Please participate our academic questionnaire from University of Birmingham

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  1. ARMANDII

    ARMANDII Low Flying Administrator Staff Member

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    I did ask the UOB not to include any reference to a commercial firm and yet despite that there is a question on Forest product asking if the person taking part in the Survey has ever bought a Forest product, and then how that product is rated........that, to me, is Spam.:wallbanging::dunno: So I will give UOB until 9pm to amend the survey and if not I will close the thread.:coffee:
     
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Birmingham is multicultural,:biggrin: but I think how that first post has changed is kind of extracting the urine.
       
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        HarryS Eternally Optimistic Gardener

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        Done............
         
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          silu gardening easy...hmmm

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          If I get emails from the company I suspect is sponsoring this I will be sure to let anybody and everybody know not to touch their products. I'm all for trying to help folk out but do not appreciate being duped.
           
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            ARMANDII Low Flying Administrator Staff Member

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            You're so polite, pete:dunno::heehee::thumbsup:
             
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              ARMANDII Low Flying Administrator Staff Member

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              That is one of the reasons I insisted on no reference to any commercial firm in the survey, which UOB assured me that there would not be but, in fact, there is:wallbanging::gaah: I would advise anyone considering completing the survey not to give their e-mail address or any other personal information. Such information has marketing value and if the UOB doesn't sell it on themselves then I sure that that information will be handed over to the sponsoring company who can sell it on to Marketing Companies.....which can mean Junk Mail or worse spam e-mails.
              As I said they have until 9pm tonight to amend the survey and, if they haven't complied with my request to do so, I will ban them and delete the Survey thread.:dunno::doh:
               
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                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                Thy will be.:snorky:
                 
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                  I'm starting my own survey on this survey

                  No hang on! Scrub that...

                  I can't be bothered.
                   
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                    Scrungee Well known for it

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                    It could be (as mentioned above) that English isn't the poster's first language, and they compose their posts in their first language then use a translation programme, but forgot to carry out the later when editing post #1

                    My wife completes surveys for Oxford University, but they carry them out on behalf of other universities worldwide, so if it's a similar situation, the poster may not actually be studying/researching at Birmingham/a UĶ university.
                     
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