Bonus Draws

Yes & yes, go stand in the corner.. :-) :-) :-)

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3x PS & 2x Samplicio every few minutes when I visit Survey draw, Loads of security issues & faulty surveys even after clearing cookies. However, I'm up £6 on Friday, & almost £7 on Sunday, mostly screenouts with 2 or 3 lengthy low paid surveys completed.

@Hopeful2B & Sylvia Robbins, I seem to be doing PS surveys ok now and again and I’ve never been screened out not ever, touch wood, now I’ve said that it’s going to happen, 😂🤣

That's interesting, Jay. Maybe I will have a go at switching off PS, and see what happens. At the moment I don't seem to get surveys from anyone else. Sunday is usually a lean day, anyway, so we shall see what this week brings. Thanks to everyone for their input xx

Do tell, @Barrie!

I have an apprenticeship for something that no longer exists.

Hopeful2B, I’m an oldie too and, starting about 10 days ago, every time I attempted a Pure Spectrum survey it abruptly closed with a "sorry there was an issue with your answers" box and took me to the “purspectrum_security=true” page. I hadn’t input any answers so didn’t qualify for a 5p screenout. It seemed strange it now happens every time, so after about 50 closures I queried it with Admin. Em checked with her Tech colleagues and said that “there is nothing which you can do to prevent this scenario from happening”. However, Em also said I could turn surveys on and off as I wish in 'My Account' - 'Privacy' (https://pickmypostcode.com/account/privacy/), so on Friday I unticked PureSpectrum and am no longer being offered surveys from them. Yesterday the survey wall and bonus page had quite a few surveys from Samplicious and Prodege and they all paid at least a 5p bonus. Today I am being told no new surveys are available, so maybe I will add on Pure Spectrum again in a few days.

The first six surveys this morning went straight to an issue. Just completed a 55p one about benefits. There were options of how much of my benefit I'd be willing to give up to do an apprenticeship. I'd already given my age at the beginning. I don't think I want to do an apprenticeship at the age of 77.

Samplicio.us are part of Lucid Holdings which in turn are partners of Cint. With high negative reviews of Samplicio.us it could be that it's been tucked out of the way somewhat but that's me speculating.

It's strange that Pure Spectrum surveys are the only ones available now. What happened to the others we used to get, such as Samplicious, I wonder? I would like to know if anyone is being admitted to the PS surveys, or are we all being screened out. Is it just we 'oldies' that aren't being accepted, or is it indiscriminate?

COMMENTS PLEASE

Exactly the same for me - I tried clicking on the results bit, and got access to surveys where I did get lots of 5ps but now as you say nothing. x

🤞@Hopeful2B

Not too far from where I live. I've had quite a few near misses recently.

I can't guarantee that it's fixed yet. Tech are working through their snag list and it's on there, but as this problem comes and goes for some I'm not sure if they've fixed it or if it's just started working again for you.

Ooh I say..😜

Tech team aren't around weekends. It's not fixed for everyone, the problem is intermittent.

Please try a Hard Refresh on the page that isn't loading quickly.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/87-im-having-trouble-loading-the-site

@Caroline it happens to me a lot, it’s not the video that takes a long time to load it’s the add, when you press the arrow key for the add then it takes a long time.

Yes_/

It gave me a good chuckle, but it is all true as Hamilet stated.

All very good and true

We've only passed this issue onto Tech today, so it may be that it's resolved itself for you. Hopefully it stays that way.

@ that's great, who wants to be annoymous :-)

Happy for you! 😀

We've passed this on for Tech to look into.

Yes, it’s fixed for me too now

Yes I noticed it this morning - probably just a rendering issue.

Seems OK now.

That didn't work for me either.

Click on 'Show full Leaderboard' and your nickname is there as usual.

For me the Leaderboard is only showing entries 1 - 7 as soon as I load the Bonus Draw page. Tried several refreshes but no change.

Me too! 🤔

Edit: Back now after a page refresh or two!

Em knows about it, so hopefully it'll get sorted Monday.

Same for me.

Quite a few of us had it, it's a mystery bug, but it'll change back.

There's nothing wrong with posting this information. Anybody can look up a postcode and find out what street it belongs to. There is nothing personally identifiable here as there is no name or house number.

It’s not a full address. It’s not a lack of privacy. It’s nothing blatant. It’s a winning postcode, details available to anyone. It’s a members only forum on a members only site.

It’s a useful reminder that the Mini Draw exists. It’s posted as a reminder for members to check as clearly most don’t. In fact it appears that most members don’t even know it exists…despite everyone confirming they’ve read the site info. 😆

Agree, I don't like it either. I know its a general postcode and can be looked up but still it does smack of lack of privacy to blatantly put it out there, especially when its not necessary.

@Mekt ranzz, the postcode they are using is not necessarily their home postcode, you can use any one you choose. You can also look up the location associated with any postcode, it isn't a secret.

Do you think it's right to put a members full address here.

I would not be happy if it was my address. If 🙊

:-)

:-)

Japan

Gabon

Benin

Monaco

Sri Lanka

Rwanda

For as long as it takes ;-)

** pedantry alert ** some replies are territories but not countries.

Magyarorszag.

I wonder how long a list PMP members will read through to avoid repetition.

Chad

Honduras

Chile

Fiji

Ukraine

China

Mexico

Sweden

Estonia

Angola

Cambodia

Venezuela

Democratic Republic of the Congo

U.A.E

Nicaragua

Belarus

Indonesia

Portugal

Latvia

Kenya

San Marino

Luxembourg

St Lucia

Costa Rica

Tonga.

🐋 🐋 🐋

(Writing for Redz)

Toodle-oo

Lithuania

Tuvalu

Republic of Ireland 🐷

Norway

Brazil

Andorra

Jamaica

Laos

Russsia

Greenland

Ecuador

Cuba

Turkey

Malaya

Belgium

Sealand 🏴

India

Argentina

Montenegro

Sierra Leone

Qatar

Netherlands

France

Singapore

St. KItts

Norway

Botswana

Liechtenstein

Poland

Iceland

Cyprus

Spain

Greece

Croatia

Slovenia

Italy

Egypt

Malta

Cabo Verde

The Gambia

Belize

New Zealand

Nepal

Peru

Iceland

Greece

Austria

Mozambique

Vatican City

Australia

New Zealand

Zambia

Falkland Isles

United States of America

Canada

The United Kingdom of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Note that the Isle of Man chooses not to take part in this United Kingdom.

Shqiperia (aka Albania)

Burkina Faso

I thought it was just me. I haven't been able to complete any PureSpectrum ones

The surveys are so frustrating, at the moment. At least you were allowed to answer a couple of questions. I rarely get anything but Pure Spectrum ones. Plenty of them, but I'm never allowed in, so don't even get 5p. I used to enjoy watching my name creeping up the leader board, but I'm being overtaken, one by one, by people who are obviously well in with PS.

Sorry about that, Sunny's my budgie. My Tech colleagues have found and fixed the issue.

@Lol 63, that’s definitely me

It helps the weekend trogs!

🧙‍♂️🧑‍🦯🤣

It's for the hard of thinking.

They're just saying they want 1981 rather than just 81 🤷

Sometimes I do wonder on the sanity of some survey seters.

Foxypop, we only work office hours so it's no good expecting us to email you outside of these times. I will send you an email with a screenshot of the offer and a link to the Terms & Conditions, which was clearly visible on the offer details.

Members were simply pointing out that there is a waiting period here before you will receive the gift card as they need to check that you remain with the company. They were trying to help.

Surely, if you know and admit you have learning difficulties you should be taking extra care before signing up for things. Everyone should read the small print, anyway, whether the offer is on PMP or anywhere else. It's no good getting upset and ratty with PMP and wanting everything done for you to keep you safe - you have to make the effort yourself too.

You need to take a deep breath!

The advert is still there as it’s on my Bonus Offers on the Bonus Draw page.

The offer has a link to the Terms & Conditions :

https://web-content.scottishpower.co.uk/files/pdf/G+E_Incentive_May25.pdf?nocache=true

Admin have explained how it works too.

If you want to claim the bonus, you’d have to stay with the company as detailed.

Offers on various sites have no connection to offers here. If you’re interested in any offer, you always need to read the terms to ensure it’s suitable and what you want before signing up. 😊

PS. No need for rudeness to a fellow member, when you post on a public forum, you will likely get responses. If you don’t want any comments or suggestions you should communicate directly with admin during office hours.

Been with SP before, and was very happy with them, so my t shirt fitted well thanks

I have more patience than anyone. But learning difficulties and Parkinson’s can be difficult to manage at times. Go laugh at your mum anf dont diagnose me with “no patience”, you a psychiatrist? Stick within your lane

How do I cancel the change cause no email been sent yet?

Not had an email sent yet. Well, ive signed up in the past for other offers, not from this site, and have always received gift cards immediately especially when direct debit bank details been shared.

And why did the offer disappear now ? No, didnt see the t&c’s, it must have been Tiny&cant see it properly, hiding in the corner, misleading me, so you get distracted by the offer and miss the t&c’s, taking advantage of vulnerable learning difficulties people like me. Send me a screen shot olease cause it disappeared and can’t access the offer now, why?

Wow, patience isn't your middle name is it 🤣 As Em says, they're not going to give anyone a gift card immediately - they're usually 3-6 months after signing up.

On a side note, I personally wouldn't sign up to SP for love nor money - been there & bought the T-shirt 🤯

Did you read the Terms and Conditions which were linked with the offer?

"Get a £85 Amazon Voucher (Dual Fuel Gas & Electricity – New & Existing Customers) or a £42.50 Amazon Voucher for switching your single fuel (Electricity OR Gas – New & Existing Customers). Full terms and conditions can be found here:

https://web-content.scottishpower.co.uk/files/pdf/G+E_Incentive_May25.pdf?nocache=true"

T&C number 15:

The tracking and validation period will take 3 months on average. Checks will be made to ensure you remain in contract prior to the Incentive being paid. In some cases, the tracking and validation period may take up to 6 months.

I can see that you clicked on the offer today, so I am assuming that you registered /signed up with S.P. today. You need to wait for them to track and validate.

Not remotely stupid, just questioning which is always a good thing. 😊. Incidentally the WAD new results page rarely used to load on my device and continued to show the previous days winners until the page was refreshed. This hasn’t happened for a long time but it’s always worth refreshing your page just in case it’s still showing stale data. 😊

Thanks everyone, that could be it that the names are very similar,due to all the things you have mentioned such as Gaps,Upper and lowercase spellings of the name.Now I feel completely Stupid 😜🤪

Would also add that some of us have a different name on Win a Dinner.

Lots of people incorrectly think that EtonMess & Eton.Mess are the same entry. There are lots that look the same but aren't - a gap, a full stop or upper/lower case changes can differentiate between entries.

New names are drawn every day.

Some names might look similar because everyone gets an auto-generated foodie name which some people change but a lot of people keep.

Can’t say I’ve noticed it happening recently, as above anon says, you can check the results page.

They’ve different every day. Have a look at the Winners list. You can check every winner.

https://winadinner.com/draw-history/

I wonder if you’re seeing old pages? Do you refresh the page when you visit? If you stay logged in, your pages may not be automatically updating.

Or … There are numerous similar names, especially the food related ones. These were automatically assigned to members when the site first started. Could it be that you’re seeing similar names and mistaking them for identical ones?

Pls nb my post on the survey page .... survey link starts with ridiculous intro qq and goes no further.

Links go to different different sites.

The promised bonus of £6.45 was a big "alert" !!!

Foxypop, neither Chris nor PMP are scammers. We've been running since 2011, are funded by advertising and now have over 62% of the UK's postcodes registered!

Feel free to check out:

Our Trustpilot reviews (We have a 4.7 out of 5 star rating) https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/pickmypostcode.com

A review from Money Saving Expert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/pick-my-postcode/

Pick Media Ltd are Registered Data Controllers with the Information Commissioners Office. This means we comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

No personal data is shared with any third parties/ companies. We also do not sell or share anyone’s data without the consent of the member/person. If data does need to be shared it is only done with the informed consent of that member and in accordance with our privacy policy. The data we have on our members (email addresses and postcodes) is stored securely. We do not have anyone’s telephone numbers.

Members are under no obligation to complete any offers or surveys with external companies as they have no impact on our draws.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/112-pmp-as-registered-data-controllers

Having seen Foxypop's string of posts above, I think it's time he/she stopped and thought about what they put on a post.

Foxypop That is a ridiculous comment. Do you realise you’re accusing the site owner of being a criminal? Libellous?

Same, Im starting to think this Chris is a scammer and makes his money by selling our data?

The concerning thing about the "issues" message is that the PMP URL always reads "security=true" which to me is quite worrying.

I am having the same problems with them also. In the past 3 weeks, I have over 100 surveys from them, and every one resulted in the message "there was an issue", and thus have been screened out. Frustrating as it is, perhaps Admin should be aware that they may be short on income as a result. I know Admin have no control over external surveys, but if everyone is having the same experience then, surely, it must be of concern to them.

I wish that I'd read this when it was posted because it would have made me laugh earlier.

Giggle did i.. :-) :-) :-)

🤣 My kind of silly.

Culm valley flooded yesterday, havn't seen it so high for years. Level has dropped now...

They'll probably use it to buy wellingtons & raincoats. I heard most of Exeter area is currently flooded, with more rain to come.

@Anonymous - Nice post. 👍🏻

It’s a sensible approach to using the internet. Better to be sure.

As a generalisation, every website has to have your agreement about cookies and every reputable company will ask you to agree to its terms and conditions. When you buy a device or download an app from Apple you assume the App and the developers have been vetted by Apple .

It’s when you get unsolicited contacts that you need to be more cautious. Any unplanned call or email needs to be treated with suspicion. Never give away anything about yourself or confirm any details until you’re positive you’re dealing with someone genuine.

As a a rule, for any call, I insist I ring back. I then wait and use a different phone. This gives time to consider.

You’re right to be very cautious, but if you’re using a reputable company and are installing Apps from the Apple Store, you should be safe.

Sorry to hear you’ve had an awful experience in the past. You’re bound to be suspicious now, but that’s a good thing these days.

@A, oh I think I understand that, sorry it’s my mental health issues that I have, means I either don’t understand, get confused, worry for no reason and other things, so what you’re saying is that I just accept what they’re saying? I worry about these things because I’ve been scammed once for just over a £1000 and I don’t want it happening again so anything I’m not sure about I always ask first?

Many apps state this. If you agree to their terms, it’s completely free. If you don’t, you’d have to pay a fee.

They say they may store or access info on your device. I read that as pertaining to the App eg they could study how people use the calculator and which functions etc. …if they wanted or needed to.

It doesn’t suggest that your contact details will be shared with partners or that you agree to receive marketing emails.

Just as a consideration, when you first use a product you have to agree to the terms and conditions before you can use the device. So, you probably signed up to Apple’s main T&Cs when you first got the iPad?

If you downloaded any 3rd party Apps, ie not Apple, they would have their own user T&Cs which you would have to agree to before you could use.

The one I’m trying to use is the apple, original one, and that’s the one I’m having problems with, I’ve just tried it again and it comes up with Privacy settings, bla bla bla etc, something like if you don’t accept it you’ll need to subscribe. The start was and I quote “By accepting we and our 1039 partners may - for this app only - store and/or access information on your device etc etc etc. The end says “By not consenting, you may chose to subscribe. I only want to to use the free calculator that came with the iPad not have 1039 companies pound my iPad with emails, adds etc unless I’m not understanding what it’s stating correctly??

I have an iPhone and it has a calculator facility already on the home page. If yours does not then as others suggest you can download it free from the App Store.

Yes, my OH has an iPhone. The calculator is an Apple Calculator. If you go into the App Store icon, put calculator in the search box, it should bring up the Apple one as the first choice. It’s free.

According to Google's AI, your iphone already has a free built-in calculator - called Apple Calculator - so take a look through your Uyilities folder or app library. If its not there, you can download it from the Apple store..