Corporate Marketing Surveys Annoyance When Buy Goods or Services

[Flamingo13]

I have no problems at all with E-Rewards but that has nothing to do with the question. The question was doing surveys on your receipts.

[cat1116]

Sometimes the product that I purchase via Amazon, i.e. Coffee pods, follows up with a survey to Yahoo Incoming mailbox. I'm ok doing it sometimes while I'm already signed into Amazon but if I'm not, the survey wants me to log into it. You know, some days, I just don't feel like it

There was another company, forgot which one now, where I answered a few questions, then it went to several more questions. Think someone here mentioned it felt like some kind of interrogation. I eventually gave up on that kind too.

Occasionally, I'll get into Yelp and offer up my opinion/suggestion whether my visit or service call was great or not great at all. YouTube comments too. They're helpful when comparing products and how to use certain products. Sometimes if you don't use a product in quite some time, you forget little details so that and the reviewer replies and/or other people's comments are very helpful. Sometimes the satisfaction you get from this can be =/> than any chance of free fries.

[Lodestar 77]

I do the Dunkin Donut surveys for a free donut with (medium or large) coffee purchase. However they recently changed their surveys so I only have 3 days to do it, where before I could hold on to the receipt and do it when I felt like it. I do drink a medium DD coffee, it is soooooooo good!

I don't do the fast food surveys, that give me a free burger/breakfast sandwich/etc. with purchase of a large fry and large drink. I don't eat that much food, I always get small sides.

I also do not do surveys that are buy one, get another free. I don't need, and cannot eat, two Whoppers, or Big Macs. As a single woman, I have no interest in these offers. In fact, it annoys the heck out of me. "Free" to me is different than the businesses "free". I would like to get my sandwich actually free for doing a survey.

Basically, it is all "game playing" IMO, the companies want our personal information, ie email addys, to sell and make money off of. I prefer not to get a lot of SPAM in my email folders.