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Trying to pinpoint the survey site is a hopeless task....they all seen interconnected. My email address is under constant attack with unwanted sales garbage and "unsubscribing" doesn't give any relief. But I'd rather sift through that rubbish than deal with the spam calls I get on my phone....those come up with innovative ways to mess up my voicemail on a daily basis. Today I tried to delete a "congratulations you've qualified for a $100 gift card' and somehow got connected to the spammer. I told him he needed to STOP CALLING because I was NEVER going to participate in any of it. Shortly after, the message disappeared and my voicemail was functioning properly once again. I don't think he appreciated my suggestion as to what he could do with said gift card but maybe that encouraged him to back off.. That will last maybe 24 hours if I'm lucky.

The mischievous side to me has just wondered what would happen if every time I contacted their CS I asked them to answer 6 questions about answering honestly and then describe their restaurant experiences and what they like about communicating with me before I would ask my question. After all, it would be good to check that I'm also dealing with a human!

It's a personal choice to be sure....just be mindful about all the aspects so as to protect yourself. I'm hearing from others that ever since they went with the verification, the surveys aren't paying nearly what they used to pay nor are they as frequent as they used to be. That raises a red flag with me. Good luck with whatever you decide.

Maybe it is just their way of justifying to themselves why the pay rates on most surveys are pitiful. If they tell themselves that at least they aren't charging us, then maybe they feel a bit better about themselves.

A little footnote to my spam call experience of 8/21. As I mentioned, a spam caller managed to mess up my phone's voicemail so I couldn't access or clear it for future use. Anyone who tried to call my number got the spam message instead of my recording. As I tried different things to delete it, I was inadvertently connected directly to "Mr Spammer" and read him the riot act. Not exactly the type of phone etiquette for which to be proud or recommend as I do believe he was "just doing his job". But that was several days and countless additional spam calls ago.....yet not a one has left a voicemail message since the "incident". I wonder if this is an attempt at reverse psychology. Do they think I'm going to feel like I'm missing out? Obviously I'm not removed from anyone's list as I continue to get spam calls but maybe there's an asterisk in their system that denotes "leave messages at your own peril, this mark is a loony". If only that could be true. What a lovely gift!

I have to take a health pledge on Branded Surveys. It consists of checking 6 boxes to pledge to be a valued community member. Then there are 2 boxes to write in about why you like being a Branded member & your favorite restaurant experience (I don't even eat at restaurants). Each box has to contain 250 words (not gibberish). I feel like I'm back in school writing an essay in order to pass a class. This is nuts. GRRR.

I just did a survey worth $3.76 about hair care. I never get any on Paid Viewpoint.

OK, curiosity got the best of me so I tried looking it up and here's what Google Gemini says: BuddyPoll.com is owned and operated as a rewards-driven online survey platform, but the specific corporate entity or individual owner's legal name is not publicly disclosed in their standard domain registration or public-facing documentation. That doesn't earn my trust at all.....I would skip them altogether.

Not familiar with this one at all but I'd follow Dave351's suggestion and also, do a search to see if you can identity who they belong to

If the privacy pages don't exist, that would be a red flag for me. I guess you can try e-mailing them and asking them to send these to you. That way you'll also get an idea for what their customer service is like.

I have done quite a few surveys recently and on two of them they asked about what state I lived in, and my zip code. I am kind of weird about giving out my zipcode, but it was a couple of long surveys, so I obliged. Within 2 days my junk folder exploded with email. Over night I had hundreds and every one of them was flagged by my system. Big Red Flags! And it has continued that way for 3 days. I keep blocking them. These are all sales pitches, cruises, Disney, movie tickets. There are tons of them. In 8 hours today I had racked up over a hundred of them. That isn't counting the hundreds that came in last night. I have to wonder where they got my email and info.

I have never seen that and I would not pay.

I've never encountered any that required a payment. Wouldn't do one that did! I imagine they'd take it out of your winnings (points, cash value, whatever) and that you'd have to clear that level before earning anything you could keep. And why do I think they'd never pay out in the long term?

It depends what you mean by pay. I've never had to pay financially. However, I regularly have to pay with my sanity!

The easiest way is to use it to purchase an Amazon GC online, then just add the gift card to your Amazon balance.

Yes, good point. I mean it may replace arbitrary human whim, greed, and prejudice. I find Ai surveys insipid and lacking logic. Others too of course

I agree Dave

I see no reason that A.I. will be in any way fairer. Deep down, even if a survey is an A.I. interview, i will be controlled by the survey site at beginning and end and they will determine whether to pay or not. If anything, I fear that A.I. will be less fair. I refuse to do most A.I. surveys as when you read the terms and conditions at the beginning it talks about using your data to train the A.I. In effect you are giving the survey provider permission to sell your data to whom they want for however much they want. Sorry to be downhearted here.

While I had the stamina, I filled it out.. and what helped me was that I told them diplomatically, what I thought of the site, restaurants...reached the thousand word limit easy! LOL

Survey-wise, I've always found Branded to be pretty good. Which is why this sort of stuff is even more annoying.

Like you Sandy I often find myself feeling this way. The sad thing is that it has the potential to be a good site. However, so often it is littered with ridiculously low paying surveys that you have to skip to get to anything worthwhile, and then you have the late rejections. Oh well, maybe today will be a good day.

BRAVO! Well said!!!

Good idea -I think I'll try that with the next batch. My email provider is constantly routing to the wrong folder so I have to go through them individually anyway but it might be a little less daunting.

I check multiple times a day never wait for emails

So sorry to hear about your health issues. I really hope that you're recovery goes as well as possible.

I have never heard of such a thing. What the heck! is that forced labor?

That would explain why it's not changing here. Eclipses are very localised!

That's good to hear. It's always good when sites work as they should do!

Thanks, Dave. I will. Hoping that someone who uses Prolific would go there now if they have Safari and tell me if they see the same white blank page.

Just a quick heads up in case anybody tries doing a shampoo survey on Paid Viewpoint that directs you to the external site Beauty Hub. This external site asks you to select pictures related to scent. However, it doesn't appear to work in Firefox. I wasted a lot of time trying to get it to work, and then thought I'd try using Chrome. It worked fine in Chrome. I just thought I'd post about it just in case it's relevant to anyone.

So, I received the following response from Paid Viewpoint, which I thought I should share. I will let other people draw their own conclusions, but it would be nice if they mentioned this on their site:

It didn't work for me, completed the survey anyway, got the credit. Hoping Paid Viewpoint won't notice

They used to be called Quest Mindshare. They are in Canada.

I just won't join. I don't think it will be worth it, if they can't provide those documents on the site they shouldn't be conducting surveys.

Hahaha! There are a couple of survey sites that have been alright. HeyPiggy tend to credit me anyway, and if I go through Branded's 'report survey' system, that usually works too. Same for Attapoll and Valued Opinions. Otherwise I don't bother! More often than not, it's a waste of time!

"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope. With hope, one can think, one can work, one can dream. If you have hope, you have everything." (not sure who wrote that but it is my favorite quote)

I can't imagine that would work as a business model. No one would pay.

Thanks but I'm just grateful it worked out the way it did.....other people have endured so much worse.

I'm so sorry that you've been put through all of this. It sounds awful.

Logically that would make sense. However, logic and survey sites don't always go well together. Oh well, onwards and upwards.

I use big ones that I get from market research interviews toward my electric bills in the summer months.

Freeeeeedddddoooommmmmm!

I did the same thing, lol.

I do Prolific daily. But there have been some days that they had very little int he way of surveys. I even do the .10 ones, because they all add up. I'm not getting rich, but the little bit I make helps with groceries.

I have all that stuff go to my spam folder. These days it's mostly from,, the sight name slipped my mind right now and I emptied spam a few minutes ago. It's one of those paid to sites that also has surveys. They send so many emails a day cluttering my email I had to mark them as spam.

Most of the surveys ask for state and zip so that's not a red flag. What survey site was it and what were the surveys. I think it was either one of those.

I'm so pleased you have power back, but sorry to hear about your plight. I hope that life can soon return to some kind of normality for you.

Cultural!!!!!!

Ignore the grifters

Yes the survey companies have a right and obligation to make sure I'm human and not a bot. However as I comply with survey requests to not use a vpn, they know exactly where I am and can easily distinguish me from a bot. Survey companies tout 3rd-party verification programs as trustworthy (and to them they are) but the reality is that most are owned by parent companies located in other countries and to whom they pass your collected information. These parent companies are known to sell the data globally many times over to whoever will pay them. I choose not to upload my ID to a third party which is not bound by any rules to protect me from such a fate. Some consequences of compliance include people whose bank accounts are cleaned out overnight, have names changed on their property deeds, and are victimized by identity theft on levels they never dreamed possible. There are many instances where I'm asked to provide a government-issued ID (at the bank, at liquor stores, when writing a check, and in a multitude of other situations) but the person asking is just looking at it for verification, not making a copy to keep to do whatever they want with it later. My opinion on this matter won't change anything but I think we all should be free to choose to participate in screenings that will improve the survey realm....just not forced to do so if if feels like there's an ulterior motive afoot.