Answer 5- to minute surveys on a variety of topics to earn Swagbucks. At any given time there are over 50 survey options in my dashboard, with payouts ranging from 30 SBs to SBs or more. I would say about 20 days of the month; I completed at least one survey. On those days I earned at least 80 SBs. Pro-tip: Do not fly through surveys or try to give responses you think the survey wants to hear. Providing inconsistent answers across surveys and going too fast can get you disqualified and can even flag your account to Swagbucks.
Do you love trivia? SwagIQ is built for you. With games once or twice a day, answer 10 questions correctly or opt back in when you get one wrong and win from a large pot of Swagbucks.
If no one wins, the prize rolls over to the next game. Just make sure to stick around until the end to claim your rewards! Exiting before the game is over will forfeit your SBs. One of the juiciest ways to win SBs is to sign up for free trial offers of different products or services. Some, like Paribus , allow you to earn SBs just for signing up. Some, however, require you to enter your credit card information. One of these offers I did sign up for was Dollar Shave Club.
Costco stopped selling the razors Papa Fish and I use, so we were looking for a cheap alternative. We signed up for the trial, liked the razors, and have stayed a member. And if you only want the free trial, put an alert on your phone to cancel it before the service charges your account. Never spend money on Swagbucks just to earn SBs. It makes infinitely more sense to just save that cash. If you enjoy watching movie trailers, news stories, and other random videos you might like this Swagbucks option in your downtime.
You get paid a certain number of SBs to watch a playlist of videos, and you are only paid out upon completion of the list. No thank you. You could always be stealthy and have a playlist run on your phone while you do other things. The playlists via the app did seem to be shorter and offer more movie trailers.
But, in general, even that felt like a pain to me. Ibotta is more my jam. However, I did take advantage of Swagbucks partnership with Coupons. Swagbucks pays 1 SB per coupon print, for a max of 50 coupons a day. Plus, for each coupon you redeem at the grocery store you earn an additional 10 SBs.
Our local grocery store, Wegmans, doubles any coupon worth less than a dollar. When I saw offers like that, I pounced. But most of the time I left the coupon function alone. You can sort by category, but there is no search function for the available coupons which is a bit of a pain. Swagbucks has three free games that let you earn up to 10 SB per round for playing.
All other games shown in Swagbucks Games require you to pay to play. There are plenty of free games to play on your phone or the computer. With all these ways to earn Swagbucks, how can you boost your earnings without rotting in front of the computer for a few bucks? Well, Swagbucks has implemented some cool, quick ways to earn a bit more. Swagbucks has a browser plugin from which you can search, watch videos while multitasking, enter Swagcodes, and activate rewards for online shopping.
Adding this plugin earns you 1 SB a day each day that it is installed. Follow Swagbucks on social media and download the app on your phone to be notified of hidden Swag Codes. These codes highlight offers and give you the opportunity to earn 2 to 8 SBs just for entering the code. Once or twice a month, Swagbucks releases a new Swago board. Swago is a bingo-type game where you activate certain squares by completing different actions. Then, you earn bonus SBs for completing different patterns on the board.
You can usually get at least 25 SBs just by visiting all the sites in one row of the board. Given that the prize for the entire board is often just to SBs, it is probably not worth the expense unless you actually need a discounted gift card for some regular purchase. And even then, check Gift Card Granny first! Swagbucks has an eight-item daily to-do list that includes accessing many of the different ways to earn each day. Most things on the daily to-do list only earn you a few SBs.
Three of the eight Daily Poll, Daily Search, and Deal of the Day only require you to click the item on the to-do list and launch the next page. Each day, Swagbucks sets a goal number of SBs for you to earn.
There are two levels, each offering a few extra SBs. These can boost your earnings by 25 to SBs. Once a year on your birthday you receive a 55 SB discount on a gift card redemption. You have to use it within 30 days of your birthday though, so you have to make sure you have a redemption during that time. Swagbucks Refer-a-Friend program can be another great way to generate extra SBs during the month without even having to spend time on the site.
For each new friend you refer, you earn a SB bonus if that friend earns SBs before the 1 st of the following month.
This means if your friend earns SBs, Swagbucks will also credit your account 50 SBs at the end of the month. So, this silly digital currency is great and everything, but how do you actually get your cash out?
Here it comes. Advertisement Another way to earn swagbucks is to participate in special offers. These offers may require a purchase or they may be completely free. I participated in several offers. Within the offer description it states that the swagbucks are awarded immediately. I waited 7 days and my account never received credit. I sent a email inquiry and I did not receive a response for two weeks.
Once my inquires were addressed, I received lame excuses like, clean out your cookies and remove your browser history. These are not valid reasons why my account did not receive credit. I submitted the email confirmations of the offers and the offer ID numbers to prove the offers were legitimately completed, and still my account has not been properly credited.
I have since learned from lots of other members that participate in the site, to stay far away from the special offers because you never receive the swagbucks to your account. This repeated pattern of behavior is fraud. Advertisement Swagbucks is a sham. This site receives a nice referral fee from these companies for guiding people to these special offers, but for Swag Bucks to not properly credit accounts for offers that were legitimately completed is foul. Beware of the special offers with Swag Bucks.
If you have the system will not allow you to cash in to receive the gift card. Yeah, this website is foul. By mg from Minneapolis, MN. Add your voice! Click below to comment. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom! So many of them I don't qualify to take the survey after wasting my time to fill out all the preliminary questions. If I don't qualify after 20 attempts. I unsubscribe. The best one I have found is Pinecone research. Advertisement You get points that you can either save up for products or you can have it sent to your Pay Pal account.
Sometimes they send to a product to try after the survey. And of course you can save up points for a larger Pay Pal payment. Apologies in advance for the long length. This is just my humble opinion: I belong to Swagbucks.
I still like it for the most part. They used to be be better before they started branching out. They used to give more swagbucks for searching than they do now. When Swagbucks started getting a little Scrooge-y with the swagbucks awarded for searching I tried doing some of the special offers to make up for it. What more proof do you want?!!! I have stopped doing the special offers except for watching the videos.
Advertisement There are some shady companies on the offers walls besides. You better be sure to have a good anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware systems on your computer but that goes for any web surfing these days. And be sure to use a separate email address you use only for junk because it will fill up with spam if you do the special offers. After reading comments on the blog and facebook page I feel Swagbucks is aware of the problems with the special offers walls and yet they choose to do nothing about it.
I feel they cheapen the Swagbucks site but apparently they are money makers for them. They are not the only site that has these offers. Many others do to. The new surveys they offer are the same exact surveys as another company but if you do them through Swagbucks you will only receive half the amount you would if you signed up directly.
Advertisement I pretty much stick with doing my searches through them, watching the videos, watching out for the special codes and that is it. I know others make a lot more but that is either with referrals or from signing up for offers you aren't truly interested in or cheating the system but I am not willing to do that. Perhaps you should try some of the survey sites if you have had it with swagbucks.
I do them through several online places. If you want some some recommendations click on my name to send me a message. Those can only be used on their partner sites, not the regular swagbucks store.
To check: go to the home page, log in , then click view account next to your name in the upper right. If you have points other than the regular they will show up there. If you have a few points from a partner site you can spend them on the Swagstakes from the regular swagstore but only once your regular points are down to zero.
Hope that is not too confusing. If you have any questions click my name and send me a message. I haven't done any special offers, just the search. As soon as get pints I cash in. No problems, but I don't do the special offers, just search with it. What I think is neat is they don't charge postage. Lots of sites say they give free stuff, but the postage charge would more than pay for the stuff. I hope your post doesn't discourage people, since most of us who responded are happy with swagbucks. Sorry for your Swagbucks problem.
I have done only one special offer and it did take about a week to get my 1, Swagbucks. I had no problem with that site at all. If I do searches I might as will get paid for them. I'm sorry you've had such trouble with the site. Thank you so much for your comments. You all have made my point of view stronger by stating that you do not participate in the special offers.
I posted this warning because when I joined Thrifty Fun I was so thankful for all of the postings that the members gave. All the good coupons, deals, and thrifty ideas and all of the bad this product is not of good quality and this company does not value you as a customer. I want to give back to the site and let the next person know when they are researching Swag Bucks that when it comes to special offers you may complete the offer properly and honestly and Swag Bucks will not credit your account the right amount or may not credit your account at all.
The site is fun! The idea is quite brilliant, receive virtual bucks for the something that you already do - search the web. For years I have searched, participated in the polls, collected swag codes, downloaded the toolbar, and completed surveys all the while racking up serious swag bucks.
I never took advantage of the special offers because my intuition told me that this could be a problem if you had to prove that you truthfully completed the offers. I continued to monitor the special offers and many were completely free such as signing up for a newsletter, watching a video, or requesting information for a offer that you had genuine interest. I should have continued to listen to that intuition because it was right all along.
The problem only occurred recently when I decided to participate in the special offers. Please let me be very very clear. I know every aspect of Swag Bucks. There is a very clear distinction between the codes that are used for the sister sites which I think are wonderful and special offers.
I am not referring to the swag codes that you receive and can be used only for the sister sites and not prizes at Swag Bucks. I am referring to the special offers like signing up for a newsletter, watching videos, and creating a new account with a company and requesting information to receive swag bucks. Kaelle, that is outrageous and only strengthens by case that when it comes to special offers repeat special offers Swag Bucks is engaging in fraudulent behavior.
I have met some wonderful people because of this site and they all have said stay far away from the special offers. Swag Bucks does not play fair when it comes to the special offers and does not credit your account properly. I know for a fact that Swag Bucks receives a very nice referral fee when members take advantage of these special offers.
For Swag Bucks to make a great deal of money from our participation in these special offers and then turn around and not award the members the proper credit for this participation is just wrong. With regards to the special offers Swag Bucks is con artist. Kaelle, thank you for the heads up in regards to survey sites. I belong to quite a few and love how I can double up and belong to the actual survey site and still qualify for the same surveys through Swag Bucks. They all had to wait until they had anywhere from to swag bucks in their account in order to redeem the prize.
This is another area that Swag Bucks is not being completely honest. Once again, thank you all for your comments. I really value this community. My intentions with this post are true and sincere. This means that the site has acted less than honest on many occasions and not given proper credit to many member accounts.
If my posting does discourage some from joining then that is their decision. Some may have success with the site and by all indications from the BBB rating a lot have not had success with the site. Most of you who responded are happy with Swag Bucks because you stay far away from the special offers which is the platform of my post. If I can save someone the frustration and time by warning them of how shady the special offers are then the goal was met with success.
Kaelle, good luck with the one outstanding special offer. I hope that you receive the full credit for the offer and there will be no need to contact the BBB.
I respect what the BBB stands for but many times they can be very ineffective in getting matters resolved. At the very least your complaint is on record. Best of luck to you.
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