Wanted to do a survey but changed my mind
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (52198)
Staten Island, New York
January 19, 2021 5:40pm CST
I decided to do a survey on Swagbucks just now.
It was a 6-minute survey.
Went into it.
Answered a few preliminary questions.
Once the actual survey loaded I was told that the survey will take 60 minutes to complete.
I was asked if I want to proceed further.
I said no, of course.
Don't want to spend that long on a survey, especially since you can be well into a survey or pretty much done with it and get kicked out.
I don't even know how many SB it paid.
Why the heck did Swagbucks say the survey is a 6-minute one when it is actually a 60-minute one?
They shouldn't do that.
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5 responses
@kaylachan (84823)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jan 21
I can only do one to two servays a day, and I'm careful about which servays I enter. Most of the time, I'll answer the same questions over and over again, get redirected half a dozen times and then either told I don't qualify and get kicked out, or finish it. I'll only go for high paying ones, because I don't need a headache.
@lovebuglena (52198)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Jan 21
I try not to do surveys that take a long time to complete, even if they pay a lot, because of the possibility of getting kicked out, either due to disqualification, the survey being over quota, or due to connection issues. It happened to me before where I was taking a very long survey and then there were connection issues and I was not able to continue. I think I spent 40 minutes or so on it when that happened.
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@kaylachan (84823)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jan 21
@lovebuglena I try to stick to ten minutes or less on them. I pwedwe quick ones the most.
@lovebuglena (52198)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Jan 21
@kaylachan I prefer 10-min or less ones too. Though I usually extend it to 15-min or less. What I prefer the most is very short surveys that pay more.
@LindaOHio (222527)
• United States
20 Jan 21
I've had that happen to me. I rarely take a survey that long. Prolific keeps sending me a 45-minute and 60-minute survey. I just delete them.
@lovebuglena (52198)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Jan 21
There was a 37-minute study available on Prolific yesterday but I chose not to do it. But it paid I think 4.35 GBP, so now I kinda regret it.
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@LindaOHio (222527)
• United States
21 Jan 21
@lovebuglena One of these days I will take a long one.
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@lovebuglena (52198)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Jan 21
I actually did a survey yesterday and got 100 SB for it. That doesn't usually happen. Usually, when I try to do those higher paying surveys I don't seem to qualify. Though once I tried to do one that paid 130 SB and I was able to complete it without getting disqualified.
@lovebuglena (52198)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Jan 21
True. And if I don't qualify for the survey don't let me keep answering questions only to kick me out in the middle of the survey or worse yet toward the end.
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@JudyEv (382258)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan 21
This bugs me with survey sites too. They tell you one thing then you find out it's something different.
@lovebuglena (52198)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Jan 21
I get that the time they give you for a survey is estimated but the listed time should not be that much different from the time displayed once you are in the survey.
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