Bright Ideas --> Looxsy

I've posted a few times about my favorite online community, Bright Ideas. I've enjoyed being a member of the community (and my husband has enjoyed the monthly $10 Amazon gift cards I've gotten in exchange for my participation!) for about a year now.


Yesterday I received the following email:

Dear Bright Ideas Community Member,

Thank you so much for your participation and involvement in the Bright Ideas Community.  In keeping with our standard practice, we routinely refresh our community members and recruit new individuals to participate.  This process also requires that we remove some of our current members to make room for a new database of participants.  Your account is one that has been selected to be removed as part of this process.  We sincerely appreciate your time and effort in making this online community a success.  The feedback and insights you provide are invaluable.

At this time, we would like to invite you to join another community.

Thank you for your interest in Looxsy Community – a place where women of all ages come to share their thoughts about:

• Current beauty and fashion trends
• Products and services you currently use
• Ideas and concepts for the future!

Leading corporations come here to listen to what you have to say about products/services available today and to find out what you think about ideas they have for the future. 

Registered members of Looxsy will receive a range of different incentives for participating in this online community. Some examples of our incentives are free samples, coupons, or even gift cards.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please click on the link to begin the survey.

Thank you!

So... I'm considerably disappointed that I've been booted from Bright Ideas; however, I'm excited about Looxsy. After looking at their respective websites, I realized that both communities are actually run by the same market research group, LiveBranch. The biggest difference so far seems to be that Bright Ideas was home-oriented while Looxsy is fashion-oriented. I'm okay with that. I hope I'll still get Amazon cards, though! ;) I found a "join now" link on the Looxsy site if anyone else is interested in checking it out.