BizrateReviews 129

I chose to write a review for a website via Bizrate. At the end of the review came the scam. A $100 reward. Pick a magazine for FREE! Nothing in this world is FREE, so I tried to bypass the Reward and submit my review. OH, NO! It would not let me continue to submit my survey without getting stuck with a magazine-none of which I want to read. Been there, done that! NO MORE! Once the FREE magazine subscription ends, you get billed for a real subscription. Don't do the surveys!

I've been able to successfully redeem the $2 annual magazine subscriptions several times and made it work by marking the renewal date on my calendar so I can call and make sure they don't renew automatically at the regular expensive rate. However, the survey thing I think is a complete scam. The suspicious thing about it is that every time you click on a survey or complete one, it has your browser hang and hang and hang for such a long time (one said "Checking your internet capabilities") that the only reasonable answer would be that they're installing multitudes of cookies and gathering info from my computer. Every time you complete a survey it says DON'T CLOSE YOUR BROWSER YET! IF YOU CLOSE YOUR BROWSER BEFORE THE COUNTDOWN IS COMPLETE YOU WON'T RECEIVE YOUR POINTS! No legitimate survey company does anything remotely like this. So all I can surmise is that bizrate surveys are NOT SAFE. And not worth all the effort, tracking, and suspicious activity that ensues.

I just took a survey that Bizrate Rewards emailed to me. It says, "Earn up to 750 Points by taking a quick 15 minute survey.". So I take the survey and it takes about 10 minutes and when I come to the end of it, I get a message from Bizrate saying, "The survey has reached it's quota... 50 points will be added...". WTH! I just took time out to answer questions about my healthcare and then I get a message saying the quota was reached. This isnt the 1st time this has happened. Why answer questions, if you only get screwed by Bizrate in the end?
You need to change something or you won't have anyone to take your surveys. This isn't fair to people who take time out of their day to answer questions.

WHAT A FRAUD.
This BizRate will set cookies in your browser, Trojans on your computer and change you search provider without your okay. Then every time you purchase something or go to a website, they will pop up with rate your experience with he company you did business with.
They will make themselves appear as part of the company you just did business with or represent themselves as authorized by the company you did business with to tell them how they are doing.
Next thing you know SPAM and heaven help you if you fall for one of their "deals" that only requires shipping and handling!
They will say $2 then take out double the amount PLUS, if you don't keep an eye on your account, take more money out of it (I lost $88.83 + $2 double billed through one of their other companies "Bargain Depot Club").
If you see BizRate come up on your computer, assume two things:
#1. Your computer is or has been infected by BizRate. Immediately do whatever you have to to remove them a from your computer and run every Malware programs you can find.
If you get ripped off, do what I am doing, filing a consumer complaint as well as a fraud complaint with your States' Attorney General's Office, the Comptroller of the Currency (Comptroller is not a miss spelling), U.S. Dept. Of the Treasury, the BBB, and as for me being elderly file complaints with your States Elderly Abuse agency and as a Veteran, every Veterans Org. You can contact to make everyone aware of this company.

I warned you all that if my money was not returned that I would raise holy hell. You thought I was joking.
Guess what? I WAS NOT JOKING.

On 5/23 I received an e-mail from them regarding a cancelled purchase from ThinkGeek. I responded on their feedback form that the purchase was CANCELLED and they shouldn't send e-mails asking to rate a product until they actually verified that the order was fulfilled and not... you know... CANCELLED.

Then on 5/28 I received a "reminder" e-mail to rate my order. The one that, you know, was CANCELLED. I have since blocked their entire domain because I do not enjoy being harassed about orders and especially not CANCELLED orders.

My advice? Avoid this company and any company that partners with them.

Same! I bought something from Overstock. As soon as my transaction was completed on the Overtstock check-out page, it sent me to Bizrate who promised $100 for completing a survey. When I finished, my $100 was really a page of magazines where you choose up to 4 for your time. To get your magazines, you're sent to a check-out page where you HAVE to enter your credit card information to get your subscriptions. BUT you are CHARGED $2 for EACH subscription - and that's just at the beginning. Once they have your card info, you really get STOLEN FROM! THANKS SO MUCH OVERSTOCK FOR SENDING YOUR CUSTOMER TO THE BIZRATE SCAM. NOW I'M YOUR EX-CUSTOMER.