Directions Research Inc. Tell us about your tax preparation and receive 20 dollars Cincinnati Ohio
Company sends out an email saying:
We would like to invite you to participate in an on-line research survey about your tax preparation experiences.
Upon qualification and completion of this survey, you will be sent $20 as a token of our appreciation.
They provide a link to the survey.
After giving them your email address and completing the online survey they generate a message saying:
Thank you for sharing your opinions! Thanks a lot. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for this particular survey.
This is not only false advertisng but a scam to get your email adreess and other information.
Beware
Roy
Tampa, Florida
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Coolguy
United States of AmericaI got this offer and it wasn't a scam
#3Consumer Comment
Sun, May 30, 2010
I can also personally vouch that this offer is not really a scam. I got a very similar letter offering a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate. It looked very fishy but I gave it a shot.
The first time I entered a disposable email address and it immediately told me I did not qualify, which did seem to confirm my suspicion. I suspect that is what happened to you; you didn't actually complete the whole survey, but rather just entered a different email address from the one the offer was sent to, or you answered the screening questions in a way indicating that you didn't qualify as being eligible for the company that commissioned the survey.
In my case, it was obviously H&R Block surveying former users to see how they could retain or upsell them. I had used them for free file only in the past as I prepare my own taxes. It took me about 10 minutes to finish the survey and at the end I was instantly given a valid $20 Amazon gift certificate.
Not a bad deal; especially given that I've never paid H&R Block for services in the past and don't intend to in the future.
ashmash
United States of AmericaDirections Research Inc is NOT a scam
#3Consumer Comment
Tue, January 26, 2010
I completed an online survery with this company and I was mailed a $20 check about a month or so later. I took the check to my bank to be varified that it was authentic. My bank confirmed authenticity and I cashed the check and walked out with $20 dollars. Obviously you did not meet the qualifications of the sample that the survery was looking for--meaning that your information would not qualifiy to be apart of the research statistics the survey was being used to collect. It says at the beginning of the survey "If you QUALIFY you will be mailed a $20 check". If you dont qualify then not check for you! But take it from me... this is NOT a scam.
Ashley