Panda Research is such a SCAM! They say they are a survey company but the surveys are a joke! They are a very short list of questions that basically ask if you have heard about a company that does some sort of business online and they direct you to that company's website that makes you sign up for an offer or program that usually will cost you money. A sample survey is below for you to see what their surveys look like. If and when you complete that company's offer, Panda Research says you will get paid a certain amount of money from them and it will take up to 6 weeks to get the payout per their FAQs. After 2 months, all of my offers were still showing "Pending" on their website and none of them were approved. I had contacted Panda Research and their responses back were that it takes 6-8 weeks for the vendor to approve. But they never got approved so I contacted each of the vendors and questioned why they haven't approved the offers. Most of them said that it sounded like I got into a scam, some of them had not even heard of Panda Research! I continued to contact Panda Research and they stopped responding to my emails altogether.
There is absolutely no communication between Panda Research and the vendors they work with, they never do any follow-up or anything to make sure that someone gets approved after completing the offers. I had to do all the communication myself to try and get paid for the offers I completed. And still none were approved for payment well over 2 months now, and I did several different company offers. So I reported Panda Research to the Better Business Bureau and asked that they help me to get the payments that are owed to me. Only after that, and frequent communication with the BBB did I start to see a couple of the offers showing approved. I still have not received any payment yet from Panda but they are now starting to get approved with the BBB's help. Will I ever receive the actual payment from them? That's yet to be determined, but I wanted to alert everyone out there that this is not a real survey company, you will have to pay lots of money to complete all these offers instead of doing actual surveys, and you will have to FIGHT LIKE HECK to get any offers approved for payment. STEER CLEAR of this company since they are not at all what they say they are, they are misleading everyone and that is completely FRAUDULENT in my opinion.
Their surveys look like the following:
1.) How often do you use Postal Stamp's in a week?
2.) How much average amount do you spend on stamps in a month?
3.) From where do you usually get your stamps?
4.) Do you get the stamps yourself?
5.) Do you know, you can now print Stamps Online?
6.) Are you using any other similar type of these services?
7.) Have you heard about stamps.com?
8.) Would you like to Sign up today and get $100 Free Postage plus Take advantage of 4 weeks No Risk Trial?
Here's another one...
1.) Do you have a DVD player in your home/computer?
2.) Do you watch DVD's?
3.) Have you rented a DVD in the last 30 days?
4.) Would you like free unlimited DVD rentals with free shipping both ways?
5.) Do you watch DVD's more than twice a week?
6.) Have you ever heard of BlockBuster Online?
7.) Have you ever used Online DVD Rental Services?
8.) Do you know you can pick more than 25,000 titles online at BlockBuster Online!?
9.) Would you like to get 2 FREE movie or game rentals a month?
10.) Do you want more information about BlockBuster Online and renting DVD's
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