Pinecone researchReviews of pineconeresearch.com

I have been using Pinecone for a few years and it was excellent. I'd get maybe three surveys a month, which took 10 - 20 minutes each and always paid 300 points (£3). Recently that all changed. They now offer surveys of similar length and only pay 75 - 150 points. Basically overnight they have more than halved the pay rates. I enquired (to the ubiquitous "Karen Scott") and got an AI reply that didn't address the questions. Recontacted them and never received an answer. Goodbye Pinecone, you used to be good.

Pinecone used to offer $3 in rewards points for every survey, and they usually averaged somewhere between 10-20 minutes in duration. Surveys were infrequent, but they were interesting and enjoyable to complete, I almost never disqualified and they were worth the point value for the time required. The minimum to cash out was also very low, so I could cash out regularly. They've since updated their website, it's absolute garbage now. 20 minute surveys are worth (at most) $0.50-1.00, I get disqualified immediately from most of them, and there's barely any surveys available. The minimum cashout limit is $10. I'm quitting the panel, there are far better options that pay more for my time. It's a shame Pinecone went so far downhill.

I remember joining this site years ago, $3 for a survey was nice, I'd get a few each week but it was a guaranteed quick buck for my time and effort. Now? I do get a lot of surveys, that's for sure, but they barely work, they will close immediately after getting the invite, they will tell me I'm not a match just by clicking, no questions asked and the worst offender yet, telling you the survey is closed or crashing the site after finishing the survey. I loved this website so much, but I guess nothing good lasts forever. It was a good run.

Really disappointed. I've been a member of pinecone for several years, and it was 1 of the best survey sites around. You'd regularly get surveys and product trials, every survey was paid at £3 and they were reasonable length usually between 15-45min (with most averaging 20-30) and you could get paid out from £3 too. I've just had a survey invite for a 15min survey that was going to be paid out at 70p and multiple profile surveys that took 20-30min each as they were rather independent that paid 5p each not to mention now looking at the pay out system it has gone up to £10 before payout which looks like it is going to take a long time based on the new rules and extremely low rewards payments.

von 500 auf 300 Puntke, jetzt Einlösung erst ab 1000 gesammelten Punkten? Neuer Besitzer? War über 20 Jahre da, aber jetzt ist gut gewesen, ich bin doch nicht blöd!

Sites a joke after the new set up; can't qualify for anything and not even a dime if you don't like other sites. If you do manage to complete a survey then they tell you that you did not qualify. Fraud or incompetence, I don't know which one but Pinecone Research is not the same as it was thirteen years ago when I joined. I now just put the emails into spam because that is what they are. Stay clear of this one and live a happier life.

Really awful setup Regular experience = receive invitation to a survey. Spend up to 30 minutes answering questions, then told you don't qualify. Pity I can't give zero stars for them.

Wow. You used to get 400 points for a survey. Then it dropped to 300. Now, it’s 75 points for wasting half an hour of your life on a survey. It’s time the packed up and went home.