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

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

YMMV but I got a Mygiftcardsplus offer of 500 extra SB SwagUp with a gift card purchase (no minimum purchase amount either, which is a plus.) I stacked it with the 20% SB back on a $25 Gap brands gift cards.

I’m always a bit curious about their algo, it seems to offer better Swagup deals to infrequent purchasers rather than frequent purchasers.

I never see offers on for bonus SB on MGC+, just the percent CB and the occasional 100 SB for 1st time purchase from any brand… and I’ve only ever bought 1 GC on MGC+.

Strange. I thought they would give out more bonus offers. I think I’ve bought 3 or 4 lifetime.

YMMV but I got a Mygiftcardsplus offer of 500 extra SB SwagUp with a gift card purchase (no minimum purchase amount either, which is a plus.) I stacked it with the 20% SB back on a $25 Gap brands gift cards.

I’m always a bit curious about their algo, it seems to offer better Swagup deals to infrequent purchasers rather than frequent purchasers.

Thanks OP.

Oh wait this isn’t fatwallet, thanks @MISTERCHEAP

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I think the movie studios aren’t making much money today, but the theaters are making out like bandits. The concessions line was crazy.

If you’re not a frequent moviegoer, Top Gun: Maverick would be my choice if you want a family friendly one, Bullet Train would be fun if you like the R-rated action comedy genre.

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

Extended use by dates. Enter lot #.

Thanks!

Oh wait, scratch that, it looks like you’d have to purchase 4 separate Kellogg’s products (4 different receipts) to qualify for this month.

This is the first month in a while that I will pass on.

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

Rewards for September are:

• $5 Container Store eGift Card
• Mr. P playing cards
• $5 Target eGiftCard
• $5 GLAAD Donation (again)

No Amazon eGC again.

Git you a Target e gift card. Very easy to use either printed on paper, or the Target app. With the Target app I don’t even carry my physical gift cards to the store.

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

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

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.

Did you do the last Swago board (the one that was all Discover offers)? So many people complained about it I thought they would put a wheel on this Swago to make up for it.

Thanks for breaking down these deals. Just to clarify, if you do both the Ragu Sauce and the Delimex, you can only count the 250 SB from the Swago X pattern once in calculation you total OOP cost.

Last week’s was the worst Swago, I didn’t do any Discover activities for it. I think I did a 50 SB pattern/symbol/line, but I don’t remember how I qualified for it.

I like the wheel instant win too, but they’ve been pretty rare.

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.

Bed Bath & Beyond delays its debt problems by adding more debt (taking out a loan.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bed-bath-beyond-clinches-loan-deal-11661301078

@mistercheap said in Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld preparing for bankruptcy (gift card warning):

@ctujackbauer This is a little different, I don’t think GC’s will be in jeopardy unless say, the theaters in your area were to close and you don’t have the ability to use them. They are looking at Chapter 11 in the US which would likely mean a restructuring. I honestly don’t see locaton closing until 2023 at the earliest, so people should have plenty of time to take in a movie or two and eat popcorn.

The Bed Bath situation where it’s an ‘unknown’ is if they liquidate stores, Gift Cards sometimes aren’t honored in liquidation sales. They should be ok online for the forseeable future even if a number of stores close.

Perhaps. Most of the value in Cineworld is in their locations and leases. At its best, reorganization would mean offloading poor performing locations with an acquirer taking the best locations.

But reorg can go from orderly to disorderly in a hurry. The vast majority of Sears and Kmart locations were sold for scrap or to CEO Eddie Lampert. Chrysler almost didn’t make it out of bankruptcy. Circuit City went from “we’re just offloading some debt” to “poof, sorry we’re closing everything.”

Cineworld is so levered up that nobody is going to make a whole offer for Regal Cinemas, and the debt holders may see more value in selling the land and ground leases than taking an offer for a cut-down version of Regal Cinemas.

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

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

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I’m on streak of 3 last placed teams (IIRC) for the team challenge. It almost makes me want to go back to redeeming for the monthly $25 for 2200 SB gift card on the first of the month like I always used to, but it’s so easy to qualify for the team challenge these days.

I just wish I’d get more than the extra 50 SB for last place. Then again, one occasional first place in a four-team race makes up for that 6 times over.

@kimi said in Get 3 months free of Apple TV+ For New & Existing Subscribers (Ends Oct 31 2022):

I have the Apple TV + free trial from Target. Anyone have recommendations on what to watch? So far I watched Coda, Ted Lasso and Black Bird.
TIA!

I highly recommend Pachinko.

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

Big SB amounts in the Swago coming up on Monday. I just assume I won’t qualify for the large offers this time, but maybe it’s an anniversary or something.

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

Rewards for August are:

• Eggo 6” waffle plates (set of two)
• (up to) $5 off Kellogg’s® Cereals
• $5 Old Navy eGiftCard
• $5 GLAAD Donation (again)

No Amazon eGC again.

Old Navy is good for me. They sell rather high quality jeans (for the price.)

@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:

Also, pro tip: never leave your swago board dependent on a magic receipt on a Friday because it can sometimes be rejected even on a clear receipt picture, and then Swagbucks customer service might not review the receipt over the weekend, leaving you missing a swago completion. Unless it’s Walmart where it shows the UPC.

It may not matter this time around… Swagit (at least for me) has been down for days. I’m sure that will prevent many from completing their Swagit and To-Do List tiles.

Ah, you might need to uninstall/reinstall or re-login. It’s been working for me.

Not going to risk it… it only works on one of my devices now (used to work on 3 of them) and it’s not in the Google app store any more. If they’re nor fully supporting the app anymore, I don’t want to risk re-installation via a 3rd party apk. This happens regularly for me with Swagit. It usually starts working again, eventually, but this is the longest outage I’ve experienced. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

I don’t know about apk, it’s on the google play store though. For your other 2 devices.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prodege.swaggit&hl=en_US&gl=US

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

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

Also, pro tip: never leave your swago board dependent on a magic receipt on a Friday because it can sometimes be rejected even on a clear receipt picture, and then Swagbucks customer service might not review the receipt over the weekend, leaving you missing a swago completion. Unless it’s Walmart where it shows the UPC.

It may not matter this time around… Swagit (at least for me) has been down for days. I’m sure that will prevent many from completing their Swagit and To-Do List tiles.

Ah, you might need to uninstall/reinstall or re-login. It’s been working for me.

Also, pro tip: never leave your swago board dependent on a magic receipt on a Friday because it can sometimes be rejected even on a clear receipt picture, and then Swagbucks customer service might not review the receipt over the weekend, leaving you missing a swago completion. Unless it’s Walmart where it shows the UPC.

@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.

@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.

@fivetalents said in Taste the toxin? Skittles ‘unfit for human consumption’, lawsuit claims:

I’m kinda thinking that if you’re still eating Franken-foods at this point (processed foods full of artificial chemicals, colors, flavors preservatives, etc.), you really can’t complain much when it tanks your health. Too much has been researched, published, and reported on this for too long to claim ignorance. Whether or not you chose to believe the science (and/or anecdotal accounts), at some point you have to take personal responsibility for your choices, IMHO.

On point. Some processed food seems unavoidable - I don’t usually make my own pasta, for example.

A good book on the processed food industry is Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss, who is an investigative reporter on the food industry.

It’s just a little titanium dioxide, it’s still good, it’s still good.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/15/skittles-mars-lawsuit-titanium-dioxide-toxin

@ctgolfer said in FREE Fruit Resource - Where to Locally Pick Free Fruit, etc:

freegans

Today I learned what a “freegan” is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism

Wow, someone left a note on saying most of their free fruit is in their backyard, and that they would let you onto their property to get it.

It’s nice, but perhaps a bit trusting…

Probably another YMMV Kohl’s Cash/Promo. Check for email title: “Just for you … treat yourself to $5 off! Plus, earn Kohl’s Cash.”

What can I say - Kohl’s loves me.