If this drink was a person, would you be friends?

[HecatesTwopenceworth]

What a stupid fucking question.

I do online surveys for cash - piddling insignificant amounts of cash, but never mind.

Some of the questions are so stupid.

They often want me to give a can of coke, or a mobile phone, or whatever, a personality and say if I'd like it or not Is it youthful, is it exciting....

ffs. How are you supposed to see a drink as a person and decide whether you'd be mates? who thinks up such stupid questions and what on earth do they think they are getting out of asking them?

Lightspeed??

toluna mostly give me STUPID questions!!

Oh I used to do these but now I MN have better things to do.

I really hated that mood thing where you would have to say how a product made you feel emotionally, and it's all things like threatened, anxious, overjoyed, loved. And you're doing the survey for dental floss...

Yes, that's the sort of thing. What a pile of crap it is. Who can actually, seriously, answer those questions?

And what sort of twat asks them, thinking they can get anything meaningful from the replies?

Ah, I did Lightspeed till I had, I think £10 in Amazon vouchers then I got fed up with it. I remember the one where I had to watch a TV ad, decide whether it made me feel loved/threatened/secure etc... then re-watch the thing moving a slider to say just how loved/threatened/secure I felt at each point in the ad.

That, and the ones where they ask you 101 questions about how many times a week you buy coffee or whatever, which of these brands you've heard of, which brands you buy, how often... and then decide you're not fit to take the full survey so you don't get paid.

More entertainingly, I also did Juicy Brains where you get to write your own reply to the question - but also see other people's and can agree with them. Many comments along the line of "It's a fucking tea bag! I don't feel any emotion towards it you morons!"

Between DH and I we have had about £80 vouchers in about 18 months though

He still does them and says they are increasingly questioning him for about 5 mins before deciding he is not the right sort for the survey. He reckons they're starting to take the mick.

Oh fuckit beastie just said that.

Ignore me.

Oh God tell me about it, I do My Survey and Lightspeed and some of the questions are so ridiculous!

Like the ones where you have pictures of different women and you have to decide which coffee they would drink. How the fuck am Isupposed to know that?

I once clicked on the wrong button, saying I wouldn't answer the questions honestly and I've not heard from Lightspeed since! I'm gutted. Not!

ROFL at the coke with a personaility, I used to hate those ones, haven't had any of those for ages.

I think Mums Opinions have screened me out because I'm a lentil-weaver who bfs and does BLW I keep getting responses saying that my profile doesn't match up or something.

Oh yes, I hate it when they do that, Beastie & Spam. I actually think that they are conning us - they ask the questions they need answers to, then tell us that we haven't qualified, so that they don't have to pay us, when in reality, they've already gathered all the information they needed!

Never heard of mums' opinions, cherry, no good then?

fluffy

BT - do you just click any old crap then? I do

It's linked with Valued Opinions, and Bounty. It's quite good in that it pays £2 per survey, but they're infrequent (though more frequent now DS is older, so might be better if you have more/older children/babies)

But the questions are all things like "Which baby snacks/food jars do you buy?" and I'm forever ticking the "None of these" options. Comes across quite anti-bf as well with the milk-feeding related questions.

Am annoyed though, I was only one survey off a payout!

i am best friends with white wine, does that count?

I have never done an online survey, but I went to a focus group for BigFrenchChildrensClothingCatalogeandWebsite Fashion retailer once, there were 12 women (mothers) there waiting for the focus group to start. One woman came in and surveyed the lot of us. Then discretely went over to the two "worst" dressed mums and explained that they would not be needed as they only needed 10 but reckoned not all would come, gave them £50 each and said good bye.

Ok so it is fashion. But I am certain they had as valid opinions on kids clothing and fashion as the rest of us. But these two stood out as the least MC, and if you want a broad opinion, you should strive for a different variety of people in your focus group I think.

wow, that's brilliant dreadful QS.

I'd be chuffed if I was one of the badly-dressed ones though, £50 for turning up? Bonus!