¶ … Personally Asked to Participate in a Survey:
Thoughts and reflections
There are few things more irritating than hearing the phone ring during dinnertime and being asked to participate in a survey. Quite often, these calls come from anonymously-named marketing companies. The speaker on the other side of the phone garbles my name and speaks in a stilted and scripted manner. Immediately, I ask myself: 'why should I volunteer my valuable time and personal data just to improve the marketing resources of this company of which I have never heard?' Usually I just hang up and ask for my name to be removed from the list of persons willing to participate in surveys.
I seldom agree to participate in surveys unless I am asked to do so in exchange for receiving a desirable coupon from a manufacturer. Sometimes, when I make a purchase there is a link...
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