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I am really enjoying Prolific Academic it is proving to be a really good earner for me. Getting quite a few studies every single day now and sometimes there is more than one at a time but by the time I have finished one the next one is full.
Looks like Prolific Academic is getting more popular with researchers and the researchers are happy with the responses so are coming back to pay for more studies on there. Great to see Prolific is becoming very prolific with studies.
 

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I'm going to presume you cashed out via paypal, which as stated above (and on the payout page, to be fair to prolific), does incur some fees. Circle is fee free over 20. Will also state i've had multiple cashouts through circle and had no problems whatsoever. Even had some little freebies from circle before.
 

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I'm going to presume you cashed out via paypal, which as stated above (and on the payout page, to be fair to prolific), does incur some fees. Circle is fee free over 20. Will also state i've had multiple cashouts through circle and had no problems whatsoever. Even had some little freebies from circle before.

Aye the first time I cashed out and the paypal fees appears I was like DA FUQ!

But yeah they do mention them so it was my mistake!
 

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I got a £35 one 2 weeks ago or so. Great money but you had to do a bit every night & an hour long one at the start and end. So repetitive. Very hard to stay motivated for that one.
 

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after a good few years they blocked my account even though I had no issues on the reputation jolly nice of them!
 

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You really have to watch with some of the studies some of them have the attention check several times throughout a study and they can be quite hidden and obscure.
 

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You really have to watch with some of the studies some of them have the attention check several times throughout a study and they can be quite hidden and obscure.

yeah I was always very wary of these think in the years I had 4 returned? but this is out of £600 I got out of them, in their email they even mentioned something about ISP's? I can only think they were mentioning VPNs or something like but im on BT so no idea what they were talking about haha
 

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yeah I was always very wary of these think in the years I had 4 returned? but this is out of £600 I got out of them, in their email they even mentioned something about ISP's? I can only think they were mentioning VPNs or something like but im on BT so no idea what they were talking about haha
Thats not much return wise. Maybe something to do with your BT internet connection where Prolific Academic thinks that there is someone else in your house completing the same study which isn't allowed.
If it is just the ISP problem you should be able to e-mail back Prolific and tell them you aren't aware of doing anything different and you are the only one completing the studies on your internet connection at your address. Then see what they say. Seems ridiculous to block you when you don't have any control over what BT does connection wise.
 

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I did exactly that, emailed them back to enquire but heard nothing back, its on my list to sign up again but their attitude just to ban you without a proper reason has kind of put me off using them. I'm sure they won't miss me haha!
 

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Prolific used to be a great earner for me until they decided they didn't like the proxy that I have to post from when I'm online at work - more's the pity, I did highly recommend them to anyone who has not yet joined up. Better and fairer pay than a lot of survey sites I've found.
 

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I did exactly that, emailed them back to enquire but heard nothing back, its on my list to sign up again but their attitude just to ban you without a proper reason has kind of put me off using them. I'm sure they won't miss me haha!
That is definitely not right to just ban you without giving you a proper reason. Saying it is to do with your Internet Service Provider is not much good.
Sounds like their security system is a bit hit and miss to ban people just out of the blue like that.
 

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That is definitely not right to just ban you without giving you a proper reason. Saying it is to do with your Internet Service Provider is not much good.
Sounds like their security system is a bit hit and miss to ban people just out of the blue like that.

I know I've taken it on the chin but noticed lots of other people getting the same treatment shame as it was a good company to work with when I started
 

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I know I've taken it on the chin but noticed lots of other people getting the same treatment shame as it was a good company to work with when I started
Yes they really used to focus on giving good support and getting things sorted quickly with any problems people had with their account. Now lots of people have joined and they are making a nice profit from researchers paying for studies so all of that niceness has gone out of the window. Shame that Prolific seems to have forgotten that people here that joined and really promoted the site have ultimately have helped them to succeed and get to where they are now.
 
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Hi,
I am wondering if anyone is having issues with prolific site? I have now had two studies on the run that I have not been able to submit and ive had no choice but to select the option to finish without completing (despite having completed them). Both submissions are now showing a status of returned due to this error so wont be paid :confused: Thanks in advance.
 

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Has anyone started having trouble with the prolific alerts extension lately? For the past couple of weeks or so I keep getting an ERR error message. It says on the google play store if this happens to go and wait on the studies page and let it refresh, which does work, but then as soon as another survey comes it changes back to ERR again. Very annoying , anyone know how to fix this?
 

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Has anyone started having trouble with the prolific alerts extension lately? For the past couple of weeks or so I keep getting an ERR error message. It says on the google play store if this happens to go and wait on the studies page and let it refresh, which does work, but then as soon as another survey comes it changes back to ERR again. Very annoying , anyone know how to fix this?

Mine stopped working when PA changed to their new style site where you have to log in every time you open the site.
 

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Has anyone started having trouble with the prolific alerts extension lately? For the past couple of weeks or so I keep getting an ERR error message. It says on the google play store if this happens to go and wait on the studies page and let it refresh, which does work, but then as soon as another survey comes it changes back to ERR again. Very annoying , anyone know how to fix this?

Yeah, mine keeps giving an error too. I leave the prolific tab open while I'm working and sometimes the extension tells me there's a study, sometimes it doesn't and I just notice the '1' on the tab. It's not reliable anymore, which is a shame.
 

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Anyone receiving studies?
I recently signed up (about 3 days ago now), checking frequently but have not received a single study.. is this normal?
 

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Hi, you have to check the site frequently, they tend not to send the surveys out (well they send the odd one or two from time to time). You can get a page monitor to alert you to the fact that a new survey is available. I use Prolific Assistant which stopped working for a while but seems to be back working for me again. Having said all that, I've not had as many surveys lately. Make sure you complete all of the profile questions too, to make sure you are picked if a relevant survey crops up for you.
 
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