But those usually only paid around $5 plus (sometimes) a full size product of whatever you were sampling. I didn't do many...but I remember one where the person issuing the survey was almost arguing with my bff (who was also taking the survey) about the pronunciation of "subtle". She didn't believe my bff when she said the "b" was silent.
In the 90s when I was a grad student, they'd pay like $70, which was a nice chunk of change at the time and still would be.
Hey yeah! I'd happily be part of a focus group that paid me $70, especially if it was something that only took up an hour or two of my time, maybe even three hours. I'd probably draw the line at four hours though...that's practically a work shift <g>.
For one, it was back when MCI was around, the rest of the FG was like OH YEAH that's so great! I told them (more or less) that their pitch was a bunch of corporate BS and I wasn't buying it. Why do people fall for such transparent corporate BS speak?
They didn't appreciate me :)
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LW, my cousin and I did a FG for the Odd Couple reboot at the MGM Grand in 2014 (RIP Matthew Perry). LW and I thought it forced, canned and awful. We were like the only ones.
Well, it lasted only 3 seasons (I had to Google), so in the end, you and LW were right.
I no longer remember the name of the show--it didn't get picked up by any network--but a couple decades ago, when only a handful of networks actually aired original (fictitious) programming, bff and I attended a screening of a pilot for a show starring Tom Wopat (aka "Luke" from Dukes of Hazzard) as a dad struggling to make time for his wife, three kids and an aging parent in some rural town. Bff and I were amused later when comparing notes to discover we'd both used the word "trite" when panning the pilot. There was also a pilot for a comedy about maids in some grand mansion; it didn't get picked up either but bff and I didn't hate it quite as much as we did the trite TW pilot.
