys oi was able to get enough C-points for the new escort carrier
Where do you live? Sure isn't anything like that around here.
lmao, not surprised.
thats sad! Those damn surveys take too much time
so far i've received at least 700 zen from surveys. but they do tend to get annoying when you go so far then you don't qualify.
but it's free so just deal with it.
I'm currently working toward being able to get the Armitage, but since there is nothing really for me to do in-game I am not exactly in a hurry. Not to mention that since I don't plan to ever give Cryptic or PW any of my money this is really the only way for me to get Zen, the Dilithium exchange being TRIBBLE in my opinion.
I agree 100%. Most of the time you provide them a lot of answers then you are out with 0 points. Seems to me you should get % based on % answered. Regardless of what they say looks to me they are getting the information they need/want...then you are out. On the other side I have received from time to time free Zen. Free Zen = Free Key = 1.7 million EC.
Just wasted an hour filling out survey and stuff thinking I would be able to get some Zen and I got nothing at all. I tried with Firefox before but since I use NoScript it was to much of an hassle to do those things. So today I decided to use Internet Explorer thinking it would work better but finally I wasted an hour of my time for nothing, NOT A SINGLE ZEN credited. If you're going to do promo and survey and stuf, at least make sure those survey and all work correctly. As it is I'm not doing anymore survey or anything, completly useless for now. As it is now I think I'm only gonna have a bunch of spam in my mailbox for nothing at all.
FIX THE DAMN THING OR STOP OFFERING THOSE OFFERS
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