To think that if companies want to do market research, they should bloody pay for it

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Seriously, I am beginning to think that we need a MN union. Annoyed at constantly having to scroll past sponsored posts that begin with the words, 'Crappy company wants to know what you think about X - win £250' on the talk boards. It seems to be getting more common. So, a crappy company wants to pay no more than £250 for its market research on here (in addition, that is, to whatever it pays to bother us by having its post prominently displayed), and then wants to use that research to flog us its wares. We should form a union to get paid properly to provide this sort of commercially valuable feedback!

I think for the pleasure that a free MN gives, scrolling down is a small price to pay.

They do pay MN a fee.

But yes, as a market researcher I agree with you! Everyone who participates in research should be paid an incentive of some kind, I think. But companies see communities like MN as fair game.

And, to be fair, we do all benefit from it, because the money that MNHQ receives goes towards the cost of running the site for all of us.

And - you don't have to take part, of course

sniggering at the thought that these companies are somehow getting these on without paying MN LOL

I know they pay MN! (In fact I said so in my post.)

Just grumpy about having only a few MN minutes in a break at work and scrolling past yet more corporate posts in order to get to the really juicy stuff on the active threads

There aren't that many - so yes, YABU

But MN is free for us and that's part of how they fund that! MNHQ need their gin.. YABU

Yabu, I won £250 last Christmas

I won £250 too but didn't see the pm until 4 days past the cut off date so they gave my prize away I was fuming, two weeks is not long enough IMO. People go on holiday for longer than that and don't check the internet!

Sorry to hijack the thread OP but I am still annoyed about it. Ex-DP wasn't allowed to mention it