I think you probably will - if I got the double credit the first time, I am thinking that probably somehow the one I got kicked out this time will credit too, and for you too. It is really weird - and weirder still to have it happen 2x in the same week; and the surveys weren't even the same, similar but still different. So yeah I think somehow it credits in that case - why I couldn't imagine!!
Got a fairly easy one today on dog food. I was thrilled since I usually don't qualify for the OTX surveys.
Took a SM survey...after 25 minutes of survey and the classification only questions, you know right before it goes to the congratulations page, it told me I did not qualify :computer: :computer: :computer:
I just finished a long survey on yogurts. It actually told me that I was almost finished, asked for some info for classification purposes and after answering those questions, it took me back to the SR "Sorry you did not qualify" screen. :confused:
Couldn't they have asked all those "qualification" questions BEFORE I wasted 20 minutes answering every question in their survey???? :computer:
Please remember that if they say you "do not qualify" at the end, it usually actually means that you did not pass their quality control test. It is not really that you did not meet their classifications. The biggest culprit in this is taking the surveys faster than what they think they should be taken in. Our best advice is to take them slowly...multitasking even if you are a fast reader or survey taker.
That was the same one that I took!!!! Maybe it is just this one. I will be curious to see if anyone gets it. I try and be careful about the time in which I take things because I read fast. Thanks Tricia for the heads up. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dizneemom
Thanks Tricia! What about when the OTX ones have you go through the whole survey, and then at the end say you answered dishonestly? I have had that happen twice, and I went through the survey VERY slowly and answered everything with the utmost sincerity. I just couldn't figure out what I did wrong. Do you have any idea why that is happening?Quote:
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I took that same survey and the exact same thing happened to me at the same spot!! :computer:
Add me to the list! I just took the yogurt survey and I was multi tasking - I ran after ds a few times. I got the whole way through the questions and it said that there was only a few more questions for classification purposes. The last question I answered was occupation.Quote:
Originally Posted by lorisnuts
Actually, this just happened to me too!:cry: By the time I get to the classification ?s I'm thinking, yay, almost done, getting credit - then to sort of get slapped in the face like that, grr. It kicked me out after I answered the question of my employment status. Guess if you work from home you must not qualify to know about how good these yogurts are or not!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dizneemom
I got this several times today, but right at the beginning, after I carefully read the message about honestly and carefully answering the questions in the survey. I try never to click the continue button too soon, because I don't want them to think I haven't read the message even though I have seen it a gajillion times now, yet sometimes this happens where I am taken to you do not qualify for any surveys today page. This happened to me 4 times in a row today! Now why on earth is that??!! And also, I got one where it told me to remember a certain number for later in the survey, so I took time to write it down, and was taken to the you do not qualify page!Quote:
Originally Posted by SunshineGirl
And I tend to go fast - I know it, so I have purposefully slowed down when doing surveys, but how slow do I have to be??? 2 minutes per page or more?
I got the -
Thank you for your participation in our research study today. Unfortunately, you have given an invalid answer, which will not allow you to complete this study. Honest answers to survey questions are vital to the integrity of the research process. In the future, please make sure to read each question carefully and give your honest answer. Remember to pay attention to any media (video, print, etc….) that you are exposed to.
Line today. I did tell the truth. That just burns me up:(
I just spent an hour and ten minute son one survey on cars and then it said I did not qualify. Seriously. Could they not tell me that an hour ago!!!!!
freakin finally got one!!!!
The OTX ones have been identified that their claiming your dishonest bc of the age issue. Starting 2008 Jan 1st something with their programming.Quote:
Originally Posted by cherbear
Read the OTX thread, it explains it all there. Basically you need to put the AGE you WILL be in 08, so if your bday isn't until April you still need to say I'm 34 instead of 34 in April. Make sense?
I just spent an hour on a survey about newspaper circulars. Thought it would never end. The pages were so slow to load and I'm at work with a T1 line an a 160 computer, it would have taken me all night at home.
My DD just spent 25 minutes on a survey about yogurt. Got through all of the classification questions and was then told she did not qualify for the survey. Watch out for this one.
Add me to the growing list of SRers who had the same problem with the Yogurt survey. ARGH! So frustrating when you give you honest opinions and put so much time into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dizneemom
I got the same one this morning. I don't know what a T1 line is (sorry), but I have a cable connection and a fairly fast computer. It took me about 20 minutes to complete this survey, much of the time being the downloads. I actually enjoyed the survey, however, so I didn't feel it was a waste of time. Had it taken me an hour, however, I'd be very grumpy.Quote:
Originally Posted by sammielynn
I just did this one also---spent almost 30 minutes on it. It told me I was almost done and that they just had a few classification questions for me and then after answering it brought me back to the SR screen where I thought it would say "Congratulations" but instead it said "Sorry you did not qualify". Very Frustrating...... Back to try again:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by kayjo
I just had the yogurt one too - I went really slow on this one and as soon as I put in caucasion it told me I didn't qualify. Weird
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Originally Posted by HollyD
Same here, and it took 20 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by wisconsinmom
What is the deal with this one?! It sounds as if almost everyone is having trouble with it, no matter how careful or cautious they try to be. I had trouble yest. too with it.
[B[/B]Ugh...Why didn't I read this thread before I took the yogurt survey. I just got one taking it for the Super Member survey, and I went s l o w l y, even did the "for security purposes enter 3 on this line" got to the classification page and said I did not qualify! Is it because I am white? It is a discrimanatory survey!!:rotfl: I wonder if we can submit something for this, if we are all getting the same reply.Quote:
Originally Posted by HollyD
I just got the same one. Foolish me- I read the forums and new this was a bad survey but thought I could be the one to get this to credit. Went VERY slow (took at least 40 minutes), typed the 3's where I was supposed to and got told I didn't qualify at the end, after entering that I was caucasion. Oh well- off to try another one.
Same thing for me on the yogurt survey. :computer:
Darn!!! I always read the forum and didn't and just got burned on this survey too! Took 25 mins too.
At least now I'm doing one on retail ads....
Well, I'm comforted to see that I'm not the only one that had issues with the yogurt survey. I really think that there must be something just wrong with it for so many of us to be tossed out at the very end.
On another note, did anyone get booted from an appliance survey today? I'd gotten to the part that said I'd qualified and then when it was supposed to begin loading the ads, I got sent back to the SR page instead. It wasn't as frustrating as the yogurt survey because I hadn't invested nearly as much time into it, but I'm wondering why it would say "you've been accepted" and then booted me out. I was v-e-r-y s-l-o-w with my answers (even read thru things twice), so I don't think that I answered too quickly. And I'm always truthful with my responses.
But I got my survey for the day right afterwards, so I guess that's all that matters in the long run.
The applianace one did that to me too:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by dizneemom
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Originally Posted by dizneemom
Yep, both my DH and I got booted out of the appliance survey at the same point you did. I was very odd, as after having us accepted into the survey, then asking us to agree to privacy, then a page about what we'd be reviewing..........BAMMMMMM............kicked out! I agree, I think it was a weird place to decide to kick you out.:confused:
I had the same experience with the yogurt survey and I was also booted after putting in caucasion. I really resent giving them all my feedback on the product then getting rejected. I guess I should have read here first.Quote:
Originally Posted by kayjo
Okay, after I got kicked out of the yogurt survey for being white I got the appliance one - got kicked out at the same point as the others. Couldn't get one after that so hubby ended up getting one on cars - over an hour - he wasn't happy but at least I'm 2/2 so far.
Oh, I so wish that I had checked this thread before trying a survey today!! I rarely even try anymore, because it really has been such a waste of my time since I so rarely get in.
So I figured I'd give it a shot today because I have a little time, and I thought since it is still the beginning of the month that I woulu maybe have more luck.
i felt myself very lucky to get into a survey on the second try, and you guessed it, it was about yogurt!!! AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!! I wish I hadn't bothered! I really like yogurt, and I take the surveys seriously....so I want through the whole thing really taking my time, as I always do, then 20-25 min later I get bumped out to the do not qualify page after answering that I am caucasion, like many others, it seems.
I am really furious at the moment! While the surveys can be a great way to make credits on SR, I think I have to just give up at this point, because I just end up mad every time, and it's not worth the increase in my blood pressure just for the $.80!
By the way, this is in no way a vent against SR in any way....I LOVE SR, but I am sick of these survey companies who take advantage of us "willing" participants just trying to ake a buck!:computer:
Oh, I wish I had posted about the yogurt survey last night. Also once I clicked Caucasian.
Since it was the first survey I had tried for in awhile (only did 4 in Jan) I ended up figuring that I had gone too fast, so I didn't post.
Dangit, I was intrigued by the product, too, but now I feel negative about it. Grr.
FWIW, I don't think that the survey site retains our data when we get dumped out like that. Until we hit the submit button, I think that the responses just stay in limbo. I'm not angry with them because I don't think that they got what they were after either. My frustration is soley directed at the amount of time that I spent for nothing - no 80 cents for me, no data for the survey group and no money for SR.
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Originally Posted by dizneemom
Your not alone, I also got the appliance one and got booted out when i was supposed to get the ads.
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Originally Posted by belbook
DITTO- should have read here first. i'm REALLY mad about this one.
not sure if this is the right place, if it is not sorry.
i just finished the daily survery. i went all the way thru it. (this was not to see if i qualified, it was the actual survey) so any way i do the survey and it says i have finished the survery and thank you, blah blah.
anyway to make the story short, i get back to the sr page, it says it does appear that you did not qualify for the survey. any thoughts on this?
i know i took the real survey, this is not like the otx where you spent 15 minutes answering questions and then they tell you, you don't qualify. this was the survey. is this normal?
i will admit, it is very upsetting, to finally get qualified and complete the survey, and to find out that i won't even get credit for it.
any inputs? has this happened to others?
i too should have read this! i just posted about this under technical troubles, as i thought maybe that was what it was.
i too very rarely even try to do a survey any more, because i just takes up too much time, to not qualify. then today i get the yogurt one and finish it just to be told i did not qualify even after i completed the stuped survey.