ENDS THU: Win 10,000 Avios for answering five quick questions in a new HfP competition

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• dundj says:

  2 Apr2 April 05:41

  Interesting survey to see, one flaw in the questions though. It stated rank by importance, however unless in the background you receive the data on which option was clicked first (which from memory, Survey Monkey doesn’t do), then the order of importance for those selected won’t show up.

  • TD says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:48

    I noted that too. Should have used Survey Monkey’s ranking question type.

    • dundj says:

      2 Apr2 April 11:36

      I’ve never needed to use a ranking element when creating surveys myself on Survey Monkey in the distant past, so didn’t know it existed until now.

      I may use it if I ever need to in the future as I like a ranking system.

• Daniel says:

  2 Apr2 April 05:44

  When you say by order of importance is this from least to most, or most to least?

  • Rob says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:54

    The wording used is poor, sorry. Pick the three most important, ranking not needed.

• Ralphy says:

  2 Apr2 April 06:18

  Who is anteing up the 10,000 Avios? HfP friend, or HfP.
  If HfP friend, for transparency, what is in it for HfP.
  10,000 Avios, for what will likely be hundreds, if not, thousands of responses, seems very cheap. Or put another way, incredibly good value for HfP’s friend.
  I won’t be entering, but I would like to know why this survey is being foisted upon me, by appearing in my Inbox because it adds no value to me and my relationship with HfP.

  • Not Long Now... says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:24

    Given the lengths frequently discussed that HfPers will go to in the pursuit of Avios, I’d have thought less than 2 minutes of your precious time for the opportunity to win 10,000 Avios was possibly the biggest headline of the year.
    Or, of course, you could ignore it.

    • Novice says:

      2 Apr2 April 08:13

      10k Avios up for grabs for hardly any work is an amazing deal. Whoever wins it is lucky. Hope my email address is the lucky one. Can’t believe someone is actually complaining about this.

      Rob, thanks for this opportunity and thank your friend as well.

    • CarpalTravel says:

      2 Apr2 April 08:47

      The ranty comment will have taken longer to do than completing (or just simply ignoring) the survey invitation. 🤷

  • Olly says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:28

    Because it’s much more effective to recruit your target audience from a pool of those population than it is to try to recruit it from the wider population. It may well add value to you if HfP’s ‘friend’ adds a co-brand card in future so yours is a rather bizarre rant

  • Indy500 says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:41

    Maybe a little less coffee this morning?

  • Nick says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:48

    I suggest that you maybe cancel your subscription to HfP if you’re so concerned. Oh! Hang on a minute! it’s free!

  • Nick says:

    2 Apr2 April 06:53

    Like Sparticus, we’re all HFP friend

  • Rob says:

    2 Apr2 April 07:02

    There is actually a lot of long term value for you in this ….

    • davidn says:

      2 Apr2 April 18:23

      A classic RobTease comment! 😉 (especially when “….” is included.)

  • OnTheRun says:

    2 Apr2 April 08:40

    “ I would like to know why this survey is being foisted upon me, by appearing in my Inbox because it adds no value to me and my relationship with HfP”

    @Ralphy – who forcing you to subscribe to and read HfP articles and take its surveys?

    Simple solution: just filter content/ignore anything that doesn’t interest you.

    No one has time to create special wee Ralphy-focussed emails!

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    2 Apr2 April 09:10

    I’m critical most of the times but to me this seemed a reasonable offer. Chance to win £100 worth of Avios for a few simple questions. I’ve seen worse by bigger organisations before like win a £20 Amazon voucher

  • Kowalski says:

    2 Apr2 April 09:23

    I would have happily answered the survey without any prizes on offer

  • ChasP says:

    2 Apr2 April 09:32

    Hey Ralphy do all of your gift horses have bad teeth ?

  • BJ says:

    2 Apr2 April 14:12

    Not a week goes past that I do not get emailed by one company or another requiring my time for free (all of which I ignore). The incentive with this one, regardless of the source is meaningful and welcome.

  • Ziggy says:

    2 Apr2 April 16:38

    These kinds of comments alway amuse me. A significant number of UK-based flyers are often (understandably) found complaining about how much easier it is to earn redeemable currencies in other countries (notably the US), and here you’re give an chance to boost a redeemable currency balance for next to no effort (and without a tax implication), and somehow someone still finds a way to complain.

• Thywillbedone says:

  2 Apr2 April 07:11

  Regarding the final question: if everyone responds that they “pay off the balance in full”, then I assume whoever is interested in the results of the survey won’t be launching anything (due to expected weak economics) …

  • dundj says:

    2 Apr2 April 07:34

    Then a premium card with a fee starts to make sense for revenue building, offsetting some of the costs for the purchase and issuance of the points.

  • aseftel says:

    2 Apr2 April 07:40

    There are already services out there who will offer a reasonable estimate of revolve rates for rewards cards so I don’t expect they will be plugging survey outputs into unit of one models. Perhaps they are using the question to understand how representative the audience is or to understand how early adopter behavior might differ.

• Inman says:

  2 Apr2 April 07:19

  Let me make a wild guess. It was a slow day for the news, and Rob thought let’s spring up a little survey.
  Of course it doesn’t look like a certain credit card company in the process of launching a new product. It definitely doesn’t look like they have found the right group to do a targeted market research. And I’m not excited to see more competitive products coming in to the UK market 🙂

• kevin86 says:

  2 Apr2 April 07:37

  Will anyone want 10,000 avios as everyone on here is apparently going to be boycotting BA?

  • lcsneil says:

    2 Apr2 April 07:39

    Well you can then always transfer them to Qatar/Iberia/Finnair 🙂

  • Tony Munro says:

    2 Apr2 April 07:40

    You might want to start reading HfP articles and you’ll realise they don’t have to be spent on BA 😉

• Andrew. says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:07

  No JetBlue on the list of cards?

• ClubSmed says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:09

  If you are asking a question of “would you consider…?” then surely there only needs to be 2 options of “Yes” or “No”. You have not got an absolute in the question, so do not need the get outs of “Unlikely” or “Maybe” as you already have this in the question with “consider”.

  • TimM says:

    2 Apr2 April 08:26

    I have met plenty of indecisive people would choose ‘maybe consider’ or ‘unlikely to consider’ rather than answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I have the opposite complaint – decide , do, regret 🙂

    • BJ says:

      2 Apr2 April 15:16

      Don’t forget to factor in the herd or bandwagon mentality of many HfP readers which to my regret is maybe worse now than at any time in the history of the blog but then I don’t know, I’m not really sure.

      • Rob says:

        2 Apr2 April 16:31

        Given we did 33 million page views last year, plus another 10 million email equivalents, I think you put too much store on about 50 people 🙂

        • BJ says:

          2 Apr2 April 18:40

          Maybe so 🙂

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