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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Perth
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Has anyone else had a similar experience to this?
Last Sunday at about 9am this lady from the Morgan Poll knocked on my door and asked if I would be interested in answering some questions over half an hour or so to get a $30 gift voucher. This seemed like a fairly reasonable rate of return for working on a Sunday so I let her come in and proceeded to answer a heap of questions about how much I earn, what products I buy, who I would and would not vote for, and so on. All this probably took closer to 45 minutes but still not unreasonable for $30. Then came the crunches (plural): 1. There are no vouchers, just overvalued 'gifts', none of which I happen to need. Examples include 'petrol station' quality sunglasses, pedometers, backpacks, wallets, subscriptions to electronic magazines, none of which is really going to cost more than $15 at a department store or petrol station. 2. In order to claim a gift one has to additionally fill out two booklets of questions each with about 50 pages. I estimate that these would require an additional 1.5 hours to answer sensibly. 3. On posting the booklets back one is also able to 'enter a draw to win $10,000' with no mention of how many people will be in the draw. Lets assume that its 10,000 people. So this opportunity is worth about $1.00 So the bottom line is that if you spend 2 hours of your time you get a relatively useless gift worth $15 and a $1 lottery ticket. Therefore working for $8.00 per hour. So anyway when I worked this out I just threw the booklets in the bin and wrote it off as a bad experience. Left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth since one of the main reasons I agreed to answer the questions was to help the woman out, figuring that anyone who elects to do door to door sales or surveys is at least showing some initiative. I simply don't need the money and the woman concerned is as old as my mum :-) But next time I'll know better ![]() |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 18,985
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nothing in life is for free.....
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Mustang GT mmmmmm......
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Mornington Peninsula
Posts: 1,459
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I got a lovely subscription to Australian National Geographic.
Yep, not worth the time or effort.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 9,292
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I did a Morgan poll years ago.
Was a couple of hundred pages, which i could do in my own time. At the end of it, i got handed a $10 scratchy which ended up netting me $100. I was happy with that. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Salamander Bay
Posts: 5,427
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look at the big picture. your answers influence the good and services you can buy
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Brisbane Southside
Posts: 6
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The companies that use that information make squillions. For me its at least 200 bucks cash or why would I bother to waste my time for 3o bucks...or 8
and even then for the 200 it's pens down at the end of the hour... |
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Happy Wife = Happy Life
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Eastern Suburbs, Melbourne
Posts: 1,013
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Thanks for the heads up
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