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LABO-RDAY-PTS4-UKFR

100 points, redeem by 9/30/2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-28/forever-21-is-said-to-prepare-potential-bankruptcy-filing

The retail apocalypse is about to claim another one. Use 'dem gift cards, all you fast fashion phatwalleters!

@fivetalents

Oh, and I didn’t want to redeem my SB for a gift card yet. I’m saving up for one big gift card which I’ve been getting close to.

Thanks for the heads up on the coupons.com. I saved a pdf of my first coupon.

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

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

Tough Swago this month. Probably going to skip it or just do first column. Though I’m leery of the coupons.com printing, so might just skip it.

Tough Swago and no bonus spin wheel

If you’re going to do the first column for 45 SB, you may as well do the perimeter for 135 SB. I signed up for Swago on Friday but haven’t started working on it yet. I just checked my board and I only need 5 tiles to complete the perimeter: create a shopping list (1-click & free), redeem SB for a GC (was going toa do anyway), join 2 giveaways (loss of 5 SB each), and print grocery coupons (free). So I’d earn 125 with very little effort above doing all the stuff I normally do anyway.

I’m surprised that you’re leery of coupons.com. Why? They’re 100% legit and you get 25 SB for every one you use at the grocery store + 1 SB for every one you print (up to 50 SB a day). However, you don’t even have to print them out using ink and paper… just print to pdf (you can later print out my use any you choose). Otherwise, I’d do the 5th column for 65 SB (the highest you earn without buying a $50 GC).

I was thinking of the old times when coupons.com made you install Java. I forgot they moved to a pdf solution.

Tough Swago this month. Probably going to skip it or just do first column. Though I’m leery of the coupons.com printing, so might just skip it.

This also includes the 4k disc versions (not 4k digital codes) of the Caesar trilogy (the 3 recent ones). You’ll get one code that redeems all 9 movies for digital HD.

Some of the amazon reviews mention getting the set in a different language for subtitles, and the digital codes being valid only for Canada. So I’d beware of that.

Fortunately, this is available at Best Buy for the same price (amazon is matching them) which would nearly guarantee you an English version with working US-based digital codes. And you can test the discs (I doubt you could return after redeeming the digital HD codes though).

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generic code for $1.50 off, today only.

I may have to beg for a MLB ticket thing but only if they use stubhub (have a gift card to use up). Hopefully they’re not from one of those random ticket brokers like they do for concerts sometimes.

Use $.01 filler to add another $20 off $75 to bring this down to $109.99 + filler.

(I’m not sure why staples requires the filler because it is $129.99, but when you add the coupon that’s what it says)

coupon code: 43564

If you’re doing the Sunday subscription, try calling and telling them you don’t want the premium issues. They shouldn’t charge those against your account.

Did anyone else have their SB Live trivia free rejoins disappear? I had like 20 or 22, but now I have 3. I didn’t use 4 of them in-game because I was saving them for a better opportunity.

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Should be multi-use. Code available to everyone, $1.50 off dvd/blu/game, expires tonight.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/19/jc-penney-hires-advisers-to-explore-debt-restructuring/

JC Penney of course disputes this to CNBC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/jc-penney-no-advisors-hired-for-an-in-court-restructuring-bankruptcy.html

I loved their $10 off $10 coupon giveaway deals, and their clothes are usually high-quality (at least for the price).

They better have one last Black Friday coupon giveaway! I never got more than $10 off $10.

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

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

Runa energy drinks, get 1,800 sb (600 each) in one transaction when you buy 3 of them. Apparently they cost $2.49 each at Target and Sprouts, and $2.29 at limited Safeways.

Not going to do that deal, but a decent money maker.

Where do you see the offer? Maybe it’s dead?

https://www.swagbucks.com/shop/in-store

Maybe it is YMMV?

Runa energy drinks, get 1,800 sb (600 each) in one transaction when you buy 3 of them. Apparently they cost $2.49 each at Target and Sprouts, and $2.29 at limited Safeways.

Not going to do that deal, but a decent money maker.

Check if you got a $5 when you spend $25 at U.S. office supply stores too.

Will stack (you can see the office supply store addresses for Staples in the amex offer, but a lot of the other addresses besides Office Depot/Staples aren’t real office supply stores)

@mistercheap

According to arstechnica, customers have to pay $4 a month to send all suspected robocalls to voicemail, or else they get a free version which only lets you manually put them on a block list.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/atts-robocall-blocking-expansion-wont-block-spam-calls-unless-you-pay-extra/

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

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

I must have clicked that Postmates offer and sent it to my email some time ago, I don’t remember when. I wasn’t able to redeem it.

At what stage were you notified that you were ineligible (before you placed and paid for your order I hope)?

ETA: since you never redeemed the offer, customer service may be able to do something to reset your status. There’s no SB credit on your account/ledger related to Postmates so they can’t claim that you redeemed it. If they say you activated the offer too recently (but prior to your attempt in the past week) so it won’t show up on your account for a while, you may be able to find the original activation email in your trash or spam folder (if so, ask if you can still use it).

The tap to download link in the email goes to a offer unavailable page: Offer Unavailable
You may not be eligible for this offer, may have already completed it, or the offer has expired.

Good tip on customer service resetting the status, I didn’t think of that. It wasn’t in my email trash.

I must have clicked that Postmates offer and sent it to my email some time ago, I don’t remember when. I wasn’t able to redeem it.

There’s a pretty high-dollar swagbucks offer for a first-time app download/sign-up and order through Postmates. They have a few delivery options, quite a bit more options for pickup.

2,856 sb for the first order. Plus there’s a code for $5 off with 5OFF. Not sure when this offer expires.

Today’s SB Live quiz was crazy. Only 7 people won. They won about $142.

@mistercheap said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

@briarycliffs said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

Had $2 in points expiring today, was going to place a Kmart order to pick up. Tried a can of dog food and some clorox wipes, got this new message:

Points cannot be used toward Marketplace, grocery and drug items.

I haven’t set foot in KMart since towards the end of 2018.

can’t believe you can’t spend your points on grocery items any more. that was one of the few decent ways to cash out.

Points still work on grocery items if you go to the store and opt to redeem the points in store. It’s just the order and reserve online through SYW for store pick-up that doesn’t work (at least since the past few days).

@jcantanixon said in Get $2 Target e-gift card for entering 4 Coca-Cola product codes (first 50,000):

Below the stubhub offer is Yeti, $25 gift card, $25k shopping spree, a purse, Best buy, Olive Garden…

Scrolled all the way to the bottom and didn’t see anything remotely like a $2 Target card or two people about to kiss. (shrug)

Were you a Coca-Cola rewards member before the Target offer? It’s only open to people who were previously signed up as a rewards member.

dangit.

I burned a rejoin on question 5 today. Made it all the way to the final question, but missed it. Could have won 213 sb, but only won 7 sb.

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

@ctujackbauer
I have a bunch of rejoins too.
What is a rejoin???
TY!!!

If you miss a question in the swagbucks live trivia game (requires smartphone app), you get to rejoin without having to spend swagbucks to win the prize at the end. There are 10 trivia questions. You split the prize of $500/$1,000 in sb among all the winners.

The games on Monday are easier because they get progressively harder throughout the week. So spend the rejoins on the harder Wednesday/Thursday games. If you advance into like the 7th or 8th question without missing, then it costs a lot of sb to rejoin, so those rejoins are valuable.

I won a Monday game and got like 39 sb, there were a lot of winners that day. There were about 10 winners in one of the Thursday games splitting $1,000, so that day a winner won around $100 (1,000 sb). It’s just very difficult to win that much.

I now have 16 free rejoins for sb live. Mostly from the june spin to win wheel, I think I have 3 from free rejoin week. Plus a bunch of swagstakes entries for the laptop and 100,000 sb drawing.

Don’t forget to claim the reward after it hits 50,000 and unlocks (usually a day or two). Click the bell icon in the upper-right corner within 5 days of the unlock.

new flock-to-unlock $2 target e-gift card for 4 product codes.

https://us.coca-cola.com/offers/

Pretty sure not everyone checks the official coca-cola thread in free stuff, so I think it counts as a hot deal, especially since previous threads were hot deals.

There’s a Visit Myrtle Beach South Carolina ad in the upper-left corner (right below the swagbucks icon) in the rolling ads that counts as a daily discover towards your to-do-list, without having to buy anything (I just loaded the first myrtle beach page after clicking the add).

Should be the second ad in the upper-left, may have to click the arrows or buttons to bring it up. I couldn’t get it to load from the view all offers in discover, so it might only be accessible through that little box/ad.

Are y’all sure that adding an espresso shot won’t be a 25 star per shot charge? On the rewards website it specifically has that.

@collector5 said in Official REDBOX Video Rental Codes Master Thread:

Are you nothing more than a LURKER?
If not, please post the answer to DAILY TRIVIA when you have the correct answer.

I thought it would clutter up the thread, plus the answers are easy to google.

Redbox Summer Spin is back. Lots of different prizes this time, plus the usual perks points to win. Requires Redbox account with Perks to play, via website or app.

https://www.redbox.com/summerspin-game

Ends July 7.

official rules

Requires a Redbox Perks account (free membership with having a Redbox account). Picking the correct daily trivia answer gets you a few points, or an instant win prize.

Enter via website or app. Ends July 7.

I’ll try to list some of the prizes:

Jolly Time popcorn machine (2)
Vizio 4k TV with Dolby Atmos (3)
Nintendo Switch + $70 Best Buy gift card (4)
Roku streaming stick (100)
Jolly Time popcorn box + disc rental awarded as perks points (5,000)
disc rental awarded as 2,500 perks points (7,000)
dvd rental as 1,500 points (13,000)
$10 gift card to 1-800 Flowers (25)
various blu-ray combo packs with merchandise

Sweepstakes Grand Prize (1): The Sweepstakes Grand prize is a Home Entertainment Package (“Sweepstakes Grand Prize”). Package includes: $4,000 credit to Ashley Furniture (awarded as a check for residents of Alaska and Hawaii), Vizio 4K SMART TV, 4k/Blu-ray player, Sound System with Dolby Atmos®., Nintendo Switch Console gaming console, one $70 Best Buy gift card, one gaming headset, one JOLLY TIME 8oz Theater Popcorn Machine, a medium cart for the 8oz popcorn machine, one (1) All-In-One Popcorn Kit, and free 1-night Redbox disc rentals for 1-year (awarded as 2,500 Redbox points per disc) as set forth in Section 5.F. below. The ARV of each Sweepstakes Grand Prize is $9,399.96.

Sweepstakes First Prize (1): The First Prize Winner will receive a trip for up to four (4) people (two adults and two children 0-12 years old) consisting of the following: Five (5) nights hotel accommodations at Melia Caribe Beach Resort, four (4) coach airline tickets, each capped at $500, all meals, drinks, gratuities, taxes related to accommodations, nonmotorized water sports and entertainment, and free 1-night Redbox disc rentals for 1-year (awarded as 2,500 Redbox points per disc) as set forth in Section 5.F. below (each a “First Prize”). Blackout dates apply. The First Prize is not valid over United States Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s and is subject to availability. The winner and guests may be required to provide appropriate government issued photo identification (such as a valid passport) to travel to the host hotel. Sponsor is not liable for any expenses incurred as a consequence of travel cancellation/delay. The ARV of the Sweepstakes First Prize is $3,722

@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

Those crazy Sears bets are back!

Eddie Lampert, king of carnival games. New king, same as the old king.

$1.50 off rental, universal code, expires today 5/20

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Has anyone won the swagbucks live trivia game?

I’m relatively new to swagbucks and I think I’ve lost 150+ points on rejoins. I’m thinking its best for me to not rejoin and hope that I just crush it that day.

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$1.50 off, today 5/9 only. Good for all users (see inbox in app)

Doorbuster ($1 sywr points) on the welcome center sweeps.

Code: MemorialDay

As always, log out and log back in to see your new point balance after the sweeps, even if you don’t win.

Squish the space together (link not working correctly)
https:// www.shopyourway.com/app/2/l/instantwin/welcomecenter

@freebird097
Sweeps weekly is sent out somewhat randomly. It only works if you have the initial email titled Sweeps Weekly.

I didn’t get it this week. Make sure you have email subscriptions for SYW and Sears.

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

• No bonus rounds in any of the apps today… maybe they’ll announce one later today, but I can’t remember the last time they did that

• Swago starts today, but remember that there’s no wheel/bonus points, so only do the squares you need to submit your board. The most you can earn without spending $ on SB Local or MyGC+ is 70 SB for either the bottom row or the far right column.

• AdGate Media has double SB on all offers. Now’s the best time to do 1-2 SB coupon prints, 2 SB timed online arcade games, and surveys. I feel like the value of the quizzes were all reduced so you basically get the same amount when the points are ‘doubled’… so I’m not doing then on principle.

• Yesterday I noted that TLTG ran 1-Click offers at 2am EST two nights in a row, well last night they did it at 12am EST for 30 minutes, so it’s not a predictable time or length, but at least the late night block ‘appears’ to be back consistently.

I did the second row swago for 35 SB, I think. Didn’t feel like purchasing from mygcplus or setting up the local.

This month’s welcome center instant win tab has a pink doorbuster tag for 1,000 SYW points, for most people. After doing the instant win sweeps even if you don’t win, log out and then log back in, you should be 1,000 points richer.

to do the sweeps, you must use code (capital letter important): Easter

https://www.shopyourway.com/app/2/l/contests/WelcomeCenter

copy and paste below, if above link doesn’t work correctly:
https://www.shopyourway.com/app/2/l/contests/WelcomeCenter

@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

@ctujackbauer “You were so close!”, sigh. Thanks anyway. Maybe others can cash in on this doorbuster!

For me, sweeps instant wins and Win It! spin wins have petered away the last couple of weeks. A few months ago, I was averaging close to $10/wk spending a few minutes a day on them. Now it’s closer to $2, if that…

if you saw the pink doorbuster tag, i’d definitely check your point balance by logging out and logging back in. i didn’t win anything on the spin/instant win game too.

This month’s welcome center sweeps/instant win has a doorbuster tag for most people, so you get $1 in points after spinning even if you don’t win anything on the actual spin. Log out and log back in after spinning to see your point balance.

use code: personalshopper
to be able to play the sweep

https://www.shopyourway.com/app/2/l/instantwin/500-welcome-center-checkin/44895

if that link doesn’t work use, copy and paste.
https://www.shopyourway.com/app/2/l/instantwin/500-welcome-center-checkin/44895

@mistercheap
Most of ibotta’s bonus offers and mobile bonus offers are ymmv. I also got 2x $1 for $2 back.

@yoregano said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:

I got an email about downloading the Bing app and getting 500 points and double mobile search points for 30 days. I installed it and have used it, but I have not gotten 500 points and am still only able to get 100 mobile search points per day. I am getting double PC search points, at least. Anyone else have success with this?

I installed it a couple of weeks ago, uninstalled, then reinstalled it for this promotion (even though mobile points are available every day). I’m pretty sure I never got the 500 bonus points.

@fatwking said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:

@ukedog said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:

@fatwking I occasionally use DuckDuckGo, and would probably do so more if I was in a witness protection program or had a high security profile somewhere. I just use Bing for the rewards (it’s my home page, but I only use it a few minutes each morning).

At this point Microsoft should be aware that I like quickly flashing up news briefs, movie cast members, and dig Amazon gift cards. Beyond that, not so much–well, at least from Bing.

I too value privacy, and don’t participate in social media stuff like Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Never have! Oh well. And I’m more humored than bothered by “targeted” ads that pop for me thanks to prior Google searches.

We, the people, have the power to take back our privacy that these big techs have decimated and blatantly violated. If enough people started using alternatives that work just as well and actually defend our privacy, these tech behemoths (Goog, Amz, Fbook, Msft, etc.) will lose power and will bend to the will of the people. We need to take that power away from them.

(mod note: this is an off-topic post, but I’m replying to off-topic replies. Thanks UkeDog for the heads up on 300 points a day, it supercharged my amazon redemption for 2 weeks)

Big tech monopolies are similar to landline telephones; it works better if the person on the other end has one, otherwise it doesn’t really work at all.

Facebook especially so because while there will always be a market for niche social media networks, if your friends, family, and long last pals from high school are sharing posts then you’re going to need to facebook to see it - otherwise you end up with a completely public social media site like twitter.

Amazon has its advantages in cloud software and web hosting because of its unparalleled size, and even IT workers get certs in AWS just so they can have transferable skills for their next employer (or to keep their current one).

Microsoft is pretty much regarded as a monopoly. There’s always room for linux and mac.

Google is the closest thing to a consumer-created monopoly. There’s no real reason to use it over other search engines, other than the fact that it just works better than everything else out there. Google Maps and the Google Chrome browser especially so; Microsoft even bases Microsoft Edge on Chromium, the Google Chrome’s software underpinnings.

The enemy strikes again.

And by enemy, I mean private equity leverage buyout firms.

@kohlspowrshopper said in Free Food and Drink for the Frugal Valentine - Feb 14:

Starbucks: Free Any Espresso Starting at 3pm for Rewards Members w/ App

Starbucks is actually a bogo. Thanks though.

Hopefully people can post updates to new pizza deals, some of the restaurants haven’t fully announced their deals yet.

Blaze Pizza: Two pepperoni pizzas for just $10 when ordering online.

Caulipower has set up a special site people must visit on National Pizza Day 2019 to take advantage of a buy one, get one free deal set to last until Valentine’s Day.

Chuck E. Cheese’s is offering a free XL upgrade on any large pizza purchase all this week, ending on National Pizza Day. Just enter code 4860 at the register.

Cicis: A vague Facebook post said: “We heard you. Stay tuned. Saturday 2.9.19.” Check out the link to the “Pizza Challenge” on Saturday for the mystery deal.

Domino’s: Enter a contest to win up to $500 of pizza. There are also 10,000 $5 or $4 e-gift codes to win. The quicker you react when the prizes flash up on the screen, the more you win.

Little Caesar’s: Stuffed Pretzel Crust Pizza for $9 or simply the Pretzel Crust Pizza for $6. Order between 4 and 8 p.m. to get the deal.

Marco’s Pizza: Two medium one-topping pizzas for $6.99 each.

Papa John’s: Use the code CARRYOUT6 to get a medium one-topping pizza for $6, a deal now extended until March 3. On carryout only.

Papa Murphy’s: Sign up to receive offers by text or email and get 25% off when you order $20 or more of food online.

Pizza Hut: Any Large Pizza Hut pizza for $10.99. Use the promo code “THANKYOU” when at the checkout—but the deal is only valid for carry out. The deal last until February 17.

Round Table Pizza: For every pizza purchased on National Pizza Day, in-store or delivery, Round Table Pizza will donate $1 to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Each customer will also receive a coupon for a free Original Personal Pizza. The offer can be redeemed for either cheese or pepperoni, is dine-in only, and valid on your next visit in February.

Toppers Pizza: Pick any two of either house pizza, three-topping pizza or ’Stix of any size for $9.99 each when you order online only. Customers are then entered into a draw to win a year’s free food from Toppers.

$500 points split over 50 weeks of $10 at Sears?
$100 points split over 20 weeks of $5 at Kmart?

[movie guy voice-over] Eddie Lampert’s carny games continue, this time… with higher stakes [/movie guy voice-over]