Most survey calls other than my panels are at voting time. I think those are a thing of the past.

I have had the odd one around voting time. I did do one some months ago that was a paid one. I answered the survey and thought at the end I probably won't get paid but I did get a $30 gift card so it wasn't a scam.

Yes Holly and they always rang at teatime..! I don't get phone surveys anymore but i do get heaps of email ones telling me they will enter me into a monthly draw that you never find out who wins...

Marketing calls on my mobile phone to sell solar panels even though I request each and every time to remove me from their direct marketing list. It’s happening once a month.

Telephone surveys are still a thing, but they are few and far between. Looking at the pay for online surveys vs getting nothing to complete telephone surveys is a good motivation to complete the online surveys.

No. & if they did ask I wouldn't do it anyway.

Not in a long time

Years ago, I did get invited to a focus group as a result of doing a telephone survey. It was interesting. There were about 10 of us in a round table discussion. It lasted an hour and I got paid $50. Now I was worried it was a scam, so my boyfriend, who is now my husband, drove with me and waited in the parking lot for me until I finished lol.

Not for quite a while - BUT I will only answer numbers when I know who is calling......... Gets rid of anything unwanted.

Yes occasionally, but I cut them off because it is usually when I am having my tea.

Yes once in awhile

every now and again I get a call but I keep talking and they'll do anything to get off the call

Occasionally phone survey usually on politics! I hang up!

go unlisted and don't answer from private or unknown ones, never get stuck wasting your time with unsolicited strangers...

Phone calls are usually for money, not surveys and the ones who phone for surveys are usually biased.

No they are very few and far done now.. most I do are on line.

No I don't have a landline. I really don't know anyone who has,with the exception of my ex mother in law. But many ,many years ago I used to do quantities social research,mainly on site,like at airports,big city's,huge shopping centres. Not the best job I ever had. Mainly gov polling,for policy,or feedback for large department stores. Payed really well,from the time I left home till I got home as well as petrol/logbook. Gotta be really motivated,people person and very thick skinned as not everybody is happy to participate. So if I was approached by a surveyed, I did it cause I remember how tough it was.

No, every now and then I get a phone survey, usually it's political. I remember the survey's you used to be asked to do in shopping centres where you got to test different products.

no put do online surveys

No

No.

I did a paid Zoom survey a few months back...was rapt! But haven't got another again yet.

I gave up the home phone many years ago because the only people calling were scammers or similar

No did not know about them

because of these people and scammers, calling me sometimes 3 times a day, I have ended up with what is called a guardian phone, and now my family won't ring me on the house phone and the once unused mobile, is now about to be thrown out the window cause it is for ever ringing

no any more since have disconnected our landline

Mostly scammers these day

sTILL DO

Don’t actually answer the land line any more just let it go through to the answering machine as we get too many scam calls

Yes use to happen a lot in my household but not anymore since I got rid of the landline.Edited 25-Apr-23 17:43pm

Thing of the past

I think the last one I did was about politics more than a few years ago.

I have never had a telephone survey, not sure I would trust it to be honest?

No, they certainly are not a thing of the past, and what's more many are still not paid.

no i think surveys on the phone are a thing of thing of the past

No but plenty of cold callers.

I've done a couple.

My phone screens all my incoming calls if they are not on my contacts list. I don't answer calls from numbers that I don't recognize. If they are important, I expect them to leave a message.

A telephone survey are now long gone. Too easy to be a scam

I recall ever further back when I worked for a the Domestic Research Bureau which actually hid a multi-national company and we travelled UK, going door to door to talk through surveys and have certain people trial various commodities before they went on the market i.e. Margerine, cigarettes, detergent. In those days not everyone had telephones - people still managed to live full lives without them !!

No sure as no assume if I don't recognise the number then it could be a scam and politely close of any conversation.

Yep I still get them generally around erection time and they are asking which Political Party and Politician I prefer.

Usually at election time and you could give any answer to it. Same as if you asked 100 people in the street what is their favorite colour of car. 60 say white so they say 60% of respondents said white but they never say how many were asked.

Banks love free surveys! They take your money and you give them help. It’s actually true! 😂😂 It’s funny that “companies” actually want you to take your time to give them free help. It’s actually not just banks. Hmmmm I know great non-profit places that need volunteers!Edited 25-Apr-23 13:40pm

Don't answer numbers I don't know.

Very rarely...

Yes in NZ I do get calls mostlyturn them down. Theyoften ring at a meal time or news on TV

received a notification in the post from state government telling us that we had been selected to do a phone survey and my mobile number would be used it was about the transport for our state i do not turn my mobile on much so they wasted their time

Most of the landline calls are scammers

Don't like phones, they invade your privacy, most are scam or nuisance calls these day, but necessary evil.

I have had many calls lately - some from overseas and others from interstate. If I don't recognize the caller I don't answer the call.

Rarely

Yes, occasionally. If they seem to be from a reputable company, or cause, I try and answer them.

I did a phone survey not long ago and I got paid. I think it was a $20 Coles voucher and I guess it took about half an hours or so. The lady was really nice so of course that made it easier. I don't mind either way as long as I get paid some thing for my time so no it is not for free that is for sure.

I cn not remember he last time I did an online survey. I try to do them on this site but get screened out so often

There are interesting topics sometimes on phone surveys but other than that their all rubbish in thy opinion

No

No

Unless you know who is calling, don't answer!

Once in a while, but I always decline. To me it's another of the many unsolicited, annoying phone calls.

i was actually employed at a huge call centre about 2000- Call centres were a huge industry of what I called forced door cold calling, A progression on older days. As a caller I hated the job, I felt the scripts we were given and targets were forcing people who could not afford to get into debt to modern phone companies - The tech age. Now we don't own land lines the tech to temp us to part with our $ even more invasive. BUT We get hooked to these costly devices. SAD Really. The phone used to be for just making human contact. Now it is a creepy device, but useful??? you have to choose how you use your time and what your true Human essence is.

I've had a couple recently, mostly just hang up. Bloody nuisance, Always about 6 when the news is on telly

I remember doing them years ago, but not as much now. Don't have a home phone at the moment either.

During the last federal election, I got a lot of phone survey requests. Did not do the automated ones and if the timing was okay for me would do the “with human” ones.

No, not for many years

I haven't heard fro my Indian mate lately who was going to fix my computer problem or my Nigerian mate who was going to help me get an inheritance.

once and a while

Yes, they are still coming thick and fast but with a difference! They are no longer just Surveys but Sales Gimmicks, answer their questions and then they go in for the Big Sell. Lawrence 1262145 is too polite! I interrupt them oh-so-politely before they get very far with their so-called Survey and tell them to go have sex with some meber of their family, inmcluding their children. You can hear the appalled shock at the other end of the line and they never, ever call you back! Of course I don't mean they should have incestuous or pedophile relations with anyone for both are illegal and disgusting but it works which is all I want.

Or you could tell them to eat your shorts

just tell them you are busy and quit bothering or I will call the ftc and they will fine you 11.000 dollars if you don't take me off the list

I don't and I think if one comes I just hang up

I also think it is hilarious that the picture for this is a woman who looks annoyed. ROFL

Before the election

Sometimes I get a survey AFTER I've talked to a company about a problem. They want to know how they have done at satisfying me and resolving the issue. Sometimes I do them; sometimes not! I hate making phone calls to companies because it is totally frustrating. After an hour, I end up back where I started! I have literally become suicidal over issues that they refused to fix! I lost about $200 from DirecTV because they charged me months ago, and I don't even have an account with them. They told me it was too long ago. My bank couldn't do anything either. So, I told them to NEVER use my debit card again and to delete it entirely! A couple months later, they have charged my account again! I had to file a complaint against them! This is just more than I can handle because I have depression and anxiety and live alone with no one to help me with these things! I see why people are going crazy and shooting people! These telemarketers drive me nuts. I get several calls/day from them. I had about three calls from them today about Medicare. They will NOT stop no matter what I do. If I'm not wearing my glasses, I can't see the caller ID which doesn't matter anymore. They are using caller IDs from my contact list or other businesses or just a name. This needs to be stopped! I literally can't handle it! I try not answering the phone, and they leave messages. Sometime the voicemails say nothing!

We still have a party line part of the time here in West Virginia, other parties talking when we are on the line with someone else, and both me and the other party can hear them talking. We are with Frontier Communications.

No more telephone surveys

Yes, before the elections

yep scam city on phones. got rid of our landline and bingo, no more "surveys"

No I don't think so. may be something short. though now I wonder if they are the junk calls I've hung up on.

Think true phone surveys are now scammers in some form. I wont do them now

If I am not getting something for it I would say no. The person at the other end is getting paid.

The truth is that because of all the scammers etc most people including myself are extremely sceptical of phone surveys even if they are legitimate.

no

Now that feels like a lifetime away. I think I always declined. I got rid of my landline, but do get occasional calls from insurance and power 'compare the provider prices' companies. I find they prattle on too fast for me. They tend to speak in one very long word. I did get a call once for a free inhouse cookware demonstration and If I accepted I would receive a free steak knife set valued at $49. I accepted. I got entertained for about an hour being dazzled by gorgeous shiny pots and pans. But I declined the cook set purchase of around $1200. The demonstrators commission for 1 hour work $0. My commission 1 hour of being entertained and a free steak knife set valued at $49 (yeah right).

I hated when they would lie about the length (which was all the time). I remember getting door knocked as well. They always said 5-10 minutes and it usually went for 45. Never did it again via phone or door. I always told them "I have heard that before and it has gone for 45 minutes AND I told you that I could only spare 5-10". What is annoying these days is completing the survey and not getting paid OR spending so long on those horrible prescreening and "prove you are not a robot" questions and getting no compensation for having your time wasted on those for 5-10 miutes. These days, they call your mobile and they are so rude as to call you repeatedly at any time of day or night and not leave a message OR it is a robot that has called you (which is even ruder). I really hate that sites give out your details without your permission. The site itself I am ok being contacted by but not partners (even if I have done a survey for them as these "follow up" surveys are worse and you usually don't get compensated and the original survey probably didn't pay enough any way).Edited 25-Apr-23 09:02am

No

political surveys at election time

I still get some but not as many as I used to get mostly they are council or government surveys and only on my mobile as I dont have a landlineEdited 25-Apr-23 08:22am

I used to get Neillsen polls calling me and they were always very lengthy even after they said "this won't take long''. Always decline now.

Nah I only get my Nigerian friend who tells me I am about to inherit and my Indian mate who tells me I have a problem with my computer. Am very lucky to have all these well advised "friends."Edited 25-Apr-23 08:30am

no

Never had a survey via phone and I only plug my landline in when I want to use it. I do get frequent calls on my mobile and if I don't know the number I delete and block it.

Yeah, sometimes I agreed to do those phone surveys.

Get the on mobile / cell phone from random callers who are "surfing" bundles from their computers. Most annoying!

don't even have a land line

Only political ones

Very rarely

Never have been,

Wast of time they were set up

Occasionally but I tell them to hold the line & when I go back, I ask them if they caught anything while they were holding the line & they slam the phone down. Very impatient people