Rejected for moto-related focus group

vaara

vaara

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A friend was kind enough to send me a link to an online focus group on the topic of motorcycles (he earns thousands a year doing this sort of thing - participating in focus groups, that is).

So I clicked through and, after entering the following information: name, phone number, email address, and age [56], I immediately got a screen with the message “Sorry, you do not qualify for this study” or words to that effect.

I wonder which of the bits of info I entered disqualified me. :dunno

Anyway, here’s the link if anyone else would like to try their luck. https://prescreen.fieldwork.com/s3/2543FTL21
 
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nakedape

nakedape

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vaara said:
A friend was kind enough to send me a link to an online focus group on the topic of motorcycles (he earns thousands a year doing this sort of thing - participating in focus groups, that is).

So I clicked through and, after entering the following information: name, phone number, email address, and age [56], I immediately got a screen with the message “Sorry, you do not qualify for this study” or words to that effect.

I wonder which of the bits of info I entered disqualified me. :dunno

Anyway, here’s the link if anyone else would like to try their luck. https://prescreen.fieldwork.com/s3/2543FTL21
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I'm guessing age. I just filled it out with the same result. Market research can be a nice pop at times but "thousands a year" would be an actual job trolling all the companies nationwide and require many hundreds of applications, follow up calls, and actual participation.

San Diego has three large market research forms but it's taken me 10 years to his thousands of dollars. Easy money though. And if you are certificated it's not unusual to get $300-500 per study. They can be fun too. I got the see the WD-40 nozzle revisions months before they rolled out and years earlier the "green" WD-40 formulation that was soy-based and basically non-toxic. The regular nozzle clogged immediately, and obviously, that product never launched. Mock trial (Premerin settlement) was the most fun.

Once I passed 50 yrs old though the offers went poof. That's not the prime demo for most new products. Better luck next time OP
 
vaara

vaara

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I instantly leapt to the “age” conclusion too, but didn’t want to be accused of unjustified whining. :)

The friend who sent me the link is in his thirties, so perhaps that’s why he’s so popular with those research companies. And last I heard, he was ‘funemployed’ so he’s not short on free time...
 
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NorCalBusa

NorCalBusa

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vaara said:
A friend was kind enough to send me a link to an online focus group on the topic of motorcycles (he earns thousands a year doing this sort of thing - participating in focus groups, that is).

So I clicked through and, after entering the following information: name, phone number, email address, and age [56], I immediately got a screen with the message “Sorry, you do not qualify for this study” or words to that effect.

I wonder which of the bits of info I entered disqualified me. :dunno

Anyway, here’s the link if anyone else would like to try their luck. https://prescreen.fieldwork.com/s3/2543FTL21
Click to expand...

I'm guessing it was revealing your buddy makes thousands doing this stuff.:afm199
 
ScottRNelson

ScottRNelson

Mr. Dual Sport Rider
They want a bit too much personal information - like phone number and email address - before they decide whether or not they want to accept you.

I was going to stop there, but got curious and decided that I could use an old phone number and an old email account. They didn't like me at my current (retired) age, but they did like me at age 35. It asked a few motorcycle-related questions, then asked me to "like" them on Facebook. I'm not going to join Facebook for that. :x

At the beginning they offered cash to those that they accepted. I'm guessing that you'll be getting spam email and text messages from them if you enter all of the correct information and they like you. I don't know if that old phone number has been reassigned yet or not. I check the old email account every month or two. :)
 
Wolf

Wolf

Experienced, not Skilled
> Thank you for your time and for completing the first step of our screening process. We will contact you further if your responses seem to be a good match for a current or upcoming project. We value your response and opinions.

:dunno
 
tuxumino

tuxumino

purrfect
marketing people are almost as stupid as TV executives, which is if brains were gunpowder they wouldn't have enough to blow their nose.

In 1999 when I was a rentatech at Sony, working on metreon, they were having Jean Giraud coming into town and couldn't find a suitable way to "advertise" there new attraction, the Airtight Garage.
So I'm the IT guy in the room fixing some nonexistent problem that some VP dreamed up and I over hear the conversation. Now normally the IT person does their job and gets out while forgetting anything they've heard, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut.
I say why don't you take him to Wonder Con.
They look at me and each other like the cat had just recited Shakespeare.
Seriously you have Moebius coming to view the attraction your building based on his comics/graphic novels and you have one of the west coasts biggest comic book conventions and you can't connect the two.
 
Yakoo752

Yakoo752

USN
I run these all the time.

Hard to tell if it's age alone. Sometimes, I'll recruit certain amounts of men:women:age brackets to create a respective sample of US population data.

This way it saves me time in the backend from having to weight.
 
wilit

wilit

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My wife does probably 4-5 focus groups/tastings a month. It's nice pocket money. But yeah, most likely it's age. They're probably aiming for a certain demographic for the product and you're not in that range. But now that you've filled out the questionnaire, you'll probably get some more offers. The more you do, the more offers you get.
 
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