Schlesinger Associates

Great place to participate in a focus group. I spent two hours giving my opinion and they gave me $ 100 gift card. You cant beat that! They had food and drinks available. Everyone was very professional and nice. I enjoyed it and would definitely do it again.

I received a call to my cell phone in early August asking if I would be interested in participating in a decorating focus group on September 25 for their client. After answering a series of questions, I was told that I was a perfect candidate and would be paid $ 125 for attending the group from 7 – 9 pm and would get a bonus $ 100 for doing their pre-​homework for which they’d send the instructions the week before. I wasted another half an hour or so on the phone with the lady (during a workday I might add) answering questions about my preferences. I love decorating, and so I thought it would be an interesting experience. I assumed that their client was Arhaus Furniture since I had bought a $ 5,200 couch, chair, and ottoman set from them a few months earlier.
A couple weeks later I got another call saying that the client had cancelled the 7 – 9 pm group due to lack of participants but that they’d really like me to participate in the 4 – 6 pm group and would pay me an extra $ 100 for my trouble. Again they said that they would send the homework assignment the week before the study which would pay an additional $ 100. Against my better judgment, I agreed because I thought it would be an interesting experience, but it meant that I had to arrange all my meetings for that week around the focus group so I could leave work at 3 to attend.
The day before the study (September 24), I received a call from Schlesinger saying that the client probably changed their requirements and that I no longer qualified for the group for which THEY solicited MY participation. When I expressed my unhappiness with the lack of notice and general unprofessionalism the group had displayed with the series of changes and lack of follow through in even sending the homework assignment, I was told that this wasn’t uncommon and that they made these cancellation calls all the time for their focus groups.
My advice is to hang up if you receive this call and save yourself an annoying series of phone calls and schedule juggling for a bunch of empty promises. They might as well be offering a million kazilion dollars because I didn’t receive a dime.

Clean and neat facility. Been here several times for focus group. Very nice staff. Always a pleasure being there. Snacks and drinks are provided while waiting for the focus group to begin.