Glad to hear all went well and all puppies returned home!

Thanks Anonymous, I'll give it a go! ☺️

Might be worth clearing your cache and/or cookies for this site then restarting your device.

That has solved many issues on other sites over the years. 😆

Thanks Anonymous. I tried that and it didn't work but I'll keep trying 👍

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This happened on my iPad yesterday on all the pages comments. I logged out and back in again and everything was back to normal. 😊

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This evening I have done the usual £1 survey, which took a fair bit longer than the 10 mins stated, but went through OK (Local, National and Global affairs). I then got another- £1 for political questions (Pure Spectrum, I think), spent about the same time on it and suddenly got screened out. I don't know how far through it was, so won't bother Admin with it, but I agree it is a real pain to get through most of the questions and then get dumped. I know they may get filled up at any time, but it is infuriating!

As the external surveys are advertised across many sites, there could be many people completing the surveys at once, potentially hundreds, and it is possible that your demographic bracket could reach its quota at any point, while you are in the middle of the survey or even at the end.

Their system wants the same amount of responses from each bracket for a fair comparison. It's not uncommon to have multiple people from the same bracket be coming to the end of the survey at the same time, so you'll have multiple panellists currently answering but say the bracket only has 3 completions left for the bracket to become full, therefore not everyone can be a successful completion and be rewarded by their system.

However, we will always help those who reach 80% or beyond.

Demographics and screen outs is just the nature of market research I'm afraid.

Its being redirected from one survey to another, to another, etc which I want to focus on and try to prevent. If I can.

Em, yes, I would be willing to write a testimonial along the lines you suggested, should you decide to go ahead with this, and would be happy for you to share my email address with them. I must admit I’m sceptical that it would be enough to get them to change their systems etc, but it’s worth a try!

Incidentally, in relation to your point about the difficulty in getting screenshots due to the speed of change, it’s worth remembering that members who are a bit tech savvy could record a video of their survey activity instead of just trying to take a single screenshot. That would then clearly illustrate the issue. However, the resulting video file might be too big to send to you as an email attachment, so if you were to ask people to do that, you might need to ask your techies to set up a means of transferring large files.

In Windows 11 you can start the screen recorder by pressing the Windows key + shift + R. Android and iPhones also have built in screen recording apps.

I've complained several times about SaySofor Good mining data & continually siguing into another survey with no redirect to PMP. When I see SaySo I normally bail asap. There's one site which asks if you want to try another survey & I always click no thanks & get 5p. Which is much to be preferred over the SaySo model (con?)

They don't tell us that their tech is basic. It's just my hunch that they've probably needed an update or a full system overhaul for years but they don't have the money to do it. They only do "patchwork" because that is cheaper and also a full update might require having their site down for a time, which will impact revenue. So it might cost them to do the update and prevent money coming in while it's happening, perhaps. But it's just my theory.

Our reputation should be separate to that of the external survey companies because we are a free prize draw giveaway, not a survey site and we help those who reach 80%. We are generous. We are not like them.

I think its a great thought and idea Em. I credit you for thinking it will/may make a difference, but as I've said before these Survey companies are telling you one thing at PMP, that the technology they use is really basic and old school. Yet with this really basic technology they somehow they manage to be able to screen us out, redirect, identify false/supposed false responses, use AI in the questions, harvest data, mislead on timings of surveys, allow people to get all the way to 80/90% completion and screen them out. This is the 21st Century these companies wouldn’t exist based on their explanation of basic technology. So for want of a better phrase ‘They are paying you (PMP) lip service’. I appreciate you need the revenue to pay to run the site which is why it must be really difficult, but at the end of the day users aren’t going to blame the survey companies because it is PMP who is hosting the facility to generate the revenue. It is your reputation that is going to take the hit. I’d like to think majority of users appreciate the wonderful site, but it is by adding new users that the site will grow, not the long term members who get the full picture of what its all about. I’d be happy to contribute / give testimonial as it is my biggest and only frustration with this site.

We already pass reports on about Technical issues when members take the time to screenshot, email us and grant us permission. Technical issues have to be an individual thing, rather than an overall complaint.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/156-technical-issues-with-external-surveys

There is no point passing anything on about demographics questions as they will just state that it's the nature of market research.

This is just focusing on the constant redirections.

We complete surveys purely for the rewards, certainly NOT because we find surveys an interesting & relaxing passtime.

It is even more frustrating when you complete the said survey (which is usually longer than stated), & then get told you were screened out, or redirected to a second survey where there is maybe a screenout & further surveys to do for nowt, or an invitation to sign up to some site, before being returned to PMP for the stated (usually small) credit, unsuitable tickbox answers with no opt out, or a programming error leaving you with no option but to close the window.

I occasionally get frustrated with filling the endless demographics on every survey too, so I can go months without trying any. It would also be helpful if all demographics were autofill & on the first page so filled with one click.

This sounds like a good idea Em, I will write something and email you.

Saffron's a great name, would be ideal for the one I was going to call Ruby! We will have another ideas-session when my friend's daughter comes back to see them.

Madd - still No.

Great picture of the puppies enjoying their noms…😋!

LLAP 🖖!

Like Saffron.

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BETH8IT,

HOW ABOUT SAFFRON OR CITRINE FOR THE ORANGE COLLARED 1?

PLEASED THEY’RE ALL THRIVING 🥰

Oh just too cute.

Lovely picture! Thanks very much Beth and Em ☺️

Thanks, Forwarded it, can see them all clearly now.

Great pic Beth. Now you'll find out what personality each one has .... the bossy one, the greedy one, the quiet one etc.

Beth has provided us another photo of them eating from their bowls, it's now on its way to the 20 people who wanted to see the puppies.

My goodness, imagine having six toddlers throwing their food around ..😮

I can just picture the food fun!

Banana, Banana, Banana ?????.. ;-)

No need for TV in your house, Beth! As an unmarried mother, Indi is doing really well. I hope Daddy has been to see the puppies.

I love hearing about the updates on your adorable puppies, but I think you should be careful about the name of the yellow one (woody) as I'm sure Maddadof would have a great suggestion 🤣

Speaking from your hospital bed, GG? 😊

My wife said she forgot to put her bra on, i said i noticed, perhaps she should put a longer jumper on.

That was a surprise. I'd have put a bet on it that she wouldn't leave.

Absolutely over the moon

Wow im so happy

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2 subsea cable breaks? I've still never had a problem. Maybe it's not connected to my area. All other providers I've used had drip outs or were slow. Every one was so unreliable but TT has always been fast and reliable, that's why I stayed. It isn't cheap but I'm on about 1000Mbps and my neighbour used to give me a tenner a month as he didn't have to put up with poor service, being overcharged and being cut off from time to time. He always said mine was perfect and through solid stone walls that's good.

We were with TalkTalk for 5 years, renegotiating at end of every contract by 'switching' to new provider. TT would then offer much reduced price which I would accept.

They had 2 subsea cable breaks this year and we hd no broadband or phone service (we have a telecare alert) for 1½ monthts and they made no attempt to supply any alternatives or refunds. Direct Debits were for full price. Finally switched to BT and they charged for early contract termination (which BT refunded)!

Contacted customer services about refund for no service and got run-around on 4 seperate occoasions. Threatened legal action for their breach of contract in failing to supply and finally was given (grudgingly) a refund for 2 months.

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Shyboy, EE do unlimited calls. They now do all the Residental supply of landline and Broadband for BT (if you ring the BT helpline, it's usually EE that answers now, and it's linked on the website). BT only do Commercial supply, although I don't know if they have changed everyone over yet. Talk Talk is their cheapjack site - you get what you pay for, I suppose. If you want to get a good deal from EE, accept what they offer, then go back the next day and change your mind. I pay £6/mth mobile and about £24 ? Broadband (can't remember exactly), and the chap said that when it is due to go up next year I will have to pay a £3/mth rise, but when the following rise is due, just to cancel a few days in advance and I should get a new deal at a good rate. I find their custotmer service and tech help is superb - they can get me doing technical things like changing phone numbr and sims to different phones, then changing one to a third phone, then back within a couple of days, so I could use my new phone, put the new number onto the old one, copy all the info across... Not sure what else I was doing, but I then had a stand-by phone with a new number and a new phone with my old number and all the info on it. No idea how I did it but I quite impressed myself! Little things...

A Nick Name - All internet companies are great till you need to contact Customer support!

I have been with TalkTalk previously and had a bad experience with them. Trying to cancel was a nightmare. They are not the only ones, but I would never go back to them regardless of how good a deal they were offering me.

I've been with talk talk for ages (started with Tiscali.) for years & can confirm that most of the "help" don't understand English but I've always got things sorted out.

Well, it looks like I'm all alone here. After trying almost every company over the last 20 years I chose TalkTalk a couple of years ago or longer. I got the router and extender off them but due to a good deal on Amazon I bought more to extend it further so even my neighbour was very happy with it too. It's the first company I'm really happy with, admittedly I've never had to complain which is when companies often fall down.

We have been with TalkTalk for several years, always renegotiate.

But no issue with being blocked. We have gambling site restriction but it is not Home Safe. Strangely I did have to add National Lottery to my safe list but don't recall adding PMPC.

One time when I'm bored I may tell you about my one serious run in with TalkTalk Customer Service.

@ Shyboy, BT do unlimited landline phone calls (VoIP) with full fibre.

Years ago we were with Talk Talk and had many problems. The customer service wouldn't speak to me because It was Gloria's name on the contract even though they took the direct debit from my account. I wanted to leave but they refused to give me some sort of code. Went to a Sky rep who could get us transferred. A while later Sky were giving up emails through the land line so we went to Shell. Everything was fine until they sold their internet business to - Talk Talk. Haven't had anything too major apart from internet going off at 7am for a couple of minutes which they deny happens. Have looked for another supplier but nobody else does unlimited landline calls.

I agree, TT is mostly foreigners who don't understand English well, & the Co is too big to care.. As an impoverished student attending full time college they put me on a "rolling contract" (of a year?) meaning presumably I had the option to renew it every year.

When I tried to leave them at the end of three years they demanded £100 penalty for breach of contract, ... one second before midnight it was in the old contract, & 1 second after midnight in the new contract, making it quite impossible to leave them for another provider.

They tried to hold me liable & sending bills after leaving, even sent debt collectors after me who threatened me with bailiffs, I told them it was disputed & sent documents, & they agreed to drop it.

TT didn't drop it though, a whole year of peace, then suddenly more threatening letters from TT & a different crowd of debt collectors who tried adding together all the accumulated fees plus interest. Told them same & sent them the copies, they eventually had to agree to drop it too.

Been a few years now, nothing further was heard, but if they come back I have all the emails saved.

Talk Talk are a difficult & obstructive company to have to deal with. Left them years ago. Even sending a personal snail mail letter to the CEO of the day, Dido, somebody or other didn't help. The Kitten actually threatened legal action & sent a cease & desist warning to them because they were demanding money he never owed them in the first place. All the customer service people gabbled like machine guns, broken English & were as thick as castle doors!

I came off talk talk years ago after they charged us for calls we hadn’t made. They just don’t listen and probably don’t care. When we left they then decided they could do something for us but we politely (not) said no!

If anyone wanted to, that would be great from our perspective.

Em, Here's an idea. If all members whose provider are TT, bombarded them with e-mails complaining they might just pay attention. Just a thought ( evil i know )..;-)

Been on holiday in Northumberland for past week and it hasn't stopped raining!

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We have plenty of water up here - it has been raining for weeks and it is really cold.

It was announced yesterday on BBC South East, Beth, you will be South.

Was it South East they were talking about on TV recently? One of the Southern companies still has the hosepipe ban in force - or did up to a few days ago.

I thought Ofwat fined Co's for failing to repair leaks, ... oh, seems they can ignore them & pay bonuses & dividends instead.

Gotta keep the shareholders happy.

It feels so wrong, doesn't it!

It's amazing how fast any animals grow.

I agree with what everyone else has said, they are just so cute and a lot bigger. Thanks for sharing and thank you Em for sending them.

Thanks from me too , the pups are growing quick and lovely to see 😘 x

Puppies are coming on a treat. Thanks for the photos Beth and Em.

Great photo's, thank you Beth and Em. Oh and not forgetting the lady of the moment..

Yes, thank you so much Beth (and Em) for the gorgeous puppy photos. They are so very, very cute! Brightened up my day, those have!

Thank You Beth & Em (& of course Indi). They've grown quite a bit. I want to cuddle them all, they're so cute & soft at that age, & developing their own personalities ... if only they'd stay that way. Will you be taking some bonus offers for more dog food?

Thank you Beth, they are gorgeous.

Oh how they have grown!

They will be eating you out of house and home.I hope they are giving you a lot of pleasure.

Beautiful pics! ❤️

Thanks Em and Beth, just seen them, the black ones are particularly gorgeous.

You're very welcome Poppy. They are adorable, aren't they!

The chances of completing £300 worth of surveys per month is next to nothing. More like £50 every 4 months as the survey offers dry up.

I was once offered (by email) a £300 survey which involved going to 2 evening talks & meetings near Edinburgh & about 4 hours online in between. It was by selection & invitation only, & despite applying I wasn't selected. Only those who were selected, attended both meetings & completed everything satisfactorily would have been paid.

I’m trying to imagine how many thousands of surveys and hours you’d have to complete to earn £300. Having completed surveys for reputable companies for many many years, I’d say £150 a year was achievable from one company, but definitely not probable.

Thank you.

Soz Em, got the wrong end of the stick. 😬

Sorry but DaSoothMoother and Choc Spaniel misunderstood what you are referring to and have inadvertently provided wrong information here. Though I appreciate that they are trying to be helpful.

We are affiliated with some stand-alone survey companies who wanted to advertise their website with us and not each individual survey. Where people remain on their platform and are not brought back to us.

Some survey companies chose to advertise individual surveys on our site and be more directly linked with us. These are the ones which should bring you back to PMP.

Sorry, I know it can get confusing.

We have legitimate offers for the stand-alone survey companies Survey Spotter, i-Say and Life Points. Advertising their company/website through us and not individual surveys. These company offer adverts can be found on the Bonus Draw page. Sometimes also on this Main Draw page.

The offer for Survey Spotter is entitled "Make up to £300 a month in your free time by completing easy online surveys!"

The offer for Life Points is entitled "Free rewards for your decisions & opinions".

The i-Say offer is "Share your Opinion and choose your rewards".

There are also companies who have directly linked their surveys with our site and the advert is for 1 survey specifically. Those companies are Lucid, Prodege and Pure Spectrum. These survey adverts can be found on the Survey Draw, the survey wall and the Bonus Draw page.

So there 6 companies overall. I hope this makes sense.

Do not take up surveys that are offered in this way. All external surveys should return you to PMP, whether completed or screened out. If they don't, send the full details and screenshot to admin@pickmypostcode.com as well as completing the 'Bad Experience' report to technology.

All ads at the sides are from Google and generally misleading or scams. They can be reported by clicking on the blue X in the top right hand corner.

@Talcumspider - That's a Google AD - well known spam!

As most surveys pay less than £1, you need at least 300 per month (at least 10 per day). and you won't get that many.

I'm with another survey site and a lot of their surveys are 10/15/20p for 15/20/45 minutes (I don't bother with them).

Occassionally get surveys for 75p/£1/£1.50 and will try them but most of my bonus is from emails.

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That sounds like you have been lead to an external site not PMP?

I find that even Google Maps does a 'direct' measurement when it tells you where the closest branch of a hotel, shop etc is. Yes, I know Portsmouth is probably a few miles in a straight line, but the Solent is in the way! My car is lovely, with many features, but it doesn't have floats or water-wings.

* Kat …Last week I posted a reply ……..

And don’t forget… most of these numties…oops I mean clever clogs have been through the education system attaining O & A levels before going through the routes of University’s gaining goodness knows what qualifications along the way to come up with brilliant ways to inform us lesser mortals of how to run our life’s and finance's!!


* White Anonymous did not seem to agree with me at the time!


White Anonymous did not seem to agree with me

When our local Post Office closed we got a letter telling us which the nearest Post Office was. I rang the number and asked them how they worked it out. 'As the crow flies'! I did say we didn't have any passing crows willing to take passengers & there was no public transport between our village & the Post Office branch they had so helpfully suggested as an alternative to ours. Dumb kids with Google maps & no use for a post office anyway. Same dumb kids are responsible for planning all the road improvements which have snarled everything up, put cycle lanes & bus lanes everywhere when we've got no buses &, in this village at least, everyone is too old to climb aboard a bike!

@Little Owl - that new business park probably was 4 mins away from the public transport hub if you'd happened to bring a car with you on the bus.

When I was working contract and living in Barking, I would often get agencies phoning me and saying "Reading, that's not far from you is it?"

As the crow flies it's 46 miles. But there's something called London right in the middle. Meaning that the road distance is 80 miles around the M25 which is well over 2 hours commute at busy times. No thanks.

This has reminded me of when the company I worked for moved to a new business park which was "4 mins away" from a public transport hub. It wasn't. 25 mins walk, no signposts, and it was raining! Beth, there is a new mobile vets service around here. No good for emergencies, but really good for people who can't get their pets to the vets easily.

Are you sure... I'm almost sure 2 of them asked differing Q's (or Q's in different order) at start before screenout (2nd one came up with OP Co logo first), third was an instant screenout.

Oh well, no problem Thanks Em & Tech for looking into it.

Tech have checked Enver's activity and found that the 3 he did were all the same survey. The recommendation was slow to be removed from the site (it took almost a minute) so it was attempted multiple times. The screen out can only be awarded once.

Sorry Enver - just had x2 straight after each other & they've both paid out 🤭

I have shared this thread with my colleagues, whoever it was.

Each time the survey & URL said screenout & when passed back to PMP I got the wee pop-up sign each time saying it had been added, so I think any glitch would be with PMP.

Glitch could be with the external survey, those are common after all.

Rosy 2cakes- I agree, anyone who’s not had their scan should take up the offer. The scan is completely painless and takes about 10 minutes and could be a life saver

I was surprised to get an appointment for an ultrasound. As they tend to be useless at my GP's I thought someone had seen me and suspected I might be pregnant but I went along anyway. Luckily no problems, and I wasn't pregnant either. Must be just thick shirts.

Our local medical practice offered a scan to all men over 60. My husband had one. A friend has an abdominal aneurysm which was found quite by chance when he had a scan for something else. He had the surgery, a stent he said, and is fine now.

Had my NHS AAA ultrasound aortic scan few years ago, travelled to a remote village by bus, I was the only one there with a nurse to do it waiting.

Mrs F, I was going to highlight that. My hubby had his scan at 65. If any men 65 or over havent had a scan, contact their GP surgery.

The NHS offers an AAA ultrasound scan -(Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm) to all men in the year they turn 65

Appointments are sent out routinely

@ Beth8it! my OH has an enlarged aorta, it was picked up after a lung health check scan, he is under the heart clinic, it is not large enough for the surgery to put a net on it yet, he was also told he has emphysema at the same time. We were both sent for the lung health check by our GP as we were both smokers.

Rosy, if so, maybe the men on here might like to take notice. It’s getting far more prevalent nowadays, and particularly for men, but there is a scan then can do - some of these private companies offer a ‘full health check £140’ which may include it. I knew someone who died of it two years ago - he thought it was a heart attack, was taken to hospital in an ambulance but suddenly died on the operating table.

Apparently he died from a ruptured aorta.

CarolineC. John Virgo struggled to move because of chronic pain in his neck and shoulders, probably due to playing so much snooker. He moved to Spain in 2020 hoping the warmer weather would help...

My husband referreed a match for him shortly after he'd turned pro, when he (my husband) was an amateur snooker/billiards referee. Very sad to hear he's died - but not surprised as we saw him on the seniors tour a few years ago and he was struggling to move. We suspected he was probably recovering from a stroke at that time. :-(

Will always be famous for "WHERE'S THE CUE BALL GOING?"

RIP JV

Oh, sad. I hadn't heard.

I played against him when I was about 14 at Butlins.

Well, I say played. He broke, I potted a red, a colour and a red, then he got in and cleared the rest!

Thank you PacMan. I have added it to the Snag List.

Yes Windows. I think it 10

Sorry PacMan but is it a Windows PC I'm assuming, and if so, do you know which version of Windows?

Em,

PC with Microsoft Edge

That's an unusual one. Could you please let me know your device make & model and browser type, in case it has any bearing for Tech. Thank you.

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When visiting daughter I noticed a rather beautiful carved elephant and commented on it. Son-in-law replied “nobody talks about that”…. Boom boom

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If we could increase anything it would be the prize pots, not the daily checking pennies. But unfortunatly advertisers haven't increased their spend.

I've got to the age when I say, 'What? That's no age!' when I hear someone died in their late 70s!

RIP John Virgo.

I thought I heard that he had cancer, but with my (lack of) hearing, I wouldn’t swear to it.

He'd had a long term neck problem so moved to Spain a while back for the better weather.

Jaffa, he was commentating on the Masters a couple of weeks ago, so I think it must have been a sudden death rather than a long term thing.

The only thing said was that he was 79, and died in Spain.

It could well be connected to playing in venues where smoking was allowed.

Yes I agree. He was great fun with his snooker tricks. Only 79, too. RIP

As the external surveys are advertised across many sites, there could be many people completing the surveys at once, potentially hundreds, and it is possible that your demographic bracket could reach its quota at any point, while you are in the middle of the survey or even at the end.

Our FAQs explain more and explain that we can help those who reach 80% completion or beyond.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/89-surveys

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/category/102-surveys

Em explained it to you yesterday when you posted the same thing.

There definitely a Flash Draw winner today!

The £5 Flash Draw happens daily. It or they are only shown to those accounts who are randomly selected as a winner of that draw each day. That is between 5-10 people each day and they could be anywhere on site, in any ad slot. This is why they go unclaimed so often. (Though we have had a few claimed recently which is nice) Many people just check the draws and don’t scroll down all the way or check every page.

This FAQ article has more information:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/12-what-is-the-5-flash-draw

There are a group of potential winners selected every day. However as , it seems, the majority of members don't check for it, they go unclaimed most days. Similar to the £100 Mini Draw.

Only if someone spots it.

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I mentioned this too the other day. HP Laptop, Windows 10 on Edge.

Glad it not just me.

I'm using a PC with Microsoft Edge.

Please let me know your device make & model and which browser you use and I can add the details to the Snag List. Thank you.

Had it here too only once for a few seconds till I refreshed the page, only noticed as someone had mentioned it, it had a feeling of deja vu ... call Ghostbusters.?

Lenovo ThinkPad laptop Yoga 11e, Windows 10, Chrome browser.

I had that earlier on today, same results, strange glitch??..