e-Rewards

Rewards cost multiple times more than the dollar amount of rewards that you've earned.

For example, you earn $50 in rewards by spending hours and hours of your time taking surveys (most of them you won't qualify for, but won't know that until you've wasted several minutes of your time answering questions).

Well, when you go to redeem your rewards and buy a $50 amazon gift card, you find out that the $50 gift card actually costs $150 in reward dollars! That is bad business and extremely deceptive. It already felt like a waste of my time earning less than $10 an hour filling out tedious surveys. But then to find out that their prices are over-inflated to make it look like you're earning more than you really are, and it actually works out to more like $3 an hour, is just a slap to the face.

Stay away from this company. It is a complete and utter waste of your time. Unless you are 100% unemployed, you can make way more money doing almost anything else.

Been a member of e-rewards site for 10 years and currently have Diamond status.
I have just under $600 I have earned. Like so many others, my account was suspended. I can not redeem the $ for any rewards. I have e-mailed a number of times they say nothing new except they are sorry, but they had to suspend my account.
There is no way to contact this company. TOTAL GARBAGE!
By the other complaints I'm reading, it appears e-rewards is removing accounts that they deem are no longer profitable.

They accused me (in vague terms) of having multiple accounts, answering questions incorrectly and told me my account will be suspended indefinitely. They did this right as I went to claim my first reward. 75 e currency so a 25 dollar gift card. I was offered to join by a credit card company and thought it was legit. I did many surveys that would kick me out at the half way point saying "it wasn't a good fit". When I finally did get through a whole survey, I would collect the ecurrency. Once i was at a good spot to claim I tried and received an error message. A week later I received an email saying I was suspended indefinitely. So they took my time and then ripped me off. I will be reporting them to as many agencies as I can for their clear disregard and negligence on the issues. I have never had another account Nor were my answers untruthful. Liars!

I have been a member for several years and I recently tried to redeem my points and kept getting an error message. I emailed customer service and received an email saying that my account is suspended for suspicious activity. I have over $200 in points that is no longer available. After reading other reviews it seems like I'm not the only one this has happened to. I am so upset. Wasted all that time filing out those surveys and now I can't redeem my points because my account is suspended. Some BS! If anyone has an account with them I suggest you cash out your points now!

This site treats reviewers poorly. I have filled out 65% - 90% of various surveys and received absolutely nothing. When I complain to customer service, the issue is not resolved fairly. Avoid this site.

In order to redeem points, E-rewards added a verification process through a 3rd party which requires a photo id; that I find concerning and discourages E-reward users from redeeming points, if you want to protect your privacy. I'm terminating my E-rewards account.

I am losing interest in e-Rewards because the time taken to complete surveys is not worth the points rewarded. Initially, a 15-minute survey would earn me 4.00 points, but that decreased to 3.50 points and now it decreased to 2.50 points. Spending too much time for too few points is not the way to go
E-Rewards.

I have been a member of e-rewards for many years now and enjoy doing surveys for either airline miles or gift cards. Since accumulated reward dollars do not expire as long as you keep your account active (at least 1 survey within 12 months), you can bank your points to use later and then redeem to keep your airline reward program balance from expiring. For the few problems that I have had over the years, e-rewards customer service has always been helpful.

I had an account with Valued Opinion and they closed my account and gave no reason. Now as a member of E-rewards they send me an email about completing a 1099 form online (including my SS#) because in combination with One Opinion, I went over my limit for the year. I never knew they were connected! I had no intention to go over that amount and I receive SSI. This is a first for me. E-Rewards are very deceptive and they email you so many surveys and promise you will win a certain amount whoever completes the most in a particular time frame. I haven't seen a winner posted yet. I'm over this company. They should list the other sister companies they are running.

After years if taking surveys, I finally had 43 dollars built up so I decided to redeem for an Amazon gift card. To start with I had only one option, a 10 dollar e-card. Then they charged 25 dollars, points or whatever for the 10 dollar e-card! This brought my balance down to 8.25. Not redeemable for anything, you have to have at least 12 dollars. What do they do, charge you 8 to get 2? Don't mess with this site, it is a rip off!

As with others, I have now been locked out of my account and have apparently lost 1500 dollars in survey points. This is because I refuse to take a photo of myself and also my drivers license and submit these online to a third party identity verification company. I've done these surveys for years and have no issues with text verification, 2 party identification etc, but submitting sensitive personal information to a third party company for this? Seems illegitimate and foolish. Also, this change was enacted with no notification to panel members, which is apparently allowed according to their fine print. Something smells fishy.

I spent a couple of hours answering surveys, many of which ask the exact same questions over and over, and once I had earned $50... I discovered that a $50 gift card actually cost $150 in e-rewards currency. When they tell you that a 15 minute survey pays $6.00, the reality is that you might start 4 or 5 surveys that you fail to qualify for while spending 5 minutes on each one (and getting paid $0.25) before you finally complete a full survey for the $6 reward. In reality, you just spent something like 45 minutes for $7.00 in rewards currently, that's actually worth 1/3 of that in exchange for a gift card. If you're lucky and qualify for most of the surveys, you might earn $10 an hour. I lost track of how much time I must have spent to get to the $50 level, and was pretty upset to realize that the actual value was more like $16.

I have over $150.00 in E-Rewards money, it took me a long time, of doing surveys to earn this amount. So I filed for a reward, well that was months, and months ago and I have not gotten it. I have contacted E-Rewards numerous times, and they just give me the typical canned response we will look into it, and I never hear a thing. E-Rewards used to be good years ago, now they are just terrible! They will just waste your time doing their surveys, and you will not get anything out of it! Stay far away from these scammers!