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My Experiences With One Survey Company
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My Experiences With one Survey Company
Let me begin this by saying that is is my personal experience, and only my personal experience. Others have experienced differently. Your experience may differ.
I signed up with what many consider to be the best of the best survey list providers, Survey Scout. They came highly recommended by people I trust, and who in fact had first hand experience with them.
I signed up for the offers that feature cash or cash and prizes. I did not sign up for any of the offers that feature only prizes.
As I expected, I immediately began receiving a boat load of e-mail from these people, all wanting me to take advantage of their wonderful program.
Some of the programs were the type I was looking for in the first place which was companies doing legitimate market research. I have kept my association with all of those and take surveys from them whenever they are offered.
Some programs offered product testing. You pay to have the product shipped to you (product is free - shipping is at your cost.) I have done this in the past. It is legitimate and OK but not what I wanted right now so I opted out of those.
Some programs wanted me to choose which brand name of a type of product (cola, ice cream, etc.) I preferred. These offers are thinly disguised leads collection services. They don't care what kind of cola you like - they want your name and e-mail address which they will then sell to every huckster and marketer on the internet. I opted out of all of these. Or so I thought.
One or more of them apparently (at least to the best of my figuring) didn't like that I opted out and sold my contact info to pornographers (!)  I received weeks of pornographic messages, all to the address I had used to sign up to all of the Survey Scout companies.
Others, even though they opted me in immediately, told me it would take a week or 2 to opt out. That is pure horse-pucky. During the entire time, they continued to pass my name on to all of their associates / partners / affiliates / whatever, all of whom are, believe it or not, still sending me this stuff months later.
I have actually had to disable that e-mail address.
I contacted the guys who operate Survey Scout and learned the following.
1) Absolutely nobody monitors the "Contact Us" tab on the web site. It appears to be for show only. Even after pointing it out to them three times, there was no sign that anyone had even read it, never mind bothering to respond to it. They claim to pay their customer service reps a total of $20,000/month, but obviously not to do that.
2) According to them, they anonymously sign up for all of the companies they feature, just to see what kind of offers will be received. I was impressed with that. I told them to opt out and see what happened. They never got back to me.
As I said, your experiences may differ. Obviously not everyone goes through what I have, or Survey Scout would not be so highly recommended.
If you choose to sign up with Survey Scout, or any other company that provides you with a list of survey companies, use a different address for each survey company. That way it will be obvious who the culprits are and you can report them to Survey Scout with undeniable evidence. I wish I had. I used the same one for all the Survey Scout companies, and as I said I have had to disable that address.
If you are not sure what I mean by that, decide if you are going to use hotmail or yahoo or your own website domain or whatever. Then when you sign up, use the company name as part of the email address you sign up with. For example, let's say you choose yahoo. Create an email address with yahoo of wonderful_survey_company_A@yahoo.com. Then go sign up with Wonderful Survey Company A, using that e-mail address. Anything Wonderful Survey Company A sends to you will go to that address. Anything that goes to that address will come from Wonderful Survey Company A, or someone Wonderful Survey Company A gives or sells that address to. That way it is easy to trace who gives out contact info to whom.
Let me remind you that this is my personal experience, and only my personal experience. Others have experienced differently. Your experience may differ.
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