Posts about My Thought Counts/OTX Surveys Pls Read 1st Post!

[mollyeilis]

Augh.

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.

[Riyaa]

Augh.






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.

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!

[DisneyMa]

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?

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!!!!

[mollyeilis]

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?

[spring]

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.

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.

[jl8595]

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?

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...

[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~

[bs4free]

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!

[Kycha]

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!

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.

[jnorth1007]

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.