Ipsos
(7 User Reviews) Posted September 28, 2007Regions of Participation: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States
Minimum Age to Join: 16
Ipsos, founded in 1975 in France, is now a global market research company with offices in 44 countries around the world. They conduct research for clients from countries around the world on many different topics, and from many different industries. They actively recruit members from the nations mentioned above, and membership is free. Members that complete online surveys are entered into sweepstakes drawings for cash. Some longer surveys are rewarded with cash payments. Prizes, sweepstakes, and reward programs vary depending on region.
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September 29th, 2007
Ipsos is a survey company i’am very unhappy with.
The surveys are few and each survey you get, you are entered into a sweepstake drawing, of which i have never won in the year i have been with them.
I have never been offered a cash reward for any of the surveys.
Customer service is horrible, never a response to any of my emails.
If you want to join a survey company without any compensation and only sweepstake entries. then this is for you.
I do not feel Ipsos is all it is cracked up to be!
October 1st, 2007
I have been a member of Ipsos for about 3 months now and I have gotten to a point (and very quickly I might add), that I won’t complete any more of their surveys. I just won’t waste my time. The only surveys I have ever received are for Sweepstakes entries. I have not once received a cash paying survey. Plus, the length of the surveys seem to be unusually long for only one little sweepstakes entry. At least let me accumulate points to be redeemed. Something!
I don’t have any experience with their support area, so I cannot comment on that.
As for timeliness of payment, well there is no payment, and I don’t know of anyone personally that has won one of their sweepstakes!
There are many wonderful survey companies out there that are fair in their compensation for time spent. Ipsos is definitely not one of those sites.
November 16th, 2007
I have been a member of this site for quite a few months now. I must say that I am unhappy with this site. The quality of surveys are good. They are easy to take and are sometimes on interesting topics. I tend to get about 1-2 survey invitations a week. They problem is with their compensation. They reward you with i-tickets that you can distribute between different prizes. They do not let you know when the drawings for those prizes will be. You have no idea if the prize you want is for that month or in six months. It is very confusing. I have never seen a survey that pays cash. I don’t mind drawings if they are clear and up front with how often they choose winners. The website says monthly, but if you look at previous months winners there are only 2. There are 12 prizes that you can allocate your tickets for. So what happens to those prizes? When do they draw for them? Again, they are not clear about how their system works. I won’t be wasting my time with them anymore.
I can not comment on timeliness of payment because there is no payment.
The member area is lacking since it does not do a good job explaining how their compensation truly works. They gloss over the general idea, but never talk about the specifics.
December 23rd, 2007
I’ve been a member of this site for a long time, and the outcome isin’t great. Horrible in fact. You get a survey about every week, which is nice, and some surveys are interesting to finish, but the rewards are where it chokes up. The compensation is I-tickets and an instant win game. I’ve yet to see a paying survey, so your reward is always based on chance. HOWEVER, you still get the basically same reward for not qualifying for surveys. For instance, if a survey offered 20 I-tickets, and you didn’t qualify, they would still give you an instant win game and 10-15 I-tickets. If this isin’t strange enough, they also have what’s called the VIP club, which tells you if you become a VIP you can win a car. Yet, there’s no actual instructions on how to become one, or who actually is. For people who love a chance to win something without acutally filling out a survey (on a survey site,) this ones for you. Actual people looking to get paid, though, stay far away.
April 6th, 2008
Before I found this website, I thought Ipsos was great. Then once I found real survey sites, I realized that never getting anything for your surveys is really a waste of time! I have never won anything with their instant games and never won any sweepstakes. I stopped filling out surveys there and I recommend that you never waste your time with them.
May 24th, 2008
Although the quality of surveys is above average with this company, I think this company has turned into a waste of time.
They just moved to their new points system, instead of just earning entries into sweepstakes, but your time is rewarded with so few points that it will take me at least 10-20 hours worth of survey taking to redeem for a $5-10 gift card to somewhere of my choice. Their rewards list is long, but you have to have so many points to get even a $5 reward that I think it’s a waste of time.
June 26th, 2008
Since I posted my last review on this company in March, I haven’t received any further cash payments from I-Say and having switched to their new points system, I think it’s safe to assume I won’t receive anymore.
Like some of the other recent reviewers, I think this company has turned into a complete waste of time. I have completed around 30 surveys and most of those only pay around 1-3 points (usually 1 point for me since I don’t qualify for around half the surveys) and the prizes themselves require, on average, about 250 points! With that in mind, it’ll take me about another 2 1/2 years or so to save up enough points to get a clock radio! Here as of late I haven’t been paid at all for at least a couple of the surveys I’ve completed, which is totally unfair given the amount of time invested in them! Needless to say, I’m going to give up those 20 points and withdraw from this panel.
For those who are contemplating joining I-Say, I would strongly suggest you not waste your time and look into the others. There are far better choices of survey panels out there and most of these will reward you more fairly than this panel.