e-Rewards Review

Marie   montana

3:39pm on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 

They have you do a survey and when it is over and they have all the info they say you do not qualify for payment.

Yohana   Location unknown

10:05pm on Monday, October 19th, 2009 

Perhaps all the people complaining never really took the time to even finish one long survey. I have been a member of e-rewards for two years now, and I've received many American Eagle gift cards. I have so many free magazine subscriptions that I get every month and even got Hilton Honor points for free nights.

This program is not for everybody, if you are not willing to spend some time in front of the computer answering questions, then I wouldn't even consider it.

Nothing is free in this world, so appreciate the little they provide and enjoy, if you are going to be complaining just give it up.

BeachBum   San Clemente

7:48pm on Friday, September 18th, 2009 

e-Rewards is a scam and a waste of time. First off they get you into all of these `surveys' which you almost NEVER can complete because they are tailored just such that you spend a huge amount of time answering and just before the end you answer some question not to their `liking' and the drop you out of the 'survey'. Up pops a window stating that ... they already have enough of your type opinions for this survey... and they bounce you out to some 3 or 4 question lifestyle page and then back to your e-Opinions account page. That's it. No credit for all the time you spent on the 'survey', nothing, nada, zilch, zip and just a few cents credit for their lifestyle questions.

@...they already have enough of your type opinions for this subject...WTF? What kind of `survey' is that? You've completed 80% or so and they run across an answer they don't like, so your bounced out and your time and effort are for nothing! Is that a 'survey' or a tailored rip-off?

This must be where all those BS product claims beginning with 'A nationwide survey concludes...' Yeah, right! More like 'A nationwide survey tailored exactly to our desired results concludes...'

Then there's the 'products' (aka. 'promotional discounts)' that's available with your e-Rewards `cash' worth about $0.25 on the dollar. So...

If you are 'fortunate' enough to get through their 20 minute `survey' in a few days you may see a credit to your account for $5 (which is really about $1.25). That equates to about $3.75 an hour for your time and the ability to spend it on a product or service you probably don't want or need.

JB   Texas

4:47pm on Saturday, September 12th, 2009 

The quality of redemptions for your reward dollars is terrible now. Over the last couple of years I have been able to redeem by reward dollars for gift cards from Target, Starbucks, and Macy’s but e-Rewards no longer offers gift cards as an redemption option and Target and Starbucks are not even in the program. What are left are magazine subscriptions, airline miles, and various coupons, which as rewards go are simply not worth your time. The reward payout has also declined significantly and its not worth it to do a 30 minute survey for $4 when 75% into the survey the sponsor decides “you don’t qualify” and I end up getting 50 cents. Was a good program in the past but there are better alternatives now that actually pay you cash for your time.

Joanne   Florida

6:47pm on Sunday, September 6th, 2009 

Just as other posters have commented, many times I've spent a lot of time doing a survey and then when it is almost completed it says I did not qualify. When I signed up there were quite a few rewards to choose from. After I had accumulated a good amount of money I got a notice saying that my rewards were about to expire. When I went to claim my rewards, there was absolutely nothing that I used---all the good rewards like Target & Starbucks were gone. I did use one flowers coupon but most of my money ended up expiring because they "rewards" are basically just coupons for money off with a larger purchase. Definitely not worth my time.

JC   North Carolina

9:16am on Sunday, August 16th, 2009 

I have been e-rewards for a while. I do not like that you can complete a survey and about 80% of the way in to the survey it is decided that you do not meet the demographic and the study ends with only a .50 payout on a study that was going to pay 6.50. I feel they got a lot of information from me and that this will still be used in some fashion. So, I'm going to start lying to fit the perceived demographic. Screw em, if they are not willing to pay for my time I'll skew their study :)

Marlena   New Jersey

4:33pm on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 

What sites are far better? Please share the names...

Dee   us

10:31pm on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 

e-rewards used to be great but its going down hill lately there are a lot of newer and better sites now.

Julie   Los Angeles, CA

3:52pm on Saturday, August 1st, 2009 

My big problem with e-Rewards is their very mediocre selection of reward redemptions. Their rewards are basically magazine subscriptions, travel rewards and discounts of $x off of a $xxx purchase for literally a handful of websites. I don't buy magazines, the mileage travel redemptions are really overpriced (20 miles per reward dollar, really?!?) and the discounts are for retailers I never visit, with the exception of Macy's (10 off 50). Macy's, however, has coupons ALL THE TIME in the newspaper, mailings to its cardholders, that are as good as or BETTER than the e-Rewards offer. From other reviews, it looks like e-Rewards had a better selection of redemptions, like Target gift cards, I hope these come back soon. In the meantime, I've redeemed Borders Bucks this year already, and I'll wait till 2010 when I can redeem these again.

Brenda   Location unknown

6:04am on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 

hard to earn full amounts even when you answer 5-10 minutes of questions and if you sign up through upromise that is the ONLY reward you can cash in for upromise $.

SO   USA

9:58am on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 

Well it only took nearly a year but I managed to reach the $50 mark and redeemed the points to get a $25 Gamestop gift card. The main problem I have with ERewards is once you get past the $20 mark. Before I had 20 bucks in ERewards currency I would receive survey offers almost daily and always qualify to take the entire survey. Once I got past that 20 dollar mark though I got very few surveys mailed to me and I never seem to qualify for the survey. But whatever, free is free

Mich   Ct

5:17pm on Friday, June 26th, 2009 

It takes a lot of participation, but I have received a free night in rewards through Hilton Honors. Nice!!

Kim Eakin   USA

9:07am on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 

This program is an absolute joke. About 90% of the time you will only be able to receive a partial payment for completing a survey due to your answers. After answering somewhere between a few and many questions you receive a message stating you are not the type of person they want to complete the survey and the survey terminates. When this happens, you will receive $.50 or so instead of the full amount for completing the survey. When you realize the fact that $.50 of upromise's funny money only equates to about a nickel in real cash, it becomes an obvious waste of time since in reality you are making maybe $.25 an hour. It is cleverly designed scam which conceals how little they are "rewarding" you for your efforts.

Thom   Atlanta

9:31am on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 

The main problem for me is the crappy rewards. The Borders reward is good, but only for $15 per year. Almost all the other rewards are essentially just discounts. I don't need $50 off of a $200 purchase, if I probably wouldn't have made the $200 purchase in the first place.

Helen   Michigan

8:56am on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 

I found that the only reward that interested me was for Border's Books. But they only allow one redemption ($15) per calendar year!!! I haven't had a problem with losing my credits, but I have no use for them now until January, 2010.

TS   Location unknown

3:23pm on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 

Went from $30-40 per month to nothing in the last 6 months. Was a good ride while it lasted.

Paige   Location unknown

9:10am on Monday, February 9th, 2009

I have been with erewards for over 2 years now and have never had any problems. After reading some of these I am pretty surprised. I have never had any problem with expiring points and have kept a balance of $75 for at least over a year. The only problem is the variety of the rewards. I mostly get the magazine subscriptions and finding ones I want is the only problem I have had. I recommend this to anyone!

Andrea   burbank

6:24pm on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 

I have received 3 rewards so far that I received in a timely manner. I think some of the poor ratings is because you may have done something wrong. I'll keep taking the survey's a getting my free stuff. I like free stuff!!!!

Wei   Hawaii

8:53pm on Sunday, January 18th, 2009 

Crap, scam! Never get your reward, and customer service is another crap! Stay away from them.

wayne   Location unknown

12:42am on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 

Been doing e-rewards for over a year and got about three free ps3 games out of the deal. Never had an issue with them and the customer serice dept. always fixed any problems I had. I think they are great.

agnj   Location unknown

3:47pm on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 

I've been doing the surveys for a while. As long as there is a reward available to your liking its not a bad deal. I've converted hundreds of points to various travel rewards that I belong to and everytime its been a seemless transaction. You do have to keep an eye out and be aware of when your points expire.

Leo   Canada

2:40pm on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 

E-Rewards... just crap!
You won't get anything from them.
I wasted my time.

Cory   Sacramento

8:20pm on Monday, October 13th, 2008 

I have been using erewards for a few years and I have been pleased with the site. I've got magazine subscriptions, WSJournal supposed to be for half a year but ended up getting that and the local newspaper free for about a year, target GC, Macys GC, and some frequent flyer miles, i even got some blockbuster rentals all free. I've cashed out over $300 in rewards. Cash them out as you go and they wont expire.

Gordon   Arizona

1:33pm on Friday, September 12th, 2008 

Lately I have been getting surveys where I start answering questions which may have taken 20 or 30 minutes of my time and then suddenly I don't qualify so my time was wasted. If the survey clients have a primary qualifying requirement they should do that up front. If this continues I will cash in my points and stop responding at all.

Jessie   Florida

7:11pm on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 

I just started about a month ago, and given it's basically free money, I'm not complaining. I fill out some surveys while sitting and watching tv, and two weeks later I had $15 to spend at Borders. I'm happy with free books.

Mya   NYC

10:31am on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 

When I came across e-rewards I thought it was really grate and could not wait to start earning reward... I love doing survey... Anyways I cashed in my point and waited for my gift card that never came it had been over 10 weeks so I emailed with my complaint to the email on the web site 4 times and still no response. So at this point I went to the BBB website and found a different email. I emailed them last week asking for them to look into it and they said they would I sent another email at the end of last week and still no response. Stay away from this company.

jeff   Location unknown

7:34pm on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 

Got some frequent flyer miles out of them and a couple of airline discounts. Not great, but better than most.

Dawn   So cal

12:23pm on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 

E rewards has some excellent rewards,
Although I feel as if some rewards are a rip off. I often find myelf completing 90 percent of some surveys, then I am informed that they have already had the number of responses needed from my demographic. This is after 90 percent is completed. I notified e-rewards about this, and they said they would look into it. This is not the first time it has happened to me so I know that this happens often.

Michael Kulik   Falls Church, Virginia

1:50pm on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 

Been with them since 2001, wish they had a few more choices as far as redemption but they are adding new choices from time to time. Overall,a very pleasant experience, I am very pleased.

Deb   Baltimore

8:39pm on Monday, April 14th, 2008 

Answered surveys for over a year. Most surveys I answered, I "didn't qualify" for the full survey and received only a few cents in reward point. To the best of my recollection of the many, many surveys I answered, I only received full credit for 1! After accumulating almost $100.00 in reward points, received an email saying that I had to redeem them or I would loose them because I was no longer a "preferred" member (scam to get out of actually giving out the rewards???). Logged in to their site to redeem my points and was extremely disappointed. VERY few choices, mostly magazine subscriptions and gift certificates and many items "out of stock". Reading the fine print of the gift certificates you find that significant purchases are required to redeem the certificates and that they expire within 30 days. Beware and review the potential awards before signing up and wasting your time!

Susan Bigsby   New York

11:29am on Friday, February 1st, 2008 

I joined the program when it first started and I was pleased with it. It seems like in the past two years or so customer service has been non-existent. There was a time I could email at 2:00am and receive an almost immediate response now it takes hours, sometimes days, sometimes never receive a response. I have talked to several other people who feel the same way about the customer service. The program itself is legitimate but don't expect to get any questions answered.

RD   Location unknown

4:05pm on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 

I tried E Rewards for a few months and accumulated enough points to get some rewards. For some reason my password did not work and I tried to reset it but kept getting an error. I went round and round with customer service and after awhile they stopped trying to help me. They stopped replying to my emails except for the one to stop sending me emails. Nice idea but poor customer service.

Stephanie   Location unknown

8:24am on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 

I've been with E Rewards for a year now and have received around $100 rewards. I redeemed $50 with e-ba**ince they have big sales now. I also redeemed $40 for a half-year Wall Street Journal Subscription.