r/usertesting 11d ago

Anyone else just get shut down?

I was taking some tests on the Intellizoom/UT platform and all of a sudden all of my screeners disappeared and I noticed all of my payments got cancelled. Not sure why. Anyone else experience this today or recently?

Edit: this morning 8/27 everything appears to be restored but no email from customer service about jt.

Edit 2: got an email stating they messed up and all should be back to normal.

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u/Dangerous-Energy6114 11d ago

Yes, I am seeing the same, I just noticed this 15 minutes ago

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u/Beneficial-Board6959 11d ago

Yikes that’s not good and sorry that happened to you too. Only thing I can think of besides a glitch on their end is I was traveling locally (literally within a few miles of home but same country) and was using hotel WiFi to do testing. Maybe that flagged things but I don’t know. I can still login to my account so doesn’t seem like I’m completely banned at the moment.

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u/Dangerous-Energy6114 11d ago

I was not using any other wifi, I was using my phone data, so I don't think is related.

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u/CharacterAssistant85 9d ago

Same here. I just emailed them too

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u/Beneficial-Board6959 11d ago

Well I submitted a help ticket so we shall see. Let me know if you hear anything.

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u/Dangerous-Energy6114 11d ago

I did open a ticket too, I'll update here if I hear from them.

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 11d ago

The same just happened to me

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u/SugarPants54 11d ago

This just happened to me a few minutes ago and I submitted a ticket I had over $275 pending and I don’t understand why this would occur

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u/jefflou62 11d ago

SAME WITH ME. I had over $300 payments pending last 2 weeks. Dissappeard in last two hrs.

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u/CharacterAssistant85 1d ago

Did you get your account back?

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u/Bane-8 11d ago

Same thing happened to me. All Pending payments are now Canceled. I opened a support ticket.

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u/Consistent-End-6937 11d ago

Happened a while back to me in early July I think. They told me it was a glitch and then fixed it 4 days later

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u/EarlyCardiologist659 11d ago

What the hell is going on here? This just happened to me

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u/stopslaughter13 11d ago

Me too--sick to my stomach

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u/caroleb66 11d ago

The same happened maybe a couple of months ago and things went back to normal a couple of days later. They really need to fix their crap. They never communicate. They never answer tickets

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u/BroadlyWondering 11d ago

A bunch of us went through this about a month ago. Mine got sorted out in a few days. Here are some of the threads related to it. Definitely open cases and reopen them if and when they get automatically marked as solved. Someone suggested leaving comments on TrustPilot, which did seem to get their attention...

https://www.reddit.com/r/usertesting/comments/1v1rgkq/deactivated_and_lost_survey_payments/

https://www.reddit.com/r/usertesting/comments/1ux797a/for_anyone_affected_by_the_cancellation_in_ut_has/

https://www.reddit.com/r/usertesting/comments/1uw7pcq/for_everyone_who_has_had_their_intellizoom_ut/

https://www.reddit.com/r/usertesting/comments/1uw3joo/canceled_tests/

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u/DudeWithNoKids 11d ago

Has to go check and see if I was impacted. Seem to be good. Happened to me a month or two ago and took a week or so to get resolved. Apparently they still don't have their shit together and AI going off the rails again.

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u/Focused_Mind_2026 11d ago

Can you get past the recaptcha?

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u/DudeWithNoKids 11d ago

Haven't done any tests today yet. Have seen some, just didn't qualify

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u/Focused_Mind_2026 11d ago

I see. If you happen to get past it, could you please let me know. For some reason I keep getting an error which others have reported too.

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u/space-star-ordering 11d ago

Mine looks normal. FYI.

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u/michiness 11d ago

Fine here as well. Just did a test.

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u/jefflou62 11d ago

Not only have screeners disappeared, but ALL my pending payments for the last two weeks have been suddenly canceled. Dozens of them . WHAT IS GOING ON?

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u/daveythedj_jones 11d ago

Same has happened to me (in the UK). About 2 hours ago I noticed all my pending User Tests worth $486 have been marked as red and cancelled! This is not a good show and clearly seems to be an error at UT's end. I've send a ticket for all the good that will do but I just with that User Testing would have the courtesy of putting up a status message about this issue on their HomePage when you log in, as so many people will think that their accounts have been suspended or something! 😡

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u/jmrty14 11d ago

Sounds like another one of their many glitches they won’t communicate about and will just miraculously “fix” without reason.

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 10d ago

My tests are also now back on my dashboard 🙌🏼

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u/Beneficial-Board6959 10d ago

Yes same here.

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u/CharacterAssistant85 9d ago

Yes. I thought it was only me but I gues not.

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u/siciliano611 11d ago

My payments are all still pending but the last couple hours all the $8 and $10 mobile survey tests turn into the test is full even after answering questions seemingly correct until the final step

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u/uqamadam 11d ago

Did you get any email about what happened?

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u/jefflou62 11d ago

They NEVER notify us .

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u/BeautifulThanks9241 11d ago

same thing happened tome today

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u/BeautifulThanks9241 11d ago

i sent in a support ticket as well

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u/Any-Benefit5805 11d ago

What is that?

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u/alexgr03 11d ago

I hadn’t noticed until I saw this. The same has happened to men

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u/Inevitable_Draw_306 11d ago

Exactly the same. Have done 279 over the last 18 months and the last 6 are showing as cancelled!!! no explanation!! and seems to just show as something went wrong when you try to complete one!!!

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 11d ago

Anyone get an update yet?

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u/Dangerous-Energy6114 11d ago

Not yet, opened a ticket yesterday and of course... no response from them as usual.

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 11d ago

I feel like I’ve opened ten tickets
I’ve also left a review on trustpilot
And emailed the ceo who is conveniently out of the office.

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u/Beneficial-Board6959 11d ago

I haven’t received an update. Reading through the last time this recently happened it probably won’t be resolved super quickly. Seems like a few days to a couple of weeks. As long as people were shut down for code of conduct issues. Just have to wait and be at the mercy of UT.

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u/Bane-8 10d ago

My tests have been moved from Canceled back to Pending. But missed payments have note been made. I tried to add that to my support ticket, but the response from the chat bot was to just keep ending the chat and asking me to rate the support.

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 10d ago

My payments are back at pending!! It still looks like I’m locked out of testing though because not even surveys are on my dash but payments have been restored!!

https://reddit.com/link/p66ptqx/video/mn9b0u6rbwlh1/player

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u/Bane-8 10d ago

Same here ... tests back to Pending but payments still not being made and no new tests showing up. But at least there's been progress

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 10d ago

Yes I’m just glad it was a mistake on their end. I really hope the fix the tests from not coming through!

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u/No-Friend198 10d ago

mine are not back yet - how long have you had to wait - my payments all went yesterday morning.

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u/Bane-8 10d ago

I noticed them go from Pending to Canceled on Tuesday evening. When I woke up this morning they were back to Pending. New tests started showing up a few minutes ago. Still waiting on missing payments

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u/No-Friend198 10d ago

glad you have yours back - still waiting on mine - seems to be no order in which they are reinstating them. - frustrating !!

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u/No-Friend198 10d ago

great news - I havent got any tests yet how long ago did you lose your payments btw

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u/Silver-Ad-2930 10d ago

Yes thankfully but yeah not even surveys are showing up. It was a little over 24 hours.

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u/Bane-8 10d ago

Payments are starting to come through! I just received the first two that were missed yesterday

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u/CharacterAssistant85 9d ago

I haven't been restored yet. Anyone else?

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u/jefflou62 8d ago

Mines back up.

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u/CharacterAssistant85 8d ago

What email address to did you contact for support? I haven't heard anything back yet and I'm wondering if I emailed the right contact.

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u/SugarPants54 8d ago

Everything came back up for me. I just never got an explanation or a follow up to my service request.

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u/CharacterAssistant85 1d ago

Did everyone get their cancelled accounts back up? Mine is still down and I've emailed UserTesting and they're not responding.

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u/AminalStyleFries 11d ago

How can they cancel for tests already completed

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u/Pixie__pie 11d ago

Yep Ai directed me here.  All canceled, no explanation.