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Jim K

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So I get these emails, especially in the winter, where they pay you $20-30 for a 15-20min online survey. Kynetec is the company I have experience with. I used to ignore them until I realized I could make $80/hr while drinking coffee and watching youtube. I get one every week or two, so it's not like a full time job, but it probably fills my plane up with gas once a year.

I was curious if this was a thing in other industries or just ag.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Tell me more. @eman1200 you see this?
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They are selling that data for very accurately targeted advertising. You and your family will receive tailored offers that match your likes, not your needs. That data will be accurate and sellable for years if you provide truthful information...

The product sellers will have bought from other sources your economic status and current bank balances, and know you like to take flying vacations.

Those adds will be much more productive than random ones, as you and your family will be inclined to say "Gee, we should have bought one of these a long time ago".

The data may also have been bought by very well financed political influencers, to try to emotionally sway your perception of issues, and votes.
 
I've been selected for for Neilson and Gallup panels in the past, receiving payments for surveys they send me. Over the years its amounted to a few hundred extra dollars. Not going to get rich, but money's money.
 
geezer said:
They are selling that data for very accurately targeted advertising. You and your family will receive tailored offers that match your likes, not your needs. That data will be accurate and sellable for years if you provide truthful information...

The product sellers will have bought from other sources your economic status and current bank balances, and know you like to take flying vacations.

Those adds will be much more productive than random ones, as you and your family will be inclined to say "Gee, we should have bought one of these a long time ago".

The data may also have been bought by very well financed political influencers, to try to emotionally sway your perception of issues, and votes.
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No...these surveys aren't about me. For example the one I did this morning introduced a hypothetical new GMO corn trait and five potential names for it. They wanted opinions on how each name made me feel about the product, what it made me think of first, how well it fit/described the product, etc. It'll be interesting to see if a new one comes out and one of those names is used. Others have been on what brands of corn I purchased, what kind of GPS guidance systems I use, or what I'm looking for in my next tractor. Supposedly the data collected is anonymized.
 
Corn you buy, GPS you use, and tractors is the data they want, to try to change your preference there.

The other questions are mostly to get you feeling good with them.

The written surveys that I still get, reading them clear through, I know which organization sent it, and can expect a fundraising letter soon after.
 
If you can’t figure out what the product is, it’s probably you
 
I’m part of the Gallup panel. When I fill out those surveys I get rewards points that I theoretically can cash out for gift cards. They also let you donate it to various charities so I do that instead.
 
I keep getting requests to review stuff I bought for free. It's clearly automated and some of the items I'll get asked to review are ridiculous. I bought some fuses from an O'Reillys and they sent me an email asking me to review them. What am I supposed to say about fuses? It didn't crumble in my hand or fail immediately when I installed it? Sam's Club asked me to review the toilet paper... fine, I left them an eloquent but graphic explanation on how I used the product and how effective it was. IDK if it made it on the website but I haven't gotten a new request to review anything from them for a bit.

Our pharmacy texts me the day after a pickup asking for a review. The flippin' doctors office robodials me a few days after the visit wanting me to do an automated survey over the phone. Basically every other thing I buy comes back to me with a "how are we doing?" email or text or worse a phone call. Somehow they just seem to know when I've got my hands full and can't easily get my phone out to see who's texting/calling too. Sales people have been shoving QR codes in my face asking me to review them on google. Come on, give me a t-shirt, a hat, a coupon, a gift card, or something along those lines at least. Why should I take time out of my day to review stuff because the executives are too lazy to actually go out and see what's going on at their businesses? I'm just going to start spamming every one of these things with snarky useless reviews like the toilet paper one at this point, maybe if enough of us do that they'll get the hint.
 
We did product testing when I was a kid. About every 6-7 weeks we would get a big box of different food and drink items. There would be a packet of questionnaires with it and we would have two weeks to try everything in the box and fill out and return the packet. Did it for a couple of years. Sometimes we would get new versions of something we'd already have tested. Several of the items we had, showed up on grocery store shelves within a couple of months of having them. The big ones I remember were Tang, a couple of Kool-aid flavors and Bugles Corn Chips... We didn't get paid, but every so often huge boxes of products that we liked, would show up in a delivery, which went on for several years.
 
Craig said:
We did product testing when I was a kid. About every 6-7 weeks we would get a big box of different food and drink items. There would be a packet of questionnaires with it and we would have two weeks to try everything in the box and fill out and return the packet. Did it for a couple of years. Sometimes we would get new versions of something we'd already have tested. Several of the items we had, showed up on grocery store shelves within a couple of months of having them. The big ones I remember were Tang, a couple of Kool-aid flavors and Bugles Corn Chips... We didn't get paid, but every so often huge boxes of products that we liked, would show up in a delivery, which went on for several years.
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A friend of mine in high school was part of a family that did this for a pizza delivery chain. They were told what to order and when and had to pay attention to the quality of the product and when it arrived.

Somehow, they got figured out - Their last order was delivered to their door only seven minutes after they'd ordered it. :rofl:
 
I used to get emails from a company that paid $25-30 for filling out surveys. These were on pretty technical subjects, and I'm guessing the results were used for market research and/or white papers. It wasn't bad while I was actively working in that field, but as I moved on to other areas I no longer met their criteria for the surveys. Since they were paying I wasn't going to fake it.
 
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