The Panel Station Reviews and Features

The Panel Station

Building 2A,Aster-East Tower, Lower Ground Floor, Embassy Tech Village Marathalli - Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, Devarabeesanahalli, Bangalore  560 103 IN
Tel: +91 80 41785814   Contact: [email protected]
Operated by: Borderless Access Panels Pvt. Ltd.

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KEY FEATURES:

The Panel Station is an online community of consumers who regularly share their views and opinions on a variety of issues by participating in market research surveys. By participating in these surveys, members of The Panel Station influence decision making in organizations worldwide, and help in the creation of improved products and services.

Exchange Your Points for E-Gift Certificates

The Panel Station offers a wide variety of e-gift certificate options. When you have earned 3000 points, you can exchange your balance for a e-gift card. Retailers vary per region, but include: PayPal, Amazon, Rakuten, Submarino, Jumia, Linio, Flipkart, Lazada, and more.

Survey Lengths and Frequency

Most online surveys take approximately 12-15 minutes to complete and are straightforward to answer. Surveys that are more complicated or are longer will typically offer more points for completion. You will typically receive somewhere around 2 survey invitations per week.

Earn Reward Points for Each Survey You Complete

For every online survey you complete, you will earn between 500-5000 points. (500 points = 50Rs in India), depending on the survey's length and complexity.

Point Values

500 points equals approximately RS 50, so 3000 points (the minimum amount required in order to cash out) equals Rs 300. In countries outside India, 3000 points equals roughly $6.50 AUD, 60 Rand, 200 Philippine Pesos, etc.

More Ways to Earn Points

If you get disqualified or screened-out of a survey, you will automatically be credited 20 points to your account, just for trying. You'll also have opportunities to earn points through participation in discussion threads, or updating your profile.

Monthly Prize Draws

For every country (ex. Australia, India, South Africa, etc.), The Panel Station offers a monthly prize draw. Get a ticket into the draw by exchanging anywhere from 300-500 points (depending on your region) or take special surveys for sweepstakes entries, and you could be the lucky winner of cash, great gift vouchers, and more. Many draws have more than one winner.

Mobile App

Take surveys on your smartphone using The Panel Station's mobile app. Don't miss out on the hottest available surveys with instant notifications and offerings. Available for download on Android and Apple devices.

Eligibility: Open to residents of most of the Asian-Pacific, Middle-East, UK, USA, and a few select African, South American, and European nations. Minimum age requirement of 16+.

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The Panel Station Reviews (131)

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January 11, 2021 by Sheila from Australia

Over 8 weeks ago I requested a voucher for JB Hi Fi in Australia. When I didn't get it after 4 weeks I emailed them. They said it takes 6 -8 weeks to get it! (That's ridiculous in the first place) It's now been over 8 weeks and they haven't even answered my 2 emails I have sent them about the voucher.
9 Jan. Received the following email:- "
Dear Panellist,
Request you to check your email as the amount is credited to your account.
Also, be informed that vouchers are sent for this redemption option, the amount equivalent to the redemption points are directly credited to your email.
In case of clarifications, please feel free to write back to us and we would be glad to assist
Sincerely,
The Panel Station."
checked my account, the 4000 points have not been credited back. The saga goes on.

July 27, 2019 by Peter from New Zealand

The TPS crowd have always been an "also ran" outfit, ever since I joined them a couple of years ago. Their website has often been clumsy and badly-designed, feeling like something out of the late 90's: it’s had a nice facelift sometime in the last couple of months which was WELL overdue. When their Android app came out, it was all but unusable. Even today, I can't redeem points through their website: it gets stuck on the "send confirmation text" screen - no text is ever received on my phone. Whereas if I redeem points through the app, as clumsy and ugly as it is, there is no need for a code and the redemption just goes through. So I suppose on the plus side, the 2 or 3 redemptions I've done with them have actually gone through.

In April 2019 the real problems started with TPS. I complete a really long and mind-numbingly boring survey about Cadbury chocolate. After 15 mins of grinding my way through screens covered in dozens of options, asking the same question 10 different ways, I suddenly popped out to the success screen - which was great. Except that it wasn't THEIR success screen, it was Global Survey's success screen. When I clicked submit on GS’s screen, I ended up on TPS’s dreaded "Oh no, tough luck" screen, claiming I'd been screened out. Really, screened out after 15 tortuous mins of tedium?! I don't think so!

I sent a pointed email of complaint. At first they just fobbed me off. But since I persisted in calling them out, they magnanimously gave me 20 "bonus points"! Oh, yeah, thanks for giving me the equivalent of 5 cents for wasting 15 mins of my life! But wait, there's still more. A couple of days later, the same survey got offered to me, under a different survey number. Leary of a repeat performance, I had a go anyway: Same result! Two days later, the same damn survey was back - again – STILL with the same result! Needless to say, I was rather ropeable by then. I sent TPS a rather terse email demanding 900 points (300 per 15 mins of torture on the damn Cadbury survey), which they ignored. Following up on my “threat” to out them on Facebook, I did just that. I’m writing the negative review as a follow on to that…

Since then, I've not been able to complete a single TPS survey, despite "updating" my profile. But time and again I'm "screened out", whereas with Opinion World and Perceptive Panel, I'm screened out about 20% of the time, which is what I would expect.

A few of the really annoying things about TPS:

1. Pre-screening Qs: Their grammar is bad (they are clearly not native English speakers, so either China or India), they have awful character spacing with words running together or split in funny places. The font is a 1990's throw-back. All in all, their pre-screening screen is ugly, dated and just plain unprofessional - I'm sure high school students today could do a better job. Heck, I probably could!

2. Over the last few months, all of TPS's surveys actually link directly from their pre-screening page to Ipsos Interactive, which has this screen:
"All set! Ready to start?
We'd like to ask you some questions that cover a range of topics to check if you qualify for an available survey..."

But once I click on the agree button, and without even answering any actual questions, I get this:
"UH OH! TOUGH LUCK THIS TIME!
We are sorry! Your responses differ from our requirement at the moment!"

3. The Android app flicks to Chrome when I try to do a survey from there instead of on my laptop. Nine times out of ten Chrome throws up an error message and I can't even do the survey. Nice one TPS, that’s so professional… NOT!

So, sign up to TPS at your peril. The only reason I've kept my account open with them is so I could redeem 3000 of my 5500 points (they only allow redemptions in 3000 point blocks) - I'm still waiting on that to come through after 6 days, but I know it's not uncommon to wait up to 4 weeks.
I strongly advise readers NOT to sign up with TPS - they are cowboys who clearly have no idea what they are doing, whose whole system is now very screwed up and barely functional, if at all.

TPS: I warned you I’d bag you if you didn’t sort yourself out. You have only yourself to blame

July 2, 2017 by Mairez from United Arab Emirates

I'm a member of this site but it's very bad when i started a surveys then they gave 200 points and more then thinking that i can have that points but right after when the survey is almost finished they said opps you're too much in hurry and sometimes said this survey has been reach to minimum and wait for another survey. Grrr...they just waste my time.

August 23, 2016 by Matthew from New Zealand

UPDATE: They finally paid me the outstanding balance so I have given then a couple of extra stars.

The title says it all really.

I have been a member for about 6 months and have only claimed 10USD to date. It started ok but then when I neared the 3000 points needed to redeem I received fewer and fewer emails. When I did there was a 90% chance I would be screened out within the first few questions or there would be an error and it would be cancelled. The worst is when you fully complete a long survey and then you are screened out. Tough luck, no soup for you.

So the final straw was a few weeks ago when I decided that TPS were not worth my time. I went claim my final reward and then a week later my account was terminated out of the blue.

This was irritating so I made an appeal where all I get are cut and paste responses every... single... time. Trying to talk to an actual human being is impossible. The result of this is they refuse to reinstate my account or pay me what I am owed. I refute their claims and all I get is the very same cut and paste response.

Forget these clowns. They will cheat you and then stick their fingers in their ears. Completely unreasonable.

I have had much success with Opinion World and Valued Opinions. Sure they may not be perfect but a human being will read your email and try to help if there is an issue. They at least can be reasoned with, The Panel Station cannot.

February 14, 2020 by richard from United Kingdom

Lots of surveys however most of the ones i have on my portal expired more than three months ago, the odds of having a new one which you can actually do is about 10%.

However pays out when you do reach the threshold well.