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Additional $2.50 today.

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

Got 46 sb from sb live today. I practically hit the mega millions.

So great minds don’t just think alike, they answer alike too? Cool. 😎

Actually, the win made me lazy and I didn’t spend as much time or effort going after my usual daily points, so my daily earnings were about the same. 😒

@fivetalents do you usually complete the daily bonus goals 1 and 2?

I did for a month or two but stopped because it felt like a grind each day - I enjoy doing the survey panels and swagbucks stuff for fun as a kind of a side hustle that I can do while watching tv or when I’m up at night. It felt like I was just going through the motions with swagbucks so I dialed it way back.

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@fivetalents do you usually complete the daily bonus goals 1 and 2?
I did for a month or two but stopped because it felt like a grind each day - I enjoy doing the survey panels and swagbucks stuff for fun as a kind of a side hustle that I can do while watching tv or when I’m up at night. It felt like I was just going through the motions with swagbucks so I dialed it way back.

I always multi-task while doing Swagbucks too. I used to complete the daily bonus goals 1 and 2 but I’m spending a LOT less time on Swagbucks since they’ve heavily throttled everything such that everything pays less AND you have to work harder for it. Another way they are greedy is increasing your goals every time you reach them, so you have to work harder and harder every successive day… very abusive of it’s members, especially considering how much harder it is to earn now.

My average monthly earnings are 1/3 of what they used to be. Even when I try hard, I regularly miss the FIRST goal, never mind the second one! For over 10 years I NEVER missed the 1st goal and made the 2nd goal 70% or more of the time, barring special circumstances such as power outages or emergencies. I would almost never miss my 30 day streak bonus, now I rarely get a 7 day streak and many fewer 2nd goals.

My advice is to take survey screeners for online focus groups and communities that guarantee payment for weekly participation (not a chance to win rewards), They can last anywhere from weeks to years and take less time but provide steady, predictable payments.

I didn’t realize Swagbucks has been around 10 years and that it was easier to complete the daily goals years back.

Good advice on the communities. I’m only a part of one community that pays out a little bit each month, it is consistent. I’m a part of I think two other smaller ones that take a while to build up a balance. Ever since I decided to spend less time, I pretty much seek out the one-hour sessions that pay well or the group chats that pay well.

This may sound strange or somewhat risky (depending on how you view your personal data), but Facebook has a ton of the live sessions and product trials and even quick sessions that pay decently. It’s pretty much all I get now in my advertisements on Facebook, I really can’t resist them if I fit the survey criteria. A lot of the Facebook ads/survey sessions I don’t qualify for based on my personal profile (possibly a good thing) or because I honestly answer the question: “have you completed a similar survey within the past x number of months”

The past 2 years have been the worst, so it wasn’t that long ago that I could much more easily earn $15-$20 in monthly daily meter bonuses or earn $5 on a Swago game without spending a single cent or run apps all day without babysitting, etc. Mind you, since Prodege bought Swagbucks, they’ve always been greedy/abusive (keeping a larger share of affiliate fees/less SB for same work, making you do more work for same payout, etc.)… but it’s gotten so bad in recent years their site just isn’t all that worth it anymore. This is especially true now that they’ll be reporting non-taxable earnings (coupons, cash back, etc.) to the IRS as income.

I love that you shared your Facebook live sessions/trials tip! Thanks. That’s exactly why I created the GPT forum, so folks can create new threads to announce and discuss such opportunities. There’s so much more out there besides Swagbucks, we should be informing each other,

If anything, Facebook’s live sessions/trials/survey panels are wildly inaccurate compared to Swagbucks or E-Rewards. I find E-Rewards targeting to be extremely accurate, possibly because I’ve been on their platform for a while (I don’t even use it that much) or because I fill out their user profile (which doesn’t even bring me to the high paying live sessions, unlike Swagbucks which almost always gives you a chance to see if you qualify).

I actually wonder if Facebook is getting better at this because for now it seems to be a scattershot approach like Swagbucks. It’s possible that Facebook is just starting to expand this part of their referral/advertising business and that maybe in a few months or a year it will be better than the Swagbucks or E-Rewards.

You know how they say in legacy news media that Facebook knows more about you after a few months on their platform than you really know about yourself? I haven’t really found that to be true. Yet.

As always, take caution with stuff on Facebook because almost any fraudster with an ad account can set up a scam to siphon your data. You’ll probably recognize the big survey questionnaire sites already from Swagbucks and whatnot if you click on their ads, but I think a lot of ads from the focus groups are just blasting out these invitations to bypass paying Swagbucks or E-Rewards. It’s probably cheaper and they probably reach more people.

I had already completed the center square for magic receipts/in-store deals/tada app, or whatever they’re calling it today, so I donated 1 SB to some random person on the swagit! app to complete the plus pattern on swago.

I guess that’s a first for me.

Got another random email for $5 Kohl’s cash. In addition to the $5 at $25 Kohl’s code, I haven’t bought anything in a few months.

Not sure what triggered this one other than logging into the app (possibly signed out for some time after app updates) and browsing around the store yesterday.

They linked to the new terms of service update in an email. I guess they didn’t want to highlight this in the actual email.

Account Management Fee

There are costs associated with the creation and management of the Services, and those costs are covered by the fees Checkout 51 earns when you redeem Claimed Offers. Therefore, if you redeem at least one Claimed Offer during the prior 180 days (one year for residents of Quebec), your account will not be assessed any Account Management Fee (as defined below). If, however, you do not redeem at least one Claimed Offer during any 180 day period (one year for residents of Quebec), Checkout 51 will deduct from your Cash Back Credits, on a monthly basis, the lesser of (i) $3.99, or (ii) the amount of your Cash Back Credits (in either case, an “Account Management Fee”). No Account Management Fees will be charged or deducted during the first six months (one year for residents of Quebec) after you initially register for the Services. Checkout 51 will attempt to notify you by email to the address in your Registration Data before any Account Management Fee is deducted from your Cash Back Credit. Subject to Checkout 51’s right to terminate your account under these Terms, Checkout 51 will stop deducting the Account Management Fee from your Cash Back Credits for six months (one year for residents of Quebec) if you redeem at least one Claimed Offer. Under no circumstances will you ever pay an Account Management Fee with anything other than amounts of your Cash Back Credits — we will never ask you to make a payment for Account Management Fees with credit or debit cards, checks or cash. If your Cash Back Credit balance reaches $0.00, your balance will remain at that amount until you earn more Cash Back Credit or your account is terminated in accordance with these Terms.

https://www.checkout51.com/terms

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

This 50 SB email submission inbox pop-up offer credits instantly:

Sign up & earn SB instantly! P&G Good Everyday is a Rewards Program for your favorite brands, like Tide, Crest, Dawn Bounty and 60 more. Earn up to $150 + in Rewards annually for Brands you already use and love. Sign up today and earn 50 SB.

P&G Good Everyday used to have gift cards for rewards. itunes, dominos, taco bell, and I think one other place. They got rid of all of the gift cards and now have discounts on subscriptions and stuff like shutterfly where you still have to pay shipping fees, and one decent’ish reward for a FandangoNow rental.

There was a decent deal a couple of months back for a 3 month subscription to MyPanera+ Coffee with a free personal pizza (overrated).

There’s a 95% off digital reward sale going on now, normally a FandangoNow rental is 600+ points and is now on sale for 25 points.

Thanks for the real scoop because their pitch is apparently selling the old/former version of their rewards program. I was actually planning on trying to earn rewards with them, now I won’t bother.

It’s actually not terrible for the occasional sales now. It’s so easy to gain points through surveys and quizzes. The Panera Bread offer was like 25 points, which is the point equivalent of one survey (which is not like a swagbucks survey, its about 4 questions and takes less than a minute) and this new digital sale was 25 points for pretty much everything they offer (personally I’m only interested in the FandangoNow rental).

I only built up enough points for one gift card before they took them away. I think they’re still trying to figure out what they want the program to be.

New Swago is live. The perimeter seems pretty tough this go around, so I did the second row already with just one tada/magic receipt for broccoli.

You get your money for nothing and your broccoli for free.

@my4mainecoons said in Official Kohl's Sales and Promo Codes Master Thread:

@ctujackbauer What’s the expiration date?

7/31

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

The 24 SB Collector’s Bill is hot 🔥 Use Swagbucks Search to find the Water Polo bill: https://www.swagbucks.com/?f=55&q=Water+Polo

I can’t seem to get that collector’s bill for my life.

@fivetalents

I will say one thing about this - Swagbucks seems to make it right at the end, even when my record keeping is faulty. I just got paid for a survey or product test I did back in June (3 months ago!) I hadn’t taken a screenshot even though it was a sizeable amount of SB for the survey. I don’t even remember what the survey was because it had been so long.

Sure it took a long time and probably well past the time they said they’d award my account, but it eventually hit my account. Lately, I’ve tried to take screenshots after I do a survey of decent value that pays x number of days or weeks later, but I’m finding that I probably don’t need to. Plus I don’t want to write a ticket for a survey that didn’t pay on time, only to get credited by customer service and then double credited later. Plus some of the surveys have disqualification messages in the activity, but I did complete them and I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten credited as agreed for most of them.

@KohlsPowrShopper @briarycliffs

(I tagged the main posters in this thread, hopefully everyone else sees it to when it bumps to the top)

This sweepstakes is giving out some high dollar Kohl’s gift cards. It’s also giving away $50 Kohl’s gift cards to 100 people every month.

Enter once per month (don’t forget only 8 days left in September.) Sweeps ends 11/30/2021.

https://fallinlovewithkohls.com/

100 points from this morning’s email (possible YMMV), it says link can’t be shared but after sharing (just typing in, not a social media share) Froot Loops memory, you get a code.

email title: This is for the Froot Loops™ Fanatics!

CALLING ALL FROOT
LOOPS® FANATICS!

Follow your nose®! Did you love Froot Loops® as a kid? Share your favorite memory about Froot Loops® and Toucan Sam® and get 100 bonus points!

SHARE NOW
Link cannot be shared. Upon completion of quiz, points will be added to KFR member account within 72 hours.

Shows up as available in the app’s Taco Bell Rewards

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.

Got one of mine in the mail today (USPS Informed Delivery said I should have gotten two…)

Should be addressed from “The Whoopsery”

The coupon has a scan code on the back so you can present the card to the cashier, or you can add it to the Chick Fil A app and then redeem it. The coupon expires 12/31/2021.

40% off in-store or online: GOGET40
Ends December 19

email title: “EVERYONE gets 40% off … merry gifting to all!”

@fivetalents
That badge is worth 5 sb

If you use Just4u / 4U and clip the coupon in the app, it applies automatically for a sweepstakes entry in Rushintowin

http://rules.gselive.com/pepsi-rushtowin.html

Get 'dem pennies.

@c3 said in Sprouts Farmers Market: 5 Free Full-Size Products on the 1st of Every Month:

I got $0.25 Ibotta rebate for the Munk bar.

One might say that makes it a Munkeymaker [moneymaker]

They should make the Prime Video subscription completely optional and split it out. We all know that increase is from that Lord of the Rings prequel TV series (estimated budget from $500 million to $750 million per season) and NFL Thursday Night game rights ($1 billion annually.)

It’s now almost two and a half times what a Costco membership is. The Amazon Prime is too damn high.

Admittedly, I’ve never been an Amazon Prime subscriber - if I see something that is below $25 and at an unbeatable sale price, I’ll just add a third-party physical gift card to my order.

Happy hour drinks and freezes are $1 from 2 PM to 5 PM.

Git you a taco and a beverage. Stimulate the taco economy.

Anyone know of a good 100 SB Discover for this week’s Swago? A Discover that credits instantly or within a day or two, so I can complete that square.

This is a good Swago board if it wasn’t for that Discover square. I don’t mind shelling out some money at the grocery store for Magic Receipts/Tada because the payback of $25 is definitely there.

Feed the family, one can at a time.

The digital coupons bring the Bumble Bee Tuna chunk light in water 5 oz. cans down to $.25 each (limit 4 on digital coupon) and the ibotta rebate of $.25 each can brings it to… free.

Possible YMMV because Albertson’s/Safeway have various sales in different markets. This applies to the Los Angeles area market.

@my4mainecoons said in Official Kellogg's Family Rewards Program Codes Master Thread:

I uploaded my first receipts last PM. Both got double tokens and I did a bonus to earn a Reward. When I looked at Rewards last night it showed Feb. offers. I just checked again and it appears that the month changed. Just got an Amazon g.c.

• Does the KFR month run from the 15th of the month to the following 14th of the month?

• If we have 30 days for receipts should I hold on to receipts from purchases later this week and upload the receipts 29 days from now so they count for April?

• Did Kellogg’s printable coupons go away?

No printables.

Pretty sure it goes from the first of the month, and the ability to redeem follows until the 15th of the next month. So Feb 1 to Mar 15 in your case.

Also, every time it was the first of the month, the rewards changed - so I’m not sure what you’re seeing differently.

Saw this on the news in a different forum, I’m not in Illinois. Checks are between $200 and $400.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-facebook-users-your-settlement-checks-are-in-the-mail-starting-this-month-heres-what-to-know/2829911/

@connman said in Official Kellogg's Family Rewards Program Codes Master Thread:

Rewards for July are:

• Magazine Subscription
• Mr. P Playing Cards
• $5 Apple Gift Card
• $5 GLAAD Donation (seems a month late)

No Amazon eGC again.

Apple is good for me, I’m saving for an iphone.

You can also spend it on a $4.99 movie at iTunes too.

@c3 said in Target.com with store pick up (Today, 7/8) Get TWO Stur Liquid Bottled Water enhancers for 61c after Circle and IBOTTA:

@mistercheap said in Target.com with store pick up (Today, 7/8) Get TWO Stur Liquid Bottled Water enhancers for 61c after Circle and IBOTTA:

I see no way to unlink a linked account

ctujackbauer already gave a link for the instructions.

It’s ok c3, if @MISTERCHEAP didn’t read my post (he quoted a reply to my post), I’ll just stand here in the rain with a sad look on my face like Batman:

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@fivetalents said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread:

I did a few peanut labs surveys from the discover tab, hoping that would qualify for the swago. Nope, they showed up under the Answer section in my activity.

Sigh, I give up on this swago.

They just don’t want to pay out that $25 so they make it too hard for most people. I did a 100 SB offer that was supposed to credit instantly about 5 days ago and it shows no sign of crediting or pending. I’m not making a MyGC+ purchase if I can’t complete the entire board and it’s too late now because MyGC+ probably wont credit in time. Colossal waste of time.

The current Swago board allows Discover offers of any value, and it is crediting. I’m glad they finally figured out that most 100 SB+ Discover offers took at least a week to credit and Swago only lasts about a week so uf you didn’t do it on the 1st day you’d the chance and have no time to buy anything from MGC+ if you planned to do the entire board.

I’m glad they finally changed it. Although that ‘refer a friend to swagbucks’ square might as well be the dawn wall for me.

Yes, I think the refer a friend square should be like the link a CC tile, activated automatically if you’ve ever done it even once (as long as the CC and the referred acct aren’t cancelled).

They’ve been asking way too much on these Swago boards in recent years. I rarely do them anymore, including this one. I usually stick to the patterns that don’t require me to spend money (I use Swagbucks to earn money, not spend it), but every single pattern for this game requires a spend.

Baby Ruth candy bars at CVS ended up being a modest moneymaker (2 for $3 with 200 SB back, and 250 SB for middle column + $.76 at checkout51) but yea I haven’t completed the full swago boards with refer a friend squares every time. I wonder if Swagbucks corporate knows they’re probably missing out on some more mygiftcardsplus revenue this way, but then again they lost a little money (possibly?) from me from swago this week.

I cannot make my own fried chicken sandwich and a frozen cherry/coke for $1. Therefore, I shall purchase this at Burger King. Thanks @MISTERCHEAP

WORLDPRINCESSWEEK

for 10 points

Maybe keep this thread for a day or two in hot deals before moving to deal discussion? Not everyone reads that forum.

Bloomberg is currently the only source for this: Bed Bath & Beyond is hiring restructuring advisor firm Kirkland & Ellis because of BB&B’s unmanageable debt load.

So you can take a chance that Bed Bath & Beyond will let you spend your gift cards before bankruptcy (like Toys’R’Us) but there’s always the possibility that it won’t (like Linens N Things many years ago, or Souplantation, or Circuit City)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/bed-bath-beyond-is-said-to-tap-kirkland-ellis-for-debt-help

Another gift card warning, this time for Regal Cinemas. Regal is the second largest movie theater chain in the USA. As always, the ability to use up gift cards in bankruptcy and reorganization is a future unknown.

Regal Cinemas (owned by international movie theater chain Cineworld) is preparing for a bankruptcy filing within weeks, according to the Wall Street Journal. Regal hired restructuring advisor firm Kirkland & Ellis, the same firm as Bed Bath & Beyond.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/regal-cinemas-owner-cineworld-prepares-for-bankruptcy-filing-11660910944

Ragu Sauce ($2.19 each, buy 2) at Target is a modest $1 money maker with Magic Receipts/Tada (300 SB) and the X symbol from this week’s Swago (250 SB.)

I’m perfectly fine with these little break-even or modest money maker grocery deals from Swagbucks. I don’t have to go chase down ibotta offers on a bunch of impossible-to-find new items at Walmart (and I live in an area with a Walmart Neighborhood Market that is very well stocked) or ibotta offers on a bunch of new organic products at Sprouts (they all taste terrible.)

Free food has been on the decline even with the advent of coupon apps maturing their business model, but Swagbucks free food offers keep ticking along. It’s quite nice. Plus it seems like there’s a Swago every week.

Delimex Taquitos are close to free at Target when you buy 2 and claim the X symbol in Swago too.

@angryeyebrows said in PSA: Feds Giving Away Another 8 Covid Test Kits Per Residence:

Extended use by dates. Enter lot #.

Thanks!

5 DMI points for code: WHITNEYHOUSTON
(ignore, code expired early from what it looks like)