Tuesday, May 11, 2010

On the Relativity of "Valuable":

I love filling out surveys and questionnaires. There's something about the Likert Scale that really makes my skirt fly up.

Several months ago we received a lengthy questionnaire in the mail from a consumer research firm. They promised it would be worth my while. As if the satisfaction from filling in those bubbles wasn't reward enough. I sharpened my #2 and got to work. Upon mailing the completed forms, I promptly forgot about them.

Until today. Today Ruth (our cool mailman, er, woman) delivered an envelope that contained the promised reward: "valuable coupons"!

I couldn't wait to sift through the supposed stack of coupons. Turns out the "stack" consisted of just two coupons:

One for $3 off some name-brand allergy medication that we don't use.
One for $1.50 off a laundry stain remover that we don't use.

That was it.

I hope they mail me a feedback questionnaire so I can let them know, on a scale of 1-10, how lame their rewards were.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

We got that same survey. I was too lazy to fill it out. Sounds like it was a good thing.

hkartch said...

Maybe you should stick with letting the street provide.

Airie said...

KERCHOW!!! Looks like Gormo Jr. is already coming into his own! LOVE IT! And yeah, dumb survey. I sometimes do surveys on opinionplace.com. They give me gift cards for amazon. :)

Paula said...

Airie's right. Gormo Jr. makes his debut with trucks, of course. Kerchow!...what a punchline.

Paula said...

Relativity of Valuable...great title...kinda like Briton's Location of Meaning.