I spent a lot of time and energy doing these surveys, tracking the trial expirations, and maintaining my own spreadsheet because their stupid system includes surveys you start and decide not to complete.
Five surveys were approved for $58. I kept waiting for the $95 worth of surveys that were pending to be approved, and it was taking so long, I decided to go ahead and ask for payment, since I had the $50 required to get paid and I had more than $50 pending.
But alas, when I went to get paid the Get Paid button was not offered. They had raised the minimum to $100!
I had 6 surveys dated from April 2 to May 9. I sent an e-mail through "Contact Us" listing the unapproved surveys. The response I received was this (from [email protected], unsigned):
"Hi, As per our company policy a survey will be approved only after we receive the confirmation from the advertisers that you have completed the survey and signed up with the offer. It usually takes 6 to 8 weeks for a survey to get approved. As soon as we receive the confirmation we will update your account. Surveyteam will make payments to users having a US Verified primary Paypal account only."
Note that I am writing this posting August 28—surveys completed 16 to 21 weeks agoa and still not approved!
I know I completed all these surveys, because I was charged and/or received product. There's apparently no hope of ever getting paid by this company, because:
1) I don't have the minimum;
2) They won't approve the 6 pending surveys;
3) They never get new surveys—it's the same ones all the time; and
4) I now refuse to put out any more money on their "paid surveys" that are really "product trials" paid by me
Re #4, there's an evil clause in their "T&Cs" that states "SurveyTeam... For any reason or no reason at all may terminate any Members without prior notice for... (f) inactivity (defined as the failure to earn any cash incentive in your SurveyTeam account) for a continuous six-month period." Note that you must "earn cash", not just complete surveys. So they get their affiliate commissions no matter what, while we're trying and failing because of their evil system that won't approve surveys so we can earn cash! What a vicious cycle!
I even called some of the product companies and they said their system would have already notified SurveyTeam. Maybe usacomplaints.com should be written about some of those "partners", e.G., Stamps.com; Blockbuster Total Access; Hoodia XPF; Grant Mentor; eSuccess Auctions; GottaPlay. This may be the way to go about it—write letters to their "partner" companies asking them to stop associating with them and their false advertising.
It is a crime by everyone involved against us, who do everything we were supposed to do (I actually tried all of the products!) and SurveyTeam does not keep their end of the bargain—their aggressively, braggadociosly advertised bargain.
They need to be stopped!
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