EmSense

The first few times I took the survey, I had no problems whatsoever.
Now, they have taken away the
gift card option, so I chose the Wal-​Mart gift card, which actually had to be sent to me via snail mail, rather then electronically (like a promo code) which was the way the
gift card code worked. Then I read an article stating that this company went ‘belly up’ blowing through its $ 9 Million so fast. I have still not received my Wal-​Mart gift card. I was told it would take 4 – 7 days, but it has been almost a month and I emailed them and the only response was to tell me the obvious — that it was delayed, and they are working on the ‘issue’ or ‘problem’ I forget the word they used. So I have actually sent them a second email and I am hoping to hear back from them, but am doubting that I will be participating in any more of their emsense surveys after dealing with this headache trying to get my stupid simple $ 5 Wal-​Mart gift card as my payment for my time. They definitely need to bring back the
gift card promo codes if they want to survive. (If they have the money) I may not see my payment, but I hope I get it, because I like taking surveys for which I am compensated in a practical way.

Yeah, I don’t know either.
I generally have a hard time giving these market-​research companies four stars, and I almost never give them five stars, but sometimes easy money is easy money. I showed up for what I thought would be an hour-​long endeavor that would require a swimming-​cap thing to be fitted to my head and weird oily stuff put in my hair – seriously, I’ve had experiences like this in the past – but it was basically twelve minutes and I was out, with $ 30 in hand. No weird caps, no annoyingly repetitive questions.
I followed some instructions, was helped by one of the most efficient market-​research-​company employees I’ve ever met, and was done.
I’d do it again. And again. And again and again. It’s also kind of fun walking around this area at rush hour, signing in with security downstairs, and using really clean bathrooms. I know; I need to get out more. Or get a life. Or both.

Looks like this company is in development of a headband that reads movement. I got $ 40 for watching and responding 5 commercials as they strapped the headband on me to measure my heart rate and eye movement.
I just feel sorry for the people who had to work here. The area looks like a sweat shop with desk and computers tossed all around a warehouse style studio. The area around the restroom were covered with flies from all the decaying food scraps. And the restroom itself was that of a gas station with the door falling off the hings.

I’m not sure what they do here but the employees are top notch and I got $ 20 for watching and responding 20 commercials. I’m sure it’s some alien science project because they gave me one of those brain monitoring things. This is going to make unemployment oh so sweet. Oh, you’ll be seeing me next week emsense.