A Review of Swagbucks
With Christmas around the corner and my husband’s bonus (which makes up a large part of his salary) dwindling as the holiday approaches I decided I needed to find a way to earn some extra money. I browsed the Thrifty forum on Diaperswappers and saw several users mention Swagbucks. It was a site I was vaguely familiar with as I’d tried to use it when I initially lost my job three years ago. For the moment, I couldn’t remember why I’d stopped using it and decided to give it a try. After all, a newly unemployed woman can be a bit less inclined to work with such things than a woman who is a mother of two and struggling to make ends meet.
Most people look at it this way: how bad can it be? You’re just spending your time. That’s true, but with that said I recall my initial problem with this site. In regards to the surveys, all I end up doing is wasting time. When you initially sign up for the website you enter qualifying information such as your gender, location, and annual income. However, whenever I go to a survey it asks me for the same information. Then it allows me to complete the survey and then I get a message saying, “Sorry, you do not qualify for the survey at this time”. Really? Then why exactly did you let me take it?
For my wasted ten minutes I earn approximately 1 Swagbuck. Hmm. Not exactly worth it in my opinion. However, maybe some of you have found other way to earn from the site and wouldn’t mind sharing your advice?
qsefthuko on October 10th, 2012 7:31 pm
I wish. I usually get points doing the trial things. Such as free netflix for a week. Then I must cancel or get charged. Except that in the case of netflix it is cheaper than cable so we made the switch. I also filled out for insurance quotes. We did save $22 monthly doing that because we now have cheaper insurance with state farm. Pretty quick though these free trial things will end because you can only do them once. Like you I find it a waste of my time to spend an hour a day and only get maybe 4-5 points from all of the surveys I wound up not qualifying for.
Kelly3139 on October 10th, 2012 7:32 pm
I used the trade in program to get swagbucks for old electronics we did not use. I turned in two old blackberry’s for 1800 swagbucks.
I also use the search function pretty frequently for random swagbucks. It seems if you are searching for something obscure then you get points. I have found if you log out for a couple weeks and log back in and search you get 50 swagbucks so I do that.
I quit the surveys for the same reason you stated a complete waste of time.
billbuckly on October 11th, 2012 8:52 am
Shop to Earn, trade-ins, and random bucks for searches are where my earnings come from. I used to get 1 to 2 $5 Amazon cards a month but lately only one every couple months.
Reuben Christopher on October 12th, 2012 1:50 am
I have the search box installed on my top bar. I use it to search ( even to go to my email or facebook) and get my swagbucks that way. Plus you get a swagbuck a day (if you open your web browser) just for having the search box thingy installed. I also do the daily poll (another sb) and run through the trial offer stuff (I always say no but for about 30 seconds of my time I get 2 sb’s). All these things add up! AND you get 50 sb’s on your Birthday! I know that doesn’t seem like much but it always makes me smile
Angel894 on October 14th, 2012 8:14 pm
Almost all mine come from the search bar and I have been using shop and earn.