Recently there has been a lot of blogging and twitter activity regarding a so called 'professional poll', conducted by the automated phone pollster survation.com a company whose website is registered in Arizona via a proxy to keep registrants details secret.https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/PublicVsPrivate.aspx To be more precise
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
They appear to utilise both Facebook and Twitter heavily in their polling statistics which to be honest is as coruptable as the previous Labour incumbent Eric Illsley.
http://twitter.com/#!/Survation_Ent http://www.facebook.com/pages/Survation/132208120135699
http://twitter.com/#!/Survation_Ent http://www.facebook.com/pages/Survation/132208120135699
The Mail on Sunday certainly thought it worthy of a few column inches. Unfortunately real voting in the UK is not influenced or dictated by either FB or Twitter or automatons so you may need a few legs on doorsteps there Nige!
It appears however that this pollsters proxy service has some very dubious customers and to be honest based on the information uncovered I personally wouldn't use the service. Just google the address and you will see a long list of scammers.
The US Complaints Board (The most respected and popular consumer complaints website) has many complainers.
One of those complainers had this to say "I checked my bank statement when i found that people take 49.95 from my account without my permission my bank give to me(1-866-379-5984)and i called, i was given this website (www.quickcards services.com)"
Who are quickcards?
Private, Registration QUICKCARDSERVICE.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/ever-private-card-c7791.html
Does that address look familiar?
How about a few more?
SECRETCASHCARD.COM
CHRISTIANFAITHFINANCIAL.COM
UNITEDCASHLOANS.COM
VIRTUALWORKSLLC.COM
GRANDTHEFTAUTOCHICAGO.COM
So, we have a non-transparent and secretive pollster, unregistered by the British Polling Council, issuing polls, utilising Automatons,Twitter and FB and polls reproduced in British Media.
An interesting service that survation offers is Political strategy – along with our friends at Messagespace if you are a local political party or MP we can poll your constituency. If you are a lobby group or charity, we can poll a demographically accurate section of the UK and plan a subsequent strategic advertising campaign that will get effective and accurate results.I would never suggest or imply that UKIP would have used a pollster to plan a political strategy.................
Anyway the last set of figures survation supplied (Oldham and Saddleworth) were wildly out and I'm not in the least bit surprised. When you leave your polling results to automated phone calls and Social Media what do you expect?
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2 comments:
Hello there, I would like to respond to some of the above points you have made about Survation.
1)"automated phone pollster"
All the telephone interviews in this survey were made by our team of human experienced interviewers.
2) "a company whose website is registered in Arizona"
Survation are a UK limited company, registered in England & Wales Number 07143509 We are in no way trying to "hide" our identities despite how our domain name is parked. If you wish to contact us the details are clearly listed on our website.
3) In our press release accompanying the survey results - which I am happy to send you, we stated that "It looks possible that UKIP (or even the BNP) could beat the Lib Dems into 3rd place behind Labour and The Conservatives."
4) Twitter and Facebook are not used as collection mechanisms for our by election polls, rather we used information from the barnsley electoral register in the appropriate wards.
I hope this helps.
Damian Lyons Lowe
CEO
Survation.
Company Information Private Limited Company Company Number: 07143509 Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Date of Incorporation: 2 February 2010
Registered Office:2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY
Accounts Accounting Reference Date: 28 February Category: No Accounts Filed
Next due date: 2 November 2011
Annual Return Next due date: 2 March 2011
Additional Information SIC: None Supplied
In their 'About Us' section Survation say this 'Survation have been conducting research surveys since 2007'
Strange that especially as the
Date of Incorporation is 2nd February 2010 and that,as a company,they've had no accounts filed (so that means a short term of trading)
Tell us the truth Survation? Who are you really?
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