Oh dear!
This morning we got the thread
www.gransnet.com/forums/other_subjects/1312825-Need-your-help-on-the-online-shopping-experience
Now it has gone.
It was quick, but I managed to post the following.
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Hi
Please use the Report button in the header to your post and then choose Report for other reasons and write that you have just learned that such posts as yours need a fee paying to Gransnet or your thread may well get deleted.
I am not saying this to be awkward, I know that this happened to another student, a student in Germany.
I have saved your link to a WordPad file so that I can take part in your survey even if this thread becomes deleted.
I hope your research project goes well.
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I found, after I had posted, that someone else had posted.
I prepared a reply, quoting that post, adding,
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I think that it would then be in a different forum, not Other Subjects.
I hope that Tanya is helped.
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But the thread had already gone.
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I know that the original post referred to a company and thus it is a business enquiry, even if the students are not paid by the company.
So I write to ask what happens please in these situations?
Is the student advised and a route to help made available or what please?
How do other readers regard having such a survey, which is part of someone's studies to try to get on in the world, yet also could help a business make money, yet could possibly lead to better services becoming available for elderly people?
I know that sponsored discussions have a prize draw, but if I fill in a survey the prize draw is not an incentive - the chances of winning are small and not worth the effort. I would rather the money that funds the prize draw be used to help students such as Tanya get a survey.
I hope that we are allowed to discuss this and that such discussion is not regarded as taboo!
Bought the wrong Hot Cross Buns 😩