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Toluna Reviews Summary

Toluna has a rating of 1.2 stars from 150 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Toluna most frequently mention customer service, gift card and enough points. Toluna ranks 368th among Forum sites.

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BEWARE!
July 24, 2023

Have been using Toluna Influencers for a while and never had an issue. Cashed out several times before...I've been trying to cash out with Paypal(ve tried twice) and keep getting "Your gift redemption has been canceled". Then today, it appears they suspended my account because when I try to log in I get " Error: Authentication failed. Please try again.".
So I lost all of the points I had earned...
I have a feeling they are going to maintain I violated their TOS. The thing is many of their rewards have been out of stock and many people are having their rewards denied., This feels like a way to avoid paying people.

So beware

Date of experience: July 24, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Truly sorry to hear about your experience, Stephanie!

We employ numerous automated checks to make sure that we are continuously achieving this high standard of quality. Unfortunately, it sounds like your account was caught in one of these recent checks.

In order for us to take a closer look at this situation and provide some clarity, kindly email us via support@tolunahelpdesk.zendesk.com using 'Sitejabber review follow-up' as subject.

Hoping to hear from you soon,
Mary
Toluna Team

Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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SCAMMERS!
July 19, 2023

Suspended for no reason and took all my points I was building up, I tried to work it out with support but that didn't work,

Don't waste your time like I did

Date of experience: July 19, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

We sincerely regret hearing about your negative experience, C B!

In order for us to take a closer look at this situation and provide some clarity, kindly email us via support@tolunahelpdesk.zendesk.com using 'Sitejabber review follow-up' as subject.

Hoping to hear from you soon,
Mary
Toluna Team

Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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BIG waste of time!
July 12, 2023

Don't waste your time! You take a long survey only to be rejected at the end! BIG waste of time!

Date of experience: July 12, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Our influencers' experience & satisfaction are our top priorities and we are truly sorry to see that this unfortunate circumstances created a negative experience for you, Donna!

As each survey we offer is targeted towards a very specific demographic, you might not always qualify. However, if you are screened out late but not due to quota reasons, it might be due to quality issues.

If you wish to report an issue or simply check your participation status in a survey, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at https://toluna.com/contactus, provide as many relevant details as possible (for example a screenshot and the survey number), and we will gladly assist you.

Kind regards,
Mary
Toluna team

Canada
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I am another example of how they just suddenly suspend my account and forfeit my points. Questioning them does nothing. I suspect that they are trying to lower their costs by cancelling people's points. Stay away from them.

Date of experience: July 12, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

I regret hearing about this upsetting experience, Mary-Ellen!

We employ numerous automated checks to make sure that we are continuously achieving this high standard of quality. Unfortunately, it sounds like your account was caught in one of these recent checks.

If you wish to discuss this situation further, kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “Sitejabber review - follow-up”.

Kind regards,
Mary
Toluna team

New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I have been a member for 3 years and then suddenly for some unknown reason they just locked my account. For 4 days they sent to me emails on how reset new password the link never worked so I was unable to create a new password, then after my contacting them they decided I was too much of a problem and just decided suspended my account, why? For 3 year I was good member and suddenly some one decided my account was a Fraud, I have been an honest member and not fraudulent. So who decided to locked my account? What happen with their system, afraid of answering honest questions?

Date of experience: July 11, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

I am sorry to hear that the Toluna experience has not been as good for you as we would have wished, Tatiana!

The sole reason behind accounts' suspension is noncompliance / breaching of the terms and conditions to which influencers agree upon registration on the Toluna panel. If you wish to discuss this situation further, please check support case #1234308.

Kind regards,
Mary
Toluna team

Australia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I have spent many hours doing surveys with honesty and integrity. I had earned just over $20 but was to continue saving it but all of a sudden couldn't log in. Find out that they have suspended my account and I forfeit my points. This is really unfair, so much time that I spent to be kicked out for doing nothing. They don't even let you know. I did nothing wrong, so technically they stole my $20.
Redeem your points instantly!

Date of experience: July 4, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

We sincerely regret hearing about your negative experience, Caroline!

In order for us to take a closer look at this situation and provide some clarity, kindly email us via support@tolunahelpdesk.zendesk.com using 'Sitejabber review follow-up' as subject.

Hoping to hear from you soon,
Mary
Toluna Team

Australia
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Toluna is a Scam
July 3, 2023

Like many other people who have written a review I have nothing good to say about Toluna. I completed all surveys honestly and in good faith but once I had saved up over 100,000 points they suspended my account. When I contacted them I just got their generic email saying there were "consistent issues" with my answers which is completely untrue. I cannot use the 100,000 points I spent a lot of time saving. Toluna are a dishonest company - don't waste your time on them.

Date of experience: July 3, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, Pepper! I'm truly sorry to hear about your experience.

To uphold a high standard of quality on our panel, we run regular quality checks. It seems that your account might have been caught in one of these checks and was subsequently suspended.

Nevertheless, we would be delighted to further discuss the reasons behind this so that we may provide specific advice and hopefully, satisfactory resolutions. Could you kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”?

Hoping to hear from you soon!
Mary
Toluna team

Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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They have blocked me with no reason and looks like have done same with my husband and friends that i referred to use it.
They didn't even send the gift card link that my hubby redeemed with earned points.
I keep emailing them and they send some automated default replies. Looks like they don't even read the emails sent to them.
They make people spend time on filling the surveys and the moment they see they have too many point to redeem they just block you.
The worst site the worst customer service i have ever seen.
I will be reporting to DPA because they are taking advantage of us and misusing our data.

Date of experience: July 3, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for taking the time to review our platform, Egla! I am sorry to hear about your experience!

For some common types of issues, our system will send automatic replies in order to provide an instant solution to our members and make our helpdesk as efficient as possible. Your query would be related to 'Login problems', so if you selected this type & subtype of issue you received an automatic first reply containing general instructions on how the common login issues can be resolved. We understand these automatic responses might not apply to everyone, so simply replying to the automated notification as advised/or reopening the ticket, instead of submitting a new ticket, will ensure a support representative will look into your request as soon as possible.

Rest assured that we've identified your Toluna account and the support case you opened, and we will get back to you shortly.

Kind regards,
Mary
Toluna team

Singapore
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Log in very bad
July 2, 2023

Vey bad, i noticed recently can not log in and i tried in many times. It appear not working pages. For Redeem points, need to log in to do. Still cannot log in. I noticed more than 2 weeks

Date of experience: July 2, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

I regret hearing about this upsetting experience, Ling Ling!

In order to be able to assist you, I kindly invite you to open a support case at https://www.toluna.com/contact-us with the subject 'Sitejabber review - Follow up'.

Hoping to hear from you soon,
Mary
Toluna team

Minnesota
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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I previously would have given five stars. They were a great survey site with regular rewards and surveys. However I was recently banned from the site and my account closed. I got no specifics about why, and didn't even know it had been closed until I tried logging in and couldn't anymore. Apparently this is not a site that wants to keep people around who complete a significant number of surveys - or they are penalizing people who are fast readers, or who have situations that may change between surveys, or aren't adequately captured by survey questions, all of which could contribute to irregularities. This site will be great - until they decide they no longer want you.

Date of experience: June 30, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Really sorry to hear about this, Bekah!

To uphold a high standard of quality on our panel, we run regular quality checks. It seems that your account was caught in one of these checks and was subsequently suspended.
If you wish to discuss this situation further, please reopen support case #1226025 we will be happy to address your concerns.

Kind regards,
Mary

South Africa
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I have now joined the ranks of many of you who have had their accounts suspended just as they are about to claim their points. After 3 days of e mails absolutely no proof of any wrong doing has been provided and you are just locked out of your account after working hard to accrue 30 000 points. They just ghost you and don't reply to you asking for proof. It is disgusting! My advice is to absolutely STAY AWAY from this site. There are far better survey sites who are a pleasure to deal with. It is such a SCAM to make people do the work then cut them off just as they are about to claim their Vouchers. DONT SIGN UP!

Date of experience: June 30, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, Joanne! I'm truly sorry to hear that you're dissatisfied with our services.

To uphold a high standard of quality on our panel, we run regular quality checks. It seems that your account might have been caught in one of these checks and was subsequently suspended.

Nevertheless, we would be delighted to further discuss the reasons behind this so that we may provide specific advice and hopefully, satisfactory resolutions. Could you kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”?

Hoping to hear from you soon!
Mary
Toluna team

Rhode Island
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I don't know why the email keeps saying your redemption has been canceled? I don't understand, if I can't use pay pal then just let me know?

Date of experience: June 26, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Truly sorry to hear about your situation, Rhonda!

Rest assured that we've identified the support case you opened and we will get back to you via email with additional details.

Keep in touch,
Mary

Minnesota
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I have been a member for like 3 years and then for some unknown reason they just locked my account! Of course I have ******* points that I was going to use for a big bag of cat food as im very low income and I just don't understand how they can do this for no reason! Turns out this site sucks! Beware you'll never know when it will happen!

Date of experience: June 22, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

I regret hearing about this upsetting experience, Nancy!

Rest assured that I've identified the support case you opened and I will get back to you via email with additional details.

Keep in touch,
Mary

Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Weeks ago I submitted a request to get a gift card for points I had accumulated. I was sent an email with a link for the Starbucks gift but haven't been able to open it. It keeps saying try again in 15 minutes & if you can't access it after 24 hours, let us know. I have let them know multiple times. Still unable to access my reward! I am not happy and considering not wasting my valuable time again doing their surveys unless I can get my measly $10 reward

Date of experience: June 19, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Really sorry to hear about this, Anna!
Please submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”, and share more details about this occurrence. We will reply as soon as possible

Kind regards,
Mary

Philippines
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Waste of time!
May 31, 2023

After morethan 2weeks of waiting to receive my rewards on paypal they send me an email that they cant process my order! Its a waste of time! I cant redeem my reward! Fix this! You make your costumers waiting for 3weeks of processing there redeemptions and then cancelled it! Whats the point of this!

Date of experience: May 31, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

I am sincerely sorry to hear about your experience, Yato!

I would like to reassure you we do not engage in such derogatory practices like preventing our influencers from spending their hard earned points. On the contrary, we constantly come up with different initiatives in order to encourage our members to be more active on the platform and redeem as many rewards as possible.

Could you kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”, so that I may provide specific advice?

Kind regards,
Mary

Indiana
1 review
12 helpful votes
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You guys have a long history of deleting people accounts for no reason and not allowing them to redeem their points that's all your reviews say online and I have spent a good majority of
My time completing surveys only for the same thing to happen to me. I've tried to reset my password and they never send the email. This is truly unacceptable you give the survey community a very bad name.

Date of experience: May 30, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, B D.! I'm truly sorry to hear that you're dissatisfied with our services :( and I would love to have the opportunity to change that.

To uphold a high standard of quality on our panel, we run regular quality checks. It seems that your account might have been caught in one of these checks and was subsequently suspended.

Nevertheless, I would be delighted to further discuss the reasons behind this so that I may provide specific advice and hopefully, satisfactory resolutions. Could you kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”?

Hoping to hear from you soon!
Mary
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Oregon
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I've had Toluna for a few years now, with generally no problems. But the last few weeks I would get an invite, click on the survey and would get "Can You Believe It, We Are Currently Out Of Surveys". Thinking this was strange, I filed a support ticket. I got the reply back stating that my IP address has been flagged as suspicious. One remedy is to contact my ISP, which I did. They told me that Toluna has something that is inside that website that can say in our system that is not a secure website anymore. With that said I have never had a problem with the other web sites

Date of experience: May 20, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for sharing your concern, Kathy, I am truly sorry to hear about your disheartening experience.

The rejected survey attempts are not caused by a problem or a flaw, it is simply how our system is designed; if a certain IP address is flagged in the IP databases, the system will not allow participation. IPs that are blacklisted in certain databases are not accepted in our surveys as they are associated with a high possibility of fraud and/or raise too many concerns over the general accuracy of the responses coming from them.

Nevertheless, I would be delighted to further discuss the reasons behind this if you could you kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”.

Kind regards,
Mary

GB
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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SHOCKINGLY BAD COMPANY
May 20, 2023

UPDATE AFTER TOLUNA RESPONSE: Their reply makes no sense. Yes, I did include login problems in my query, however their auto responses didn't even mention this, let alone send instructions. I am still pushing for evidence of why they feel it necessary to suspend my account permanently. Waiting, Toluna, waiting...

I joined a few weeks ago and was enjoying doing the surveys. Honesty and integrity are hugely important to me and I gave a lot of thought to all my survey responses. I have, and still do, complete surveys for other companies as well.
I earned enough points for a £20 Amazon voucher and this is when the true colours of Toluna are seen.
They sent an email saying they were sorry but could not process my reward and the points would go back on my account. At the same time, they blocked access to my account! No explanation given.
I contacted customer service and just got back another 3 emails exactly the same as the original one.
I mailed again the next day to say I hoped those auto emails were not their reply to my query and I await a personal response, answering my queries.
I received another 3 emails in response, exactly the same as previously, so now have 7 duplicate emails telling me nothing other than they cannot process my reward.
Reading reviews, I am far from the only person they are doing this to.
My assumption is that they are taking payment from their clients, a portion of which should be given to the people completing the surveys, and keeping the whole lot themselves. Really shady behaviour.
Fortunately, I have kept quite a bit of info about the surveys I completed, so will be contacting some of their clients to advise of Toluna's tactics.
If Toluna are questioning my integrity, which I'm guessing is the case, it is only right that their clients know that they should not be paying Toluna for apparently inaccurate information.
That's not the only thing I will be doing if I don't receive a satisfactory response from Toluna.
How dare they withhold money for work undertaken in good faith, and lie about returning the points.

Date of experience: May 20, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for taking the time to review our platform, Anna! I am sorry to hear about your experience!

For some common types of issues, our system will send automatic replies in order to provide an instant solution to our members and make our helpdesk as efficient as possible. Your query would be related to 'Login problems', so if you selected this type & subtype of issue you received an automatic first reply containing general instructions on how the common login issues can be resolved. We understand these automatic responses might not apply to everyone, so simply replying to the automated notification as advised/or reopening the ticket, instead of submitting a new ticket, will ensure a support representative will look into your request as soon as possible.

Rest assured that we've identified your Toluna account and the support case you opened, and we will get back to you shortly.

Kind regards,
Mary
Toluna team

New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This site is the worst I've ever encountered...my account was canceled after I had filled out just one survey (so at least I didn't waste any more time with them)...the excuse they offered was that their "system" had recognized an inconsistency which was not only inaccurate, but was also not possible. Avoid this one.

Date of experience: May 10, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, Anne! Truly sorry to hear about your experience.

To uphold a high standard of quality on our panel, we run regular quality checks. It seems that your account was caught in one of these checks and was subsequently suspended.

Nevertheless, I would be delighted to further discuss the reasons behind this if you could you kindly submit a ticket at https://toluna.com/contactus with the subject “sitejabber review - follow-up”.

Hoping to hear from you soon!
Mary
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Canada
6 reviews
24 helpful votes
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The rewards option is not bad, but earning points to redeem for a reward takes forever. Also, their policy says - points will be expired if not redeemed (not if there is no activity in the account). They notify members about points expiration with a banner in the account (not via email) and the banner not always appears. This happened to me back in 2020 and now. I logged in to my account to check if my points are expiring and there was no notification, but couple days later I saw points deducted. I lost over ******* points, which is a lot especially taking into account how hard to make them on this website. They said they cannot replicate the error, so they cannot believe this happened. (Why would not I redeemed if they notified me? I had enough points for redemption) I had multiple issues with this website in addition to the points expiration without any warnings (I did not receive the correct amount from the games, had an issue with redemption, with surveys when they are not crediting...) They said they appreciate my loyalty and will reissue 5000 (I lost over *******), but even that they never credited. I have been with them for so long, but they do not appreciate this at all.)I am very disappointed with this website now, their customer support is not helpful.

Date of experience: April 10, 2023
Mariana P. Toluna Rep
over a year old

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, Irina! I am sorry to hear that the Toluna experience has not been as good for you as we would have wished and that you are dissatisfied with our policy.

Toluna.com receives several millions of visits per month and our influencers enjoy taking polls, doing surveys, posting opinions and engaging in community discussions. In addition to offering our influencers the social reward of contributing to a community dialogue, we award them points in exchange for their participation. We have many reward options available at different thresholds, so that both very active members as well as the ones who are casually active can easily request a reward.

Consistent within the common industry practice of other loyalty programs, Toluna maintains a points expiration policy as well. We always have and we will continue with it. Influencers who regularly take surveys with us tend to keep close track of their points.

Moreover, transparency of communication is key to our relationship with the influencers, and an important factor in keeping them engaged with us. To ensure that our points policy is clear and understood by everyone, we take several steps in making this information available in multiple sections of our site:
- Website Terms and Conditions https://www.toluna.com/en_CA/terms
- FAQs https://www.toluna.com/en_CA/faqs
- Members’ points page.

For additional details, we remain available at any time at https://www.toluna.com/contact-us.

Best regards,
Mary

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