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Nielsen survey
Sunday, March 14th, 2021 01:09 amI got a mailing from Nielsen, the radio & TV survey company. It had a round plastic window on the back of the envelope showing a dollar bill inside. There were actually two dollar bills inside! For filling out and returning a short 16 question survey, they say they'll send you another $5.
The end of the survey says "Please provide all the information below, and we'll send you $5 cash!", and then has fields for name and address, AND for a phone number. Along with fine print, "By providing your phone number, you agree that our research associates may contact you to discuss further research opportunities. For efficiency and accuracy, we may dial your phone number using an automatic telephone dialing system and we may leave pre-recorded reminder messages."
I hate those automated dialers, and 90% of the time I don't even pick up the phone any more if the calling number isn't in my contacts. My voicemail greeting says so, and says to either leave a message or send me a text. 95% of the time, they don't.
Anyway, I'm wary of giving Nielsen my phone number, so I'm leaving it blank, and I'm curious whether I'll still get the $5 or not. We shall see! They didn't ask for an email address.
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Update, 2021/03/15:
While walking thru the neighborhood today, I found another mailing like the one sent to me, lying on the ground. As the address was on the street I was walking on, I picked it up and took it to their mailbox. I stuck it behind the mailbox flag.
The backside of the mailing had a round plastic window like mine, but there were no dollar bills visible in it. I suspect someone stole it from their mailbox to take the money out for themselves and then tossed it on the ground. But the envelope flap was closed and I didn't notice any slits or tears in the envelope. So I'm not sure. Maybe Nielsen tries out different types of mailings to see which get the best response? (When searching about it before, I'd read where someone posted that they'd gotten a $5 bill in their original mailing, whereas I'd only gotten $2.)
I hope whoever lives at that house wasn't looking out their window at me, so they won't think that I'm the person who stole their money.
While walking on another street, I'd seen another mailing (not from Nielsen) on the street. But the address on it was far from this neighborhood. Who knows how it ended up here. I didn't want to carry it all the way with me for the rest of my walk to then put it in my mailbox for redelivery, so I left it there for someone else to hopefully find.
The end of the survey says "Please provide all the information below, and we'll send you $5 cash!", and then has fields for name and address, AND for a phone number. Along with fine print, "By providing your phone number, you agree that our research associates may contact you to discuss further research opportunities. For efficiency and accuracy, we may dial your phone number using an automatic telephone dialing system and we may leave pre-recorded reminder messages."
I hate those automated dialers, and 90% of the time I don't even pick up the phone any more if the calling number isn't in my contacts. My voicemail greeting says so, and says to either leave a message or send me a text. 95% of the time, they don't.
Anyway, I'm wary of giving Nielsen my phone number, so I'm leaving it blank, and I'm curious whether I'll still get the $5 or not. We shall see! They didn't ask for an email address.
.
Update, 2021/03/15:
While walking thru the neighborhood today, I found another mailing like the one sent to me, lying on the ground. As the address was on the street I was walking on, I picked it up and took it to their mailbox. I stuck it behind the mailbox flag.
The backside of the mailing had a round plastic window like mine, but there were no dollar bills visible in it. I suspect someone stole it from their mailbox to take the money out for themselves and then tossed it on the ground. But the envelope flap was closed and I didn't notice any slits or tears in the envelope. So I'm not sure. Maybe Nielsen tries out different types of mailings to see which get the best response? (When searching about it before, I'd read where someone posted that they'd gotten a $5 bill in their original mailing, whereas I'd only gotten $2.)
I hope whoever lives at that house wasn't looking out their window at me, so they won't think that I'm the person who stole their money.
While walking on another street, I'd seen another mailing (not from Nielsen) on the street. But the address on it was far from this neighborhood. Who knows how it ended up here. I didn't want to carry it all the way with me for the rest of my walk to then put it in my mailbox for redelivery, so I left it there for someone else to hopefully find.