Comments on: Is eRewards A Scam?

By: KDub

KDub — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:21:14 +0000

I’ve been with e-rewards for several years. They can be a giant pain in the butt. I ran into problems when they dumped all of my accumulated points (with no warning) last spring. I raised heck and asked them how anyone was expected to be able to say enough points to “earn” anything decent of the points were going to be taken away before you were able to use them. I have always used me e-rewards points to “buy” Hilton Honors points and use them to get free night(s) at Hampton Inn or other Hilton brand hotels. They returned my points and told me I had like 72 hours to convert them, or I would lose them (again). I used them to get 4500 Hilton points. My biggest complaint is the unbearably long surveys that they send that take 20+ minutes to complete. I hate the surveys that are repetitive and “Disagree”, “Strongly Disagree”, etc… then you get booted out 10 minutes into it and you get 35 cents. Since they don’t send very many surveys (that you actually qualify for), it takes a long time to earn points. Oh, they also won’t let you cash in for Hilton points more than once every 90 days.

By: esther

esther — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:54:36 +0000

@Ellen: I've been doing survey's for several years and although you build up the points/dollars slowly I've gotten some great books and cds from borders ordered flowers and just today got a $25.00 Itunes gift card. I love it.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:06:08 +0000

I have received an invitation to join e rewards through Blockbuster and came to this site to see if it is worth my time. It seems that you can earn skymiles? That is the main reason I would like to join. Are you able to redeem your points for that specific selection?

By: Sheaka

Sheaka — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:08:36 +0000

I have actually been a member of e-rewards for about 4 years now and each year they offer you the option of renewing. When I renew my membership it has NEVER deleted my redeemable cash and I have renewed with about $80 on the line. I find some of the surveys to be long but those are usually the higher reward-based ones. I have never NOT received anything I redeem my points on so I wouldn’t say it’s a scam. You don’t get money, you get options redeemable with all its partners. I mainly use my survey cash to get Priority Rewards points for hotel nights and things like that.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:30:33 +0000

I too have had my surveys stop coming since I am 15 cents away from my $50 reward level. I was $2.65 away and I qualified for a survey that they sent me for $2.50 and I have been at this level for 3 weeks now. I have no idea how some of you get so many rewards…. Do they send women more surveys? Do you lie? Something has to be up!!!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:11:57 +0000

I have been an e-rewards member for about 6 months and I love it. I’ve never had any problems. I’ve gotten so many great magazine subscriptions that I have even used as gifts. About a month ago I was starting to get discouraged because I had already cashed in on most of the rewards that I wanted. I sent a note to their customer service asking if they could expand their rewards for gift cards. I got a prompt email telling me that they would pass along my feedback to the rewards team. Sure enough they now have an expanded selection of gift cards to choose from.

For those people who say they aren’t getting enough surveys, there is a setting in your account where you can adjust the number of surveys are sent to you. I have it on the 10+ emails a week and I get about 2-3 surveys a day. I don’t qualify for all of them and sometimes I wait too long and they are full, but I’m very close to getting my $50 gift card to Target.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:43:28 +0000

I wanted to toss my 2 cents into the pot on E-Rewards. I have been a member of E-rewards going on 4 years now. I have not had a problem with them to date (I will agree, that many issues listed above are a possible, I have not expeirenced them myself). I do not work from home and do not rely on these sites for income. I had not problem receiving or taking surveys. Sure, I will go a week or two without a survey, but then will get 10 over the course of 2 -3 days. I choose to spend my ‘survey bucks’ on the $25 GameStop Card (50 survey dollars). Again I take the surveys casually and have had not problem earning 4 gift cards a year (1 every 3 months is the limit) or even the occasional magizine subscription. E-Rewards is by no means an income survey business, but it is great for the occasional survey and getting something useful (I have 3 small kids and the game card is a nice addition for gifts, treats, etc to GameStop). I have received numerous warnings about points about to expire, but I have always had enough points to purchasee what I want (leaving them to take 75% of 2-3 ‘survey bucks’. After receiving 3 years of warnings, I have yet to have any points taken from my account.

Customer Service is extremely slow to respond to emails and questions, but have been helpful in the long run.

Eddy is right in that you have to do what is best for you. E-Rewards is a great casual survey site. It is nothing to take 10-15 minues to take a survey once or twice a week and get a gift card or a subscription every other month or so.

By: Eddy Salomon

Eddy Salomon — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:02:21 +0000

Ultimately it seems like it all depends on your perception. Obviously based on the comments above, there are a lot of folks that are happy with the rewards. So I guess it all rests on personal references. I prefer money which is my http://www.GoMySurvey.com is more appealig to me. But to each their own. It’s only a waste of time if you see it that way. People think a lot of these opportunities are a waste of time. But then you have folks like me that perceive these things as a gateway or an opportunity to leverage something I already do. At the end of the day you have to do what is best for you.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:44:38 +0000

@Skip: I joined this, so called, company recently. I got emails hand over fist to do surveys at first. Now that I’m close to the $50 mark (in their currency, and the mark to buy anything worthwhile,) I have not got an email in a month. Seems mighty fishy to me. I get some crappy magazines and I’m closing my account. Don’t waste your time people.

By: Eddy Salomon

Eddy Salomon — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:06:35 +0000

Donna,

surveys are based on supply and demand. So I know it seems like discrimination, its really more a function of business. Business target a certain group of people that buy their products. So they dictate to the survey company this profile and the survey company delivers surveys to these folks. Unfortunately seniors don’t tend to fit the demo they want.

That being said try your hand at other opportunities where your age makes little difference like swagbucks, amazon Turk, etc. You can find these type of opportunities on my recommendations page:
http://www.WorkAtHomeNoScams.com/recommendations

Hope it helps.