Complaint Review: Datatelligence ONLINE Inc

Datatelligence Onile, Inc is a scam survey company.

I did a 5 day diary chocolate survey for Datatelligence Online and was told I would receive $10 as an incentive. When I completed the survey, and after weeks of lies (saying they sent the incentives out when they didn't) and stalling, they sent me a $10 gift code for an overpriced magazine subscription at http://www.magazineline.com. Of course most of the subscriptions cost more than $10. Datatelligence has not replied to my emails regarding this, nor to complaints from the BBB. Below is the original email promising $10 followed by the one with the magazine subscription gift code.

 ----Original Email ---------------

 Hello!

We are inviting you to voice your opinion in this online study.

This study will consist of three parts:

Part ONE: Recruitment Program (Incentive: Drawing Entry)

Part TWO: Five Day Diary (Incentive: $10.00)

Part THREE: A one hour+ survey (Incentive: $10.00)

Those who complete the FIRST part of this study (option 1 above) will receive a drawing entry into the current months sweepstakes for their time.

The FIRST program is estimated to be 15 minutes in length and will have special validation at the beginning to enter a valid address.

Please take note, the last page of the the recruitment program will EXPLICITLY state if you are eligible for the drawing entry and future programs.

If you fully complete this study (not just this program), you will be eligible for $20.00 in total incentives.

PARTICIPATION If you or anyone in your household are interested in participating in this study and have READ THE STUDY REQUIREMENTS, please click on the link below to start the survey:

http://www.datatelligence.net/studies/

For those who cannot 'click' on the link, please follow the below steps.

1. Highlight the link by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the mouse pointer over the url.

2. While the link is highlighted, press the right mouse button, and select 'copy' with the left mouse button.

3. Click anywhere inside your internet web browser address bar.

4. Press the right mouse button and select 'paste.' Information given for this study will be confidential and anonymous.

Thank you for being a member of TownSquare, our Datatelligence ONLINE community!

Cordially,

Datatelligence ONLINE                                                 ************************

Datatelligence ONLINE is a sub-division of CRG Global Inc.                                   For more information, please visit the websites below.   http://www.datatelligence.net/                                  http://www.crgglobalinc.com/

------Email with the magazine code ------------

Thank you very much for being a part of this program and we would like to apologize on the delay of this incentive.

We initially switched incentive providers and due to the switch had to mail out many of the incentives manually which caused major delays for respondents specifically for this project.

Due to how large this program was (over several thousand respondents across the United States), we had great difficulty in mailing out the gift code incentives in a timely manner.

According to our records, you are one of the respondents which have not yet received an incentive. We have used our resources to get this online incentive to you so you do not have to wait for it to be mailed.

Below is a gift code in the value of $10 USD as promised.

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You may enter this code at http://www.magazineline.com toward any online purchase you want from the Magazineline company, as it's worth is that of $10 USD.

We understand there was some confusion about what type of incentive which you were supposed to receive. Due to the overwhelming responses from respondents, we are molding all future survey invitations to disclose the exact type or group of incentives given.

Datatelligence wants its panelists knowing exactly what they are getting for their time, so they can decide if it's worth their time. On all future programs, please look inside the e-mail invitation for what type of incentive you will receive (it may be a CHECK, GIFT CODE, MAILED GIFT CARD, etc...).

Once again, we apologize on the delay, the confusion which has been caused on the type of incentive, and any inconvenience not receiving this incentive has caused you.

Cordially,                                                                                                                   Datatelligence ONLINE                                                            ************************