Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread
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Swagbucks took away the majority of the generic produce and meat offers for Magic Receipts / Tada. I guess doing those for Swago is now gone (hopefully just temporarily).
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@fivetalents And there is!
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New round of Collectors Bills.
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55 SB Revenue Universe email submit Atkins offer
Register with your valid information and confirm your email address (me: “optional”) and click “Access Online Tools”. New registrations only. You will receive your SB within 5 minutes.
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New Collectors Bill today.
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Still 31 SB
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“Starting November 1st, in addition to saving money on your shopping trip, you can earn 1 SB for every 3 Coupons.com coupon you print, up to 60 per day PLUS 50 SB for every coupon you redeem in-store, that’s up from 25 SB.”
The 1 SB per coupons printed is a big throttle but I stopped getting credited a long time ago so no big loss for me. However, 50 SB per coupon redeemed is a huge deal.
https://us.blog.swagbucks.com/2021/11/earn-even-more-with-coupons-com.html
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New batch of Collectors Bills started today.
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Swagbucks seems to have figured out that they don’t make a lot on Swago boards (well, usually just one row) being completed for 100+ SB with a 2 SB tada magic receipt.
Guess that gravy train is over.
Get your money for nothing and your broccoli for free… not any more.
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They’ve so thoroughly devalued Swago that I don’t even bother to do it anymore. I used to make at least $5 every board when they had the wheel. Now you have to spend money to get any decent payouts. No thanks.
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I just won a generic 49 SB search so it’s hot right now but there’ll probably also be a 49 SB collector’s bill tomorrow.
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I’m going to miss tonight’s $10,000 prize Swagbucks Live, so can someone tell me how many SB the winners get from tonight?
@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
I just won a generic 49 SB search so it’s hot right now but there’ll probably also be a 49 SB collector’s bill tomorrow.
Must be a lucky one? I didn’t see any search links on the Swagbucks facebook page.
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Yeah, unfortunately I didn’t win a collector’s bill afterwards… I don’t know why I won so much from a search. Maybe they were testing an upcoming holiday bill.
I did win the $10K SB Live game (58 SB, or 49 + 9 bonus). The questions were too easy. Out of 36K+ players, slightly over 20K pllayers won. On Friday, the 3pm game has a $5K jackpot and there will be a 4pm game with a $10K jackpot.
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Sorry folks, the $5K and $10K Friday games aren’t until next week/Black Friday.
@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
Yeah, unfortunately I didn’t win a collector’s bill afterwards… I don’t know why I won so much from a search. Maybe they were testing an upcoming holiday bill.
I did win the $10K SB Live game (58 SB, or 49 + 9 bonus). The questions were too easy. Out of 36K+ players, slightly over 20K pllayers won. On Friday, the 3pm game has a $5K jackpot and there will be a 4pm game with a $10K jackpot.
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Collectors Bill today:
Happy Thanksgiving!
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I haven’t been able to win today’s collector bill yet, but at least I got a badge!
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Revenue Universe has 4 seven SB and 40 two SB click-through offers that credit quickly.
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I just won 11 SB from searching.
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There’s a 28 SB collector’s bill for today…
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Minimal effort for the Swago that ends tonight, 20 SB for activating a bunch of swagbutton shop links. It’s probably too late for the MyGiftCardsPlus to hit the center square.
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I guess it’s better than nothing.
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ten lords for me today
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@harperr said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
I guess it’s better than nothing.
Ouch. A 1 SB search win is harsh. I’ve never seen one that low below before… not looking forward to receiving that one.
I won a generic 12 SB search around 2am today so I knew something was on the horizon. It’s a new Collectors’ bill set that I’ve never seen before. Tip: if you get a very low value bill, it takes 30 searches to get your next search win so try to get at least two wins that day to make up the difference from the typical value of your search wins.
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It’s been years and years since they let me win the collector’s will event. The 100 SB bonus (instead of 20 SB) makes up a little for all of those 1, 2, and 3 SB search winns.
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Anyone know if there’s a minimum amount of SB I need to spend on a gift card reward for the team challenge SB swag up to trigger? I used 300 SB on a $3 Amazon GC reward, and was expecting to get back 300 SB from the team challenge swag up.
It normally credits by now… its still showing in my swag ups, nothing in pending activity.
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@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
Anyone know if there’s a minimum amount of SB I need to spend on a gift card reward for the team challenge SB swag up to trigger? I used 300 SB on a $3 Amazon GC reward, and was expecting to get back 300 SB from the team challenge swag up.
It normally credits by now… its still showing in my swag ups, nothing in pending activity.
It should deduct it when you “purchase” the gift card.
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@harperr said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
Anyone know if there’s a minimum amount of SB I need to spend on a gift card reward for the team challenge SB swag up to trigger? I used 300 SB on a $3 Amazon GC reward, and was expecting to get back 300 SB from the team challenge swag up.
It normally credits by now… its still showing in my swag ups, nothing in pending activity.
It should deduct it when you “purchase” the gift card.
Thanks harperr, I should have purchased a $5 amazon GC instead of the $3 amazon GC. I see it now.
Ah well, more for the amazon war chest.
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Christmas Collectors Bill today. Merry Christmas!
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@fivetalents
That badge is worth 5 sb
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New Collectors Bill today.
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New set of Collectors Bills.
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New Collectors Bill today.
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"We have an exciting week in store for you at Swagbucks Live:
Tuesday, we have a special Vocabulary themed game and Wednesday’s Movie themed game has a $2,500 Grand Prize! As always, you can earn bonus SB throughout the game just for getting questions right.
Plus, this week we’re picking 10 players from each game to win 100 SB each! Winners will be announced live during the next game. It all kicks off tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT."
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@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
"We have an exciting week in store for you at Swagbucks Live:
Tuesday, we have a special Vocabulary themed game and Wednesday’s Movie themed game has a $2,500 Grand Prize! As always, you can earn bonus SB throughout the game just for getting questions right.
Plus, this week we’re picking 10 players from each game to win 100 SB each! Winners will be announced live during the next game. It all kicks off tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT."
Good deal.
SB Live still gives 100 points toward this week’s Team Challenge. However, they did downgrade the points given from a magic receipt purchase: only 50 SB and above magic receipt purchases count toward Team Challenge points.
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I guess folks were taking too much advantage of those $0.02 any brand rebate items.
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@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
I guess folks were taking too much advantage of those $0.02 any brand rebate items.
Guilty as charged. There are so few quality offers on it now (Nabisco cookies/crackers and Baby Ruth are ok deals) but they’ve been asking for input on daily polls, so hopefully they’ll build up that side of the business because ibotta needs competition. They’ve got to do something about their receipt scanner tech though, it is reliably unreliable.
I guess I’ll play SB Live for the Team Challenge. I’ve cut way back on Swagbucks lately, I’m trying to do less time-intensive stuff.
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Yeah, I cut way back too. I just aim for one $25 GC (for 22.000 SB) per month now. Being charged taxes on non-taxable things like cash back if I go over $600 in redemptions per year is a huge disincentive. Life has been too busy anyway to invest in SB activities that take increasingly longer and longer to complete and pay less and less over time.
A funny thing is I think they’re hurting for traffic because they’ve been harassing me with near daily emails to start taking surveys again. They banned me from surveys about 4 years ago because I kept forgetting to not take surveys on my birthday. That always resulted in a fraud warning for me because their system hadn’t updated yet and I was claiming to be one year older than they thought I was. I either had to lie and say I was younger or miss a few days of survey $$$ because of their incompetence.
Well, I guess I forgot one year too many and they banned me for at least 4 years from taking Peanut Lab and Gold surveys. Plus they applied the ban on my MyPoints account as well even though I hadn’t taken any surveys in a little while over there. Nice birthday gift. Now they’ve decided to reinstate me (with a bonus lecture in each email about how to take surveys honestly). I’m not going to bother taking their surveys anymore because (a) they no longer allow you to update your survey profile, so I’ll just get banned again because my income, zip code, age, etc. have changed and (b) I’m still salty about the 4 years money they caused me to miss out on. I used to do a lot of surveys and redeem $100 to $150 in SB monthly… those days are gone.
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@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
Yeah, I cut way back too. I just aim for one $25 GC (for 22.000 SB) per month now. Being charged taxes on non-taxable things like cash back if I go over $600 in redemptions per year is a huge disincentive. Life has been too busy anyway to invest in SB activities that take increasingly longer and longer to complete and pay less and less over time.
A funny thing is I think they’re hurting for traffic because they’ve been harassing me with near daily emails to start taking surveys again. They banned me from surveys about 4 years ago because I kept forgetting to not take surveys on my birthday. That always resulted in a fraud warning for me because their system hadn’t updated yet and I was claiming to be one year older than they thought I was. I either had to lie and say I was younger or miss a few days of survey $$$ because of their incompetence.
Well, I guess I forgot one year too many and they banned me for at least 4 years from taking Peanut Lab and Gold surveys. Plus they applied the ban on my MyPoints account as well even though I hadn’t taken any surveys in a little while over there. Nice birthday gift. Now they’ve decided to reinstate me (with a bonus lecture in each email about how to take surveys honestly). I’m not going to bother taking their surveys anymore because (a) they no longer allow you to update your survey profile, so I’ll just get banned again because my income, zip code, age, etc. have changed and (b) I’m still salty about the 4 years money they caused me to miss out on. I used to do a lot of surveys and redeem $100 to $150 in SB monthly… those days are gone.
Have you had any luck with the Facebook surveys? Some of the ads for those are shady, so I have to do research on the company (limited research at that.) There are some decent paying judicial opinion live surveys that advertise often on Facebook, but that might be primarily for people near a large city.
I’ve never hit $600 on any one platform, you must have been doing them daily.
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@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
Yeah, I cut way back too. I just aim for one $25 GC (for 22.000 SB) per month now. Being charged taxes on non-taxable things like cash back if I go over $600 in redemptions per year is a huge disincentive. Life has been too busy anyway to invest in SB activities that take increasingly longer and longer to complete and pay less and less over time.
A funny thing is I think they’re hurting for traffic because they’ve been harassing me with near daily emails to start taking surveys again. They banned me from surveys about 4 years ago because I kept forgetting to not take surveys on my birthday. That always resulted in a fraud warning for me because their system hadn’t updated yet and I was claiming to be one year older than they thought I was. I either had to lie and say I was younger or miss a few days of survey $$$ because of their incompetence.
Well, I guess I forgot one year too many and they banned me for at least 4 years from taking Peanut Lab and Gold surveys. Plus they applied the ban on my MyPoints account as well even though I hadn’t taken any surveys in a little while over there. Nice birthday gift. Now they’ve decided to reinstate me (with a bonus lecture in each email about how to take surveys honestly). I’m not going to bother taking their surveys anymore because (a) they no longer allow you to update your survey profile, so I’ll just get banned again because my income, zip code, age, etc. have changed and (b) I’m still salty about the 4 years money they caused me to miss out on. I used to do a lot of surveys and redeem $100 to $150 in SB monthly… those days are gone.
Have you had any luck with the Facebook surveys? Some of the ads for those are shady, so I have to do research on the company (limited research at that.) There are some decent paying judicial opinion live surveys that advertise often on Facebook, but that might be primarily for people near a large city.
I’ve never hit $600 on any one platform, you must have been doing them daily.
I live near a major city but am averse to social media so I don’t use it much… maybe for an occasional coupon or freebie. I don’t even know how to take Facebook surveys, and I don’t have much time for it right now, but I appreciate the info for future reference. I belong to several survey panels and haven’t been taking surveys most of the pandemic (counterintuitive, I know). I still participate on several long term research panels that I was invited to through SB surveys, so that’s something at least. My goals used to be taking 5 surveys a day on SB, and monthly meter bonus on SB used to regularly be in the $15 range from hitting daily/weekly/monthly goals. Now I’m lucky if I break $1, hahaha.
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@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
Yeah, I cut way back too. I just aim for one $25 GC (for 22.000 SB) per month now. Being charged taxes on non-taxable things like cash back if I go over $600 in redemptions per year is a huge disincentive. Life has been too busy anyway to invest in SB activities that take increasingly longer and longer to complete and pay less and less over time.
A funny thing is I think they’re hurting for traffic because they’ve been harassing me with near daily emails to start taking surveys again. They banned me from surveys about 4 years ago because I kept forgetting to not take surveys on my birthday. That always resulted in a fraud warning for me because their system hadn’t updated yet and I was claiming to be one year older than they thought I was. I either had to lie and say I was younger or miss a few days of survey $$$ because of their incompetence.
Well, I guess I forgot one year too many and they banned me for at least 4 years from taking Peanut Lab and Gold surveys. Plus they applied the ban on my MyPoints account as well even though I hadn’t taken any surveys in a little while over there. Nice birthday gift. Now they’ve decided to reinstate me (with a bonus lecture in each email about how to take surveys honestly). I’m not going to bother taking their surveys anymore because (a) they no longer allow you to update your survey profile, so I’ll just get banned again because my income, zip code, age, etc. have changed and (b) I’m still salty about the 4 years money they caused me to miss out on. I used to do a lot of surveys and redeem $100 to $150 in SB monthly… those days are gone.
Have you had any luck with the Facebook surveys? Some of the ads for those are shady, so I have to do research on the company (limited research at that.) There are some decent paying judicial opinion live surveys that advertise often on Facebook, but that might be primarily for people near a large city.
I’ve never hit $600 on any one platform, you must have been doing them daily.
I live near a major city but am averse to social media so I don’t use it much… maybe for an occasional coupon or freebie. I don’t even know how to take Facebook surveys, and I don’t have much time for it right now, but I appreciate the info for future reference. I belong to several survey panels and haven’t been taking surveys most of the pandemic (counterintuitive, I know). I still participate on several long term research panels that I was invited to through SB surveys, so that’s something at least. My goals used to be taking 5 surveys a day on SB, and monthly meter bonus on SB used to regularly be in the $15 range from hitting daily/weekly/monthly goals. Now I’m lucky if I break $1, hahaha.
Most of them are hosted on external websites, as a word of caution. They’re not actually through Facebook, they’re only advertised on Facebook.
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Oh, that makes sense. No wonder you have to be so careful about vetting them!
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It’s kind of the Wild Wild West of surveys.
I’ve had chatbots that looked legit not work at all and then their username disappears (you can look up the chatbots later in saved messages in Messenger.)
I’ve had very legitimate judicial opinion surveys that pay well. Alas, they are strict about the number of surveys you can do in a time frame.
I’ve had one (also a chatbot) that disappeared and that one gave up some information, even though that is the Faustian Bargain and standard procedure for a lot of these surveys, including major platforms.
I’ve also had legitimate chatbots pay within seconds.
Lately, I’m trying to stick to University-run surveys that require little effort. Those are easy to vet, all of the policies are laid out transparently, and there is usually contact info if I need help or the survey isn’t working correctly.
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@harperr said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
New Collectors Bill today.
I kept searching after my first win and won this bill twice.
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Inbox offer:
Get 3 free months of Pandora Premium music streaming service and earn 250 SB.
Enjoy ad-free radio plus on-demand access FREE with Pandora Premium. Sign up for your 3-month trial and earn 250 SB!*
*SB will appear as Pending for 32 days. Must enter valid sign-up information to earn SB. Must be a new Pandora subscriber. This offer may only be redeemed once (1) per user.
I’m not sure this link will work for anyone else except me, so sign up from the link in your inbox.
https://www.swagbucks.com/?cmd=oh-offer-click&placementID=6090943&offerID=236152
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Looks like there may be a 15 SB collector’s bill headed our way tomorrow. Try to get the generic version today too:
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If you haven’t joined this month’s team challenged of haven’t hit the 400 point minimum to earn SB, you really should try because the rewards are relatively very high. The game expires at midnight PST tonight.
“All members who participate and contribute at least 400 points to their team’s total will receive a SB bonus in the form of a SB Swag Up Rebate! Members of the 1st place team will receive a 300 SB Swag Up Rebate, 2nd place will receive a 150 SB Swag Up Rebate, 3rd place will receive a 75 SB SwagUp Rebate, and 4th place will receive a 50 SB SwagUp Rebate. The Swag Up Rebate will be made available on January 24th at 8am PT/11AM ET and expires on February 7th at 11:59PM PST.”
Col. Mustard team is in first place so if you’re on that team or get assigned to it, that’s an easy $3 (more depending on how you cash it out).
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@fivetalents
I’m on the fourth place team. womp womp.
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@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@fivetalents
I’m on the fourth place team. womp womp.More often than not it seems like I’m on the last place team. This time though I was on the 3rd place team. Ooh.
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@harperr said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:
@fivetalents
I’m on the fourth place team. womp womp.More often than not it seems like I’m on the last place team. This time though I was on the 3rd place team. Ooh.
I was on the 2nd place team. For a couple of years though I was always on the losing team, even if we started out in first place. I was starting to feel some typa way, like I was bringing the wet blanket to the party.
