I signed up to Zip Pay and made a purchase to get the sign-up bonus and closed my account soon after. A month later and I've now been contacted by Research Connections on behalf of Zip Pay to do some paid market research. Just wondering if anyone has used this company and can vouch for their legitimacy?
Thanks for taking the time to look into it!
I managed to get in contact with a representative from Zip who confirmed they're legit.
I have done a few face to face market research sessions through them and they are pretty good.
You get paid on average $50 an hour and the 'work' is just sitting around a table in a group giving your opinion on different ad campaigns.
I did one for a BoM TV advert (the one with the penguin) and another for Movember
Was it after the royal commission? Did anyone mention how irresponsible it would be for a bank to give a loan to a penguin?
Yeah shocking really, big part of the reason we're in a recession. I heard that not one penguin had paid their loan back out of thousands!
I'm registered with them and get occasional survey participation emails but never been offered the chance to participate. I always seem to not match their requirements.
A lot of those 'participation qualification' emails are so in depth I reckon they get a lot of free data out of them, sly dogs.
I've worked for a market research company before (not this one). Companies which are members of the national association are forbidden from unethical studies like that one, they would have to disclose up front that it's a demographic survey which is used to populate their database to target future surveys at you. The reason why the prequalification questions are so in depth is because you'd be surprised how ridiculously specific the target demographic can be. Sometimes the target really is 23-25 year old single males living alone with no children earning $120,000-$150,000 and no mortgage.
I also suspect data mining that Research Connections may have as their primary activity rather than the alleged former employee of a market research company's justification (account now de-activated).
As with Melbourne Guy, I have done a few pre-qualifiers but always eliminated from participation. How curious though, that every time, they ask different personal information.
This a typical data mining operation. Like a miner, they chip away at their desired mine (you as an individual); to get more data, as data is a sellable commodity and sales organisations from large telcos to small telesales operations, buy databases from data miners, of which I speculate that Research Connections is one.
My advice. Have a laugh. Do all the pre-qualifiers you can as it's unlikely that you'll ever be offered a paid interview and screw their database by lying to every response asked.
https://researchconnections.com.au
They score well with ScamAdviser 90%. but with low traffic rating (no big deal) and below average website speed.
Use a throw away email address and IMO you shouldn't have any major issues.