I had two surveys tonight where after I finished and got the spinning circle screen thanking me for my response like it actually counted, instead of kicking me back to Survey Junkie so I can receive my points, it sends me to a login form asking for an email and password and I never get compensated. And tonight isn't the first time this has happened either.
When I started SJ a few years back, it was initially like pulling teeth to earn enough to cash out. But after a few weeks like that and verifying my identity, they seemed to give me better surveys and it typically went smoothly for a long time. And the more surveys I took, it seemed like I was getting better opportunities like they were rewarding me for participating frequently.
But the past few months it's back to pulling teeth again, struggling to qualify for the 3 surveys a day for the promotions to earn that 5 dollars to make up for how much they underpay us for each survey. Now I'm getting a lot of disqualifications at the end of a survey. And I'm getting disqualifications just for clicking on surveys before even answering a single question and getting the handshake emoji like I did something wrong. I'm sorry I don't think that's fair for me to have to turn off my anti virus or be punished for some network issue I'm unaware of. Why does it even matter? Are they trying to get data out of my devices for free without paying me? That's BS.
Oh, and today I had 18 surveys where I only got 2-3 points before I finished all 3 for the promotion. And I've tried all sorts be they at the top, bottom, or middle of my feed, be they long or short, over a dollar or 20 cents. I wouldn't even mind only getting 20npoints for a 5 minute survey during the promotion quotas if I could at least count on not getting screwed out of so much time and effort. But the short ones rarely show up and there is no rhyme or reason to what ones I am allowed to qualify for or get screened out after the 20-40 minute time investment. Although there's a lot of banking surveys I've gotten screened out of at the end so I blame that one on the banks and not SJ. But for all else, SJ used to be a lot better. It's been years since they've given me an interesting survey with the opportunity to join a community or a product trial either.