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In Your Opinion
In Your Opinion is an online panel of members who have signed up to
take part in market research surveys and polls. These surveys and polls
help to gather information on consumer opinions, and can assist a wide
range of companies, government agencies, product developers,
manufacturers, advertisers and other consumers alike. By sharing your
honest feedback and opinions on goods and services you use regularly,
you can have your say on what things you like or dislike, and how a
product or service could be improved or changed to better suit consumer
desires. It’s a great way to make your opinions count towards a greater
good, helping you and fellow consumers to have the kinds of products and
services you really want.
What’s even better is that IYO will reward you for your contributions
with cash payments made through PayPal and entries into their monthly
and annual sweepstakes. Each month there is a sweepstakes draw to win 50
Euros for each country, plus there is the annual sweepstakes draw to win
10,000 Euros! So there are many opportunities to be rewarded for your
efforts. Another feature of IYO is that you can now communicate with
other panel members, and create your own polls to earn additional
rewards. If you would like to find out more about In Your Opinion simply
visit their website, where you’ll also find their registration form to
sign up as an IYO member.
General Information
- Accepts Members From: International
- Age Requirements: Not Specified
- Type of Rewards: Cash, Euros
accumulated til payout. Payments made by PayPal. Entries into Monthly and
Annual Lotteries.
- Sweepstakes, Prize Draws or Competitions: Monthly Lottery to win 50 Euros for each country. Annual Lottery to win
10,000 Euros.
- What is The Minimum Payment. This is the Amount Needed to Request a
Redemption or Payout: 20 Euros
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Comments By: Allan |
From: United Kingdom |
Comment: In Your Opinion – www.myiyo.com
Hi,
“in your opinion” is an international survey and
community site operated by mo'web GmbH an international
online research agency based in Düsseldorf, Germany,
offering online panels since early 2002 for many
countries and in several languages including German,
English, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Russian.
Visiting www.myiyo.com presents me with a pleasant,
uncluttered home page, with a white background but with
colourful, amusing cartoon-like characters and a
colourful logo.
The home page informs me that for every survey I take I
can earn cash and how I can support companies and
governments on their decisions to improve products and
services.
The home page also gives an indication of the community
aspect of “in your opinion” by being able to
communicate with other members.
A large panel to the right provides a facility for
newcomers to register which allows creation of a screen
name by which newcomers will become known to other
members of the community if they so wish - more of this
later.
The site is multi-language, a row of links near the
bottom of the page allow me to switch language if I
want to, but arriving at the home page I find that
English has already been pre-selected - probably by
examining my IP address. Experimenting with these
buttons obviously changes the language but does not
seem to radically change the layout of the site, so, is
it safe to assume that rewards, payout and Ts & Cs are
the same for everyone? Probably, but see below about
PayPal payments.
A further row of links near the bottom of the page
allow me to select:-
“Terms” – displays some rather simple Ts & Cs, there is
no mention of a minimum age,
“Privacy Policy” – confirming that any personal
information provided is safe,
“FAQ” – a comprehensive collection,
“Contact” – providing a free-format text box to type in
my query or complaint and an email address in case I
want to use my own email client. Also provided here is
the company’s address and the names of the directors -
so no secrets here.
When I log into my account with my email address and
password using the boxes at the top of the screen I am
taken to my community page which comprises three
columns.
The left-hand column is a list of newcomers with a
photograph (if provided), a screen name, country of
origin and a “befriend” button, which, if I were to
click, makes that member become a friend.
Of course, whether or not that member wants to be my
friend is quite a different matter.
But it is a very quick way to make cyberfriends.
The right hand column is a list of the currently most
active members with the same details and facilities as
for new members.
The centre column is a list of my friends’ recent
activities.
One noticeable quality of this site is the extensive
use of lower case; even for headings and titles, this
seems to give the site a friendly appearance, this
together with the cartoon-like characters on the home
page is reminiscent of children’s books - a feature I
find curiously likeable.
Near the top of the page is a row of buttons providing
a series of drop-down menus, the first “community”
button provides the following options:-
“community” - just described,
“search friends” – an excellent search facility to find
your friends using name, email address, country,
language or gender, or any combination,
“votes” – where I can vote on simple opinion polls that
other members have created,
“photos” – where I can view photographs submitted by
other members, a simple search facility is provided,
“lottery” – explains how, by completing surveys I earn
tickets into the monthly lottery where one member from
each country can win 50 Euros – but see below. Winners
are advised by email,
“promotion” – contains a registration link containing
my own personal identification. I can copy and paste
this link into my websites if I have any, or on forums
or anywhere allowed. If anyone clicks the link,
registers and completes a survey then I receive 100
“experience points” – more about these later.
The second button “profile” provides the following
options:-
“profile” – a summary of my personal details with
statistics including date joined, number of experience
points, number of friends, number of votes and comments
etc,
“votes” – allows me to create a vote or poll,
“photos” – allows me to create a photo album,
“surveys” – here are two sub-options, (1) new surveys –
a list of surveys available for me to take, and (2)
“old surveys” - provides me with an historical list of
surveys completed together with date completed and the
outcome with a record of the reward, but alas, no
reference number, here I also find a short list of the
more frequent FAQ,
“account” – this provides four sub-options (1) “status”
– this displays my account balance in Euros, my
experience points balance and the number of lottery
tickets I have accumulated, (2) “pay off” – here if I
have earned at least 20 Euros I can start the payout
routine - more about this later, (3) “lottery” provides
my current total of lottery tickets and how the lottery
works - more about this later, and (4) “resign account”
– self-explanatory.
“edit” – allows me to change my personal profile
details - not all details are mandatory and I can
select which information I wish to appear in my public
profile, if any. I can click tabs at the top of the
page which allow me to add personal information under
the categories of “occupation”, “transport”, “living”,
“consumption”, “computer” and “health”. By completing
these profiles, I am sure that any surveys I am asked
to complete will be pre-selected to fit my profile –
so, hopefully, fewer screen outs.
The third button “friends” provides the following
options:-
“friends” – displays a list of my friends, upon
registering I immediately became a friend of the “in my
opinion” administrator. So no one can complain about
not having at least one friend,
“search friends” – using any of several parameters
including name, email, country, language and gender,
“invite friends” – here I find three further options.
(1) “group invitation” – a very useful feature which
allows me to import my contacts from various well-known
(and not so well-known) social websites, (2) “invite
friend” – allows me to invite a single friend and (3)
“edit friends” – where I can remove a friend from my
list of friends.
The fourth and last button “inbox” is for communication
with other members and has two options:-
“inbox” – where a list of messages sent to me by other
members is displayed. Clicking on a message opens it
for reading and allows me to reply.
“new message” – provides me with my list of friends,
clicking on a friends details opens a text box where I
can type my new message.
On every page of the site I visit, a status box appears
in the top right corner of the page, which shows my
screen name (confirming that I am indeed logged on), my
current experience points total (xp), and my country of
origin. One useful additional feature that should be
included here is an indicator alerting me to any
messages I may have received in my inbox from other
members.
Unless I deliberately visit my inbox I have no idea if
any messages are waiting for me.
Now for information about surveys, points and rewards.
A list of available surveys appears on the website but
I am also sent invitations by email. These are simple
text format but are easy to read and provide details
about the reward, there is no indication of how long
the survey will take nor is there a unique reference
number, so if like me, you like to keep track of your
points and rewards, all you have available to reconcile
them with is date completed and the reward.
The emails also tell me that after completing the
survey, I will be entered into the monthly draw to win
the 500 Euro prize or one of the five second place
prizes of 50 Euros each. This contradicts the website
where the prize is stated as a single one of 50 Euros
only. An annual 10,000 Euro jackpot is also mentioned
in the email which is not mentioned on the website.
Lottery tickets are valid for the month in which they
are issued only but are held for inclusion in the
annual lottery.
I cannot confirm which of these two scenarios is
correct because, alas, I have never won.
One thing conspicuous by its absence is a list of
lottery winners.
Nowhere on the website can I find a list of winners, at
all. Nor is there any indication or advice about how I
can obtain one. If a page exists on the site that
provides a winners list, then this should appear on the
site map, but alas, the site does not contain a site
map.
This is quite surprising since generally, the site is
extremely well-planned, well designed and easy to
navigate.
I can also earn “experience points” (xp) for completing
surveys, inviting friends, creating votes and general
interaction on the site. When I have accumulated 1000
xp, 1 Euro is added to my account.
The rewards vary quite widely but from my experience
range between 1 and 5 Euros. Since “in your opinion”
does not provide time estimations, I cannot provide any
“reward by minute” figures. The time taken to complete
a survey is subjective and quoting my personal
completion times would be meaningless.
When I reach 20 Euros I can request a “pay off”. This
is made through PayPal and the transfer is made at the
end of each month. However, they “can only process from
the 14th of the actual month to the 15th of the
previous month”. I assume what this means is any
requests for pay off received after the 14th day of a
month are held over until the following month – so you
will be waiting at least two weeks but could be up to
six weeks.
Members in South Africa and Russia are not paid through
PayPal – there is no mention of how members in these
countries are paid. Even passing the relevant Russian
website text through an online translator does not give
any clues about how these people are paid.
One aspect of the surveys that I have been invited to
that is worthy of note, is that many of them have been
quite technical concerning my work background, such as
Operating Systems, IT Infrastructure, Networks,
Telecommunications etc and so have been more complex
and more frequent than the usual, simple survey topics
such as shopping habits.
This may put some potential members off a little.
I have never had the need to contact Support about any
problems so I cannot comment on speed of response,
attitude or satisfaction – but the fact that I have
never needed to contact Support is itself a good
indication of the legitimacy of the panel.
I joined “in your opinion” in August 2009 since then I
have been invited to 110 surveys and successfully
completed only 11 (10%) so screen out rate is very
high.
I was able to submit a payoff in April 2011, so
earnings are slow but steady.
“in your opinion” offers many survey opportunities to
earn rewards, I recommend them as a good and legitimate
survey site, their surveys can be good earners, if you
manage to qualify and don’t mind technical topics, so
you may have to work a little harder and for a little
longer than many other survey sites but surveys crop up
quite frequently.
Overall, “in your opinion” offers their member a viable
community site with excellent facilities with the
ability to make extra cash.
The community spirit is strong and provides an
opportunity for some innocent cyber socialising.
I hope this review has helped you to decide whether or
not to join “in your opinion”.
Thanks
Allan
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| Date: Aug 31, 2011 |
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