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it seems to come actually after the work has been done, I am not sure if this is due to Pinecone's change of modus operandi or the fact that things take longer to get to Perthshire then Kent.

Surveys are well designed, with questions that are not likely to bore you to death (though are often fairly repetitive) and rarely contain major irrelevancies (like asking you for your opinion on 12 companies, on 57 dimensions each of them while you have only heard of them and what they provide is nowhere near your major priority).

It's difficult to judge how many projects people who are not major shoppers for families with children would receive from Pinecone. Generally, being the so called 'homemaker' places you in the best position to get a lot of consumer surveys as it's the biggest grocery and household goods companies that have money and need for extensive research. The surveys I received were about mass-market consumer goods, and I have received between 1 and 3 (that's very rare though) projects a month, with an average of bit more than one per month perhaps. It's not major money, of course, but it's very easy and translates to something like 12 - 24 hourly rate, so why not? On top of this, I have also received products to test (these come in normal size packages so are bonus in themselves).


== Respondents: signup and the website ==

As a complete exception amongst the online survey companies, Pinecone doesn't allow for signups from their website, doesn't operate referral programme and the only way to become the member of the panel is to stumble across their banner and click through it to register with them. This is excellent for their customers, but not so good for the potential panel members. The banner crops up every so often on all kinds of sites (presumably partially guided by who they want to recruit), and there are places online where people post (unreliable) info as to where it has been recently spotted, so good luck! I think I found mine through some advice on saving money and making money online. However, I have to say that I have not seen it for ages on any of the sites I visit with any regularity. So if you come across the banner, sign up there and then!

The signup is quick and painless and doesn't require any complicated form filling, address, email and basic demographics (household size, education, age etc) are required. Unlike some companies Pinecone doesn't ask you countless lifestyle questions in order to the repeat them in its screeners anyway.

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