Survey Stashing: Valued Opinion hints & tips

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What's this about? Willing to give your view on the Labour Party, answer questions about your sex life, or test out the latest moisturiser? If so, it's possible to earn Ј100s a year, without any special skill or talent. It's all about stashing cash from filling in online surveys or taking part in focus groups.

The first point of call is read the full Survey Stashing guide. Then having found the best survey sites, this discussion is specifically to talk about feedback and tips for the survey site

Valued Opinions

If you want to discuss survey sites in general please go to the Survey Stashing Discussion.

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Best answers:

• Let me start off!
  I have been with Valued Opinions for over 18 months, and on average I get a Ј10 Waitrose voucher from them every 6 weeks or so.
  You do get screened out after a few questions (and very occasionly you get screened out after 10 minutes or so) but they usually let you know quite soon if this happens.
  However, a couple of weeks ago I decided to stop using Valued Opinions, because the amount of technical errors I receive on the site has been increasing. In recent weeks the number of times I completed a survey only to be hit with an error message (and therefore not receive my rewards) is increasing. I personally believe that technical errors on a survey are completely unacceptable considering that Valued Opinions is a survey site and only a survey site.
  Examples:
• I receive the page "This page cannot be displayed"
• I find a button partway through the survey which is inexplicably greyed out (and therefore can't progress any further)
• I get some other cryptic error message

Well I left VO half because of the technical errors and half because I'm trying to have more of a social life these days
Overall, they are good though, and I would recommend them to others.

• I have tried twice to join VO, but both times the website will not load and just hangs without recording my details. I haven't got as far as a survey yet!! I have given up.
• getting a little tired with them, last 4x after numerous question, told I do not qualify for the survey
• One of my favourites. Receive plenty of surveys, completing a daily drinks diary which is worth approximately Ј25. Their surveys pay well and the value is updated to the account immediately, under 'Pending'. Rarely kicked off a survey once started and when I am it's usually within a couple of pages.
  Large choice of vouchers, redeemable at Ј10 and they usually arrive within 2/4 weeks.
  Can't say fairer than that ...............
• I love Valued Opinions. I receive a high number of surveys from them and have claimed 3 vouchers from them and I am currently doing the daily drinks diary, which I think is a great way to earn some money for about 5 mins 'work' every day.
  These are one site I will definately stick with and recommend to everyone
• I have been doing surveys for Valued Opinion for about 2 years and as others have said, sometimes you get screened out either early on (fair enough) or after you have answered loads of questions (grrr!).
  On the whole, though, I think they are one of the better sites although I always keep a copy of any surveys I have completed in a folder in my email until I have been paid as in the past I noticed a few times that surveys which were pending, "disappeared".......however this has not been happening since I emailed complaining some time ago!
  So all in all I would recommend.
• still waiting to hear from them where they added Ј1 fro a survey that said Ј1.50 in email invite
  still one of my faves will be due another voucher when all pending are credited and will still have Ј2 towards next
  thats Ј20 of vouchers in 3 months best ratio i got
• I've been with them since the start of the year and have redeemed two Ј10 Boots vouchers so far. I've just done the Cadbury's Clusters survey over 14 days, for which I will get Ј10 at the end of it, and am 3/4 of the way to another redemption after that. I qualify for most of the surveys that I'm invited to, although I do get screened out of some. This usually happens within 3-4 minutes of starting the survey so I know fairly quickly whether I'm going to be eligible or not. All in all, I thoroughly recommend VO as I've had good experiences with them so far.
• I hardly get any from VO!
• im worried i will get kicked off survey and get nothing.
  Im currently doing the national lottery diary - which is 16 weeks long for Ј15. However it says you can only ay no a certain number of times. even in the early survey i said i played about 3 times a year, so i have had alot of no replies to have you played this week?
  i will be annoyed if i get nothing!
  Edit: any1 else do recent alcohol survey for Ј2.00 and not had it track??
• Suddenly i'm not qaulifyign for the surveys they are sending and am 50p off the £10 cash out. Annoyed!
• I don't seem to be qualifying either and wondered whether there was a problem with my account. Am still completing the daily drinks diary though.
• That diary is so frustrating.
  Is it the end of june its over?
• If you request an Amazon voucher the code comes up on site immediately.
• I think the diary finishes within a couple of weeks. Not long to go now.
• I have been with them for almost 4 years, have made a fair bit of money from doing their surveys. I am getting about 5 surveys a day, but they are long and tedious and the rewards are not that much, so have stopped doing surveys for them.
• Valued Opinion let me finish enough surveys to get close the Ј10 needed to get an Amazon voucher and now, for the past 2 months, every time I click on a survey I'm told I don't qualify. I've spent over a month emailing them and they even admit they have a problem and even say it will be sorted out "tomorrow," but it looks like they're getting away with not letting me cash in the money I'm owed for doing their surveys.
  Beware of being conned into working for them for nothing.
  Malcolm
• I've had a thought about the VO problem of not getting through to surveys they send. Not sure whether it's something to do with Internet Explorer 8, which I downloaded last week.
  This morning I received a survey from VO and received the usual 'you don't qualify .........................'. However, when I tried it on a laptop running XP and old version of IE, I was allowed to complete the survey.
  Similar with Global Test Market - they state in their invitation emails that you might not be able to do the survey if using IE8, and recommend another browser.
  Is anyone else experiencing problems with completing surveys after downloading the latest version of IE 8?