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SurveyMonkey Reviews Summary

SurveyMonkey has a rating of 1.4 stars from 109 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with SurveyMonkey most frequently mention customer service, credit card and auto renewal. SurveyMonkey ranks 213th among Survey sites.

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Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Disappointed...
July 13, 2017

After using the free tool, we upgraded by paying almost $300 a month to get skip logic. But all of their surveys are branded - you can't take out their marketing slogan at the end of the survey, you can't take someone to another page after they complete the survey. If I had to do it again, i would look for another tool, and definitely will not be renewing (although now I have to wait a year).

Date of experience: July 13, 2017
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Grabber
June 25, 2017

This got on my computer without my consent. They don't have any way to exit the site if you don't want to sign up with them. I had to turn off my computer, which messes it up.

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Date of experience: June 25, 2017
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Will never deal with this company again. No phone number for support, only unanswered emails. There are loads of survey companies out there, we can do much better than this.

Date of experience: May 29, 2017
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They trick you with billing. They charge you when you are not supposed to be charged and they are absolutely no help when you contact them. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE. You cannot do anything on their website without having to pay for "privileges" they constantly try to get you to upgrade and they are not clear on the billing processes at all. I urge you to use ANY other survey website.

Date of experience: April 25, 2017
AE
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Retail
March 27, 2017

They do not have several features that may be considered basic for other tools like having an option for a multiple choice where if a respondent chooses NA for example, all the other options will be inactive. Also, they do not have a multiple choice matrix question type. Fluidsurveys had this since 2009! Additionally, forget about selecting the kiosk mode, their system has very basic settings for this.

Date of experience: March 27, 2017
India
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Difficult to Navigate
March 26, 2017

The website navigation is complicated. They need to work on it. Professional service sucks. The only way to reach them is via emai.

Date of experience: March 25, 2017
Minnesota
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Not even worth the free plan - use Google Forms instead. You can't export the data, which you own, unless you pay them. Bait and switch.

Date of experience: March 4, 2017
Utah
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No Star. I think I had to press one star to submit this. But Survey Monkey does not deserve any stars. I just paid $300 to Survey Monkey for their "Gold" Plan of service. After failing to resolve a significant problem online, I have been completely unable to get any help. There is no posted phone number, and their promise to get back with an answer to questions within one hour is a total joke! Buyer Beware!

Date of experience: February 24, 2017
Missouri
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Shameful
January 7, 2017

What is shameful is that SurveyMonkey provides a solid product. The product is not the problem; the problem is when a customer no longer needs the service. It is painfully obvious that the business model -- undoubtedly included in their profit margin planning -- is to make it extremely difficult to cancel services. I find this fraudulent, and based on the number of complaints I read online, I am not alone. I have cancelled twice but am still getting billed. If I am billed again, I will be contacting the BBB and seeking legal recourse.

Date of experience: January 7, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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When I was unsatisfied with their product (5 hours after ordering it) they refused to refund the purchase. Regardless that I had no interest or plans to use their software. Very dishonest way of running a business. Their satisfaction policy should read "100% SATISFACTION IS NOT GUARANTEED, AND ONCE WE HAVE YOUR MONEY, YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT BACK. EVEN IF OUR PRODUCT SUCKS".

Date of experience: October 4, 2016
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So Survey Monkey is a good tool however, they give you a difficult time when you try to get a refund. I mistakenly added an additional user and I am still waiting to get my account credited. Every time I request a refund, I am asked for additional information. I paid for the professional service not the free service and the professional service sucks. The only way to reach them is via email and it's always a different CSR.

Date of experience: August 29, 2016
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Pointless
August 11, 2016

Why have a survey tool if you can't extract/ export the data. I set up the survey, only to find on testing that I'd have to pay a fee to get my data out in a useful way. Searching for a better tool.

Date of experience: August 11, 2016
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Insecure
June 10, 2016

Recieved a call from the company & stayed on the line for almost a half an hour. Gave card information & now I just feel very unsafe & regretful. Just don't do it, forget the $100 gift card they say you'll get. The feeling of insecurity is awful

Date of experience: June 10, 2016
California
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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The interface is not intuitive at all. Trying to find a way to change the subject line in our email, we had to drill down through "collectors." (FYI: "collectors" is the email list. Yeah, new to everyone in my company, too.)

Then, when I did change the email subject from the default to something interesting, it went out with the wrong subject line. Their customer service responded immediately, but were no help whatsoever. They forwarded it on to Technical Services... but the email still went out wrong.

If there's a way to make the initial email more interesting, I never found it.

Date of experience: June 7, 2016
Ireland
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Take the money and run business model supported by awful customer service. Signed up for a month only for a second payment to be taken. Claimed I had used it in the second month (I notified them 3 days in to second subscription) wouldn't refund. Scam site with little to offer, can't wait to see it's demise of the company and its staff. Low life jobs worth.

Date of experience: June 3, 2016
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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What a scam
May 12, 2016

While other businesses have learned that auto-renewal for credit cards with no warning is bad for business, SurveyMonkey has not. They do not tell you before charging your credit card and are unapologetic when telling you that you will not be issued a refund.

Fortunately, they have not kept up with the times or technology and the same service is available elsewhere for less money so moving on is easy. Just don't get sucked in to their auto-renewal racket.

Date of experience: May 12, 2016
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I received an $100.00 Amazon Gift Card from this company after participating in a survey and the card was already redeemed.

Date of experience: March 1, 2016
Arkansas
11 reviews
25 helpful votes
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I do a lot of surveys, mainly to earn money for charity (I assume it really happens). But I also try to answer honestly. But the designers of many of the surveys have no idea what they are doing. Questions such as "Q: When you come to an intersection do you usually turn right or left?" Or this gem: "Q: Do you agree? (a) yes (b) yes" And yes, these are real examples I have encountered.

If those guys would take a moment to think about what information they need to collect it would make it easier for everyone.

Date of experience: January 12, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Not all features are available when you come on for Free and that is understood. But when you see a feature offered and you need it and it costs you an upgrade, when you do the upgrade you expect to get it. Not so here! So many expensive upgrade options that are hard to figure out what your are getting. The trap is to buy the whole year program for $300 to get some really useful features... such a gimmicky site. Not the best. Can anyone offer an alternative to this?

Date of experience: January 10, 2016
Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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If you have an issue with Survey Monkey regarding billing issues or mistakenly selecting the wrong plan- keep on at them. I did this and found that a happy solution to my 'issues' was provided but only after consistent persistence. So don't give up; request to escalate complaint if you are not satisfied the first time around.

Date of experience: November 18, 2015

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