Shopper’s Voice, located at Shoppers-Voice.com, is a new consumer research center, that allows you to “Speak your mind, Make a difference, and Win cash prizes” through their consumer product survey.
Their Online Shopper’s Voice Consumer Product Survey takes ten minutes to complete and is described as an “easy, free, fast, fun way” to give your insight and opinions to companies on your favorite products, and on what new products you would like to see.
Completing the survey makes you eligible for free samples, money saving coupons, special offers, and cash sweepstakes. It also results in free membership in the Shopper’s Voice consumer panel.
How Does It Work?
After you take the survey, you automatically become a member of the Shopper’s Voice consumer panel. If you complete the survey by mail, you will become a postal member, and if you complete the survey online, you become an online member.
After completing the survey, you will begin receiving “valuable offers” from companies based on your survey responses. You may also receive invitations to earn rewards from other companies for completing their surveys or offers.
Postal members that provide their email address will receive offers both through the mail and electronically, and online members that provide their home addresses can do the same.
The Concerns
Shopper’s Voice is not a market research company. Rather, they are a company that collects your personal information and then shares it with their partner companies, so that they can contact you with coupons, advertisements, and marketing offers.
Real market research companies get your personal information in order to provide you with surveys which earn you cash or rewards once you complete them. Instead, Shopper’s Voice collects your personal information in order to give it to companies who want to advertise to you.
If you are still interested in the special offers and possible coupons, just keep in the mind the volume of mail and email you are likely to receive from advertisers when you provide them with your contact info, and perhaps use a specific email for this purpose.
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Two thumbs down. *smh*
In my rush, got fooled when a google search for "papasurvey," offered me "papasurveyccom.com," a linkd which took me to a shoppers-voice.com page that imitated the papasurvey website. Cute.
Need I say more about the apparent intentions of this website?
You can also ask to have your personal information and survey answers removed from our database. Simply contact Consumer Care at [email protected].
My suggestion - If you get one of these paper surveys, don't actually fill it out but send it back anyways so they have to pay the postage on a survey they can't actually use. It will cost them money without providing a direct way to make profits. Of course, I like to write a little message on the survey like F... U or even a poem.
Think about it - if a million people did this then the company would have to pay 1-20 cents per unusable survey and would have to pay $10,000 to $200,000 in postage for invalid surveys they can't use. Eventually they would have to close their doors due to losses.
We also don't mail cheques to people out of the blue. We recommend throwing it out. We communicate with sweepstakes winners and work with their bank to ensure that the legitimate cheque clears. Banks are correctly suspicious about large cheques, and unfortunately, fraud has impacted everyone.