When surveys ask you...

United States
April 8, 2009 11:05pm CST
if you have taken a survey in the past month on a list of topics and you have do you admit it? i dont just because there are a million places i do survey and its rare i find the same type twice so if i were to say i had taken a survey about soda who knows what surveys i might not get that arent the same etc.. and when they ask you how many surveys you have completed in the last 30 days do you put the real number? i do like 10 a day so.. lol.. i dont like lying but i think its annoying that some places seem to want you to only do their surveys and no other places since they dont have the same things! what do you do?
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8 responses
• United States
21 Apr 09
Well, I answer them with answers I think they are looking for. I want to qualify for the surveys and it is hard enough to do that even when I bend the truth. I don't think I would ever qualify if I told the complete honest truth. The scary thing is that our market research is based on these surveys. If no one is telling the truth that would explain some of the nasty stuff that is for sale out there.
• United States
22 Apr 09
lol yeah no kidding!
@schulzie (4061)
• United States
9 Apr 09
I lie all the time. Well... I bend the truth a little, just a little mind you. But yes, I try to give the answers I think they are looking for so I can qualify for the survey. I know that is bad, but hey I need the money from the surveys! I know you and I are not the only ones who do this. Have a nice day and happy myLotting!!!
• United States
13 Apr 09
yeah i know lol. but are we the only ones that will admit??
@ranitam22 (1146)
• United States
10 May 09
I do the same thing also, I usually say no I haven't taken a survey in the last 30 days or however long they ask. Have you had the one where it asks if you're a member of other companies and then it gives a list of specific ones? I usually maybe pick about three or four of them, even though like you I am a member of lots of different companies. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that does that...lol
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• United States
11 May 09
yeah i will pick like 1 or 2 of them lol.. when in fact im joined to all of them and then who knows how many more!
@tessah (6617)
• United States
9 Apr 09
honestly? i lie LOL i dont tell them if ive filled out a survey for other stuff because it does sometimes negate yer eligibilities for doing some of them..and well, obviously.. i sign up for doing the surveys to actually DO them, so im not gonna lessen my chances of being eligible, theyre low enough as it is already *nod*
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• United States
13 Apr 09
yeah some places are so hard to get to qualifying on
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
10 Apr 09
I typically say No if they ask if I've taken a survey about whatever in the past three months because I HONESTLY can't remember! My brain is so bad these days that I sometimes even forget to log onto my email account where I get all my surveys for days, even once it was a week! Yeah, my brain is bad. But, I've noticed that they do seem to want you to only be doing their surveys. Maybe it's because sometimes the surveys are redirected to another survey site and several of them do this. I've received OTX(?) surveys from several different survey sites. I NEVER qualify for them, though. I have no idea what their target audience is, but I'm definitely not it for any of their surveys.
• United States
13 Apr 09
otx are hard to get it seems
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
10 Apr 09
That's one of the hardest things to answer on the survey. Sure, i know I've done surveys in the past month or three months, whatever, but do I really remeber what they were about? Not even close. There are only a couple of surveys that i remember outright because I was well compensated for them, but that's about it. As far as the topics, I'll plug in a couple that I know I have done and then just leave it at that. I only qualify for maybe 1 out of 10 surveys, so I don't think repeating the survey is ever going to happen.
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• United States
13 Apr 09
yeah i usually forget after i take them unless they were so long they were driving me nuts lol
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
9 Apr 09
I basically do the same thing you do, because if you tell them you did such & such surveys, they disquilify you, then you have wasted a lot of time.
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• United States
9 Apr 09
yeah no kidding!! some times its a waste of time anyways since they may disqualify you for something else later on but at least you got that far
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@LouieWpHs04 (4554)
• United States
9 Apr 09
Well, I don't really recall what all kinds of surveys I take and so i'm more on the side of, "Do they really expect me to remember each and every type of survey I took?" Ten surveys a day?!! Survey companies must like youu. Or you're just a part of a lot of them?
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• United States
13 Apr 09
i am a part of a lot of them and then some of them send several a day so im always busy with them..