I love MMR too, Crusty; and Brainjuicers drive me crazy most of the time, but I like them when they work.

I like Global Test Markets surveys - they always seem the best laid out surveys to me, and some of Toluna's are well constructed too.

The ones really getting on my nerves at present are OnePoll, and our old friends Samplico - I regularly feel like tearing my hair out with these, lol.

MMR are one of my favourites, I am just finished a really nice cereal bar product test from them via Toluna....I also like the Aurora ones and the Brainjuicer ones are good too, and do not crash for me anymore since I started using IE8.

Forget Sampliciou.us - I must dig out the silly reply I got from them....on the subject of crashing surveys...remember I asked them??

Yes, Aurora are good too, Lizzie. I also like the TPoll ones that usually come via Mindmover - incidentally, Mindmover are so slow they're going backwards, at present!

Are MMR Mindmover ?

I would be interested to know weather MMR was a site you could log on to as I have only done them through Toluna (and you know how mean they are with points)!! I have just done one for ritz crackers so I will be awaiting the postmans arrival next week for my trial sample.Can't see them lasting long, the last time I had a box I ate the lot whilst watching a film!!!LOL

crusty, as far as I know MMR dont have a panel, although they did used to run Pulse Food and Drink forum until it shut down recently. I'm a big fan of their surveys, in the last two weeks alone I have had samples of two types of cereal bars, a frozen pizza and some chocolate bars to test.

I also quite like Brainjuicer, I love reading some of the replies other people have put.

Onepoll have improved a little these days, some of the questions used to be really silly, one that sticks in my mind was when they asked 'How many times a year do you get flu' and the options were 'Once a year, twice a year, up to ten times a year. I have only had flu once in my life and it knocked me for six so I reckon you would be in a pretty bad state if you had it ten times in one year!!!

Looks like my question has been overlooked lol

Deborah - MMR dont have anything to do with Mindmover as far as I know - They are MMR Research and work mainly on behalf of the Grocery Sector doing surveys about Crisps, Cereal Bars, Juice etc. They are the ones that open up in a white background with a green swirly pattern in the left corner and mostly come via Toluna from the quick surveys that ask you whether you buy -

Smoothies
Crisps
Savoury Snacks
Dried Fruit
Juice

I'm glad you got your answer now, Deborah!

Mindmover surveys are (the ones I've had anyway) the TPoll ones; they're quite well laid out and easy to navigate.....just a bit slow at present!

I like the Askia/Nunwood surveys too; I've only ever seen them come through via Toluna, and they are almost always about online supermarket shopping.

Thanks Jilly for answering me I thought MMR was an abbreviation of Mindmover silly me lol.
Yes Katie I know the ones you are referring too, I am learning to log in to all the ones I am a member of every day now just to let them know I am still interested.

Like you, Jilly, I love reading some of the answers other people have put for Brainjuicers, and some of the spellings are really unique!!

I like the Askia/Nunwood surveys too and have had them through Toluna but you do get them through Survey Downline and Survey Network and Cint sometimes too.

Incidentally I didn't know Mindmover were going backwards right now, Katie, I remember George saying that he found them really frustrating surveys especially the Sky ones which you had to scroll all across the page to answer....that can be quite time consuming!

What you have to bear in mind is that there are three distinct elements at work here -

You have the panel itself which farms out the surveys to surveyors like ourselves (we never did decide on an official name for ourselves, did we?!) and then you have the survey commissioners who ask that the survey be written.....and then there is the survey writer....and whilst the writer and the panel can be one and the same, as I think is the case with YSP, often it is not....so you get a huge panel like Toluna who are primarily concerned with farming out surveys from any old writer.....then you get peeps like brainjuicer and MMR and Askia/Nunwood who do not have panel presences of their own but who just say please panel peeps will you farm our wonderfully written surveys out to your marvellous panelists....hence the heaps of crossover....

I hope that doesn't sound too patronizing or simplistic, I was simply trying to clarify the way in which different panels get ahold of so many different types of surveys from what seem to be different places!

Then of course, there is CINT, who totally defy logic....did you know they have just come up with a new panel called YOURSAY??? Could this cause any confusion in the future, do you think?!

OMG couldn't they come with anything better than YOURSAY?? Don't they know we can become frazzled quite easily, lol?!?

The Mindmover surveys are at a standstill for me at the moment, Lizzie; despite having had a whole bunch of 'em before Christmas (and thinking I'd get to cash out quickly) they've completely dried up...I keep signing in, but it did strike me that maybe they've had some problems....Remember that message someone got the other week where they were asking that email addresses be verified? Well I got that message when I signed in the other day - struck me as odd that I had to reverify my email address. Hmmmm...curiouser and curiouser ;-)

I had a nice little £20 from them in January and have only had one invitation since then, but I completed it no problem. Have not had any problems. Oddly enough, I think with them, you need to update your profile regularly rather than actually logging in looking for surveys....because they don't usually appear onsite Hope that helps, Katie!