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Peanut Labs free zen....not worth it

annahmaria1annahmaria1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited June 2015 in C-Store, ZEN, and Promotions
Being a Graduate Student, I have very little money. Even less money when it comes to playing video games.

However, a friend and fleetmate of mine told me about the surveys you can take to earn free Zen.

Long story short: after about three hours off and on of doing these, I did earn about 700 Zen.

HOWEVER, the amount of surveys I did complete, I should have earned 9000 Zen.

Basically, only one in six surveys were legit. All the other surveys from Peanut Labs, you fill them out, then you get a phone call from these places trying to sell you something..you deal with all of that because hey...it's free zen right? No. They never reimburse you.

One survey I did, it took a half an hour to fill out. I was suppose to get 198 Zen. Nothing. It was like this for most of the surveys.

Honestly, if you want Zen or terribly need Zen...just buy it.

Peanut Labs is a joke.
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  • trekkiemelissatrekkiemelissa Member Posts: 242 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You can always earn zen in game by converting dilithium into zen.
  • annahmaria1annahmaria1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    yeah ive been doing that now.

    I also submitted a ticket to Perfect World about the 30 some surveys that were never credited to me. Basically, they said I had to handle this with those who run the survey not perfectworld.

    I know Cryptic was struggling...but selling their business to a shady company like this (not just the surveys...but other problems as well) told me they didn't look hard enough for buyers.
  • rikevrikev Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You are exactly the person they want to prey on. They have your details, you are left enjoying sales calls every day. Don't think they will stop.
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    The sad part is that they used to pay out decently. In the past I made well over 3,000 Zen doing these. I used to get surveys that actually held some interest for me, so I would give them honest answers and got some Zen for my efforts. Somewhere along the line they changed and now they pay out measly amounts for junk surveys that rarely, if ever, actually give you Zen. I stopped doing them since I get disqualified so much now, often after getting quite far into the survey. Sometimes around 75% before they dump me. Bleh.
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  • dashrendar1138dashrendar1138 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lan451 wrote: »
    The sad part is that they used to pay out decently. In the past I made well over 3,000 Zen doing these. I used to get surveys that actually held some interest for me, so I would give them honest answers and got some Zen for my efforts. Somewhere along the line they changed and now they pay out measly amounts for junk surveys that rarely, if ever, actually give you Zen. I stopped doing them since I get disqualified so much now, often after getting quite far into the survey. Sometimes around 75% before they dump me. Bleh.

    That's why I stopped recently. It was one that had a progress bar, and it was at 81%. I answered the next question and was given the 'Sorry, you don't meet our needs' TRIBBLE. And it had taken over 10 minutes to get to that point. It really sounds like a scam: gather the data they want, then say you don't qualify so they don't have to pay out.

    I love how STO is promoting this so much right now as well. On Facebook, every time they make a post about it, there's a ton of comments that are nearly all completely negative. You'd think they would learn.
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  • annahmaria1annahmaria1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    yeah

    The only reason why I fell for it was because they had the advertisement right here on these forums on the banner top.

    I had figured since this was a "decent" MMO it would be legit. Apparently, it wasn't.

    In the past I had purchased Zen. Now, there is no way in hell I will do that. Sorry, I just don't trust this company with my credit card. My previous purchases were done on a Credit card that had since expired so I do not need to worry about them doing something stupid.
  • ponquponqu Member Posts: 50 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    While taking any surveys for any "free" game currency, just never use your actual details. Use the sites like fakenamegenerator.com and/or create some free mail addres somewhere. Site is legal, and nothing obligate you to use your real personal data in surveys like this. That way you won't need to have to deal with all of the advertisements they will throw your way on your phone, mail etc.
  • borg7of10borg7of10 Member Posts: 68 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Why even bother with Survey's 90% of the time anyways as almost every one of them
    is just a way to Scam your Information and even Datamine your Computer and just
    add Malware,Spyware ect.

    If you want Zen That badly do like most players do and grind Dilithium and then sell it
    and convert it to Zen or go out and acyually Buy your Zen cause in all honesty 98% of
    Any Survey by Peanut Labs or any other Survey company never pays the Zen out anyway.
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  • litticalittica Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Honestly Peanut Labs is next to useless now, I check now and then and dont bother if thats what is being used.

    The rare times they use sponsor pay have been the only real times i actually use it, they tend to pay out 9 out of 10 at least but damn getting it is rare as hell
  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I spent about 2 and a half hours doing the surveys. After I finished each one (as shown by the progress bar), I was then told that I didn't qualify. However, I was approved before, and said that I qualify.

    I did about 8 of these with 198+ each Zen rewards. I put in the tickets for it, and still haven't seen the Zen I was promised. The bad thing about this is that Cryptic knows that these companies are having us do the entire surveys, and finishing them, then trying not to give the rewards we are suppose to get. Over the past 4 months, I have completely finished enough of the surveys to equal over 1,000 Zen. Yet, all I got was 3 Zen. That was it.

    I am done with this scam. And since Cryptic knows what these companies are doing, they cannot claim negligence to be excused from participating in the scam. For allowing it to be advertised and supporting it, they are just as guilty.

    It is sad that they stoop to this though.
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  • tecbulltecbull Member Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I get quite a bit of Zen from Peanut Labs, and Bob Smith, who resides in an empty field and has the number of an old burner phone, gets all the junk mail and sales calls...
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  • jtrespeces1jtrespeces1 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Yes but it takes like a eternity to change it
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    And it takes long
  • wilbor2wilbor2 Member Posts: 1,684 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    ive seen many posts about this n have done one my self only to be voded at the end because i was not there target for there survey
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  • ddemlongddemlong Member Posts: 294
    edited June 2014
    Their survey's are very prejudice. Short of being a minority and either rich/poor, they don't want your opinion and DQ you.

    The few times I put them in the second you put you are white or make xx amount a year you are disqualified.

    Their surveys are fake and biased towards their opinions and the companies that use them employ false statistics. Sad you have to lie about being a minority and poor just to get free Zen.
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  • chevyman101chevyman101 Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Anybody know how to delete your profile from Peanut labs for those surveys. i never did one but from what i read about it im glad i didnt do a survey. Now i want my profile deleted.
  • zivilynsothzivilynsoth Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Does it take 24 hours to get your zen?
  • bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    zivilynsoth wrote: »
    Does it take 24 hours to get your zen?

    Hell I did a couple surveys that I did not get DQd from and completed, I am still waiting for the zen from them, and this was back during the 2014 Summer event. Give up, they will not pay it out.
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  • lorderavenlorderaven Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    the do u like zen link takes me to the buy zen page with no link to do surveys so either they may have dropped them or its down or...eh was just trying make a few extra for the event :p
  • thibashthibash Member Posts: 506 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    I am genuinely surprised that you got any zen at all. I figured 100% of them were a scam.

    The fact that only 90% of it is a scam, is actually better news than I expected given my past experiences with them.
  • rjewkesrjewkes Member Posts: 237 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    Then i feel lucky that it now just takes me straight to y zen wallet. Don't worry since it is unclear that it isn't a TRIBBLE version from peanut labs i don't log in.

    And Cryptic has not had my debit card number since 3 cards ago when i started using steams wallet feature.
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