T2 Insulin User Interviews in Birmingham Area?

Just a brief warning to anyone who might be interested in this - Acumen Fieldwork are not a medical or a research organisation. They are a market research company and they are effectively paying you £50 in order to get your details on their mailing list. You will most likely find that the questions you will be asked have little to do with your diabetes but will be all about your lifestyle - so that they can sell on your details to their various clients.

Once they have your details you can expect a lifetime of unwanted and unsolicited mail, phone calls and emails.

Steve.

However they dress this up, if you read all the stuff on the website. It is market research for companies. Dennis is right to be issuing a warning to members. We get a few 'market researchers' who want to use us as part of their 'database.

As you know you only have to give your name and address to one company nowadays and you end up being contacted by loads of companies ALL trying to 'flog' you something.

My son was once involved in similar stuff and was paid very well. The 'customer' details were then sold on to interested companies. That's how it all starts, ending up in you having to go 'ex-directory' and utilise the TPS/MPS to stop all the '****' coming through your door.

£50.......? for an hour or so, great. just be aware of what it really is and the so called benefits.

Hi Steve,

I'm not saying this is a scam by any means. It may well be that Acumen have been retained by a medical company (an insulin pen manufacturer for example) to ask questions on behalf of that company. But Acumen's objective will be to get you onto their database - that's how they make their money. As Ken said, they have to dress it up in some way - would you consider going if they simply said we want to profile you so we can sell your details on?

Believe me, I have worked for several companies who use similar market research operations. In each case my company genuinely wanted feedback or public opinion on particular products, but the end result is that the participants details are sold on by the market researchers. Providing up to date information on people is a hugely profitable business, and how more up to date can you get than someone who you have just interviewed and has given you all their information.

I'm not saying don't go, but just be aware that gathering information on insulin pens is almost certainly a secondary consideration by Acumen.