Vindale Research – An Online Survey Site With a Catch.
I’ve joined Vindale Research , but haven’t taken many of the surveys. This site offers mainly “trial survey offers” which require you to give your credit card information before they will send you a product or offer of service, and you all know I don’t like handing that info over.
Of course, they say if you cancel the offer within a certain number of days your card won’t be charged, but if you forget to do this, then you are stuck with a product or service that you never wanted in the first place along with a passel of charges. I have gotten plenty of woeful emails from people saying that their credit card had been charged hundreds of dollars for services because they didn‘t remember or couldn’t find the info to cancel.
Vindale Research does pay you for taking the trials, but if you forget to let the company who provides the service know that you don’t want to continue then your credit card will continue to rack up the charges. I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t remember to follow through on that, and I bet a lot of other people are the same.
If you do decide to join, you HAVE to keep good records. This system can only work and be profitable if you keep extremely detailed records and start trying to cancel services well in advance of the cut off date.
You must write down which surveys you took, which company offered it, the date you joined and the length of the trial period. Take notes of how they require you to cancel; some will only take a telephone call and other will require snail or email. If you don’t do it exactly right, you might not be canceled even when you think you are. Be careful with sites like these!
