Respondent Reviews

I completed a survey and just found out

I completed a survey and just found out the researcher canceled the project This was after the fact that I completed all that was requested to get paid I m convinced it s a scam

Not a legitimate way to earn money

The majority of gigs are blocked due to either unavailable in my region or not available for my user demographic but they aren t filtered out of the list so it s mainly full of irrelevant guff The screening questions seem like a whole survey getting done on the cheap why pay for a real survey when you can cadge free ones out of people and of course researchers never respond to successfully completed screening surveys Other reviewers are saying they did get paid surveys but never got payments for completing them so this whole thing seems at best like a waste of time and personal information privacy and at worst like a brazen illegal scam Best avoided

No feedback at all - no enrollment so far

After submitting 15 screeners keep in mind that you can submit at most 3 per day there is no feedback at all from the actual projects The only emails coming from the platform are those for the referrals luring you to invite others into the platform with no actual reward Besides some screeners ask for private data with no apparent reason at all

The quality of search is so bad

The quality of search is bad - system recruits people that do not fit Beware - do not try to give a chance and talk to those people since you will have to pay the full-price

Scammers

Scammers be careful After two interviews with companies via zooms they didn t pay me the contact support doesn t respond to any email AVOID

Sketchy tasks and poor take up rate

Lost track of screeners completed - not a single success Many screeners ask for a lot of information which is provided entirely for free Site is absolutely loaded with sketchy tasks - from being asked to record logins into banks etc to being asked to complete a user experience exercise which is actually just leaving positive reviews on apps Not worth the hassle - avoid

Low Integrity

My wife had a respondent gig scheduled with an interviewer named Aimee The gig paid out 75 After waiting an extra hour for her to arrive she met her and saw her skin color and my nice home and jealousy jabbed a false scenario that cited how the brand she worked for could not interview people that spent too much or too less of money In other words she shunned the session on the merit of the brand without consulting with the brand After speaking with Respondent they left her disrespectfully unresponsive about the issue she was also never compensated Basically these people can act without integrity at any time and it s at the expense of both the brands and the participants Not cool

This site is a scam

This site is a scam They steal your personal information They ask you personal questions and you never get paid They manipulate you into taking a 30 minute survey in order to be approved to take a paid survey but you never get approved for the so called paid survey because you already took it for free It s a total waste of time and you ll be swarmed with hundreds of spam calls and offers after you sign up for this crap You ve been warned

I trusted their background check but they don t seem to do any

I trusted their background check but unfortunately after conducting several interviews I learned that they don t do any When I complained that the person they recommended me to talk with was lying to and is not who he claimed to be - they never did anything about it and did not refund me I would avoid using Respondent and instead look to use services like userinterviews com

Completed two studies for them

Completed two studies for them marked as attended and paid sent to PayPal Expected dates of arrival have now passed Emailed multiple times no reply I m really not sure what is going wrong here or how researchers continue to use them Extremely disappointed May have to complain to an authority although not sure which yet as depends on which country they are operating from Hopefully I will get a response one day