Morgan Poll Rip Off

[MattSAU2XR8]

Has anyone else had a similar experience to this?

Last Sunday at about 9am this lady from the Morgan Poll knocked on my door and asked if I would be interested in answering some questions over half an hour or so to get a $30 gift voucher.

This seemed like a fairly reasonable rate of return for working on a Sunday so I let her come in and proceeded to answer a heap of questions about how much I earn, what products I buy, who I would and would not vote for, and so on. All this probably took closer to 45 minutes but still not unreasonable for $30.

Then came the crunches (plural):

1. There are no vouchers, just overvalued 'gifts', none of which I happen to need. Examples include 'petrol station' quality sunglasses, pedometers, backpacks, wallets, subscriptions to electronic magazines, none of which is really going to cost more than $15 at a department store or petrol station.

2. In order to claim a gift one has to additionally fill out two booklets of questions each with about 50 pages. I estimate that these would require an additional 1.5 hours to answer sensibly.

3. On posting the booklets back one is also able to 'enter a draw to win $10,000' with no mention of how many people will be in the draw. Lets assume that its 10,000 people. So this opportunity is worth about $1.00

So the bottom line is that if you spend 2 hours of your time you get a relatively useless gift worth $15 and a $1 lottery ticket.

Therefore working for $8.00 per hour.

So anyway when I worked this out I just threw the booklets in the bin and wrote it off as a bad experience. Left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth since one of the main reasons I agreed to answer the questions was to help the woman out, figuring that anyone who elects to do door to door sales or surveys is at least showing some initiative. I simply don't need the money and the woman concerned is as old as my mum :-) But next time I'll know better