I woke up to an email this morning from United offering 600 miles for joining ‘Opinion Miles Club’ and completing one survey.
You give your name, email address, mileage number and gender. Then you go to your email to confirm.
Then they want your date of birth, home address, whether you rent or own your home, your occupation, your education level, income, and race. They also want to know who you’re employed by and how much you make.
After completing registration they had another screening survey for me to take before they’d let me take a survey for miles. They wanted to know if I’m gay or wear glasses, and what purchasing decisions I make at work.
You’ll need to decide if that’s too much information, too invasive, and for that matter how honest you want to be if you decide to complete the quick questions required to join.
Then I was allowed to take a survey. I was told it would take 12 minutes. The first several questions were repeats of the screeners. Then they wanted to know about my last mattress purchase. For kicks I decided to say I didn’t know the brand of bed I bought, and I got kicked out of the survey without miles.
This new site will be useful to some, but they really do make you work for those miles.
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My offer was for only 300 miles
Looks like they Jedi mind tricked you out of miles.
I sure am glad that I read your blog first thing this morning. I got the same offer. You just saved me a few minutes of aggravation! That is priceless! Thank you!
I got the 300 miles offer. Ended up being asked a ridiculous number of questions about my recent camera purchase. I qualified for the 300 miles (survey took about 12 minutes) and then was offered a second survey about allergy meds for 50 miles. I started filling that one out but must have answered a question that disqualified me and got the ?Sorry no miles for you” response. Oh well, hopefully the 300 miles for the first survey will post. We’ll see…
Signed up (also only 300 miles)and took a survey. After 25 minutes of answering questions about my buying habits over the last 3 months, completed the survey and hit “Submit Answers”.
Message received was “no server available to handle your request”. Then hit “Contact Us” on my welcome email and got a second error message.
Very Frustrated.
Wow – way too long, I finally gave up. It just wasn’t worth it.
#WayTooMuchTimeWasted
@Chip W – warned ya! 🙂
My point balance says 0. Did anyone’s points post immediately?
I think the 600 mile survey is Premiers (I’m a Platinum). My son also got one for 300, but he is a general member.
sounds like one of those bogus surveys that end up with the victim being slammed with unwanted phone services.
Got the 600 mile offer this AM and managed to do a survey (although was disqualified for the first one).
It then showed 0 points, with 600 processing.
Well, I’m a bit amazed, but the 600 points have already posted to my MP account…how United takes 6 days to post a flight, yet this can work in 6 hours…
That said, I then got an offer for another survey for 35 minutes and 50 miles…no thanks.
I stopped when they wanted my work phone number to use” to verify information”. Not worth it.
Super easy process.
Super annoying – long registration then survey after survey ‘you don’t match our profile’ even after spending 5 mins on their damn survey and no points. After 5th one I managed to complete. Really big waste of time.
I got the 600-point offer. By the time I realized just how long, detailed, and frustrating the survey was, I decided I need to finish it. Mine was about furniture purchases – many detailed questions about every single item of furniture I purchased in the last 12 months. They said it would take 15 minutes, but it took 30, and I didn’t even buy much furniture.
At the end I did get a message that I had earned the 600 points – and a chance for feedback in which I stated I’ll never have time to take such a lengthy survey again. Will wait to see the miles post.
I’m not recommending it.
Just got 300 points for my account and my wife’s. I needed to refresh one of the accounts so this was helpful, as long as they post.
Got the 600 point offer and I have no status, but do have Visa. Husband has no status or Visa and was not offered survey. Was way too long, hiccupped in middle but was eventually able to finish. Email confirms 600 miles earned, but so far not posted to account.
Awesome! Got the 600 point offer (as a non-elite, Visa holder). Took six tries and an overnight to finally get a survey to complete this morning. 600 points are already in my UA account!
Note, the offer now states one needs to be a card holder to earn 600 miles. Instead, one will only earn 300 miles as a new non-card holder member.
Opinion Miles Club
Earn 300 award miles when you join Opinion Miles Club and complete your first survey. Plus, earn award miles for every additional survey you complete. The more surveys you complete, the more miles you earn.
Website: http://www.opinionmilesclub.com
Special offer for all MileagePlus credit cardmembers and Premier® members: Earn 600 award miles when you join Opinion Miles Club and complete your first survey.
Yeah…credit card or status required for the 600 miles–not mentioned in promo. Also, can’t qualify for a survey due to everyone I try being “CLOSED” redirected to another b=never ending loop of closed surveys.
Opinion Survey is a joke. Repeastedly “bounced” for not eligible for that survey.
This offer has no credibility and should be removed from the web site.
Yes, it is a bitch to enroll and frustrating when you don’t qualify, but I have over 1000 miles credited to my account now with Opinion Miles Club. I prefer ERewards survey’s over this one. At least with ERewards you get some small amount of credit if you don’t qualify. So far this year I have added 10,000 miles to my United FF program with this program, ERewards and E-Miles programs. Every little bit helps. And it also helps if you are retired and have little more to do than fill our surveys..ha ha. It sure beats watching the soap operas.
Bob,
Thanks. I just wanted to get some points to keep my UQ account active and your ERewards sounds intriguing and I will check it out.
Opinion SUrvey is not worth the time commitment.
Do you have an option to get BA FF miles with a survey?
I got through the first survey – but two subsequent surveys did not even work – click on “continue” and wait, and wait, and wait. Tech support was no help – told me to do what I was already doing, as I had told them.
Not ready for prime time.
I think it’s a good deal – I have 3000 miles so far and all of mine have posted immediately.
Dmorris thinks it’s a good deal and almost everyone else thinks it’s terrible?
WOnder why?
Euromann – not sure what your issue is?? Sorry you are negative and didn’t like my post. It continues to a good deal for me and I cont to log miles. Being as honest as I know how. Don’t ruin it for others…. I am up to 4000 miles – the surveys are easy, and the help desk is responsive. Don’t be a hater. 🙁
Dmorris,
Obviously you NEGLECTED the multiple posts as saying the survey is infrequent to access. Many are never allowed an entry and give up yet you promote it as a great opportunity.
It’s a waste of time as I have answered 6 different entries and been denied an opportunity for points.
Truly a PROMO for people with no life and time on their hands.
Another worthless feedback from the Opinion Survey:
“Thank you for your time.
Unfortunately we have collected all the surveys we need from your particular demographic group. We apologize for any inconvenience. ”
Worthless exercise that tries to acquire personal information and does not declare it’s usage or protect the person entering data.
Euromann – sorry you continue to be shut out – not sure what that means…… 🙂
Perhaps you just aren’t patient enough? Your comment about this being for folks with no life and time on their hands is comical. Again, sorry you seem to be a hater. I will continue to take surveys and rack up points.
Dmorris,
YOU are a hater thus you attack the PERSON not the issue.
Opinion survey as noted by many above is disaster and only a few claim any success but spend hours trying..Please stop attacking people on this blog as it fails to show any respect.
If 600 points is so important for you to promote go find a job at UA maybe you can beg for another 600.
Euromann
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You crack me up!
And 600 is long gone, I’m over 4000.
Have a good day – you seem to be in need of some compassion!
With that I’ll conclude our conversations and wish you well!
Dmorris,
Thank you for ending our debate on a happy note!
Now to help others maybe you can list what information you put in to get approved for a survey. My honesty has been rejected 7 times.
Good luck!
This is clearly a means to phish for information for spam (at best) or personal information for identity theft (at worst).
United should be ashamed of themselves for this partnership.
Tim,
Agree completely.
View from the Wing credibility is somewhat lessened to allow this manipulative mile offer to be shown via it’s web site.
Time for Gary or whoever to step-up and validate the offer works and HOW IT WORKS or ADVISE the followers to stay away from this scam!
Shouldn’t this Opinion Survey offer be BANNED from “View from The Wing” due to lack of credible offer?
I started using the Opinion Miles club last week, so far I have 800 points.
This is funny to me – I’ve commented before. I am now up to 5200 miles and my miles post every time I finish a survey. Like everyone, I do get rejected for some surveys but for most I am eligible and I get my miles. Seems like an easy way to log miles to me. 🙂
Surprise. I logged in as DMorris and got a survey of 80,000 miles.
United Opinion Survey is so easy I recommended Obama try to reduce HealthCare costs.
If Gary truly cares about the INTEGRITY of his blog then he eliminates this ridiculous scam offer.
DMorris can you attach your Phishing email address?
@euromannn – this is like any other survey site, they will occasionally give you something valuable but your opinion isn’t really worth all that much most of the time. Others have gotten points from it. I’m sorry that you feel my posting about it (for which I get nothing) is a black mark.
Gary,
You hit the nail on the head:
1. Promotion referenced on your blog that rarely works.
2. No feedback on what information must be added to make it work.
3. Numerous posters who question the integrity of the offer.
If you are not getting anything out of this offer and it presents numerous followers problems and questiosn abotu what does the Opinion Survey do with your personal data……
I would hope you block this offer from yuor site. makes no sense to continue due to the lack of credibility with United on this promotion.
In fact when I called UNited Airline’s they were unaware of the Opinion Survey promotion.
I don’t know what some of you guys are smoking, but this offer is real. I signed up several months ago and have added over 1500 miles to my FF account. The results are posted on my UAL FF account. Granted that some of the surveys don’t work out, but I have had good luck getting 60 and 50 miles per survey on most of them for just a few minutes of my time. Well worth the time spent.
Bob,
Then post the answers to the “trick” that allows the survey to be an option. DMorris didn’t provide any hints so many cannot pass being honest entering their own data.
Trick to be allowed on surveys for Opinion Miles and E-Rewards: If they surevey asks, “which of the following electronic devices do you own?”, select all of them, even if you don’t own it, so long as you know enough about it to have an informed opinion. “What major purchases are you considering in the 12 months?” All of them! House, Boat, Car, Vacation Home, Internationl Vacation, etc! Obviously if you select the one that the survey is for you will be allowed. Where I am careful is on sureveys for, say, medication. That is where I draw the faint line – I don’t lie about side effects, etc. just to earn 50 miles.
BTW – e-rewards much better than opinion miles.
Euromann – you cont to be so negative – move on! What a case of sorry grapes! There are no tricks – you see several positive posts of people using this program effectively and successfully. Do not speak for me – I answer the surveys honestly, and most of them go through – and I am logging points every week. If you read other blogs you will also see others taking surveys and racking up miles. This is a great way to log miles – if you don’t like it don’t participate – but please let it go! Good grief.
I’m with Bob Ellis – don’t know what you are smoking….
Well here is a summary:
Bob Eliis and DMorris ignoring requests to help answer HOW to navigate through the survey. Add Gary Leff to the list who just apologizes for the link NOT help the followers.
Special thanks for “uclalum” who at least COMMUNICATES what he think might get many followers to try.
Problem of this blog is failure to answer a question on HOW to access the survey is so many are rejected.
Gary can work on this concept for future process improvements to HELP solve the mystsery instead of just sitting back and letting posters argue. Unless he was so bored and never VALIDATES the promos on his blog.
Thanks for the recognition, Euromann… I know I am months late, but just stumbled across this blog entry.
I don’t know if I would say Gary was really promoting this link as much as he was issuing a warning about it. Your time is better spent elsewhere (certainly not at mileageplus shopping or dining, other lame sources of miles). I would reserve promos such as these for emergency use when you need to keep your account active by having some activity (noting you need a few weeks to confirm your activity posts in time).
Uclalum,
Agree this UNited Promo if it can be successful is for emergency miles.
I just did a Fidelity 50,000 miles United PROMO so I don’t feel an urgency.
Just trying to help others who can’t get past the STUPID UNITED survey questions.
ONLY you attempted to communicate the success criteria(I haven’t verified) but appreciate the effort.
Maybe a few who post on this blog PLUS Gary will see teh advantage of communicating the right way to access the survey versus just generic posts.
http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/12/26/19-lessons-from-united-airlines-on-how-to-build-a-crappy-survey/
Web site criticzes United AIrlines for CRAPPY surveys.
I’m glad I came in after the shake-out period because in just a few short months Ive nearly earned a Europe ticket replacing a puzzle obsession with answering these surveys.
The program is quite good and getting better as it offers me many more surveys based on previous answers I’ve given, so that there are always surveys queued – which makes it easier to stomach rejection for nearly half. That almost chased me away too.
In the period I tried to sign up for eRewards, waited 5 days to get an activation email and had repeated requests for Customer Services reply by FAQ spam, I earned 1500 Opinion Miles. When I finally got into eRewards the surveys queued earned me $1.50 toward the $25 required to buy 500 miles
“The program is quite good and getting better as it offers me many more surveys based on previous answers I’ve given”
PIAD FOR BY MARKETING COMPANY TO SUCK OTHERS INTO PHSIHING EXPEDITION.
Opinion Survey has ZERO CREDIBILITY and UNITED when sent email and called by phone is unaware of PROMOTION.
Don’t waste your time with the Opinion Miles Club scheme!
In August 2013 I signed up for the program and, tolerably, I did not qualify for the first survey I tried. I had only spent about ten minutes filling in the pre-survey questions to determine this. So, no harm, no foul.
The second survey, however, I did qualify for. I spent almost half an hour completing it. At the end the site acknowledged that I had finished it but that I had to install some software on my cell phone. When I declined, it kicked me off the system!
A subsequent appeal to customer service resulted in a completely canned “non-answer”. In the best tradition of lousy customer service, the answer was a long-winded “you’ll get the points in a few weeks”. Big surprise, but guess what? No points.
Today (11/7/13) I logged on again to see if there was anything new. The site says that my email address isn’t even in their records.
Bottom line- If you want to send your worst enemy on a fool’s errand, tell them to try out the Opinion Miles Club.
What I don’t get is GaryLeff agrees the Opinion SUrvey is dysfunctional promotion rarely, if ever, working.
Why can’t these leaders on Flyertalk, Milepoint, and View from teh Wing who have contacts in high places drive a feedback home to United Airlines about this crap????
Guess everyone waits until phishing steals their personal data!
Opinion Miles is run by one of the top opinion consolidators in the world, SSI from Connecticut. Their program is easily the best of it’s kind although even when working correctly it screens one out of about 1/3 of the surveys you take, sometimes rudely asking a number of more questions before dropping you. But those who stick with it are richly rewarded. Since July I’ve almost earned a trip to Europe, replacing a lifelong puzzle habit which will be able to take me anywhere I want to go now.
I know from coaching a housemate that it can be discouraging, and has even made enemies as one can read in this thread. But I find their program incredibly interactive, Customer Service to be prompt in resolving most complaints, and there is NO comparison with eRewards which has earned me less than 500 miles in the time I’ve earned nearly 30,000 with Opinion Miles.
The character of their detractors in this thread is also nearly rabid, showing a level of impatience that explains their ire.
“Their program is easily the best of it’s kind although even when working correctly it screens one out of about 1/3 of the surveys you take, sometimes rudely asking a number of more questions before dropping you.”
Where did you get your 1/3 accuracy rating from? This blog alone refutes that percentage of success.
If it’s 1/3 success then define a success criteria for all of your bloggers, as you are skilled in this area.
As for SSI I’m thinking of notifying the BBB in Conneticuit but logic would have it that it is NOT accredited!!!!
From what I can gather, these are the top opinion polling firms vying for UA’s prime audience. SSI requires them to choose respondents using the multi-faceted profile data they urge you to fill out as completely as possible. The more you provide, the more surveys will launch for you.
However a survey may be targeting much narrower than the profile questions cover. If this is the case we get screened out. SSI appears to be aware of this so will often do a preliminary survey to narrow the cohort more to lessen the chance you’ll be dropped while answering. So today I was asked if I’d read certain magazines recently, chose a Home Improvement magazine I read, and sure enough the survey was asking about the print vs. the web version of that very magazine.
If you go to SSI’s website you can read articles on how they narrow survey criteria. The only outright disqualifiers are answering too fast or straight-line box checking. Individual surveys have ways of telling if you’re fudging or contradicting your answers. These are from the top opinion research companies like Nielsen and Ipsos. If you google them as they come you’ll see these are all top-drawer surveys which set the standards for the industry.
ONLY ONE poster on this blog attempted to HELP define the answer criteria to do the surgery: UCLALUM
As for the poster like DMorris who just hee’s-n-haw’s about getting points oen would question the authenticity of his posts since he can’t describe a sequence that passed.
Unfortunately, feedback on this blog goes NOWHERE as the 1/3 success ratio is doubtful calculated by and independent, unbiased company.
Just a self promotion of deceit that United Airlines is associated with.
Sharks swim with sharks!
yes, you have ALWAYS read whatever magazine they ask on a tablet. This will get you the survey.
So that you don’t skew results too much:
No, you do not remember any of the ads.
You only read for 0-15 minutes as you just flipped through it.
You are not a regular reader.
Euromann – asked you once before to please stop speaking for me. First off – I am female, not male as your last post refers. Secondly, I continue to successfully complete surveys and gather flyer miles – which are “big as Dallas” posted on my United account. We try to be nice but you seem to be fixated on this. This is a legitimate program that United offers and it is working for many folks. You just have to be patient. It seems to be your mission to address this. I won’t post again, but please stop speaking for me. Just be happy and move on….
Dmorris,
You can be a he, she or it…doesn’t matter you are evasive and refuse to post a sequence of answers to pass the survey after numerous fail.
Even GaryLeff claims a 30% success rate which is debatable as he cannot qualify that assumption.
Post all the answers to the next survey…and will see if you are telling the truth or just blowing smoke.
I’ve noticed that there are far fewer rejections the earlier in the day you answer these surveys. Many of the rejections are apparently due to having enough of a sample from your region, zip code, sex, age group, race, etc. When I answer at 7 am PST I am almost never rejected. But when I answer at the end of the day, the rejection level is high. This makes it appear most surveys for that day are queued up the morning or overnight. However surveys can be added to your queue any time during the day as well.
Of course if they want to survey only single-cup coffee brewer owners and you don’t tick that box, you may get dropped anyway.
The most outrageous rip-off of promised miles so far is for answering a survey to determine if the sketchy details in a Sears.com Shopping Cart banner offering points with Sears card is considered misleading. It obviously is troubling the company. After many preliminary questions about the banner ad, if you answer that it is misleading they thank you for honest opinion and then dump you out of the survey without giving you the promised miles. So they are a doubly misleading dishonest company that I would never shop at again – even if they weren’t a dinosaur whose stores sit empty in every city!
So far the product sampling surveys promising 60 miles and which take name, address and email to send products to sample also fail to confirm miles were rewarded either after the preliminary screening survey or when you complete the end survey. This amounts to contacting a select sample promising miles to participate, then cheating us out of the miles after taking extra steps to sample the products. General Mills and Pepsi, are you aware of this?
Greg,
Good tip if 7am survey entry works.
I’m no longer trying for these miles but hoping the “knowledgeable” posters who have been successful define the criteria to work since it’s a GIMMICK SURVEY and United Airlines should be ashamed of themsleves for this low integrity trick!
Right, Euro. That’s why I’m flying to Europe on miles I earned just from taking these surveys! You see, I am also OC but I put it to work for me instead of just annoying others!
“I am also OC but I put it to work for me instead of just annoying others!”
yes, not posting all the answers just a time hint is brilliant support.
Annoying…..gottacha….you accomplished the task!
+1 ON THE TIME HINT.
I use the same strategy with RewardSurvey. I used to do all my real work first and respond to lame survey at the end of the day only to be rejected. Now, those go to the top of the pile to be handled first (resulting in a higher survey acceptance rate).
Another hint: they always ask if you have done X in the last month 3 months, year, etc. If I have don’t it
[oops, hint enter by mistake]
If I have done it in the last five years, and have a good enough memory of the event to form what I think is a decent opinion, that works for me. In a similar fashion, I am considering buying EVERYTHING in the next 30 days to one year.
On another note: has anyone had any success winning a $100 Amazon gift card on SurveyMonkey Contribute? I have now done about 40 surveys with no luck. I am wondering if they are as lame as the Renaisaance’s Discovery Days promo. Well, at least I won 100 bonus BoxTops4Education today by entering a code from my Cheerios. =)
Total scam — you could spend hours responding and then they refuse to give points/miles, claiming you didn’t actually complete a survey — unbelievable! Recommend that you avoid at all cost and complain to consumer fraud department of your local district attorney’s office or attorney general.
Signed up for this a bit ago and have been able to get 2,200 miles off of it.
To give my suggestion for those who aren’t able to get it to work, it will depend on the time of day and on the answers you give. The screening questions they ask prior to routing you to a survey are to filter you into one of X surveys they need filled. If you’re a woman, or said you were one in your profile, you’ll be more likely to get surveys you can complete (women tend to be the household deciders for purchases). If you say “do not have” or “does not apply” to all the areas they ask about, you’ll get nothing. As other commenters said, if you want a survery for the points, then click everything they ask for. Don’t go through just checking “strongly agree” or “strongly disagree” for everything. It’ll dump your responses and you’ll get no credit. If you’re 65+, retired, male, you don’t make household decisions, and you prefer not to reveal medical info you probably won’t meet the criteria anyone is looking for.
Well it’s nice to get some general tips but there nees to be more details as United is just abusing people’s time trying to get them to complete a survey based on trickery.
I gave up months ago due to United’s deceit in making it a gamble. 2,000 points is equal to $200 if purchasing from United.
But since FF award seats are next to impossible to get at the lowest FF award levels I think $2,000 equals only $50.
……wonder how many hours it takes you to get $50-$200
That opinion miles is a fraudulent website. They keep making me take “mini” surveys to get into the official reward survey. I tried 4 times and it keeps saying, “This is not the right survey for you”. Total BS! Don’t waste your time on that stupid website, or if you have nothing else to do, lie your way through it, because I think it wants only people that have serious medical conditions to take them.
Ive done the dance with United for 4 months now, and have been turned down more times on a survey than asking for a first date! So far, 2700 miles earned and REPLIED to BS stastical questions. Glad I FOUND THIS BLOG
and I like to fill out the surveys when Im drinking wine 🙂
You’ll get dummped less if you answer them early in the morning before they fill their quota for your demo.
There is a shrinking percentage of opinion theft where they have you nearly finish the survey but then dump you. This is considered unethical by the trade associations they must belong to in order to do opinion polling, so always complain to the survey provider as well as Opinion Miles which will often credit you anyway. There is a thread about this in Flyer Talk “300-600
Gosh, were so lucky Gary keeps the this thread active for posters.
Tiem to find a life and it’s not with UA surveys!
Wine can’t drown out the misery UA has caused!
Some misery. I’m flying to Europe for free this summer from doing Opinion Miles surveys.
You have to be somewhat normal with patience however to complete them. So freakish trolls won’t get too far.
Sorry the trolls are the one who posts he is a winner when almost all are frustrated and won’t spemnd te time.
Troll on promoting this worthless survey
I got the 300 mile survey e-mail but I clicked on the above link to access the 600 miles survey just to see if it would give me the extra 300. It didn’t do me any good, the end of the survey said I got 300 miles. You have to be a card holder or a premium member for the 600 miles. The surveys were super long and a bit invasive. It took me three surveys before I was ‘accepted’. I guess it doesn’t pay to be too honest.
Thx guys for responding- I see this survey website like a chess game
and it fun to out-think with patience- up to 3000 miles
I suspect it will get harder-will try the “morning” run at it sometime
Opinion miles club is a disgrace
Robinson,
DITTO!
I live in Canada. When I joined the Opinion Miles Club, there was no option to enter any but a U.S. address because a “state” had to be selected. So I entered my mother’s address in the U.S. Once I joined, I had to complete an extensive profile in order to be taken to the screen where I could complete my first survey and earn those 300 magic introductory points. However, I was not allowed to complete the survey because my computer is not located in the same country as my address! This is an international airline, for crying out loud. Why do they think everyone lives in the U.S. and/or never travels anywhere outside of the U.S.?
Total scam. When I first signed up I could not continue because my computer is outside the US. I’m a US resident, I am just not currently in the country. But this is what proxy servers are good for so today I hunted down a working one in the US and tried again.
First a bunch of prying personal questions. Then a survey. Then after answering part of it I get bounced out. In order to find another one there are more personal questions. Repeated this a few times before complaining to customer service and telling them I’d complain to United about their being involved with this.
To those few who make it work, congrats. On the whole it is clearly a way to collect large amounts of highly personal information that can be correlated to a real ID since they work through UA and know who you are.
In my complaint I also pointed out that the information collected in this manner is entirely unreliable.
We’ll, what’s the problem? I have gotten over 36000 miles since oct.
hit 5k miles- Im done…………
its a challenge of patience….got me to my vcation home in Alaska for the summer
it does work. i’ve earned over 2000 miles so far. there is no way of informing anyone on how to answer. there are a lot of questions and different every time. the miles are in my account immedialtely, no waiting for them.
Huge waste of time. You will spend a ridiculous amount of time answering a pre survey to determine you don’t qualify. Truly a scam.
To follow up on previous, you will receive regular requests for your opinion, spend 5 to 20 minutes filling out the pre survey portion only to be told you don’t qualify. This occurred more than 90% of the time.
After the same (rather invasive) registration questions, I started the survey and the first questions were about where I banked and how much money I made… That kind of sharing is not for me, so i logged out and ran away immediately.
The United Opinion Miles Club is a great way to supplement the miles you accumulate for flights. From the comments that I’ve read so many people have an unrealistic expectation as to what the value of their opinion is really worth, as well as the financial perspective that this program reflects. It is all a matter of perspective. Ordinarily you have to spend money to get miles. This is the only program that I know of where you don’t have to spend any money, only time. So, if you accumulate 5K miles points by taking surveys, it could represent as much as 5K dollars not spent, if you’re getting a dollar for every mile. Even if you’re getting double the miles it’s still 2.5K not spent. I am boggled by the expectation that people feel that their opinion about cell phones, potato chips and fast food restaurants should put them on the fast track to a few free flights per year. Oh I understand the time commitment and the qualifying survey questions, but remember it’s free. Unless you’re making a lot of money then the saving are worth it. I’ve been in the OMC for 5 months and have accumulate about 5500 miles. My target is 15K miles annually, enough for a super saver for one way. If I had to spend my way to 15K miles, it could cost anywhere between 7500 and 15K. Bottom line….it’s free…..really really free, and for that we should be thankful. Don’t leave any money on the table.
This is totally a spam site that completely lies about what they do.
After I answered many questions that seemed like I was filling out a survey, I was just signing up.
And then I answered another set of many questions, I was just filling out a pre-survey.
And then I tried to “Start a Survey”. After I answered like 20 questions, and they got all my answers for their survey use, it told me that they already had enough people for the survey and kicked me out.
This is a complete scam that makes people answer a whole bunch of questions/surveys, and they don’t give you any of the miles they promised. I am really surprised United Airlines would partner with such a scam business. I thought United Airlines is a legitimate business but apparently it supports other companies to scam their United Mileage Plus members.
I’ve read many comments about the UA OMC which knock the program. I don’t understand people. With the exception of your time, the miles are FREE, meaning you didn’t have spend $100 at a restaurant to get 100 miles. If you accumulate 8,000 miles in 6 months, it represents potentially $8K in spending that didn’t have to do to get the miles. Generally, you have to spend money, big money to get miles, unless you qualify for special offers or make referrals.. It is important that people have the right expectation; that your miles accumulation comes from a variety of pathways, not just one. Spend, take advantages of bonuses, MP dining surveys and yes OMC surveys. Think of it as a mileage supplement program.