[Air-L] Alternative to Amazon gift card for incentives

[Ming-Yi Wu]

Hi, Noriko,

I know some market research companies provide Starbucks Coffee gift cards as survey incentives.  Or, you can do “drawing” for any kind of gift cards.

It also depends on the nature of the survey.  If you are partnering with a company by surveying members in their customer panels in order to write a research report, you may email the survey participants the research report when it is available.  Let them know in your survey invitation.  

No matter which method you use, please check with your university’s IRB officer to make sure that the survey incentives are distributed fairly and appropriately.

Hope this helps!

Best,

Ming-Yi

Ming-Yi Wu, Ph.D.
Graduate Faculty 
Northeastern University 



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> On Aug 5, 2021, at 11:30 AM, Douglas Zytko <zytko at oakland.edu> wrote:
> 
> Amazon gift cards are one of many, many options for compensating study
> participants. Could you clarify what attributes of Amazon gift cards you
> would like to replicate in alternative compensation methods? Is it...no
> processing fees? General popularity of the business that the gift card is
> for? A fully digital form of financial compensation?
> 
> I suggest looking into Visa gift cards, although they do have a processing
> fee. Depending on the size of your sample you could also ask each
> participant to designate a particular business they would like a gift card
> from.
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:23 AM Hara, Noriko <nhara at indiana.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I am wondering if anyone can recommend any alternatives to Amazon gift
>> cards for providing incentives for study participants.
>> 
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
>> 
>> Noriko
>> 
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>>    Indiana University
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