Lightspeed Consumer Panel

...making opportunity is maintained by Lightspeed Research Ltd. (Lightspeed) Online Research Inc and hosted in the USA so all data and information related to the site is stored there.

~~~~The Website~~~~
The URL:
http://gb.lightspeedpanel.com
This is the URL for UK members and they have different URL for US and other European countries.

~~~~The Homepage~~~~
Their homepage will supply you enough ...
...password to enter your personal Lightspeed account once you are registered. Beside this, the homepage has links to other pages where further information about "Lightspeed" are available:
Reward
About
Help
Website terms of use
Prize draw official rules
Membership terms of use
Privacy
Contact Us (similar to Help)

Briefly the link tells you about:
Reward~~~~
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Online surveys are valuable money making program. I really prefer them over any other program as they generally pay more than any other sites for a much less effort. This is good but finding the right and genuine survey panel is the hard part. If you get the right one, you can easily make a few extra cash each month in a decent way. There are several authentic survey sites on the net and Light Speed Consumer Panel is one of them. I am with them for almost a year now and feel lucky that I have found them. Light speed Consumer Panel, which is to me, in all respect, a perfect online money making opportunity is maintained by Lightspeed Research Ltd. (Lightspeed) Online Research Inc and hosted in the USA so all data and information related to the site is stored there.

~~~~The Website~~~~
The URL:
http://gb.lightspeedpanel.com
This is the URL for UK members and they have different URL for US and other European countries.

~~~~The Homepage~~~~
Their homepage will supply you enough information you need to know before joining. They have a blue/white color, nice looking and well organized homepage which is easy to navigate and very easy to use. On the homepage there is a member login area on the left, provides a space where you can put your username and password to enter your personal Lightspeed account once you are registered. Beside this, the homepage has links to other pages where further information about "Lightspeed" are available:
Reward
About
Help
Website terms of use
Prize draw official rules
Membership terms of use
Privacy
Contact Us (similar to Help)

Briefly the link tells you about:
Reward~~~~
1. Light speed offer two kinds of rewards which are Light speed points where you get points for completing each survey and redeem those points for hundreds of prizes including Paypal cash prizes, online gift certificates, electronics, and kitchen appliances and donation to charity.

2. The other reward offer: when a member participate in a survey or other activities in their site, receive an entry to their 2000 GBP Prize draw which takes place every three months where the 2000 pounds are distributed among the winners in the following way-
1 x £1,000 prize
2 x £500 prizes
3 x £75 prizes
5 x £25 prizes
There is a link on this Prize draw page where you can also see the most recent winners name and prizes.
More detail about the prize category and the point it costs can only be found inside the members personal account page so you need to register to see them.

About~~~~
Says about what you can do on this site.
Survey activities:
Take part in the surveys about many different subjects for example fashion, baby clothing, foods like cereal, chocolate, frozen foods, food brands, beverages, technology like mobile phones, cars, motor oil, television shows, magazine ads, other kind of advertisements or skin care. You will earn Lightspeed points when you successfully complete a survey and redeem them for various prizes

In addition to surveys, there are Quick Matches and Mini-Polls. You will not earn any Lightspeed Points for taking part in Quick Matches and mini-polls, but you will only earn entries into the £2000 Lightspeed Prize Draw.

Quick Matches are a set of a few questions, takes about 5 minutes and help them match you with future surveys.

Mini-polls are only one question long poll/vote. You can take part in this poll and right after that compare your answer with other members. The polls are generally about recent political and social issues.

Help~~~~
If you need help, search it on this page. If you do not get any appropriate way out, ask them for help through filling up an online query form here. Lauren generally replies within next 24 hrs.

Website terms of use~~~~
Usual terms and conditions of the site are found here. For example this site only can be used for non-commercial purpose etc, rules for protection of intellectual property and warning about unauthorized use of this site by downloading, storing or distributing the data available in the site, copy, reproduce, modify, republish the data or content of the site etc, rules for third party websites which may involve in the surveys. There is also Lightspeed's privacy policies, the other usual jurisdictions statements on this page. Finally if you need to contact Lightspeed, you can always send mail to
Lauren.gb@lightspeedpanel.com

Prize draw official rule~~~~
Another long page you can read before join the site about how the whole reward system works for this site. This section actually disclose their rules for accepting any kind of reward from this site, either points (redeemable for cash or other products) or prize draw money. Lightspeed appointed a third party to administer its Points Program and rewards, which is perksplus.com. Lightspeed does not accept any liability for any losses suffered by you due to any error or omission by the third party in the administration or delivery of rewards.

Membership terms of use~~~~
This page has the most important requirement to open an account in Lightspeed Consumer Panel that you must be a GB resident and over 16 years of age along with other general conditions and requirements.

Privacy~~~~
Listed all of their privacy policies. In this section there is another contact email address where Lightspeed can be reached through intlinfo@lightspeedresearch.com

This is more or less about their homepage. Now to take part in their survey and receive the rewards you have to be a registered panel member. So next step is registration.

Registration~~~~~

They do not have any direct registration link on their home page. You can get the registration link easily if you use any search engine to find "Lightspeed Consumer Panel Registration".
The link is also available in many cash back sites or paid to sign up sites which offer a little incentive (either cash or points) when you sign up Lightspeed Consumer Panel through them. Some of the sites are: Rpoints, Cash Crate, Treasure Trooper etc.
On the first page of registration, you have to provide your email address and chose a password which you will use later to enter to your personal Lightspeed account. In the next page of registration you have to provide your name, address, age, occupation, number of household members etc. After submitting the online registration form, you will receive an email from Lightspeed Consumer Panel with a "Thanks" and a link to verify your email address which is the last and final step of the registration. Now you are a fully registered panel member.

Members Only Area~~~~
They send invitation regularly to your mailbox when a new survey is available for you. The invitation email contains a link to their homepage. You can follow this link to go to their homepage or directly go from their site URL and login to the members area.

Your Lightspeed account page~~~~
Surveys-Mini Polls-Quick Matches
Your account page will show you how many surveys, mini polls and quick matches are currently available for you. They send invitation for each available survey but sometime for a few quick matches and no invitation is sent for mini polls. You can only find them here.

As I found~~~~
Sometimes they send 2 to 3 surveys a week sometime a little less, the least is still 3 to 4 a month. Their surveys are numbered something like "Survey M6171" and the invitation tells you that if you qualify for and complete it, you will earn some Lightspeed points, the points offered vary from 110 to 300 depending on the length and nature of the survey. It also says about the time needs to take the survey which generally vary from 5 minutes to 30 minutes, again depending on the length and nature. The invitation email gives you the instruction for how to take the survey:
1. Go to: http://gb.lightspeedpanel.com
2. Sign in using your email address and Lightspeed password
3. On your Members page, access the link "Survey M6171"

Below this instruction there is some other information about the host of this survey and other usual privacy policy assurance, for example they assure you their hosting partner won't have access to your personal information etc. Actually many of their surveys are hosted by Millward Brown, a partner of Lightspeed. Even though there is a few information like this but there is no hint about the survey topic anywhere in this invitation.

Surveys, as I have found, are mostly about foods and drinks with a few other but all of reasonable length and reasonable number of questions. Questionnaires are often set up with a bunch of product pictures and description. Many of them are about product advertisement so they provide with some advertisement clippings (video clippings) to evaluate the ads we generally see on TV or elsewhere. For this reason, they always ask you to have the Flash Player installed on your PC or they verify with some particular sound/picture in the beginning, whether you can see/hear it clearly. If you do not have a flash player, they provide link to install it on the spot and proceed. The first few questions are for screening purpose and there is a chance you can disqualify after a few steps. Surveys generally take 15 to 20 minutes to complete fully and reward 110 points for most of the cases and sometime higher, like 120, 125 or 200 points for regular survey.

Lightspeed also sends products for testing, these are generally food products but other products are there too. They may first ask you in a survey if you want to test the product and send it to you with your permission. I had chance to test some products and I found they send the product very fast once you agree to test it. I even received their product within exactly two days after I told them I am ready to test it. It clearly indicates this survey site has a very active and prompt working team to do some real market research. After you test the product you have to complete the follow up survey and in this case you will earn the normal 110 points in the first survey and another 300 points for the follow up survey. This is really interesting. I even have found the product I tested most recently, was displayed in Woolworth after a week of my follow up survey. It was really exciting for me to see the product displayed in the store with the same packaging and collection that I have voted for (I suppose many other members did this too!). Seems like my opinion is really hard!!

Along with the available surveys etc, you can also see the following links on your personal Lightspeed account page :
Lightspeed Points Account
Change Password
Change Email Address
Update Profile
Winners Page
Resign

What the links for~~~~
Lightspeed Points Account----a very clear and detailed account balance statement for Unredeemed points
Lightspeed Prizedraw entries
And the Points redeemed are listed as --"survey name-points earned-date earned-type of prize redeemed". Most importantly, the balance sheet is updated instantly after each new transaction.
On this page, there is a link for redemption, when you are ready to redeem, click this link and it will take you to the perksplus.com page for product choice and placing order. Once you place your order, they will provide you with an order confirmation page containing your order number, you can print or save this page. At the same time they will send you an order confirmation email with this order number again. They will send you another email when the order is processed and its generally within four days of placing the order.

Point redemption for reward~~~~
After you qualify and complete any survey, the points are credited instantly to your account and you can redeem your point right away for your choice of reward if you qualify for it. Rewards start from as little as 99 points which gives you music download voucher from song4surveys.com. Cash redemption starts at 115 points for 1 GBP and then 230 points=2 GBP, 345 points=3 GBP and 575 point=5 GBP upto 4600 point=40 GBP.
A wide range of rewards are available for your redemption which literally indicates something for everyone:
Personal care
Software
Music download
Paypal
Charities
Entertainment
Paper voucher
Photo
Electronic voucher
Computer accessories
Home
Magazines
Audio & Video

And finally the last few links on your Lightspeed account page:
Change Password---- you can change your account password here.

Change email address----you can change your email address anytime on this page.

Update Profile-----update your profile anytime on this page.

Winners Page----a page containing names and location of members won their most recent prize draw

Resign-----here you can resign from this panel at any time you want.

The one and only negative side I found~~~~
When you start the survey, in the beginning they always ask you to complete the survey at one sitting and do not refresh the page or go back to the previous page while doing a survey. I always try to follow this instruction, inspite of that, sometime if I click to proceed to the next page, it gets disconnected for some reason but as you have the caution in the beginning, you can't ever reattempt the survey even though its not your fault. On the top of each page you will see it says you can always report technical difficulties to lauren@gb.lightspeedpanel.com, the customer service representative, but there is no way to finish the survey to the end. Lauren generally replies with a regret (I generally get the reply within 2 days) as it happened for some technical problem but tells clearly that it is not possible to resend the same survey link once again or retake the survey. When you login to your Lightspeed account next time, you may find the unfinished one is still showing up there but if you attempt it second time, it will show something like this:
you have paused your interview before it was completed. Unfortunately, this survey can only be accessed one time. If you have any questions, please contact with topic of the survey to Lauren. It does upset me for the time being!!

I never like the entry to Prize Draw thing but I still love Lightspeed. I am regularly taking part in their surveys from almost a year now. I was with Ligthspeed when I was in USA and I must admit that it was the worse one in my list that time. I rarely used to take their survey but when I freshly signed up this year from UK, I found a new Lightspeed, dramatically changed in point system, reward facilities. Now I rarely miss any of their surveys. It is very hard to find out the genuine site where you can really make few cash. In terms of survey frequency, prompt points credit, redemption procedure and available reward, Lightspeed Consumer Panel is, of course, one of those online opportunity even though you never win any draw.

Recommendation: I highly recommend Lightspeed Consumer Panel to anyone love to do online survey. 

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