Swagbucks!!! Why Didn't I Start This Sooner??

[kristenrice]

Thank you to those who mentioned SwagBucks.

I figured that I had too many rewards programs to keep track of and not enough time to invest in order to make them worthwhile. I checked my SwagBucks account this morning (I signed up a while ago but never really paid attention to it) and I had about 185 SB. I've taken a few surveys today and I've been running videos on the app on my phone and I've already cashed out for a $5 Target gift card AND I have 410 MORE points in my account. On top of that, I did the Dlyte offer and bought a $25 Starbucks card (which I needed anyways) and I have another 1500 SB that will be available on Monday. That equates to $25 in just a few days with almost NO EFFORT on my part.

 

[RyuKokoro]

Lol I just signed up because of your post and I already have close to 100 points. Thanks so much for this. I can't use most of the store gift cards but the eBay and paypal gift cards will be very very welcome.

 

[Jajone]

What is the Dlyte offer?

 

[Narnia_girl]

Thank you to those who mentioned SwagBucks.

I figured that I had too many rewards programs to keep track of and not enough time to invest in order to make them worthwhile. I checked my SwagBucks account this morning (I signed up a while ago but never really paid attention to it) and I had about 185 SB. I've taken a few surveys today and I've been running videos on the app on my phone and I've already cashed out for a $5 Target gift card AND I have 410 MORE points in my account. On top of that, I did the Dlyte offer and bought a $25 Starbucks card (which I needed anyways) and I have another 1500 SB that will be available on Monday. That equates to $25 in just a few days with almost NO EFFORT on my part.

I also learned a ton on how to maximize Swagbucks on this board. Be sure to read the big Swagbucks Thread, at least the first few pages for a lot of great tips.
If you sit down in the evening to watch TV (or anytime you are on a laptop), click on the Watch tab on Swagbucks and choose videos to play. You can turn the sound off, and even darken the screen if you like. After you watch 10 you get three SB but the nice thing is you don't have to watch the full video. It usually credits you with watching them after 20-25 seconds. Just keep an eye on the green meter up top and when it advances, click on the next video.
BONUS: I'm making recipe tomorrow I first saw on the Soup videos.

If you meet your goal for 7 days in a row, you get bonus points at the start of the next month. Bonus points go up the more days you hit your goal, but they also raise your goal accordingly!

What is the Dlyte offer?

It was 1500 SB for buying a gift card on Dlyte. I think it's gone now--they got swamped.

 

[kristenrice]

OK, I am officially addicted.

I have been watching the videos on my laptop and phone (simultaneously) while taking the gold surveys and I have racked up ANOTHER 500 SB's. That makes a total of 1500 SB's since yesterday....$15 in Target gift cards!! Sooooooo easy! I'm sure that the points come fairly easily when you first start because I have so many offers that are available, but still....$15 in just two days....and that does NOT include the additional 1500 ($15) that should come through when they finally process the gift card I bought from Dlyte.

 

[JennysSeven]

Wow you're doing great! I don't qualify for many of the surveys (although I have no idea why, lol) but even without those I've earned a nice amount of points in the past month or so I've been doing it. Oh, and if you're building points pretty quickly save them for the $25 gift card rather than doing a bunch of $5s--your first $25 gift card each month is discounted--only 2200 points instead of 2500, whereas 5 $5 gift cards will cost you the whole 2500 points. I just found this out a couple days ago when I went to redeem points for the first time.

 

[kristenrice]

Wow you're doing great! I don't qualify for many of the surveys (although I have no idea why, lol) but even without those I've earned a nice amount of points in the past month or so I've been doing it. Oh, and if you're building points pretty quickly save them for the $25 gift card rather than doing a bunch of $5s--your first $25 gift card each month is discounted--only 2200 points instead of 2500, whereas 5 $5 gift cards will cost you the whole 2500 points. I just found this out a couple days ago when I went to redeem points for the first time.

Yeah....and it just dawned on me that I should be saving up in 2500SB increments anyways so that I can cash out for $25 into my PayPal account. That way, I can use the PayPal debit and earn a 1% rebate when using it to buy discounted Target cards.

 

[RainSW6]

Totally agree, this board has been awesome in pointing people to Swagbucks and giving tips on how to earn easily! I'm sooo grateful!

I've only been at it since February (with some weeks where I wasn't 'swagging' at all) after I read the big Swagbucks post on here, but have already cashed out $300 with basically doing nothing. And I'm halfway to my next $50 cashout. It's definitely going to make our next Disney trip less painful on our bank account, lol.

I also got selected to test some diapers, which I was skeptical about, but it ended up being a popular name brand that I buy anyway, so I got about $40 in diapers free and delivered to my door. Not too shabby! Plus it's a fun community on their Facebook page!

 

[havaneselover]

Thanks for the post. I'm going on a Disney Cruise next August and going to give Swagbucks a shot. Hoping to earn enough to pay for the photo cd ($350).

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I had thought Swagbucks would be great for me but I've barely qualified for surveys and if I watch videos on my phone it'll use up alot of my bandwidth same with having the videos run while I'm watching TV (especially right now when my oldest is home from college and using up our internet bandwith like a maniac) so I don't know that it will be as good for me as I'd hoped.

I have been shopping and using Orbitz recently so I've gone through Swagbucks on that but it's slow going for me.