u/TescoHelp

Tested twice and regardless of answers they screen you out at the end for no reason. Answered slowly, carefully and with normal answers. Either quota filled and they are stealing data rather than auto paying or there is an issue with the design of it. Its disgusting when they do this, as soon as you answer something that warrants screen out they shouldn't continue the survey.

Just selectively pressed every tile because as usual reaching the 3rd bar is giving me more head smashing against the wall and dying in agony type surveys... but before seeing a 30+ minute one was unusual now most are except Walr and some newer ones who are more generous its a shame they can't all be easy going like that, these bastards make you answer 10 questions then give you 5 options with only 1 that won't screen out, by law of averages you're basically fucking wasting everyone's time because the data is automatically biased 😂

The whole point of surveys is to get a wider demographic then model the data not screen out on a narrow margin. Quota is generic not either or

The PayPal payment is always in the past within a few minutes, I withdrew £10 and took 7 minutes and was already getting worried by the 5 minute mark now withdrew £5 and its been over 40 minutes and still pending.

Anyone else facing delays? A bit annoying because I like to spend it straight away.

All I see is complaints about missing money, broken surveys / Nexus plagued who rob people and basically cowboy behaviour.

Is it true that they were British originally and then taken over by an American company? Cue strapping on cheap AI software and bad programming. Even if the site looks the exact same as before the takeover I bet behind the scenes with the APIs and scripts its spaghetti code.

My personal experience was I signed up, liked you could withdraw to PayPal at any amount which is their USP I guess compared to anywhere else. One day I decided I'd login via desktop website to do surveys quicker and because the surveys don't always display nicely on the phone, they gave a bull*hit error about my password despite being correct, so instinctively I reset it. Then low and behold I went back onto the app and I was banned, no surveys available and cashout was blocked for $2.

Bear in mind 10 minutes before this I was doing surveys on my phone and cashed out perfectly fine so it was obvious it was an instant ban from desktop login / password reset.

Contacted support, was told quality of responses was the issue, funds held due to fraud and cannot be appealed. If it was quality of responses that would be a manual ban at a random hour not literally after they blocked me logging me in to desktop and resetting my password. Contacted them on their socials, thought I'd actually got through to someone who works there and has real system access rather than a $5 an hour drone sending canned responses and got the same copy and paste back after they said they'd investigate.

So it doesn't surprise me whenever I see complaints. Sad how this site seems like a really great one originally and then companies take over for the margins and completely gut out the mechanics.

My guess is that they had a technical issue with desktop login and rather than admit that and remove bans they see it as an acceptable loss. I saw other posts on here of issues logging into desktop site too so its not like I was the only one maybe the password reset is what caused the actual ban but then surely their admins would see that on the logs and know it was innocent? Nope easier to paste a canned reply and not touch the account (or can't touch the account unless a higher tier team do it offline).

You open a tab, do the repetitive bullshit Cloud Screening / Samplicio screens that already know the info but ask it each and every time to test if you enter something different.

Then it screens you out without asking anything in the actual survey, its happening like 4x times as much.

Everytime that happens the tabs get shorter and shorter on Five Surveys so eventually you get No Surveys Avaliable and get 1-2 tabs you have to grab to reach the payout threshold which can take hours and hours if only one appears every so often with screenouts then of course.. bang, a full page of surveys appears again when you reach 5 Surveys. And that's natural survey partner based stuff apparently that's why I'd never bother contacting their support its like 20 people at home in Indonesia paid $3 an hour maximum to look at a screen and give a canned response.

Five Surveys and all Prime Insights websites and also others like MSE use a reward service called Tremendous.

You might recognise that name from when you cash out to PayPal or gift cards.. Five Surveys / Prime Insights don't directly pay you, they subscribe to a reward partner who they basically tell User ID 1234 has earned $5... send them a $5 redemption link by email and credit their PayPal with that value. When entering your PayPal email on that square form? That's Tremendous not Five Surveys.

Does it cost fees? For a company as big as Tremendous, its factored into their margins. The fee, if at all, has always existed nothing has changed now for Five Surveys to suddenly add a .25 fee. Until Tremendous as a business that supplies hundreds of companies like Five Surveys publicly state that new costs warrant this charge, we should all remain hateful at the fact. Its a greed change, not a real sudden tax on their ability to pay people. Also bear in mind your 5 Surveys are capped at 1 point for 1 survey, whatever minor transaction fee applies during that pipeline has already been covered, maybe even 4x. Your five surveys likely comes to $8 rather than $5.

♧Prime Insights the greed engine of the industry.

I can't speak for everyone but isn't the survey industry basically a cat & mouse game of survey providers like Prime Insights hosting surveys and us telling said surveys to the best of our ability, out of intense fear of being screened out, exactly what they want to hear and in harsher words basically bul*shtting our way through them?

Its quite funny when you think about it. Research companies want to refine these days their entire study on a screening basis, in other words you don't answer exactly as they want you to (isn't the whole point of surveys originally to get a diverse pool of answers) to go to their brand or company and gaslight into a certain direction or you get screened out? For example a survey about pet food, you reach 25% and say you prefer chicken and fish rather than liver and tuna... basically the original company wants results that look like everybody prefers one thing, but we all end up lying to get the 1 point and everyone else gets paid too 😂

Its one massive cycle of fu*ery... we all want cash, the survey provider wants to look clean while doing the same.... and the research company wants the finest bias of data to approach their network I.e Facebook / Meta to appease them in what is basically a pre-determined logic, merely to turn round later on at legal battles and say "we paid Prime Insights 200k to survey random people and everybody chose X,F,Z"

Do the research companies who post these surveys actually think anyone sits and reads it carefully, answers honestly? Maybe like 2% of the time! Screening out so harshly and throughout the entire study causes that. If they were actually honest and open we would actually be honest with them. Fair enough.. the first 10 questions I would say is enough to establish whether you are their market but these days they basically make the whole survey a nail road.. answer one wrong out of logic to the survey itself and you are booted. So lie! Its so toxic hence I'm making the point, they basically incentive you to answer to their direction rather than get the diverse range of answers...

If you are honest with yourself, do you ever just answer a survey on honesty or do you analyse every question in how best to select the option to avoid getting screened out.

You might only buy chicken and fish half the time, isn't that itself highly valuable honest feedback no? Nope, screened out. They want you to select what they hope for, not what the consumer market actually thinks. They go back to say Felix the cat food producer and dominate results based on the fact no surveys were accepted other than the crafted answers that made it.

Its such a joke!

Since they updated their website to the new one its the most badly optimised, device slowing I've ever seen. So clunky, loads of pointless widgets. Made my Galaxy S22 freeze one time. Trying to be cool and modern whereas people merely want a speedy website to order and get delivered that's it.

The credit card situation really hit me because I had a situation with my son who has mental illness, he genuinely did not mean to cause me harm but opened credit in my name and struggled to keep up with payments, but has helped me for many years financially when I've needed it after my partner died so I chose not to report it and deal with it in-house, he has always been a lovely person and willing to help anyone but the illness has been eating him up inside, prison makes people worse not better because of the state of them.

It does colour my judgement in regards to this story. Its a bit unrealistic that Honey didn't know until the letters she waited to open, I knew before the letters on my credit file within 4 weeks, maybe a lot of people don't check this but being signed up to Clearscore etc. in real life you'd be told if a new credit account was opened in your name.

With what we've seen on-screen with Bea so far, Honey should have reported it to the police as fraud from the get go, because there is a clear pattern of manipulation and secrecy, taking the flat deposit too. The only single discount is that she did genuinely spend it on other people not for self gain, other than her own twisted way of wanting to be loved and appreciated which is what the writers have tried to convey throughout all of this.

If what happens next revolves around identity takeover on a psychological level with her family, the best thing Billy could do is to report it but I think we all know what happens next based on the double dressing, cozy with the kids etc.

As a character, I love Ian, but let's face it; snide so and so. He suddenly became morally and literally aware of Bea but waited until he had the benefit gained before calling it out, of course he didn't know where the money she was spending came from but was happy to let her publish the video (which in fairness she made him agree to first rather than doing it off her own back then taking credit) and then takes the high ground, then backing off calling the police to protect his own seat. Very controversial to say, but if Bea had owned up to what she did to the police, whatever she would have said to them should have made damn sure he loses his seat as councillor in the process, protecting Honey by facing her own fraud charge, if Ian is happy for honesty and justice (offering to be a witness for Honey) he should face the consequences too. What Bea intended to do in the last episode, that tips the scale from giving her a break to needs to be locked up.

As for Eddie in this Knight and co. saga, I agree with Gina and Kojo, but that's without even taking into account what we see as the viewer. Even without the nasty play, he should face his sentence regardless given he got 40 years delay in justice already, that in itself is a mercy, sadly all too late Billy will reconcile on that Teddy disclaimer that she can be wicked, not that she means it as wicked, again we know she genuinely isn't doing it for malice, she's taking the non existent money to stop her son relapsing, but George has already said in script that Nicola was the reason he "saw sense" so when this proposition comes to light, he will disown her for good and Billy will throw his half a pence in for good measure if I had to guess.

Personally, if I was Nicola, I'd have thrown it right back at him at him with telling the probation service the truth, he'd be carted off right back to prison. Less making him sign over the relevant stuff to put action to his word. A tiny, tiny 0.001% of me still felt sorry for him because of the way he grew up into adulthood about ethnic people, not that he deserves that or an excuse in any form but once he brushed the nurses hand off and then threatened Nicola too, any tiny little miniscule bit of humanity was wiped from his ledger, and he was already blessed enough to even get that. I really hope Nicola surprises us and eventually disrupts his peaceful passing.

The episodes have been brilliant so far albeit expected nooks and crannies and look forward to what's coming next.

I happen to have seen the same survey as I did on another profile but launched as a half survey and the other full bar survey. Not to mention they're between 8-12 minutes which is not far off the tier for a full bar.

Anyone noticed that?