How annoying, Tracey!! A similar thing happened to me but with two different cashback sites....Earnawad, whom I lost a halfway-to-redemption amount from...vanished, without a trace!! And Pigsback who changed from a halfway decent cashback site to this bizarre sort of set-up in which you can only get odd bits of merchandise for vast amounts of points, none of which I am interested in, a bit like Zoompanel, really.

It is a very frustrating thing when this happens as we have so little control over these things.

Wouldn't you say, though, Tracey, that this is a salutary lesson for EVERYONE who does surveys to redeem for the minimum amount as soon as you reach it and not wait to build up a large balance, or you may well get well and truly snookered, in terms of losing everything!!

I have always advocated immediate redemption upon reaching your minimum cash-out amount, so you will not be disappointed if the above happens. It is such a pity as you were nearly there...how much had you accumulated towards your redemption, Tracey, and is it worth an email to ask? Let us know.

After reading that Lizzie i'm off to redeem my £25 from Vivatic, it does make good sense. By the way I've been hunting high and low on here for the smilies. Are they hidden in a secret chamber?

Definitely redeem as soon as possible.As it is the redemption periods can be agonisingly lengthy.There are just too many bad vibes connected to survey companies at the moment,too much scum and too many that will take your data after booting you out.We have to be honest etc-so should they!

I needed another £2.00 to reach my first redemption .Can't even email them now as the email has mysteriously been closed too ! notice I have a pound sign no its not magically appeared on my keyboard I had to copy and paste it

but have to agree Lizzie I always redeem the minute I hit payment threshold too many companies winding down now ...

For mybrainhurts ..mine does too btw , but the smileys are as follows just make sure you don't leave the gap ..

: D =
; ) =
: o =
: P =

oddly enough, Tracey, mine hurts too....it's quite a good name, but I preferred Terence Rogers....I think he is shy about his name, is that it Terence??

Good, too, about the minimum redemption cash-outers....I am glad to see it is not just me who has suspicions....in these worrying economic climes, you can't be too careful!

Thanks too for the refresher lesson in smilies....we have to keep Richard on his toes, don't we??

I wrote down how to get the smilies up and lost the bit of paper, so why Richard, pretty please, can we not have on view and just click on them to use and place in our posts.

yeah, George, makes perfect sense, doesn't it?? Go on then Richard, how about it?!

I lost my Earnawad earnings too - one day they were just not there. And how does anyone earn money with Vivatic? I only joined recently, but not impressed so far.

I find they have surveys in the evening for populus and newvista, try after 5pm and the other one just click on it a couple of times a day at least, they have a few that circulate at different times. I get more from them at the weekend now for some reason, so try at the weekend as well.

All NVL and Populus surveys go live between 5-5 :30 .I am an affiliate so usually get the heads up before they run , they mainly come out on Fridays .NVL surveys this week are for shoppers and mobile phone users .

Thanks for the info Tracey.

I see it Dose work never knew that could be done. Hey all im Danny been on here for a while now but never read though any of the forums and so far im impressed will make more time to read though them. off to check this vivatic site now! thanks all

Nice to meet you Danny, hope you have lots of fun...ask any questions you like, we are all here to help, and have fun of course!!