MyPoints

While I like using the site and there are a good variety of ways of earning points towards gift cards, many of the surveys are misleading. They will tell you ten minutes to complete and then take 25 minutes to complete. As others have mentioned you can complete the whole survey and then be told you don't qualify. If you try to bring this up to mypoints, they will tell you to list the survey number, how long it took to complete, when you did it and then tell you there is nothing they can do about it. If that works then this site is a great way to earn gift cards!

I don't the lack of efficiency the surveys have. For example I keep getting screens that will say, "Congrats you qualify for our survey! Please proceed." So I do proceed and the very next screen says, "Sorry this wasn't a match blah blah". That is BEYOND frustrating when 90% of the surveys I try to take say that immediately after I do qualify! There were even times when I was 10-15 minutes into a survey, answering legit questions about electronics that I own and use when suddenly it dropped me out saying I didn't qualify even though I was told in the very beginning that I did. And no... I wasn't speeding through answering willy-nilly without reading their trick questions. *SIGH* I'll just scrape together what points I have earned and not come back because this is wasting my time.

MyPoints worked well the first two times I used it, and I was able to convert my points into miles for my UA frequent flier program. Unfortunately, MyPoints didn't credit my points from the next three offers I met and their customer support has ignored my repeated requests for help in getting my points credited. So, I won't be using MyPoints again... Update: MyPoints has fixed whatever the problem was with crediting points, and all of my pending points have now been posted and credited! Kelly F.

Yes, it's true. Mypoints used to be good WAY back in the days. I no longer purchase things through this site (I use ebates now) but I DO click on the email and such to earn points. So I tried to redeem a $15 Amazon gift card and they want my drivers license. It's so dumb!
And omg, their site is also terrible. I would log in with the CORRECT password and then it wouldn't log in. I have to change my damn password again... it logs in, but when I go to the redemption tab, I have to log in AGAIN and it doesn't take my password! That site is shady!

I have been a member of My Points since 2004, and I have gathered up a lot of points to cash in for some great rewards.

Then, several years ago, things started to get worse and worse. The Surveys page, which My Points tries very hard to tout, does not always (make that usually) work. One is supposed to earn 5 points (used to be 10) every time one gets kicked off a survey. I find myself starting, what is shown as a "5 minute survey" only to get kicked off within a few seconds. However, instead of awarding me 5 points, it puts me straight into another one, and another, and another. By the time I get my 5 points, I've completed 5 surveys, 90% towards completion and My Points has all of my information. I've also completed surveys and not earned any points! But try to contact them to dispute this, and you can't! I mean, it takes FOREVER, and if you didn't note the number of the Survey you completed, you're not getting any points.

Final straw for me was when I completed a Survey 4 weeks ago, and it showed that payment of the points would be delayed (60 days, it said). I have been watching the countdown of days for the past 4 weeks until all of a sudden I woke up on Saturday to see that my points were missing, and that there was NO notice of any points due to me. What's more, I'm going around in circles trying to find someone to contact about this, but cannot without the Survey number.

So. I'm done. I'm unsubscribing. After close to 20 years, I'll go find something else to do with my time.

My points is not as good as it used to be. They will stop your survey taking if you answer one question they believe is wrong. So as far as the surveys you can not win for losing. Either you are taking them too fast or you did not answer a question like they believed you should. I wish I knew what happened to them. They used to be so much fun.

I had been doing surveys on my points for 6 months now and have cashed out several times and didn't have any problems until a couple of days ago I had earned about 6000 points and was getting close enough to get a 50 dollar gift card and all of a sudden my account was deactivated without any explanation my points is a big disappointment! So sad!

I get tired of going for a survey, answering a bunch of "qualifying questions" getting a "congratulations" message, answering several more questions and then being told that I don't match the profile! I have at times spent 10-15 minutes going through questions after "qualifying" and then being kicked out for not qualifying! When I write to ask why I get to start the survey, finish part of it, then get kicked out~the tell me I will get 10 points for being kicked out. The question is if I do 30-40 or 50 percent of a survey how do I get kicked out? If I got to the last 2 questions and answered one wrong they would boot me and tell me I get 10 points? If there are 50 questions are each one of them "qualifying" questions? And if you answer anyone of them "wrong" your out? Doesn't that skew the survey terribly? Are just looking for a very specific set of answers to suit the needs of the product?