I’ll try to make time to check out today’s offerings on the new site and update this post with answers for any new questions.

I really appreciate PhatWallet having provided a new home for our FW activities. The admin peeps have been nothing but welcoming and eager to make updates to accommodate our needs and generally improve the site. I wish the same could be said of the Bee. My family has subscribed to the print edition since moving to the area in 1979. Reliability of delivery, response to customer services inquiries, and quality of the product all have declined markedly in recent years, while the price has increased. A customer service rep once laughed at me for insisting that a missed delivery be redelivered the next day … “Ha ha! Don’t you know you can read it online?” … Yes, of course, but my 84-year-old father demands to read a hard copy while he eats breakfast. And your product makes great wrapping paper and firestarter, lol.

Stuff on the new site:

Daily Quiz = Esophagus / Fish
Submit a Code – Daily Code Word = Mittens (same as today’s Buzz Word)

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421676 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421615 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421737 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421371 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.

Reader Quest 12/1/17 = Trump / Migraine / Amazon

@pumbug said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

@kateivan
Just noticed that Bee’s new program moved only November earned BuzzPoints over as legacy…to the new program…does that mean
we must spend our other 5 months totals before Dec 31 or they will be gone???

Unclear at this point. We’ll have to monitor whether the other points get migrated.

Here’s what worked for me on the new Sacbee Rewards site …

• newsletter signup
• Daily Quiz 12.1.17
• Reader Poll 12-1-17
• SacBee Rewards DAILY code word = SNIFFLES (same as today’s Buzz Word on BBP)
• SacBee Rewards Daily (MN-FR) FACEBOOK Code = Thor: Ragnarok (same as today’s FB code on BBP)
• SacBee Rewards FRIDAY Ticket bonus code = SNOW (same as current Ticket code on BBP)
• Read Articles – points took a while to be credited (I did the ‘get social,’ games, and videos until the article points appeared)
• Facebook share article
• GET SOCIAL – Facebook like and Twitter follow
• GAMES – clicking one of the games will open a new tab that when finished loading will credit the points (no need to actually play the game) – return to SBR tab to click the next game until reaching the 500-point max
• WATCH OUR VIDEOS – clicking this button opens a new tab – points were credited after ad completes and the actual content begins playing – clicking for more on the video tab didn’t earn any points – closed tab, clicked ‘watch out videos’ button again, let the ad play and content begin, and another 500 points got credited – repeated until reached 2,500 max for the day (and nicely there was a message saying “thank you for watching, you’ve reached the max today” (and I think you can start the first one, return to the SBR tab and click the button to open a second video tab, and so on, so that all 5 will run pretty much concurrently)
• Reader Quest – GM, Fiona, and Muslims are the answers. Nice that the section and page numbers were provided-- hopefully in the future they’ll also provide the dates!! All of the answers were from yesterday’s paper (11/30). I did word searches in the e-edition archives in order to find the answers.

Tomorrow, depending on how much time I have and whether anybody is even interested, I can make a (shorter) list of what isn’t working. My first wish is that the tasks I complete would fall off the “get points” page or at least move to the bottom of the list. Slow response time is another issue.

Overall, I agree with @karinjel’s assessment. In my opinion, the new rewards site is cumbersome and was not ready to go live. As of this writing, if the Bee is dropping Triton trivia, I will participate only until BBP goes away at the end of the year. Sure, the chances of winning the larger national prizes are slim, but at least we have a chance at them. If BBP goes away entirely and is replaced by the new Sacbee Rewards site, it doesn’t seem we’ll have any chance at those national contests at all. This change may become a factor in whether my family decides to renew our print subscription.

The R&W string posted by @akamos is working perfectly!

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421675 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421614 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421736 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421370 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.

DV1 = blue
DV2 = Luis Murphy Jr.

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421674 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421613 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421735 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421369 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.

DV1 = brown
DV2 = Ramapo

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421673 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421612 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421734 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421368 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.

1K weekly bonus http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/asp2/codedetail.aspx?type=4&setid=10067
5K weekly bonus http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/asp2/codedetail.aspx?type=4&setid=10068

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421672 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421611 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421733 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421367 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.

(Sun) OnTV Bonus Book Weekly 25K = Markie Post

DV1 = North Lake Tahoe
DV2 = Prince Harry

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421671 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421610 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421732 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421366 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

But see @TooOldTooSlow’s post from this morning:

Monday 11/27 Open Video Entertainment Gallery in online first…you can fast watch the videos and get a 100 watched videos…then go over to Mobile site and do all the reg trivia. No need to open / watch any additional videos in online…you will not get any more pts.

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.

Do these videos on the mobile site before you empty out your trivia questions (or the links won’t work) but after you’ve maxed out video watching on the desktop site [posting a sampling for posterity as all the videos were on the mobile site again this morning]

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421670 ~~~ Awesome Women (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421609 ~~~ Awesome Women 2 (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421731 ~~~ Country Music Videos (enter — and submit)

http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/m/MobileCodeDetail.aspx?moduleType=trivia&instanceID=421365 ~~~ Comedy Central Videos (enter — and submit)

Here’s an additional tip:

toooldtooslow said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):

[Y]ou should always open (watch the video…in a new tab…note menu selection still open in original tab) in the online website before you close it in the mobile site. I have found for the last week Health & Wellness video selection in the online website will allow you to fast watch. You can click back and forth between two videos and get another 100 watched videos for an additional 50K pts in under 2 minutes when you find the perfect video that lets you do this trick. Does not work if mobile site is cleared first and then you try to open the same video in the online site.