we must be brothers from another mother. i do the same thing with different variations and for the same reasons.
Oh yeah, I got a few of those "reminders" also. I've done the Ecotality and the Nissan official surveys .. and did them straight up. Mentioned this forum in as many places as possible as a reference to the various "not happy" check-marks I did.
As for the others, I usually change my sex to female, my race is sometimes Afro, sometimes Latino, sometimes Asian (I don't think we are allowed to say "Oriental" anymore) and some I just write in "multi-racial". On the age questions I range between the lowest age I've seen (18) and the oldest year born being 1901. Salary range is a good one as I almost always plug in "10,000 or less" as the yearly income although sometimes if I am a Native American Woman who is 50 years old, I will put in "over $250,000" and write in next to it "Lesbians Rule!". I am thinking that if all of these folks who want our intelligent sweat don't want to pay for it, I should reward them with bogus data. BTW, I do this when the phone rings and there is that tell-tale 1 or 2 second lag in someone connecting after I say "Hello" .. a sure sign of an automatic dial system in a telemarketer sweat lodge someplace.. I like to exercise my various non-English languages on them, although one time when I was cursing them in really derogatory Tagalog, a guy came on the line and asked me who taught me .. Satan? (Most Tagalog curses revolve around the Devil, Catholic Priests, and the Virgin Mary's virgo intacto status) Well, he cut the line before I could even say "Mabuhai! Didn't I meet your mother in Angeles City one night?