Ok we finally got one that requested an exact birthdate (beer survey) at the beginning and the end and had no problems or error messages.
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Ok we finally got one that requested an exact birthdate (beer survey) at the beginning and the end and had no problems or error messages.
Well it depends. The ones we're having issue's with (and it looks like Spring just had it again) is they dont' ask your age at the beginning of the survey (it's the year we put in when we launch the page where the Wii is etc) then the first classification page after all the survey questions are done it asks for your age in digit format not birth year. So the minute I put in 33 it called me dishonest. But I had it yesterday and put in 34 (although not until April) and it accepted it. The only time I put the year in is when I click on the link from the offer's section and the demo info comes up. Then the 2 digit age at the end for "classification". not sure when you finished yours but it looks like Spring just got nailed again.Quote:
Originally Posted by m 'n c
You better believe it! I would like to go back and try your method, but now it says I've exceeded my surveys for this time period! I tried clearing cookies, clearing temp files and changing e-mail addys - but the same message.:computer:Quote:
Originally Posted by askomsky
Ok. I still have not run across any of those. I will report back though when and if I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by askomsky
That happened to me, I gave it a half hour and I think it let me back in, bc I did do 2 that night and got burned on both.Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
try again later......
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Originally Posted by spring
Same thing here for me tonight. I tried to take one, asked when I'd buy my next car, then it told me I was over limit, but I write down my times when I finish so I know I was over 24 hours. Tried again 30 minutes later and still no luck. I was having pretty good luck w/ these too. I think I'm just spoiled and am survey greedy!! :eat:Quote:
Originally Posted by askomsky
I was having good luck with these surveys...until a few days ago. Now it just keeps bringing up the same survey so I have to back out since I have already done it. And all day yesterday it kept saying I was over my limit into late last night. UGH!! I finally gave up!!!!
Count your lucky stars then...it's TERRIBLE.Quote:
Originally Posted by m 'n c
I got the car one too and had the same thing happen.
I had the age thing happen to me and couldn't figure out why....At least that's why I guess it happened...It was a vacuum survey and I had been real slow and caught all the questions that say to "mark 3", etc...And then when I got to demographics, it told me I had answered unreliably. That would be a good explanation though. My birthday isn't until December, but I'll try next time to bump up my age.
Anyone seen this? Think I'll get credit?
I just finished a pretty lengthy one on cell phones and after completing it, it went to a Global Test Market Screen and it said:
According to our records, you have already filled out this survey.
FWIW, I had not ever taken that survey.
OK, I quit LOL
I just spent 40 minutes doing a vacumn survey. Took my time, made sure I amswered every single question honestly and I got the same 'your not honest' response!!
So, that's it. I am not doing them ever again! I am starting to wonder of they just want all our answers but then dont want to pay out :mad:
I wouldn't give them up completely just yet. Today I got one that didn't ask my EXACT age at the end, so I finished without getting the "Dishonest" message. I only get the "Dishonest" message whenever I have to put my EXACT age into the ending Demographics. I think it expects me to be a year older than I am because it is now 2008, not 2007.Quote:
Originally Posted by andrea2289
I managed to get one this morning that didn't ask my age either. There is hope yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
Yes don't give up, just move your age up to what you'll be this year., I'm guessing it's not going to get fixed over the weekend, but hopefully sometime next week. If your bday hasn't passed since 08 has come, I would just move it up one year. i.e I'll be 34 in April so that's what I've been putting in if it asks my 2 digit age.Quote:
Originally Posted by andrea2289
OT... I forgot you were such a baby, April, LOL! I have to fib and put in 45, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by askomsky
LOL, how come I don't "feel" like a baby!!! DH isn't he hit the big 40 this year! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 3dog2kidmom
Does OTX operate on a 24-hour cycle? I got my first ever to credit last night but now I'm getting this message after clearing out everything and changing email, too. They must track by IP address?Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
My understanding is that you have to wait 24 hours between surveys.Quote:
Originally Posted by MamaO
Thanks Pat. Now when I look at the offer more carefully, I see it does say you can take them every 24 hours. I was really excited to finally get one but wish it hadn't been so late. Maybe I won't try tonight so I can get off the 'late night' cycle.Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
I don't know if that is necessarily true. I know I did one yesterday around 5 or 6 and I already did one for today and got credit. Maybe it was because Mike took it yesterday and I did today. (change in demographics but no change in email). I really don't know how it works though.Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
Interesting...........I'll have to try again. Now, if that is true, I actually took yesterdays OTX survey early this morning because I didn't qualify yesterday and today's wasn't up yet. Would I be able to take today's survey and get credit? I'm not going to even try, but it's an interesting thought.:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by m 'n c
I think so if you took yesterday's first and then today but I really don't know and I don't want to tell you wrong. maybe janet or tricia can pop in next time they are on.Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
Thanks anyway. Honestly, it's enough to take one OTX survey in a day without trying to do two (oh, my aching head!:rotfl: )Quote:
Originally Posted by m 'n c
As far as I can tell, it is actually every 24 hours.
This has been my experience with OTX. I have gotten several since the offer began and gotten credit, but not necessarily every day. I don't wait exactly 24 hours and can still get one. In other words I just did one about an hour ago, 12:30 P.M. CST and I could probably get one for tomorrow at 2:00 A.M. if I was up and tried.
The biggest thing I have found is if I have to try several times to get an OTX survey and don't qualify, and by this time have probably switched to DH demographics and email, it will tell me that I have tried all the surveys available at the moment and to try again on another day. Sometimes it tells me I have already done one when I haven't. I think that may be all the tries. I tried several times last night with no luck and it told me to come back and try in 1 hour. Since I went to bed and wasn't up, I tried this morning, got right in, didn't qualify for the 1st one, but did the 2nd one, completed it and got credit on the hour. It was a movie survey. I think it did ask my age at the end. My b'day isn't until May and I have not changed my age in the OTX surveys in 08. I have not really figured OTX out and am not going to try. I figure when I get one, GREAT, that's another .80 and when I can't, it's okay, I'll just wait until the next day. I've been lucky with regular surveys and pretty lucky with the SM ones, so I'm happy.
Okay, this cements the issue for me. I just took the same survey on cars from OTX that I have been kicked out of at the end repeatedly when I put my age in. Today, I put my age in as 1 year older and had no problem. I don't like doing that, but I also think OTX needs to fix it's survey site. I don't like spending 25 minutes doing a survey and being told I'm dishonest for entering my age correctly, either.
I was able to get one easy today about movies. I think I have only been able to get 2 so far this month. hopefully they have it fixed.
Me too! After being kicked out of two in a row for "being dishonest" about my age, I did a third one and said I was a year older (only 1 1/2 mo. and I will be that age) and it took it. Today my husband took a loooong one on car ads, and I forgot to tell him about the age thing, and of course it called him a liar! Nice. I'm going to try to find a way to contact OTX and report the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by spring
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Originally Posted by kmmccart75
DH "lied" today (by a month and a half also!) and it took it!!
Here's the email address of the person who wrote me back...
Matt Sandin [matt@pantherainteractive.com]; on behalf of; info@pantherainteractive.com
thanks - just sent my own email to info@pantherainteractive.comQuote:
Originally Posted by 3dog2kidmom
hopefully they can get it fixed for all of us
Augh.
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Come back soon
We're sorry, but you seem to have reached the maximum number of surveys in our system for the time period. If you have joined several survey programs, you may have taken one of our surveys on another survey program.
We have many survey opportunities most of the time, so don't hesitate to try again tomorrow for your next chance to give your opinion.
Note that we are temporarily unable to send you back to your survey program. Please accept our apologies.
That's nice, it's all well and good, IF I had taken a survey.
Instead, I got into a survey that would have gone through for me. How do I know? Because I've taken it before and it credited. In the interests of being a good little girl and NOT re-taking a survey I've taken before, I backed out of it.
When I went to get back in, the above is the message I got.
Augh.
Sometimes I get that too. I just go and clear cookies and then I can get back in.Quote:
Originally Posted by mollyeilis
What peeves me is they still haven't fixed the age issue! I am NOT 31 yet (I've still got a couple of weeks) so I refuse to put 31 in the box when I'm still only 30. And to top it off, spending all that time to do a survey only to be told I'm lying about my age! :(
You'll have a couple years left on lying. I tried to get a survey and was told I was lying about my age (32). How old do I have to be?:computer:
Personally, I'm not doing the survey under offers until it is fixed. I hate going through that whole process to be told I am lying!!!!:angrywife:
Aw man, clearing cookies would have taken care of it? Ugh.
Is this age thing new? Like, since the year changed? Could it be a problem with their calendars that they want people to put that they are one year older than they are?
Clearing cookies sometimes helps me, but other times I have to wait a couple hours, then I can get back in.Quote:
Originally Posted by mollyeilis
The first time I noticed the age thing was New Year's Day, so I think it is absolutely a calendar thing. I've given up and have just made myself a year older until OTX can fix this. It's a computer glitch that is calling us dishonest.
I think what it is...they only ask for your birth year (not full birthday), so I think their survey program is set up to calculate based on Jan 1st. So basically, even though you haven't turned 30 or 31 or 58 YET, you will during the year of 2008 and that's the limitations of the software. The OTX surveys are fairly new, so I'm guessing we didn't notice the problem much in 2007 because it was the the end of the year and many folks actually HAD turned their respective year older. Just my theory...Quote:
Originally Posted by mollyeilis
I think that's a good theory! I hadn't run into the age problem, as I hadn't qualified for one (that I hadn't already done) yet, but I'll know to watch out for it~
Well i am not sure if the age thing is still a problem, but after an hour on an otx survey not including the time to get into an otx survey i just deceded lets add a year (What i will be in 2008) and it worked! Did not like having to do it but did not want to risk loosing the hour invested, if the problem still exists!
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Originally Posted by bs4free
Even though my b-day isn't until September, at this point, I have been burned so many times on OTX, I will be 40 for the rest of the year.:( Not something I was looking forward to.
Well crap I wish I had known this. I finished an OTX on automobiles today and they told me I was lying when they asked for my age at the end. I can't believe that they actually think they have that many people lying on a question like that. :(