UK GNer? Take this survey - 3x £100 voucher to be won

Not at all sure about this. Survey asks for lots of financial information and then your email address to be entered into the draw. No assurances about only using email address for this purpose. So they end up with a very useful mailing list for £300. Hmmmm?

I do the surveys but never provide my email address or participate in the draw. However it would be illegal for Legal & General to use the names of those taking part in the survey for any other purpose.

When I worked in Market Research we had to work to the Standard Code of practice of the Market Research Society, which expressly forbade us from harvesting respondent details and using it for other reasons.

As it is the insurance company Legal & General running this survey I think you can be confident that they will be adhering to the Code of Practice.

The problem arises when companies, not MRS, members, doing Lifestyle surveys or selling double glazing, use surveys as a way of drawing up lists. It gives properly conducted Market Research a bad name. This link might be helpful: www.mrs.org.uk/standards/suggingfaq

Just found 'my reply didn't go and there was no transfer of data.' I will have another go another day.

Thanks MOnica. That was a very interesting link. Never heard of “sugging” before! ?

I have tried this survey again, and again it didn't go. I have had this problem before with GN surveys, although outside GN I do not have problems.

I did struggle a bit with the questionnaire because so much of the survey connected savings with specific purposes, I have rarely if ever saved with a specific purpose, I save because having some money stashed away somewhere means that you can cope with any emergencies that may arise and the more you have the more resilient your finances are.

The same applies to financial management. Yes, I check my bank statement and credit card every month, but much of my financial management is ongoing and in my mind. I do not know at any given moment exactly what my credit card debit or bank balance stands at but I know roughly what they are and what difference any spending or cumulative spending will make to it.

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I started this survey, but they wanted so much information, email, post code, address etc; that I stopped. .
I didn't get very far into the survey, perhaps it was not as intrusive as it appears to be at the beginning
I thought they would just want to know how much savings we had, where it was invested, did we still save . It seems that they just want to get you to perhaps invest with their company, and not just collecting data.
Not for me.

*Auntieflo, see my first post. They cannot use your details posted on the survey for any other purpose.

I agree with MOnica I also do not save for a specific purpose. I filled it in but my replies are not as accurate as they could have been because of the way the questions were put.

M0nica, thanks for that, but then why do they need the personal info?
Your post of 9.37.53 seems to say it all as far as I am concerned. Money stashed for as and when, check statements etc. I don’t know day to day what my CC statement will be, but I do pay it off each and every month.

It is because they want to see how responses vary between people of different genders, ages, income groups and regions.

Interesting survey

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Audrey57

Have I won, then, been down the list and didn't have nothing jumping out at me, considering. Its that long since I won anything from anywhere, out of practice.

cheers
Audrey

it rings a bell, but I couldnt find an email from yourselves, even now when I have been pulling them up not seen one./so I did ask if I had won????????? and didnt get a reply Do I get my prize on this one, not 3 months yet in reality terms just over a month.

audrey