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Bad experience with 'peanut labs'
ferthanna
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Hi:
Has anyone else had a bad experience with peanut labs surveys? I have successfully taken several surveys and gotten my credit and been screened out of other surveys. No problem with any of that.
But in the past couple of days I took two surveys that lasted at least 20 minutes and at the end of the survey they said I was screened out. The last one was clearly fishing for specific answers that I did not give. I must have answered at least 20-30 very specific survey questions and then it said it was screened out and it did not give me any credit.
I certainly understand about screening folks initially but that should only take a few minutes and not ask specific questions. I answered at least 20-30 questions on my reactions to certain things, my feelings about GMO, my thoughts on dolphin safe fishing, all very detailed. Then after 20 minutes of that it said I was screened out.
I don't consider that a screen. I put in a ticket with peanut but they just told me I was screened out. Duh, that is what my ticket was about, did you read it?
Has anyone else had similar experiences? It was very off-putting. I like the promotion and I like to answer surveys, but why bother if they are going to 'disqualify' me after 20 minutes of my time.
Has anyone else had a bad experience with peanut labs surveys? I have successfully taken several surveys and gotten my credit and been screened out of other surveys. No problem with any of that.
But in the past couple of days I took two surveys that lasted at least 20 minutes and at the end of the survey they said I was screened out. The last one was clearly fishing for specific answers that I did not give. I must have answered at least 20-30 very specific survey questions and then it said it was screened out and it did not give me any credit.
I certainly understand about screening folks initially but that should only take a few minutes and not ask specific questions. I answered at least 20-30 questions on my reactions to certain things, my feelings about GMO, my thoughts on dolphin safe fishing, all very detailed. Then after 20 minutes of that it said I was screened out.
I don't consider that a screen. I put in a ticket with peanut but they just told me I was screened out. Duh, that is what my ticket was about, did you read it?
Has anyone else had similar experiences? It was very off-putting. I like the promotion and I like to answer surveys, but why bother if they are going to 'disqualify' me after 20 minutes of my time.
What goes around comes around.
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But, considering that Peanut Labs is not the ones writing the surveys we really can't blame them, it the folks you actually constructed the surveys for the people you are doing the actual study.
I agree that this process is very sneaky and I can't help feeling that after doing the survey for 10 to 20 minutes and answering all those questions, and then deciding that I don't meet the criteria, that they are not still using my answers.
But, that said, i have done a huge amount of surveys, and for the most part, I can get over 1000 Zen a week, at least enough to buy a 10 pack of keys every week.
The last one I took was clearly written to elicit certain answers. Having some professional experience with surveys I know how that is done so I gave my answers, not the ones they wanted. So they dumped me with no zen after 20 minutes. Clearly if you don't give the answers they want they will dump you and call 'didn't qualify'.
In politics it is called 'push surveys'. It is quite common to discard the surveys with responses you don't like and only count the answers you like to inflate you statistics. Remember that next time some yahoo politico claims the survey says. You can usually believe Harris, Gallup and the other well known reputable firms. But when it says something like "Americans for a More American America" you know you are getting cooked data.
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I submitted them to Peanut Labs support, which by the way did not do anything about these. So I shrugged and moved on. Not much one can do about, so there is no sense in getting aggravated by it.
I get what I get for them, sometimes I get SponsorPay ones and they do the same thing.
I honestly don't know which is more... frustrating... getting screened out after answering questions... or what seems to be getting more common than that, getting screened out without answering any questions.
Has that happened to anyone else? Answering the stupid little 'are you human?' questions like Snow is white and falls from the sky, the new window/tab opening... and it goes straight to you being screened out without even answering any survey questions?
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
They make a wondrous mess of things. Brave amateurs, they do their part.
Quoted for truth. Most of those surveys turned out to be identity theft scams, where they'd pause for a moment and say "what's the last 4 of your social" and so forth, and asking for (interspersed among the other questions -- you know just to prove you're real) phone numbers, state, zip code, basically all the stuff they need to steal your identity.
Just grind dil, convert to zen. Don't bother with any of these scams.
It's an old thread, but this bears repeating for the newcomers.
Most of the small surveys were ok so I tried some of the larger zen offers by Force Factor. I decided to make the purchase thinking that it would avoid any headaches and 1800 zen for five bucks I though why not.
The package arrived a few days later and they still won't provide the zen
Report them to the BBB. I had to do that, and they started to QUICKLY credit my account for things. I'm not at the full amount they owe me yet, but it's getting to be more daily. SOMEHOW they have an A rating with the BBB, god knows how. While Cryptic here has an F.