Harris Poll Online Reviews and Features

Harris Poll Online

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KEY FEATURES:

Harris poll is one of the oldest and most prestigious polls in the world, operating for more than 45 years with a focus on the US and Canadian market. Have your say on matters that affect you and see the results from the surveys you complete. You can compare experiences, opinions and more to people who are both like and unlike you. Occasionally, the studies you contribute to will be published in national and international media outlets. The Harris Poll is a member of the National Council of Public Polls (NCPP), the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO), the Council for Marketing and Opinion Research (CMOR), and the European Society for Opinion & Marketing Research (ESOMAR).

Electronic Rewards

Harris Poll offers their members the opportunity to earn points, known as HIpoints in exchange for their participation. Once you earn 1250 points (worth $10), you can request an e-gift voucher from places like Amazon, iTunes, Starbucks, Walmart, ESPN, and more. You may also be entered into sweepstakes after each completed survey for even more chances of winning big.

Get Disqualified, But Still Have a Chance to Win!

If you attempt to complete a survey, but are disqualified in the process, you will receive an entry into the Harris Panel Sweepstakes. You will be also be offered the opportunity to try qualifying for other available surveys.

Survey Lengths

Online surveys typically take anywhere between 5-25 minutes to complete. Short surveys will take around 5 minutes, and very long ones are around 25 minutes. These reasonable survey lengths will keep your attention and prevent you from getting bored too quickly! There are special surveys on offer as well including special focus groups, telephone based surveys, and even surveys about independently downloaded software. Common survey topics, however, range from fashion to movies to shopping habits.

Participate Often

Expect to receive between 3-5 online surveys a month.

Earn Points

Even if you are disqualified from completing a survey, expect to receive around 15 HIpoints! The amount of points you get per survey varies depending on the length or complexity of the survey.

Download the App!

Harris Poll now has an app, available on iOS and Android. The mobile apps will require you to login with your Harris credentials. Using the app allows you to see survey opportunities, take surveys, participate in special research programs and access your rewards. Turn on your notification settings for the app to receive new survey opportunities in real time.

Cashing Out

After you have reached 1250 points, you are able to redeem your HIpoints for e-cards and gift vouchers. Most people who participate, reach this threshold after completing around 10 surveys. Rewards include e-cards or gift vouchers from Amazon, iTunes, Starbucks and more.

Rewards Processing Times

Redeem your rewards and receive them within 15 business days. They will be sent to your e-mail account. Most rewards will be credited to your account within 10 minutes of your participation, but occasionally it may take as long as 24 hours for the credit to appear in your account. If you are redeeming your HIpoints, you will receive your e-code within 24-48 hours of cashing in your HIpoints. If you have cashed in for physical merchandise, you will receive your merchandise via USPS within 7-14 business days. All costs of rewards (including shipping and handling) are covered by Harris Poll, unless you are redeeming products using an e-certificate.

Chances to Win $10,000 Every Quarter

HarrisPoll gives away a $10,000 USD prize every quarter to one lucky winner in their Histakes - the Harris Poll Online Sweepstakes. You earn an entry if you have been disqualified for surveys, as well as for actions like participating in short surveys that may not award points. Winners names are published on the HIstakes winners page and this list is kept up to date.

Eligibility: Canadian residents, 13+.

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Harris Poll Online Reviews (215)

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June 1, 2015 by Anna from United States

Harris Poll always has new surveys so you are always earning points. There are many different gift card options to cash out in though I always choose an Amazon gift card. Your reward does take a while to arrive (almost two weeks sometimes) but it does get there. Definitely am continuing using Harris Poll!

May 15, 2015 by Ally from United States

I've been a member now for just over a month and I've already redeemed my points for an Amazon gift card. I haven't had the issues the others face with the survey qualification - It's ruled me out relatively quickly if I'm not a fit and it seems I'm a fit for quite a few surveys.

The interface is clean, professional and easy to use. They also notify you when surveys are available.

I would recommend joining this.

April 23, 2015 by Tiffany from United States

The home page doesn't work on Firefox, so you have to use a different browser to redeem for rewards. Also, the qualification surveys are longer than the real-deal sometimes.
I almost never qualify for a survey but the 15 points they give when you are disqualified add up over time.

April 6, 2015 by Carol from United States

I did two surveys with these folks, and both times I reached almost the end of the surveys -- 90 percent on one and 98 percent on the other, and received "You don't qualify for this survey" messages both times.

Sorry, but they received valuable data from me, and to boot me out after spending at least 20 minutes on each, that's ridiculous. I unsubscribed and hope to never hear from them again.

April 6, 2015 by Leo from United Kingdom

'Hiding' their rewards scheme from people before joining? A lot in their Terms but nothing really consistent about it, no. of points, kind of rewards..., they say "For your input and participation you will receive points which you can redeem for a variety of great rewards". Well this is the least!

You later discover that they don't have many surveys, and qualifying is even harder.
Then, threshold for smaller Amazon voucher (thee only reward for me) is quite high, but if you wait longer to redeem it 'becomes cheaper'?!? I mean a larger voucher is exchanged with less 'HIpoints' compared to the smaller voucher.
It reminds me of supermarkets unfair selling practises.
Waiting for the larger voucher can take a couple of years!! Not willing to wait, so redeemed the smaller and ditched them.

15 working days to process the voucher.
Surveys are ok on average, but I have attempted too many.
Never had reason to contact c-s.