You Have Got To Be Kidding!!

In an effort to keep our survey clients content in todays constantly changing market, we are going to be adding a few new fields to the screener page of the daily survey offer. These fields will include *first name, last name and street address*. A third party, will be performing real-time checks to make sure the respondent is who they say they are. You will be passed into a study and will be remembered for future participation so he or she will no longer need to enter this information.

Please note, we will not market to these respondents in any way and the checks are instant, so this will not create any lag-time in the survey experience. So you only have to do this one time.

The good news about this new procedure is the potential to grow our survey opportunities for you. When our clients are happy, and we have a competitive edge over other Market Research companies, this is sure to bring even more projects to the daily survey system - which means the potential to grow your monthly earnings even more.

Hmmm, this site has just ensured that I will never ever participate in ANY of their surveys (not that I participated all that often before this change).

I realize that this is an attempt to 1) cut down on cheaters/duplicate accounts and 2)  keep their survey clients happy but as an ongoing victim of a cyberstalker/harasser/spammer I will flat out refuse to give my full name and street address to some 'unnamed third party' for any purpose.

It's the 'unnamed' part that I have a real issue with.  Just because the management of this site trusts this third party to verify information doesn't mean that I have to trust them too.

And the potential to grow the survey opportunities excuse leaves me totally unmoved.

Is the PTR site going to take responsibility if the third party verifiers turn out to be untrustworthy?  I doubt it.

Is the PTR site going to take responsibility if the third party verifiers DO market to the survey responders? I doubt it.

Until the PTR site in question names the third party verifier, I will continue to simply click the paid link and NOT do the surveys.

I may continue to simply click the paid link and NOT do the surveys even if the PTR site in question names the third party.

My privacy is worth a hell of a lot more than the relatively small incentives offered for these surveys or even the larger amounts offered once a certain number of surveys are completed