I spent over half an hour working on a political survey, answering all their questions. My final question was: "Would you be willing to talk on the phone to a reporter about this survey?" No way do I want to talk to a reporter so I said "No." The next page said I did not qualify for the survey. They wasted my time, used my answers and then tell me I didn't qualify! That is totally UNFAIR!

Lorelie wrote: I spent over half an hour working on a political survey, answering all their questions. My final question was: "Would you be willing to talk on the phone to a reporter about this survey?" No way do I want to talk to a reporter so I said "No." The next page said I did not qualify for the survey. They wasted my time, used my answers and then tell me I didn't qualify! That is totally UNFAIR!

You should of stated Yes

ProAdCo wrote:

Lorelie wrote: I spent over half an hour working on a political survey, answering all their questions. My final question was: "Would you be willing to talk on the phone to a reporter about this survey?" No way do I want to talk to a reporter so I said "No." The next page said I did not qualify for the survey. They wasted my time, used my answers and then tell me I didn't qualify! That is totally UNFAIR!

You should of stated Yes

next time say Yes [ nobody will call you latter ].learn how to do surveys

I have said yes and I did get a call (which I hung up on).

Lorelie wrote: I have said yes and I did get a call (which I hung up on).

You can keep your freedom, if you are willing to defend it.

I did one of these, agreed to take a call and did receive a call. It was no big deal. I was interviewed and received credit.

This smells bullsh** all over - No real, legitimate survey would operate this way.
I would be curious to know where you took this survey from, what offer / brand router ?
Was this an actual survey or some other motives. it is very unethical for a survey to disqualify you that late in the survey. You took the damn survey and provided your input. That phone call should be optional, it should be your right to opt out and refuse to being bothered over the phone. Very unethical. If this was a requirement to get paid, it should have stated it at the BEGINNING of the survey, like I have seen in some surveys that ask you in advance if you would be willing to take a follow up survey after you completed it.

Some surveys might offer you the chance to answer follow-up surveys over the phone, but you should always have the opportunity to opt out of these, and get paid for the actual survey you took. any further interview should be in the form of additional incentives.

As far as those who said YES but didn't mean to, only to hang up on said "reporter", this is playing with fire, as they could easily reverse the survey - so not only could you risk losing your money but your phone number will be likely circulating and you will get unwanted calls.

I've done lots of political surveys over the years, but never have I come across such a thing.
I have refused some follow-up surveys and never had issues with being paid with the survey. I've also accepted some follow-up calls, and did get the extra payment - Beware of any such phone calls about your finances, anything related to certain topics can be delicate, use best judgement on whether to accept or refuse these phone call interviews, nowadays you can't be too careful.

So now the question remains:

Were you really disqualified because you said NO to the call or was it a screen out for other reasons .....

It was one of the samplicio.us surveys and I have done numerous of those political surveys without a problem. This is the only one that has ever done that to me. I have said no to the call before and it counted so there was no other reason to disqualify me on that one.

tasman1 wrote:

ProAdCo wrote:

Lorelie wrote: I spent over half an hour working on a political survey, answering all their questions. My final question was: "Would you be willing to talk on the phone to a reporter about this survey?" No way do I want to talk to a reporter so I said "No." The next page said I did not qualify for the survey. They wasted my time, used my answers and then tell me I didn't qualify! That is totally UNFAIR!

You should of stated Yes

next time say Yes [ nobody will call you latter ].learn how to do surveys

They do call you. It's just they call you much later to do telephone surveys on a different topic and not to follow up.....obviously 'cause then they won't have to pay you.

Blissfully, they no longer call.

Learn to get the facts first.

The reason I'm really feeling for you right now is because....half an hour spent on POLITICS, for NOTHING.

I'd go ape.