The lesson here is: don’t do free work for corporations.
replyI don't even fill out surveys anymore for the most part, unless it gets me a discount or something.
replyCold hard cash. If they want my input, they can pay me for my time.
replyIf it’s a small or local business that I like patronizing then I might do something small for them out of generosity and a desire to see them succeed in place of some large chain or corpo.