Good Morning Swaggernauts!
Now now, put down those rotten tomatoes and heads of raunchy lettuce please! I know I have been away a while. I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. I STILL LOVE SWAGBUCKS AND SWAGMELT lol! However, I get in these.. ruts. best way to describe them. Being Bipolar and ADHD means that sometimes I pull back and take a break from things that I don't have to clock in for *laugh*. I know, it's not terribly funny, but if I'm laughing at myself you can laugh at me too :P
I have to get back in the swing here! To start, today is going to be a very very short post. I had a really good question from Faithful Swaggernaut Lorraine. So for this morning, I'm going to answer it, and today do some real homework again so I can get a Good, Thick post to you tomorrow.
Thanks for sticking with me, this week off I've done a lot of Thinking about the blog. I can't do special offer posts every day, but I *DO* so love to answer questions. I also have ideas for HOW to do the redesign of the site, I'm excited about them, now the problem is sitting on my lazy butt to do them :P
So for now, on to the question, and a real SwagMelt post is in the works for the morning!
I can tell you truly LOVE Swagbucks, and I can say that I'm happy I found them and have already received Amazon cards and a couple Pay Pal ones, and I just started in November. But I have had very iffy results when I don't get credited for surveys or special offers. I know I've complained about this before, sorry to sound repetitive. I find that sometimes this is taken care of after a lot of effort on my part, and sometimes not. Currently I applied for a credit card under Paymentwall and I am owed over 1800 SB's that I have not received. Now I know I was approved for the card, got the email from them letting me know, but Paymentwall just keeps asking for the email, then tells me I didn't put a code in they asked (which I did) and now have just left me hanging. If I don't get these points, I don't know how I'm going to feel about Swagbucks anymore. It's one thing not to get 26 SB's for a survey a few times, which bugs me anyway, but to not credit over 1800? How does one get over that?--Lorraine
I tell you what, special offers is the Only thing about SwagBucks that I don't love- and sometimes HATE *chuckle*
The thing that keeps me from getting mad at SwagBucks about it is that I have done these same offers from the same companies on other search & reward / get paid to sites. They have the same track record everywhere you go. The difference is in how SwagBucks responds to our needs, and how reliable they are with their payouts.
In this case, I would take all the information you submitted to PaymentWall, and go to the Contact SwagBucks link on the homepage to submit a ticket to SwagBucks. Choose Special Offer from the drop down menu, fill in the company name (PaymentWall) and the offer name, and get the ticket ID for your inquiry. Tell them when you did the offer, what proofs you have submitted, submit those same proofs to SwagBucks. Give them every detail you think matters to the case. It may take a little bit but SwagBucks has Always had my back. PaymentWall had me chasing my tail over 576 sbs for almost a month a little while back. The moment I got in touch with SwagBucks, they paid up. I submitted one request to SwagBucks covering 5 offers from TapJoy spanning over a months time. It took a couple of weeks, but out of the blue all five of the offers credited, with emails from SwagBucks and TapJoy both apologizing.
This is why no matter how bad the offers may Suck, how shoddy the offer companies treat you, I don't get mad at SwagBucks about it. They don't place the offers or list the advertisers. They do however do their part to make the companies pay up when payment is due. And unlike other similar sites that shall for now remain nameless *laugh* you get your Amazon cards, etc, in a couple of weeks, versus a couple of months. (41 days and counting waiting for a $5 AGC from the Zoo.... LOL)
<3 Thanks for asking Lorraine, I hope this helps a bit!
Until Tomorrow Swagfriends...
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!
19 December 2010
12 December 2010
SBTV, NOSO, Elf Me Not, & a $250,000 Giveaway!
Happy Sunday Swaggernauts!
I know, I know, I am a SLACKER!! I told you several days ago I was taking the day off.. and took three instead! Despite the nagging feelings of guilt, I just needed a break. This time it wasn't due to illness (though Isaac and I are pretty sick with a cold, it's not enough to stop me!) it was a simple case of minor burn out. Special offers did me in, and sometimes I just need to step back and let things go for a while. I'm sorry if any of you missed me, but there wasn't TOO much to post about- the good news is I did manage to snag a couple of screenshots during that time for today's blog. It's all helter skelter, and I didn't take good notes like I usually do, so today's blog may read a bit erm... scatterbrained (LOL) but I gotta flex my fingers, and my brain, and get back in the groove!
Before I start, let me share the fun I had while I was away. Yesterday was my son's second birthday. Though we were sick, and I *almost* thought I was going to have to postpone his "party" until today, we still managed to have a lot of fun. I was able to get him presents via SwagBucks, and a gift my Dad sent over, but this is the first time I felt the challenge of having a birthday so close to Christmas. Fortunately, I GOT this! I've got Swag Bucks on my side this year! I've gotten all my Christmas shopping done except for Isaac, but I have $50 PayPal and $22 left in Amazon that says this won't be a problem! I know, I know, SLACKING again, I have to order it by tomorrow, but last night I stayed up until 1 am wrapping, wrapping, wrapping. I was even able to get my husband a gift this year, something I haven't been able to do for Christmas in 2 years!
So, if anyone from Swag Bucks reads this, Thank You for running such an Awesome service. I know you make money, but we ALL make money, it's the first WIN - WIN - WIN business I've ever seen. *gets all teary eyed* I couldn't have done Christmas, or my kids 3 birthdays, without you. *sobers up!* Seriously, though, I'm sure you all believe in your business, enjoy your jobs (for the most part?). I'm sure you've heard it before, how much of a help Swag Bucks has been to folks, but you may not know the extent of the difference it has made in some of our lives.
Thank you not only for the chance to earn all this free swag, but for being so ON TOP with customer service, for fixing issues, listening to our feedback and making changes that work for the community. For going to bat for us with the offer companies! Thank you for adding and tweaking features all the time (also for giving me so much to blog about with all these new features LOL). Just, Thank you all!
Also, I wanna thank the folks that frequent the Swagbucks Facebook wall. This is at least half of the reason I prefer Swag Bucks to any other search and reward, or GPT, Get Paid To, site. The other major 2, ZoomBucks and iRazoo, have Facebook walls also, but there's no sense of community, or family, there. Most of the people who do talk are also active lurkers / posters on the Swagbucks wall. *chuckle*
And as we all know...
Thanks for making me laugh, a Lot. Thanks for helping new members, and there are Always new members, with patience. The more people that stick with the Swag, the bigger Swagbucks can grow. Which can only mean more opportunities for Us All.
Ok, enough sappy sweet toothache love fest :P
Where to start? *rifles through her GIMP files for screenshots*
Let's get the obvious out of the way. Swag Bucks TV, Captchas, and Autoplay Control.
Many swaggernauts have been taking full advantage of the autoplay features on SBTV, letting it run nonstop for many hours. All day. All night. *laugh* (they must have far better systems than mine LOL) There have been many reports of 15 SBTV wins a day. TSG tells us Team Swag Bucks is all for us winning that many times a day. If we are dedicated enough, hey, Go for it! However, the spirit of the agreement is that we actually Watch the videos. Partly because they make their money - and earn the money to fund Our swag snagging, from the advertisers, and I'm guessing, the companies that compile the videos we are watching. If we aren't watching, those people aren't getting what they paid for, and SwagBucks stands to lose out on money. Which in turn would lessen the wins for us all. Or raise the prices of the swagloot.
This is why they brought back the CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHAs are three letters you have to enter within a certain amount of time to be able to claim your Swagbucks. The point is to prove you are really there, and that you aren't a "bot" program set to run things automatically without the need of your presence.
Ok this is not an SBTV CAPTCHA, but the principal is the same. 3 letters, limited time. So far I haven't seen any captchas, but these past few days since this has rolled out, I haven't been using the computer nearly as much or in the way that I usually do. I didn't spend much time on SBTV, I don't think I even got a single win yesterday. But I only watched about 8 videos before I moved on to other things. The times I have won however have not had the captchas. I'm guessing it's random like the win itself.
They've received a lot of feedback asking that Autoplay be something we could turn on or off. Now that the captchas are back , we'd like to have a moment to enter the captcha before the video switches, and we lose our chance. They heard our wishes and brought in Autoplay Control.
All you have to do is click the ON button, and it changes to OFF. Easy! Now if they could weed out more of the videos that consistently hang and freeze for users (Half Rickshaw vid, anyone? anyone) I'd be much more likely to use SBTV consistently again.
Swag Bucks has also implemented a new "featured offer" on the home page and special offers page. This will change at intervals, and once you've completed the offer, it will be removed from your special offer wall.
When it first rolled out, it was an at&t video / vote offer. Watch the video, vote, receive 8 swagbucks. Its currently the GE Wind, Water, and Lights offer. If you didn't complete it when they ran it in November (on the homepage rotating slideshow) you simply upload a picture that describes to you one or all of Wind, Water, or Lights. This gets you 7 swagbucks.
I like it, as long as it keeps changing with enough frequency for me to get use out of it :P
Also the appearance of the NOSO page has changed. It explains in 3 easy graphical steps how to complete the NOSO swagbuck quest.
Looks different, works the same :) Click "Start Earning Now" and skip through the offers (unless it's something you are genuinely interested in!) to get your swagbuck. There are usually between 1-3, occasionally as many as 6, to go through.
One special offer warning, and one special offer funny. Funny first.
Is it just me, or does the mere mention of Pirate Hats and Songs raise a red flag about the company? I dunno why, but this made me chuckle.
Now the warning. On the SuperRewards wall is an offer to "Turn your friends into Elf's with Elf Me". It says you must install the plugin to get your swagbucks. 1st off, be careful installing plug ins. B: This offer doesn't work. There is no plugin to install, therefore you can go through the whole photo process and you won't receive your swagbucks. There have been other offers like this, it varies with the holiday. At Halloween it was zombies and vampires. Tapjoy has 2 versions of these, one being the plugin that FAILS, the other being a toolbar that has a virus in it. YAY! Just don't do them. Bad Juju.
And now, on to something completely different! I have to add this to the Freebie Spotlight tab! I got a free 1 year subscription to REDBOOK magazine, thanks to a link posted by the ladies who run Freebies R Us on Facebook. I've discovered a ton of holiday giveaways you should go enter! First there's a sweepstakes for $250,000!!
Just go to win250k.redbookmag.com to enter. This first page you see tells you that by using this form, you are signing up for a 1 year subscription, with the first month as a free trial. Note the yellow box! You don't have to sign up to the free trial to enter, simly click the link in that area to reach the truely free entry form.
Once you have entered that, you are registered for the redbook.com website, which enables you to go enter other sweepstakes. The link for the other giveaways is http://www.redbookmag.com/freebies or redbookmag.com/online-sweepstakes/ .
The giveaway I've highlighted is the "Giveaway a Day" sweepstakes.
Each day they give away a different prize, but the same prizes are rotated throughout the weeks. You can enter each type of prize giveaway once a day. The Jane Marvel bags all count as different items so you can enter each of those once a day.
The rest of the giveaways on the main sweepstakes page are for items like Fragrance sets, or gift cards. There are a LOT of neat gift card giveaways! They range from $50 at Payless Shoes to $1000 at Harry & David gourmet gifts & food. My FAVORITE giveaway is a 1 year, 3 DVD at a time Netflix membership. /swoon!
I'd LOVE to win that one. Of course, my preference would be to win the $250,000 prize. Then I could have all the Netflix I want, and the home theatre system to really enjoy it! *laugh!* These giveaways are one time only entries.
That's it for today, Swag Friends! See, I may not have been posting, but I was thinkin' of ya the whole time! Go enter those sweepstakes, and let me know if you win!!
Until Tomorrow...
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!
I know, I know, I am a SLACKER!! I told you several days ago I was taking the day off.. and took three instead! Despite the nagging feelings of guilt, I just needed a break. This time it wasn't due to illness (though Isaac and I are pretty sick with a cold, it's not enough to stop me!) it was a simple case of minor burn out. Special offers did me in, and sometimes I just need to step back and let things go for a while. I'm sorry if any of you missed me, but there wasn't TOO much to post about- the good news is I did manage to snag a couple of screenshots during that time for today's blog. It's all helter skelter, and I didn't take good notes like I usually do, so today's blog may read a bit erm... scatterbrained (LOL) but I gotta flex my fingers, and my brain, and get back in the groove!
Before I start, let me share the fun I had while I was away. Yesterday was my son's second birthday. Though we were sick, and I *almost* thought I was going to have to postpone his "party" until today, we still managed to have a lot of fun. I was able to get him presents via SwagBucks, and a gift my Dad sent over, but this is the first time I felt the challenge of having a birthday so close to Christmas. Fortunately, I GOT this! I've got Swag Bucks on my side this year! I've gotten all my Christmas shopping done except for Isaac, but I have $50 PayPal and $22 left in Amazon that says this won't be a problem! I know, I know, SLACKING again, I have to order it by tomorrow, but last night I stayed up until 1 am wrapping, wrapping, wrapping. I was even able to get my husband a gift this year, something I haven't been able to do for Christmas in 2 years!
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| The last 3 items for my stepdaughter! YAY! |
So, if anyone from Swag Bucks reads this, Thank You for running such an Awesome service. I know you make money, but we ALL make money, it's the first WIN - WIN - WIN business I've ever seen. *gets all teary eyed* I couldn't have done Christmas, or my kids 3 birthdays, without you. *sobers up!* Seriously, though, I'm sure you all believe in your business, enjoy your jobs (for the most part?). I'm sure you've heard it before, how much of a help Swag Bucks has been to folks, but you may not know the extent of the difference it has made in some of our lives.
Thank you not only for the chance to earn all this free swag, but for being so ON TOP with customer service, for fixing issues, listening to our feedback and making changes that work for the community. For going to bat for us with the offer companies! Thank you for adding and tweaking features all the time (also for giving me so much to blog about with all these new features LOL). Just, Thank you all!
Also, I wanna thank the folks that frequent the Swagbucks Facebook wall. This is at least half of the reason I prefer Swag Bucks to any other search and reward, or GPT, Get Paid To, site. The other major 2, ZoomBucks and iRazoo, have Facebook walls also, but there's no sense of community, or family, there. Most of the people who do talk are also active lurkers / posters on the Swagbucks wall. *chuckle*
And as we all know...
Thanks for making me laugh, a Lot. Thanks for helping new members, and there are Always new members, with patience. The more people that stick with the Swag, the bigger Swagbucks can grow. Which can only mean more opportunities for Us All.
Ok, enough sappy sweet toothache love fest :P
Where to start? *rifles through her GIMP files for screenshots*
Let's get the obvious out of the way. Swag Bucks TV, Captchas, and Autoplay Control.
Many swaggernauts have been taking full advantage of the autoplay features on SBTV, letting it run nonstop for many hours. All day. All night. *laugh* (they must have far better systems than mine LOL) There have been many reports of 15 SBTV wins a day. TSG tells us Team Swag Bucks is all for us winning that many times a day. If we are dedicated enough, hey, Go for it! However, the spirit of the agreement is that we actually Watch the videos. Partly because they make their money - and earn the money to fund Our swag snagging, from the advertisers, and I'm guessing, the companies that compile the videos we are watching. If we aren't watching, those people aren't getting what they paid for, and SwagBucks stands to lose out on money. Which in turn would lessen the wins for us all. Or raise the prices of the swagloot.
This is why they brought back the CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHAs are three letters you have to enter within a certain amount of time to be able to claim your Swagbucks. The point is to prove you are really there, and that you aren't a "bot" program set to run things automatically without the need of your presence.
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| I AM NOT A ROBOT in robot :P |
Ok this is not an SBTV CAPTCHA, but the principal is the same. 3 letters, limited time. So far I haven't seen any captchas, but these past few days since this has rolled out, I haven't been using the computer nearly as much or in the way that I usually do. I didn't spend much time on SBTV, I don't think I even got a single win yesterday. But I only watched about 8 videos before I moved on to other things. The times I have won however have not had the captchas. I'm guessing it's random like the win itself.
They've received a lot of feedback asking that Autoplay be something we could turn on or off. Now that the captchas are back , we'd like to have a moment to enter the captcha before the video switches, and we lose our chance. They heard our wishes and brought in Autoplay Control.
All you have to do is click the ON button, and it changes to OFF. Easy! Now if they could weed out more of the videos that consistently hang and freeze for users (Half Rickshaw vid, anyone? anyone) I'd be much more likely to use SBTV consistently again.
Swag Bucks has also implemented a new "featured offer" on the home page and special offers page. This will change at intervals, and once you've completed the offer, it will be removed from your special offer wall.
When it first rolled out, it was an at&t video / vote offer. Watch the video, vote, receive 8 swagbucks. Its currently the GE Wind, Water, and Lights offer. If you didn't complete it when they ran it in November (on the homepage rotating slideshow) you simply upload a picture that describes to you one or all of Wind, Water, or Lights. This gets you 7 swagbucks.
I like it, as long as it keeps changing with enough frequency for me to get use out of it :P
Also the appearance of the NOSO page has changed. It explains in 3 easy graphical steps how to complete the NOSO swagbuck quest.
Looks different, works the same :) Click "Start Earning Now" and skip through the offers (unless it's something you are genuinely interested in!) to get your swagbuck. There are usually between 1-3, occasionally as many as 6, to go through.
One special offer warning, and one special offer funny. Funny first.
Is it just me, or does the mere mention of Pirate Hats and Songs raise a red flag about the company? I dunno why, but this made me chuckle.
Now the warning. On the SuperRewards wall is an offer to "Turn your friends into Elf's with Elf Me". It says you must install the plugin to get your swagbucks. 1st off, be careful installing plug ins. B: This offer doesn't work. There is no plugin to install, therefore you can go through the whole photo process and you won't receive your swagbucks. There have been other offers like this, it varies with the holiday. At Halloween it was zombies and vampires. Tapjoy has 2 versions of these, one being the plugin that FAILS, the other being a toolbar that has a virus in it. YAY! Just don't do them. Bad Juju.
And now, on to something completely different! I have to add this to the Freebie Spotlight tab! I got a free 1 year subscription to REDBOOK magazine, thanks to a link posted by the ladies who run Freebies R Us on Facebook. I've discovered a ton of holiday giveaways you should go enter! First there's a sweepstakes for $250,000!!
Just go to win250k.redbookmag.com to enter. This first page you see tells you that by using this form, you are signing up for a 1 year subscription, with the first month as a free trial. Note the yellow box! You don't have to sign up to the free trial to enter, simly click the link in that area to reach the truely free entry form.
Once you have entered that, you are registered for the redbook.com website, which enables you to go enter other sweepstakes. The link for the other giveaways is http://www.redbookmag.com/freebies or redbookmag.com/online-sweepstakes/ .
The giveaway I've highlighted is the "Giveaway a Day" sweepstakes.
Each day they give away a different prize, but the same prizes are rotated throughout the weeks. You can enter each type of prize giveaway once a day. The Jane Marvel bags all count as different items so you can enter each of those once a day.
The rest of the giveaways on the main sweepstakes page are for items like Fragrance sets, or gift cards. There are a LOT of neat gift card giveaways! They range from $50 at Payless Shoes to $1000 at Harry & David gourmet gifts & food. My FAVORITE giveaway is a 1 year, 3 DVD at a time Netflix membership. /swoon!
I'd LOVE to win that one. Of course, my preference would be to win the $250,000 prize. Then I could have all the Netflix I want, and the home theatre system to really enjoy it! *laugh!* These giveaways are one time only entries.
That's it for today, Swag Friends! See, I may not have been posting, but I was thinkin' of ya the whole time! Go enter those sweepstakes, and let me know if you win!!
Until Tomorrow...
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!
09 December 2010
I beg your pardon, Swag Friends!
Good Morning Swaggernauts!
Do you ever have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? I've been having one of those since last night. None of the offers I've tried credit. Some won't even send confirmation emails. There's very little food in the house (thank God its payday) and my son refuses to eat the same things he's been eating for a week. I'm getting sick, or I'm just so stressed and tired I *feel* sick? I dunno. I stubbed my toe, burnt my wrist on the toaster oven, broke my favorite coffee cup in a spastic moment (it just flew out of my hands, how does that happen? LOL) and I can't focus long enough to get anything done for the blog .*chuckle* That might have something to do with getting less than 3 hours of sleep last night, bringing my total sleep hours for the last week to somewhere close to 28. Not. Nearly. Enough!
I'm pretty wore out on special offers posts, since so many of them are bad offers. (there are tons of good ones too but I've done them all hahaha!)
I have to take a break from offers because I'm starting to get mad about them, and that's never a good thing. I wish I had something new and exciting for you, but I just don't. *laugh* I'm sorry, I really don't have anything to post for you today.
So I've decided instead of a blog post, I'm going to retool the Beginner Tips tab over the course of the day, add a couple of things that are lacking from those tabs up top. For now though, I have to get away from this computer. It's cold as snowballs but my kids and I need some fresh air, so we are going to walk to the library. A good mile there and back in the brisk cold should wear them out, should energize me, and I will tackle it again later.
One thing I do wanna mention though- I have had a lot of people writing PMs to me on Facebook, or chatting with me in Instant Message there, asking a lot of questions. Just so you know, I LOVE THAT! Don't ever say sorry for asking questions. I'm weird I guess, but I really enjoy it. So if there is something you came here today hoping to read, or if you just can't manage to sift through old posts for your answer (I get it, I do!), please drop me a line on Facebook. If I don't answer right away, I'm taking that needed (and I hope deserved lol) break, but I will be on later!
So until later, or tomorrow, I bid you a Happy Thursday, and as always,
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!
Do you ever have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? I've been having one of those since last night. None of the offers I've tried credit. Some won't even send confirmation emails. There's very little food in the house (thank God its payday) and my son refuses to eat the same things he's been eating for a week. I'm getting sick, or I'm just so stressed and tired I *feel* sick? I dunno. I stubbed my toe, burnt my wrist on the toaster oven, broke my favorite coffee cup in a spastic moment (it just flew out of my hands, how does that happen? LOL) and I can't focus long enough to get anything done for the blog .*chuckle* That might have something to do with getting less than 3 hours of sleep last night, bringing my total sleep hours for the last week to somewhere close to 28. Not. Nearly. Enough!
I'm pretty wore out on special offers posts, since so many of them are bad offers. (there are tons of good ones too but I've done them all hahaha!)
I have to take a break from offers because I'm starting to get mad about them, and that's never a good thing. I wish I had something new and exciting for you, but I just don't. *laugh* I'm sorry, I really don't have anything to post for you today.
So I've decided instead of a blog post, I'm going to retool the Beginner Tips tab over the course of the day, add a couple of things that are lacking from those tabs up top. For now though, I have to get away from this computer. It's cold as snowballs but my kids and I need some fresh air, so we are going to walk to the library. A good mile there and back in the brisk cold should wear them out, should energize me, and I will tackle it again later.
One thing I do wanna mention though- I have had a lot of people writing PMs to me on Facebook, or chatting with me in Instant Message there, asking a lot of questions. Just so you know, I LOVE THAT! Don't ever say sorry for asking questions. I'm weird I guess, but I really enjoy it. So if there is something you came here today hoping to read, or if you just can't manage to sift through old posts for your answer (I get it, I do!), please drop me a line on Facebook. If I don't answer right away, I'm taking that needed (and I hope deserved lol) break, but I will be on later!
So until later, or tomorrow, I bid you a Happy Thursday, and as always,
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!
08 December 2010
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes! (SuperRewards) & Offer Alerts!
Good Afternoon Swag Friends :)
Today's post is pretty late. It's been hard to focus this morning! My stepkids mom pulled her out of preschool, now she's with us again. It's a shame. She was learning SO MUCH at school! This house is so Boring! *laugh*
I love having her around but I hate to see such a good brain go to waste. I've been trying to work and play with her at the same time, but I'm going to have to find a balance, or the blog will never get done. My 2 year old has finally gotten the routine down. Wake, play with mommy, eat, a little more mommy time, then play by himself / watch Sesame Street, mug mommy for hugs now and then, until I'm done. My daughter though, has a hard time understanding that it's hard to get stuff done if she is constantly stopping me to ask about trees at the North Pole or to see if we can have macaroni and cheese for dinner on Friday *chuckle!*
Good thing for Christmas I got her a LeapFrog Tag system from Amazon and a bundle of Tag books from eBay, courtesy of Swag Bucks! After Christmas I'm going to start saving for the phonics bundles that go with the Tag system. That way she can read / entertain herself while I post, and we can play / color / read together with Isaac after I'm done! (Sound like a good plan?)
I tried very hard to find good offers last night for today's blog post. All I ran into were problem offers. Well, at least I can help you to avoid Those! This morning SuperRewards loaded up some new free offers, but I haven't had a chance to test any of them besides the CityVille Zynga Facebook application. 20 minutes ago, still no credit.. maybe by the time I'm done posting this!
Before I start though, here's a quick tip for newer swaggernauts. I always say "search naturally". Use the search instead of your bookmarks. Here's a screenshot to show that it works- I even use the search to go to the Swagbucks Blog, SBTV, and the special offers page.
If you use the search naturally, to get to where you need to go instead of trying to come up with searches all day, you will get at least 3 search wins a day, 98% of the time. Spread out those searches too!
Oh, and real quick, before you read further, have you looked at gWallet and Gambit today? gWallet has a Degree video that pays out 5 times for 10 swagbucks total, and Gambit has videos too- but some users are having problems with the Gambit videos today. Some are getting mega swagbucks for them though!
Before I get to the special offer alerts, did you see SuperRewards' new View Offer Status screen? Check it out..
It sure LOOKS slick. *laugh* It's a lot easier to read, and I like how the right side shows an envelope with a red number to indicate you have a response waiting on open inquiries. I wonder though... Up top it says to create an account or log in to view full activity, play mini games, and more.
I don't want to sign up. I have a feeling if I sign up with one email address, then any time I use a different email for an offer, I will get refused swagbucks due to "fraudulent information" or some such nonsense. I could be wrong, I could be paranoid, but think about it.. and it seems plausible. I'm really curious about those mini games though. Are they FOR anything? I mean it would be pretty neat if you could win SuperRewards currency that you could redeem for whichever site you chose, whether it be for Swagbucks, or Embee points, or currency on your favorite Facebook game. I'm not going to sign up to find out though- Too Paranoid! hehehe
If you do try the games out, let me know what the scoop is, please? Thanks!
Back to the View Offer Status screen. If you have an offer that hasn't credited, click on the question mark circle for that offer at the right of the list. Before you can input your inquiry information, it will show you a long list of reasons why you may not get your currency despite your best efforts, and why Super Rewards may not be responsible for crediting you. Gotta love it.
Take a closer look at the last one. This one alarms the Heck out of me!
This section tells you basically to ignore your anti-virus software. !!! For real, look! "These programs not only flag viruses but also third-party cookies which the advertisers use to track your completion of the offers. Review the message from your anti-virus software and you will see that it is simply a warning. You do not need to be alarmed. We assure you that none of the offers displayed by Super Rewards contain viruses."
If this were the case, then every download I ever did through an offer company would set off a flag, because of the tracking cookies. And I would never get credit for any of them without the alerts. Also, my virus software is very good, and gives details about what the problem is. Now, I could see when it pops up saying "AdWare", that might be the tracking cookies for some offers.
However, when a virus alert pops up and screams TROJAN being installed into the Win32 section of my system, that is no innocent tracking cookie!
People will tell you anything, sell you anything, promise you anything.
Forget what they say and be VIGILANT if you are going to risk downloading anything. Do not ignore Malware or Trojan or "silent applications that try to take over your system by creating invisible subroutine" messages!
Unbelievable *shakes her head*. I can't believe they said that. So many people simply do not know better, and would trust SuperRewards at face value. Please, BE CAREFUL! And sad to say this but, be Cynical when it comes to these offer companies and their promises of safety. At least when it comes to downloads.
Just to show you an example of an actual virus in a download, (on TapJoy, not SuperRewards, though I *have* encountered this on SR as well in the past!) let's look at one of the TapJoy free offers that have popped up this week.
As I've said before, I like to test things out so I can blog for you. If it's good, you need to know. If it's bad, you Really need to know! So I took a stab at this, an offer for 27 on TapJoy's free tab.
Instant Alarm Bells in my head, which made me that much more curious, from a research standpoint. Screensavers from the web are OFTEN virus ridden. Who knows though, maybe I would get lucky.. *laugh!*
This link takes you to HappyScreensavers.com, and the first thing I saw, I wanted. (How very clever of them LOL. Conspiracies Everywhere! haha!)
That "Through the Looking Glass" one looks.. Nice! Maybe, just Maybe I will be able to get it without having to put my laptop in the hospital..
NOPE!!! Trojan alert, trying to install to Win32! YUCK, I KNEW IT! This is no darn tracking cookie.
Obviously, avoid this one like the plague. Plague for PC!
A lot of people say they Never, Ever download for swagbucks. Now, some things are NOT harmful! Take the Weather Channel app- I actually liked that! No virus, no harmful side effects. But without really good virus protection, it's definately better to be safe than sorry. Even with my software, stuff still slips through now and then (though usually from sites like Yahoo video or YouTube.)
Before I go on, while I'm on downloads, remember yesterdays post I mentioned the Fiesta download on Gambit? It's still something I consider a good offer, and a good download. TapJoy has it also- but for only 68 versus Gambits 84. For larger SB offers, shop around for the best price- it pays off!
Lets see *shuffles through her Windows notepad* what else have I got for you today?
2 more bad offers, and one good one. That's not a great ratio... Sorry! I tried!
First is just a mention, no screenshots. Ah and it's from TapJoy, big surprise *laugh!* "Submit your model resume to appear on a world-wide TV commercial!" for 47. This offer is from EliteMate, and I have tried it 3 different times with no credit, no response to inquiry. They want hottie girls because EliteMate is one of those sketchy dating services that covers the range from normal people, to cheating husbands and wives. *sigh* (what is wrong with this world??)
Don't bother. I didn't get credit, not because I'm not a hottie- the requirements say submit your photo not
"be gorgeous" LOL. Just because it's a bad offer that doesn't credit. Don't waste your time.
Next on the naughty list is an offer from gWallet. Technically it's not a bad offer, it's just one where you have to give out your financial information to get your swagbucks.
If you are seriously looking for a service that tracks your financial information, with the purpose of protecting you from Identity Theft, you might want to try it. Personally, I am very wary of such offers, and never finish them once I find out they want bank account or credit card numbers and information. Many services are real, many are frauds themselves.
Finally, I can get to a good offer that credits! I don't know how long this one will be around though.
This is a gift application through Facebook. You are supposed to send the "crazy turkey" gift to one friend. For 34 swagbucks, nice!
By the way, this screenshot and the rest show me having 0 gift tokens- I didn't take pics until the offer credited. Just plum forgot to! However, you start with 20 tokens. The gift you are supposed to send to get your credit is for 22 tokens. You have to do special offers to get the last 2. Fortunately this is Easy! They have videos from gWallet and PaymentWall!
The payout is 1 token per video, so just watch 2 videos and you are good to go! By the way, before I looked for videos, I tried three offers from SuperRewards on the gift app. None of them credited. Just go straight to the videos to avoid annoyance!
After you earn your two tokens, go back to the main page and choose the Crazy Turkey gift. Then choose a recipient.
Again, this says I have 0 tokens. I already sent it to myself, from my alternate SwagMelt Swaggernaut account. I didn't want to trash up anyones gift requests with an old Thanksgiving gift :P I didn't actually send this to Katie as I'd already completed the offer. You're welcome, Katie!
Press Buy This Gift, and after it sends, check your balance. The swagbucks showed up for me pretty much instantly, but others have reported it taking longer. As always, it varies, and no one knows why.
And there you have it! Managed to end on a high note, that's always good! Tonight I will go surfing through the new offers that loaded up today and see if I can't dig something up for you. Oh, by the way, my SuperRewards CityVille swagbucks (8) JUST arrived. Took almost an hour. But they came! Good Enough!
I'm off to make lunch and PLAY! YAY! Until tomorrow swag friends,
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!
If anyone reading this is not yet a member of Swagbucks, but wants to get on the swagtrain and start earning the free loot, there's no time like the present! Just go to the swidget , up top on the right there, press the Sign Up button on the bottom right. Fill out a short form, confirm your email, and get 30 swagbucks to get you rolling! Then come back here and click the Beginner Tips tab at the top of the blog. That should give you some quick pointers on how to get started!
Today's post is pretty late. It's been hard to focus this morning! My stepkids mom pulled her out of preschool, now she's with us again. It's a shame. She was learning SO MUCH at school! This house is so Boring! *laugh*
I love having her around but I hate to see such a good brain go to waste. I've been trying to work and play with her at the same time, but I'm going to have to find a balance, or the blog will never get done. My 2 year old has finally gotten the routine down. Wake, play with mommy, eat, a little more mommy time, then play by himself / watch Sesame Street, mug mommy for hugs now and then, until I'm done. My daughter though, has a hard time understanding that it's hard to get stuff done if she is constantly stopping me to ask about trees at the North Pole or to see if we can have macaroni and cheese for dinner on Friday *chuckle!*
Good thing for Christmas I got her a LeapFrog Tag system from Amazon and a bundle of Tag books from eBay, courtesy of Swag Bucks! After Christmas I'm going to start saving for the phonics bundles that go with the Tag system. That way she can read / entertain herself while I post, and we can play / color / read together with Isaac after I'm done! (Sound like a good plan?)
I tried very hard to find good offers last night for today's blog post. All I ran into were problem offers. Well, at least I can help you to avoid Those! This morning SuperRewards loaded up some new free offers, but I haven't had a chance to test any of them besides the CityVille Zynga Facebook application. 20 minutes ago, still no credit.. maybe by the time I'm done posting this!
Before I start though, here's a quick tip for newer swaggernauts. I always say "search naturally". Use the search instead of your bookmarks. Here's a screenshot to show that it works- I even use the search to go to the Swagbucks Blog, SBTV, and the special offers page.
If you use the search naturally, to get to where you need to go instead of trying to come up with searches all day, you will get at least 3 search wins a day, 98% of the time. Spread out those searches too!
Oh, and real quick, before you read further, have you looked at gWallet and Gambit today? gWallet has a Degree video that pays out 5 times for 10 swagbucks total, and Gambit has videos too- but some users are having problems with the Gambit videos today. Some are getting mega swagbucks for them though!
Before I get to the special offer alerts, did you see SuperRewards' new View Offer Status screen? Check it out..
It sure LOOKS slick. *laugh* It's a lot easier to read, and I like how the right side shows an envelope with a red number to indicate you have a response waiting on open inquiries. I wonder though... Up top it says to create an account or log in to view full activity, play mini games, and more.
I don't want to sign up. I have a feeling if I sign up with one email address, then any time I use a different email for an offer, I will get refused swagbucks due to "fraudulent information" or some such nonsense. I could be wrong, I could be paranoid, but think about it.. and it seems plausible. I'm really curious about those mini games though. Are they FOR anything? I mean it would be pretty neat if you could win SuperRewards currency that you could redeem for whichever site you chose, whether it be for Swagbucks, or Embee points, or currency on your favorite Facebook game. I'm not going to sign up to find out though- Too Paranoid! hehehe
If you do try the games out, let me know what the scoop is, please? Thanks!
Back to the View Offer Status screen. If you have an offer that hasn't credited, click on the question mark circle for that offer at the right of the list. Before you can input your inquiry information, it will show you a long list of reasons why you may not get your currency despite your best efforts, and why Super Rewards may not be responsible for crediting you. Gotta love it.
Take a closer look at the last one. This one alarms the Heck out of me!
This section tells you basically to ignore your anti-virus software. !!! For real, look! "These programs not only flag viruses but also third-party cookies which the advertisers use to track your completion of the offers. Review the message from your anti-virus software and you will see that it is simply a warning. You do not need to be alarmed. We assure you that none of the offers displayed by Super Rewards contain viruses."
If this were the case, then every download I ever did through an offer company would set off a flag, because of the tracking cookies. And I would never get credit for any of them without the alerts. Also, my virus software is very good, and gives details about what the problem is. Now, I could see when it pops up saying "AdWare", that might be the tracking cookies for some offers.
However, when a virus alert pops up and screams TROJAN being installed into the Win32 section of my system, that is no innocent tracking cookie!
People will tell you anything, sell you anything, promise you anything.
Forget what they say and be VIGILANT if you are going to risk downloading anything. Do not ignore Malware or Trojan or "silent applications that try to take over your system by creating invisible subroutine" messages!
Unbelievable *shakes her head*. I can't believe they said that. So many people simply do not know better, and would trust SuperRewards at face value. Please, BE CAREFUL! And sad to say this but, be Cynical when it comes to these offer companies and their promises of safety. At least when it comes to downloads.
Just to show you an example of an actual virus in a download, (on TapJoy, not SuperRewards, though I *have* encountered this on SR as well in the past!) let's look at one of the TapJoy free offers that have popped up this week.
As I've said before, I like to test things out so I can blog for you. If it's good, you need to know. If it's bad, you Really need to know! So I took a stab at this, an offer for 27 on TapJoy's free tab.
Instant Alarm Bells in my head, which made me that much more curious, from a research standpoint. Screensavers from the web are OFTEN virus ridden. Who knows though, maybe I would get lucky.. *laugh!*
This link takes you to HappyScreensavers.com, and the first thing I saw, I wanted. (How very clever of them LOL. Conspiracies Everywhere! haha!)
That "Through the Looking Glass" one looks.. Nice! Maybe, just Maybe I will be able to get it without having to put my laptop in the hospital..
NOPE!!! Trojan alert, trying to install to Win32! YUCK, I KNEW IT! This is no darn tracking cookie.
Obviously, avoid this one like the plague. Plague for PC!
A lot of people say they Never, Ever download for swagbucks. Now, some things are NOT harmful! Take the Weather Channel app- I actually liked that! No virus, no harmful side effects. But without really good virus protection, it's definately better to be safe than sorry. Even with my software, stuff still slips through now and then (though usually from sites like Yahoo video or YouTube.)
Before I go on, while I'm on downloads, remember yesterdays post I mentioned the Fiesta download on Gambit? It's still something I consider a good offer, and a good download. TapJoy has it also- but for only 68 versus Gambits 84. For larger SB offers, shop around for the best price- it pays off!
Lets see *shuffles through her Windows notepad* what else have I got for you today?
2 more bad offers, and one good one. That's not a great ratio... Sorry! I tried!
First is just a mention, no screenshots. Ah and it's from TapJoy, big surprise *laugh!* "Submit your model resume to appear on a world-wide TV commercial!" for 47. This offer is from EliteMate, and I have tried it 3 different times with no credit, no response to inquiry. They want hottie girls because EliteMate is one of those sketchy dating services that covers the range from normal people, to cheating husbands and wives. *sigh* (what is wrong with this world??)
Don't bother. I didn't get credit, not because I'm not a hottie- the requirements say submit your photo not
"be gorgeous" LOL. Just because it's a bad offer that doesn't credit. Don't waste your time.
Next on the naughty list is an offer from gWallet. Technically it's not a bad offer, it's just one where you have to give out your financial information to get your swagbucks.
If you are seriously looking for a service that tracks your financial information, with the purpose of protecting you from Identity Theft, you might want to try it. Personally, I am very wary of such offers, and never finish them once I find out they want bank account or credit card numbers and information. Many services are real, many are frauds themselves.
Finally, I can get to a good offer that credits! I don't know how long this one will be around though.
This is a gift application through Facebook. You are supposed to send the "crazy turkey" gift to one friend. For 34 swagbucks, nice!
By the way, this screenshot and the rest show me having 0 gift tokens- I didn't take pics until the offer credited. Just plum forgot to! However, you start with 20 tokens. The gift you are supposed to send to get your credit is for 22 tokens. You have to do special offers to get the last 2. Fortunately this is Easy! They have videos from gWallet and PaymentWall!
The payout is 1 token per video, so just watch 2 videos and you are good to go! By the way, before I looked for videos, I tried three offers from SuperRewards on the gift app. None of them credited. Just go straight to the videos to avoid annoyance!
After you earn your two tokens, go back to the main page and choose the Crazy Turkey gift. Then choose a recipient.
Again, this says I have 0 tokens. I already sent it to myself, from my alternate SwagMelt Swaggernaut account. I didn't want to trash up anyones gift requests with an old Thanksgiving gift :P I didn't actually send this to Katie as I'd already completed the offer. You're welcome, Katie!
Press Buy This Gift, and after it sends, check your balance. The swagbucks showed up for me pretty much instantly, but others have reported it taking longer. As always, it varies, and no one knows why.
And there you have it! Managed to end on a high note, that's always good! Tonight I will go surfing through the new offers that loaded up today and see if I can't dig something up for you. Oh, by the way, my SuperRewards CityVille swagbucks (8) JUST arrived. Took almost an hour. But they came! Good Enough!
I'm off to make lunch and PLAY! YAY! Until tomorrow swag friends,
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!
If anyone reading this is not yet a member of Swagbucks, but wants to get on the swagtrain and start earning the free loot, there's no time like the present! Just go to the swidget , up top on the right there, press the Sign Up button on the bottom right. Fill out a short form, confirm your email, and get 30 swagbucks to get you rolling! Then come back here and click the Beginner Tips tab at the top of the blog. That should give you some quick pointers on how to get started!
07 December 2010
Code breakdown + 2 Bad & 3 Good Offers
Good Morning Swag Friends!
I'm back! Things at the house have settled down some, and I've got an offer loaded SwagMelt for you today. Some good, Some bad, as usual!
First I wanna show you a couple of codes from Sunday and Monday.
Sunday I went to the Swagbucks Facebook wall as I do a hundred times a day, and I saw "Thanks, TSG!" all the way down. If you are a newer swaggernaut, when you see that, it means there is a code somewhere. The first thing I do when I see that is look up at the status message on the wall. It wasn't there! Checked the toolbar (and if you don't see a new message in there, click the blue word MESSAGES and it will take you to the latest post, just to be sure.) and the blog. Nope, and Nope! So I came here to SwagMelt and checked my swidget.
There's the code! Just click, hold the mouse button down and drag it over the code. Release, right click, choose Copy (or keyboard shortcut ctrl & C). Then go to the Swag Bucks home page, click the code box, right click and choose Paste! (or keyboard shortcut ctrl & V) Quick 7 swagbucks, YAY!
I got lucky! The code was just about expired, I wandered onto the Swagbucks Facebook wall just in time! Yet another reason to check back in there during the course of a day, whether you post or not.
Tonight, same scenario happened. I had been offline most of the day, dealing with my family stuff, and I just happened to mosey on into the Swagbucks Facebook wall at the right time. Thanks, TSG! as far as the eye could see! Same method.. Status? no. Toolbar? no. Blog? YES! Ooh and a fun code too!
Neato! We got to pick a code to "cast a vote" for who we thought would win last nights Pats / Jets game. (I voted Patriots! I was thinking, they were at home, 5-0 on their turf, and had revenge to seek for week two's loss!) If the majority of swaggernauts pick the winning team, we get a code for 14 on Friday!!
Now, we know the Patriots won! What we DON'T know is which code got the most votes. We probably won't know until Friday, when TSG pops up and surprises us with the code. *sings* Anticipation!
Speaking of anticipation! And indecision.... *chuckle* Check this out.
I should NOT be posting this. Because I WANT IT! But I'm having a crisis of decision.. Do I enter my usual 1 time? Or do I go all out and buy 250 entries? This is a very nice Worthington series acoustic electric guitar from Samick, designed by Greg Bennett. It sells for around $350!
I want this so bad my heart hurts! I haven't had a guitar since my sweet George (that's what I called him.. er.. it) met a tragic end, and I had to leave behind my electric when I came here to take care of my mom as she passed. My fingers ache to pluck strings, and I want to put the songs I've made up for my son to music!
SO DON'T YOU ENTER! ! (hahahah Just Kidding! I wouldn't post it if I didn't want you to know about it too! I mean, Wow, What a value!)
What do you think I should do? I'm kind of waiting to see if a 1000 swagbuck offer credits in inquiry without a huge fight. If it does, I think I will dump it straight into the swagstakes. I didn't think it would credit because I didn't get a confirmation email for 30 hours, (and had some strange message about needing to call to fix some unknown error) but now that it's there, I've submitted an inquiry. It feels kind of like a bonus, if it does credit.
Swag Bucks gave away one of these in February. It was won by Kyle J. of Milwaukee, WI. I wonder how many entries he put in??
Anyway, enough dreaming! I did a run of special offers last night. Usually, after I order all of my five $5 Amazon cards, I take 1 - 2 weeks off from offers, aside from videos. I'm running out of high paying free offers though, so I have to do more hunting for smaller ones.
The results were mixed as usual. 2 good offers, 2 fails, and one offer I saw posted again that I did a few months ago.
That offer is for the game Fiesta, by Outspark, found on the Gambit wall. It is a download, but if you like games, Everquest type magic and fighting games, it's worth it, because it's free to play. The download takes forever, but the graphics are very nice, gameplay is easy to learn, and though there is extra premium content, you can get by in the game without it. Plus, it's worth 84 swagbucks! I still have it installed, and play it once in a while when I have time- though for a while there I was staying up half of the night to play. Had to stop doing that.. old habits creep back in so quickly! Also, if you do play it, love it like I did, and want that premium content, you can pay for it with Ultimate Game Cards which you can order from the Swag Store.
Though right about now, I wish I could still do the offer :P I'm happy I did it in the first place, even happier that it credited for me with no hassle. You have to download, install it, create a character, and play the character to get your swagbucks.
The first offer I actually tried last night did not pan out for me, and I know why! It's another one of those where the requirements say one thing, but the advertiser actually expects another, so they never tell the offer company you completed it. It's a different version of the same type I have posted about several times.
This is on SuperRewards, "Get in the game with Sweet Daily Deals!" for 9 swagbucks. Usually these trick offers are for much more, so I was surprised when this one went down the same old path.
All you are supposed to have to do is fill out the first page with valid information, signing up for the Sweet Daily Deals site / newsletter.
Seems easy enough! Fill out that page, press continue, and TECHNICALLY that should be all you need.
The first warning sign was when no confirmation email showed up. I'd stayed on this page for a bit, but I figured I must have to get to the "end of the offer path" before they would send that email. So I went ahead and started in on the radial buttons!
Here's a tip for getting through those annoying buttons. Click NO on the first one, then press ALT & Down Arrow over and over and over until it's selected NO all the way down the page. Saves SO much time!
After 6 pages of buttons, 10 pages of "complete the survey below" pages (which you press SKIP to get through), I hit the dead end (and I didn't see it coming this time!)
SCREEEEEEECH! Halt! What? Complete silver, gold, and platinum offers? I'm confused!?! I thought this was for a website or a newsletter, not an offer to get a "free iPad" or Macbook or whatever!
Needless to say I stopped right there and checked my email. No confirmation, and no swagbucks. Time to write an inquiry! Ugh! I have to write them to tell them exactly what the offer requirements are, note that there is nothing which says a confirmation email is actually needed, and they need to get in touch with the advertiser about the actual payout terms for the offer.
The last part won't get anywhere, I'm sure. Hopefully, there's a 50 / 50 chance they will credit me. I'm not even sure I want to bother, for 9, but it's my duty (or so I seem to feel) to report these bad requirement offers, as well as any viruses or malware / adware I encounter.
Next is an offer that credits from the TapJoy wall. Well, ok given it is TapJoy, it Might credit- good chance of it but if it doesn't, all you can do is blame TapJoy for being unpredictable, and do an inquiry. However I had no problems with this one.
Enter to Win Free Prizes & More from Despicable Me! for 51 swagbucks. The requirements say you have to sign up for minionmadness.com with a valid email.
When you click Register, a new tab opens with your typical sign up information. Name, user name, password, email. When you submit it, you can log right in, then click Enter The Site. That's it! No confirmation email needed. I did this, looked around the site for about 5 minutes, which is how long it took for my credit to arrive.
On to the last bad offer of today's post. This one isn't necessarily bad. I'd say theres a 50 / 50 chance of it working without having to open an inquiry. Some people have done this offer on every wall and gotten credit every time. Some never get credit the first time. I went ahead and gave it a try...
This offer is for Dailies contact lenses, for 53. You sign up and fill out your address etc, then print out a coupon for a free trial box of Dailies contact lenses. I did all of this, got to the coupon print screen, pressed Print, but never actually sent it to the printer. Left it open about 30 minutes. No credit. As of this morning, Still no credit. *sigh* Wasn't my day to roll the dice with this offer I guess! No confirmation email, and I forgot to take screenshots. DOH! I won't get credit for it without proof, so I am just gonna.. let it slide. Try again later.
I want to end the blog today on a good note. So let's look at an offer for 150 that credited! I really hope this offer is still on the wall for you to try. Last night there were reports that the offer had gone missing, but I found it with no problem. Sometimes an offer is not on the wall for everyone at the same time. I'm not sure if this is on the wall for our Canadian swaggernauts at all :( I wish there was more stuff we could ALL do!
Join MarsterCard Mareketplace for Free! for 150 swagbucks. This is on the SuperRewards wall, Free tab. The requirements say simply to register, and agree to the terms & conditions.
When you first land on the page, a pop up window opens- Ignore it, close it out. Then choose "No, I'm new to MasterCard Marketplace" and enter your sign up information.
Check both boxes and click Continue. Technically, after this point, that's all you have to do to get your credit. I asked on the Swagbucks Facebook wall what others had done- did they stop here? Did they move through to the main site, like I did? I got a variety of answers, but it seems the majority did what I did, skipped the first step .....
and did the second step (shown below) then let the page sit open on the main site until it credited.
However, a few just stopped after agreeing to the terms, and for the most part, we all got credit without having to start an inquiry. My swagbucks came in after about 30 minutes. This gave me time to look around the site a bit- it's actually an interesting shopping site, with "Overwhelming Offers" - every 24 hours, at 1pm Eastern time, they list a new offer. You have to click "Reserve" and enter a captcha. These offers can be pretty deep discounts and they can go in seconds depending on how good the deal is. Once you've reserved your deal, you go to the merchant site and pay full price. The difference is applied to your MasterCard statement as a credit within 1 to 2 billing cycles. Kinda neat if you have disposable income and a MasterCard, neither of which I have *laugh!*
Again, I hope the offer is still up today. So many of us jumped on it last night, they might pull it for a little bit. But like I said, everyone was panicking that the offer was gone last night, but I still found it.
(Of course its Far easier for me to find an offer on the free tab, since I've done so many offers I have only 1 page to look through! Dig Deep!)
That's it for today folks! I hope the offers I mentioned work out for you! Thank you for sticking with me yesterday when I was unable to post. I looked at my traffic stats and saw that many of you were still visiting and having a look around- Awesome! I know some day most of you won't need this blog anymore *sniffle* and that's Good. That means you know all I can help you with, and are getting to the point where you can teach me a thing or two! (Yes, I'm still learning every day!) I suppose the great news for me is that there are always new swaggernauts to help! (Go get some referalls! LOL)
Until tomorrow Swag Friends, have a great Tuesday, and..
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!!
I'm back! Things at the house have settled down some, and I've got an offer loaded SwagMelt for you today. Some good, Some bad, as usual!
First I wanna show you a couple of codes from Sunday and Monday.
Sunday I went to the Swagbucks Facebook wall as I do a hundred times a day, and I saw "Thanks, TSG!" all the way down. If you are a newer swaggernaut, when you see that, it means there is a code somewhere. The first thing I do when I see that is look up at the status message on the wall. It wasn't there! Checked the toolbar (and if you don't see a new message in there, click the blue word MESSAGES and it will take you to the latest post, just to be sure.) and the blog. Nope, and Nope! So I came here to SwagMelt and checked my swidget.
There's the code! Just click, hold the mouse button down and drag it over the code. Release, right click, choose Copy (or keyboard shortcut ctrl & C). Then go to the Swag Bucks home page, click the code box, right click and choose Paste! (or keyboard shortcut ctrl & V) Quick 7 swagbucks, YAY!
I got lucky! The code was just about expired, I wandered onto the Swagbucks Facebook wall just in time! Yet another reason to check back in there during the course of a day, whether you post or not.
Tonight, same scenario happened. I had been offline most of the day, dealing with my family stuff, and I just happened to mosey on into the Swagbucks Facebook wall at the right time. Thanks, TSG! as far as the eye could see! Same method.. Status? no. Toolbar? no. Blog? YES! Ooh and a fun code too!
Neato! We got to pick a code to "cast a vote" for who we thought would win last nights Pats / Jets game. (I voted Patriots! I was thinking, they were at home, 5-0 on their turf, and had revenge to seek for week two's loss!) If the majority of swaggernauts pick the winning team, we get a code for 14 on Friday!!
Now, we know the Patriots won! What we DON'T know is which code got the most votes. We probably won't know until Friday, when TSG pops up and surprises us with the code. *sings* Anticipation!
Speaking of anticipation! And indecision.... *chuckle* Check this out.
I should NOT be posting this. Because I WANT IT! But I'm having a crisis of decision.. Do I enter my usual 1 time? Or do I go all out and buy 250 entries? This is a very nice Worthington series acoustic electric guitar from Samick, designed by Greg Bennett. It sells for around $350!
I want this so bad my heart hurts! I haven't had a guitar since my sweet George (that's what I called him.. er.. it) met a tragic end, and I had to leave behind my electric when I came here to take care of my mom as she passed. My fingers ache to pluck strings, and I want to put the songs I've made up for my son to music!
SO DON'T YOU ENTER! ! (hahahah Just Kidding! I wouldn't post it if I didn't want you to know about it too! I mean, Wow, What a value!)
What do you think I should do? I'm kind of waiting to see if a 1000 swagbuck offer credits in inquiry without a huge fight. If it does, I think I will dump it straight into the swagstakes. I didn't think it would credit because I didn't get a confirmation email for 30 hours, (and had some strange message about needing to call to fix some unknown error) but now that it's there, I've submitted an inquiry. It feels kind of like a bonus, if it does credit.
Swag Bucks gave away one of these in February. It was won by Kyle J. of Milwaukee, WI. I wonder how many entries he put in??
Anyway, enough dreaming! I did a run of special offers last night. Usually, after I order all of my five $5 Amazon cards, I take 1 - 2 weeks off from offers, aside from videos. I'm running out of high paying free offers though, so I have to do more hunting for smaller ones.
The results were mixed as usual. 2 good offers, 2 fails, and one offer I saw posted again that I did a few months ago.
That offer is for the game Fiesta, by Outspark, found on the Gambit wall. It is a download, but if you like games, Everquest type magic and fighting games, it's worth it, because it's free to play. The download takes forever, but the graphics are very nice, gameplay is easy to learn, and though there is extra premium content, you can get by in the game without it. Plus, it's worth 84 swagbucks! I still have it installed, and play it once in a while when I have time- though for a while there I was staying up half of the night to play. Had to stop doing that.. old habits creep back in so quickly! Also, if you do play it, love it like I did, and want that premium content, you can pay for it with Ultimate Game Cards which you can order from the Swag Store.
Though right about now, I wish I could still do the offer :P I'm happy I did it in the first place, even happier that it credited for me with no hassle. You have to download, install it, create a character, and play the character to get your swagbucks.
The first offer I actually tried last night did not pan out for me, and I know why! It's another one of those where the requirements say one thing, but the advertiser actually expects another, so they never tell the offer company you completed it. It's a different version of the same type I have posted about several times.
This is on SuperRewards, "Get in the game with Sweet Daily Deals!" for 9 swagbucks. Usually these trick offers are for much more, so I was surprised when this one went down the same old path.
All you are supposed to have to do is fill out the first page with valid information, signing up for the Sweet Daily Deals site / newsletter.
Seems easy enough! Fill out that page, press continue, and TECHNICALLY that should be all you need.
The first warning sign was when no confirmation email showed up. I'd stayed on this page for a bit, but I figured I must have to get to the "end of the offer path" before they would send that email. So I went ahead and started in on the radial buttons!
Here's a tip for getting through those annoying buttons. Click NO on the first one, then press ALT & Down Arrow over and over and over until it's selected NO all the way down the page. Saves SO much time!
After 6 pages of buttons, 10 pages of "complete the survey below" pages (which you press SKIP to get through), I hit the dead end (and I didn't see it coming this time!)
SCREEEEEEECH! Halt! What? Complete silver, gold, and platinum offers? I'm confused!?! I thought this was for a website or a newsletter, not an offer to get a "free iPad" or Macbook or whatever!
Needless to say I stopped right there and checked my email. No confirmation, and no swagbucks. Time to write an inquiry! Ugh! I have to write them to tell them exactly what the offer requirements are, note that there is nothing which says a confirmation email is actually needed, and they need to get in touch with the advertiser about the actual payout terms for the offer.
The last part won't get anywhere, I'm sure. Hopefully, there's a 50 / 50 chance they will credit me. I'm not even sure I want to bother, for 9, but it's my duty (or so I seem to feel) to report these bad requirement offers, as well as any viruses or malware / adware I encounter.
Next is an offer that credits from the TapJoy wall. Well, ok given it is TapJoy, it Might credit- good chance of it but if it doesn't, all you can do is blame TapJoy for being unpredictable, and do an inquiry. However I had no problems with this one.
Enter to Win Free Prizes & More from Despicable Me! for 51 swagbucks. The requirements say you have to sign up for minionmadness.com with a valid email.
When you click Register, a new tab opens with your typical sign up information. Name, user name, password, email. When you submit it, you can log right in, then click Enter The Site. That's it! No confirmation email needed. I did this, looked around the site for about 5 minutes, which is how long it took for my credit to arrive.
On to the last bad offer of today's post. This one isn't necessarily bad. I'd say theres a 50 / 50 chance of it working without having to open an inquiry. Some people have done this offer on every wall and gotten credit every time. Some never get credit the first time. I went ahead and gave it a try...
This offer is for Dailies contact lenses, for 53. You sign up and fill out your address etc, then print out a coupon for a free trial box of Dailies contact lenses. I did all of this, got to the coupon print screen, pressed Print, but never actually sent it to the printer. Left it open about 30 minutes. No credit. As of this morning, Still no credit. *sigh* Wasn't my day to roll the dice with this offer I guess! No confirmation email, and I forgot to take screenshots. DOH! I won't get credit for it without proof, so I am just gonna.. let it slide. Try again later.
I want to end the blog today on a good note. So let's look at an offer for 150 that credited! I really hope this offer is still on the wall for you to try. Last night there were reports that the offer had gone missing, but I found it with no problem. Sometimes an offer is not on the wall for everyone at the same time. I'm not sure if this is on the wall for our Canadian swaggernauts at all :( I wish there was more stuff we could ALL do!
Join MarsterCard Mareketplace for Free! for 150 swagbucks. This is on the SuperRewards wall, Free tab. The requirements say simply to register, and agree to the terms & conditions.
When you first land on the page, a pop up window opens- Ignore it, close it out. Then choose "No, I'm new to MasterCard Marketplace" and enter your sign up information.
Check both boxes and click Continue. Technically, after this point, that's all you have to do to get your credit. I asked on the Swagbucks Facebook wall what others had done- did they stop here? Did they move through to the main site, like I did? I got a variety of answers, but it seems the majority did what I did, skipped the first step .....
and did the second step (shown below) then let the page sit open on the main site until it credited.
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| Drag & Drop at least 3 merchants into Like and Don't Like |
However, a few just stopped after agreeing to the terms, and for the most part, we all got credit without having to start an inquiry. My swagbucks came in after about 30 minutes. This gave me time to look around the site a bit- it's actually an interesting shopping site, with "Overwhelming Offers" - every 24 hours, at 1pm Eastern time, they list a new offer. You have to click "Reserve" and enter a captcha. These offers can be pretty deep discounts and they can go in seconds depending on how good the deal is. Once you've reserved your deal, you go to the merchant site and pay full price. The difference is applied to your MasterCard statement as a credit within 1 to 2 billing cycles. Kinda neat if you have disposable income and a MasterCard, neither of which I have *laugh!*
Again, I hope the offer is still up today. So many of us jumped on it last night, they might pull it for a little bit. But like I said, everyone was panicking that the offer was gone last night, but I still found it.
(Of course its Far easier for me to find an offer on the free tab, since I've done so many offers I have only 1 page to look through! Dig Deep!)
That's it for today folks! I hope the offers I mentioned work out for you! Thank you for sticking with me yesterday when I was unable to post. I looked at my traffic stats and saw that many of you were still visiting and having a look around- Awesome! I know some day most of you won't need this blog anymore *sniffle* and that's Good. That means you know all I can help you with, and are getting to the point where you can teach me a thing or two! (Yes, I'm still learning every day!) I suppose the great news for me is that there are always new swaggernauts to help! (Go get some referalls! LOL)
Until tomorrow Swag Friends, have a great Tuesday, and..
HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!!
06 December 2010
Family Emergency - Links Post
Dearest Swag Friends,
Please forgive me, but there will be no regular SwagMelt post today. I have a family emergency and won't be able to post until later. To relieve a speck of my stress today I have to give you another links post and come back tomorrow. Until then, newer swaggernauts, take a look through these links for previous helpful SwagMelt posts. Thanks for sticking with me, see you back here tomorrow, have a GREAT SWAG DAY!
Check out the new Offers That FAIL Tab for a quick look at some of the offers I've covered that fail for one reason or another. (rough draft cut&paste job, will fine tune it soon)
Beginner Tips!
Daily Four Breakdown (120 swagbucks a month!) and Swagbucks Facebook Guide
SBTV and Special Offers Quick Tips
Survey Quick Tips
Snagging Your Swag Loot
Refunds, Referrals, and Other Issues
Get Alerts for Swag Codes (Feedburner, Twitter, Etc)
Swago, Swagstakes, and Partner Codes
Referrals and Questions Answered
More Questions Answered (plus How to enter the Amazon Universal Wishlist Giveaway)
A Couple More Questions Answered (yes, I love answering questions!)
Please forgive me, but there will be no regular SwagMelt post today. I have a family emergency and won't be able to post until later. To relieve a speck of my stress today I have to give you another links post and come back tomorrow. Until then, newer swaggernauts, take a look through these links for previous helpful SwagMelt posts. Thanks for sticking with me, see you back here tomorrow, have a GREAT SWAG DAY!
Check out the new Offers That FAIL Tab for a quick look at some of the offers I've covered that fail for one reason or another. (rough draft cut&paste job, will fine tune it soon)
Beginner Tips!
Daily Four Breakdown (120 swagbucks a month!) and Swagbucks Facebook Guide
SBTV and Special Offers Quick Tips
Survey Quick Tips
Snagging Your Swag Loot
Refunds, Referrals, and Other Issues
Get Alerts for Swag Codes (Feedburner, Twitter, Etc)
Swago, Swagstakes, and Partner Codes
Referrals and Questions Answered
More Questions Answered (plus How to enter the Amazon Universal Wishlist Giveaway)
A Couple More Questions Answered (yes, I love answering questions!)
05 December 2010
And Now For Something Completely Different!
Good Afternoon Swaggernauts!
I'm excited today! I have something really interesting to share with you. It is something outside of Swag Bucks, but wait & see how Swag Bucks can be used with it!
Last night swaggernaut Swaggin Brandon sent me an invite to a neat Facebook application, Embee Mobile.This app is an offer and survey site, somewhat like Swag Bucks, but with a very specific purpose. The points that you earn can be redeemed for "top ups" or balance reloads on your prepaid cellular phone. They cover 80 different carriers in 23 countries, including Cricket, Metro PCS, Tracfone, Boost, and Virgin Mobile.
The Embee points you earn are redeemed for air time minutes. My carrier is Virgin Mobile. This is what the conversion rates look like for me, but each company has it's own rates.
For Virgin Mobile, 100 Embee points = $10.00 Top Up money. To pay for a monthly plan on my carrier, I would need to earn 300 Embee points a month.
There are three ways to earn Embee points. The earn tab has all three options; purchase, offer companies, and surveys.
First let's look at the methods of purchasing Embee points. This is where Swag Bucks comes in!
Options for payment are rixty coins, which are a virtual currency you can choose as payment options from Coinstar machines. (Kinda neat!) There's also credit card, Google checkout, pay with Mobile (um.. why would I buy mobile points from a mobile - wouldn't I just do it directly? Oh - maybe to buy top up money for someone elses phone.. yah!) and last but not least, PayPal!
The cost of Embee points through PayPal is $10.00 for every 100 points. That would be 1400 Swag Bucks for $10 in PayPal deposits. Since Virgin Mobile redemption is 100 Embee points for every $10.00 Top Up, that's a straight conversion of 1400 Swag Bucks for every $10 on my phone. That would be 4200 swagbucks a month if I wanted to pay my phone bill that way. (I NEED MORE REFERRALS!!! rolfmao)
1400 SB = $10 PayPal
$10.00 PayPal = 100 Embee Points
100 Embee Points = $10.00 Top Up
There's one small snag with that plan. You can only redeem 5 PayPal deposits a month, and there is only the $5 deposit option. Team Swag Bucks, if any of you are reading this, (wishful thinking? lol) please consider adding at least a $10 PayPal deposit option. That would be AWESOME and could help some of us pay our bills better... We know you love us and want us to thrive! :-D
There are also special offers to do for Embee points. This works pretty much exactly the same as it does on Swag Bucks.
SuperRewards, gWallet, TapJoy, and Crowd Flower are already familiar to us. Peanut Labs and SponsorPay are new to me, but seem to work exactly like the other offer companies. The payouts tend to be far lower than swag bucks payouts, but the conversion rate of points to dollars is higher.
Under the Peanut Labs tab is a bar for earning Embee points through surveys. If you click Enable More Surveys, a pop up appears that takes you through 12 questions that supposedly refine the surveys you are offered.
Also under Peanut Labs is the EmbeePay Bonus bar. If you complete 5 surveys or offers on the Peanut Labs tab within 24 hours, you get a 12 Embee point bonus.
I went ahead and did one special offer on Embee for you this morning.
This offer is for Bing, it's on the gWallet tab. It's not on gWallet on Swag Bucks yet, but it might show up soon.
Unlike other Bing offers I've seen, instead of changing your homepage or installing the toolbar, all you have to do is enter two search terms then press "Bing & Decide" to earn 3 Embee points.
I was drawing a blank so I entered Apple Macbook and Toshiba laptop.
The top of the results page wants you to invite friends. I didn't explore why, or go any further on the site. I thought it was funny that I got "Sorry, no products were returned." Maybe I was too specific? *chuckle*
Anyhoo, I left this page open and checked my balance. Here's what the account screen looked like before the offer.
I had 28 Embee points. 10 of those were for signing up.
Within 3 minutes of entering my search terms in the Bing offer, I received my 3 Embee points. If you subtract the 10 points I got for signing up, I've earned 21 Embee points in the last 12 hours between 5 total offers (though only one of those offers counts towards the Embee bonus). I should be able to hit 100 pretty soon, if I spend any time on it!
The only thing is I have seen and done a Lot of these offers before. The payouts SEEM lower which seems frustrating, but when looked at in the right light - 1 Embee point = $0.10 - it makes much more sense.
I definitely think I will be using this application! I always need money to top up my phone. I will primarily be doing offers, but it's good to know what whatever shortfall I have between the points I earn and my monthly phone bill can be made up with PayPal earned through Swag Bucks!
If this interests you, go ahead and PM Swaggin Brandon for a referral link. (That's another way to earn- for every 5 friends you invite that join, you get 10 Embee points, that's $1.00!) It's only fair you ask him; if he hadn't been kind enough to invite me, I never would have known about this to share with you!
That's it for today folks! I know it's not directly about Swag Bucks and special offers but this was too good not to share. I'll see you back here tomorrow with another detailed, Swagcentered post! Until then...
Happy Swagsurfing!!!
I'm excited today! I have something really interesting to share with you. It is something outside of Swag Bucks, but wait & see how Swag Bucks can be used with it!
Last night swaggernaut Swaggin Brandon sent me an invite to a neat Facebook application, Embee Mobile.This app is an offer and survey site, somewhat like Swag Bucks, but with a very specific purpose. The points that you earn can be redeemed for "top ups" or balance reloads on your prepaid cellular phone. They cover 80 different carriers in 23 countries, including Cricket, Metro PCS, Tracfone, Boost, and Virgin Mobile.
The Embee points you earn are redeemed for air time minutes. My carrier is Virgin Mobile. This is what the conversion rates look like for me, but each company has it's own rates.
For Virgin Mobile, 100 Embee points = $10.00 Top Up money. To pay for a monthly plan on my carrier, I would need to earn 300 Embee points a month.
There are three ways to earn Embee points. The earn tab has all three options; purchase, offer companies, and surveys.
First let's look at the methods of purchasing Embee points. This is where Swag Bucks comes in!
Options for payment are rixty coins, which are a virtual currency you can choose as payment options from Coinstar machines. (Kinda neat!) There's also credit card, Google checkout, pay with Mobile (um.. why would I buy mobile points from a mobile - wouldn't I just do it directly? Oh - maybe to buy top up money for someone elses phone.. yah!) and last but not least, PayPal!
The cost of Embee points through PayPal is $10.00 for every 100 points. That would be 1400 Swag Bucks for $10 in PayPal deposits. Since Virgin Mobile redemption is 100 Embee points for every $10.00 Top Up, that's a straight conversion of 1400 Swag Bucks for every $10 on my phone. That would be 4200 swagbucks a month if I wanted to pay my phone bill that way. (I NEED MORE REFERRALS!!! rolfmao)
1400 SB = $10 PayPal
$10.00 PayPal = 100 Embee Points
100 Embee Points = $10.00 Top Up
There's one small snag with that plan. You can only redeem 5 PayPal deposits a month, and there is only the $5 deposit option. Team Swag Bucks, if any of you are reading this, (wishful thinking? lol) please consider adding at least a $10 PayPal deposit option. That would be AWESOME and could help some of us pay our bills better... We know you love us and want us to thrive! :-D
There are also special offers to do for Embee points. This works pretty much exactly the same as it does on Swag Bucks.
SuperRewards, gWallet, TapJoy, and Crowd Flower are already familiar to us. Peanut Labs and SponsorPay are new to me, but seem to work exactly like the other offer companies. The payouts tend to be far lower than swag bucks payouts, but the conversion rate of points to dollars is higher.
Under the Peanut Labs tab is a bar for earning Embee points through surveys. If you click Enable More Surveys, a pop up appears that takes you through 12 questions that supposedly refine the surveys you are offered.
Also under Peanut Labs is the EmbeePay Bonus bar. If you complete 5 surveys or offers on the Peanut Labs tab within 24 hours, you get a 12 Embee point bonus.
I went ahead and did one special offer on Embee for you this morning.
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| gWallet Bing Compare, Share, Decide for 3 Embee Points |
Unlike other Bing offers I've seen, instead of changing your homepage or installing the toolbar, all you have to do is enter two search terms then press "Bing & Decide" to earn 3 Embee points.
The top of the results page wants you to invite friends. I didn't explore why, or go any further on the site. I thought it was funny that I got "Sorry, no products were returned." Maybe I was too specific? *chuckle*
Anyhoo, I left this page open and checked my balance. Here's what the account screen looked like before the offer.
I had 28 Embee points. 10 of those were for signing up.
Within 3 minutes of entering my search terms in the Bing offer, I received my 3 Embee points. If you subtract the 10 points I got for signing up, I've earned 21 Embee points in the last 12 hours between 5 total offers (though only one of those offers counts towards the Embee bonus). I should be able to hit 100 pretty soon, if I spend any time on it!
The only thing is I have seen and done a Lot of these offers before. The payouts SEEM lower which seems frustrating, but when looked at in the right light - 1 Embee point = $0.10 - it makes much more sense.
I definitely think I will be using this application! I always need money to top up my phone. I will primarily be doing offers, but it's good to know what whatever shortfall I have between the points I earn and my monthly phone bill can be made up with PayPal earned through Swag Bucks!
If this interests you, go ahead and PM Swaggin Brandon for a referral link. (That's another way to earn- for every 5 friends you invite that join, you get 10 Embee points, that's $1.00!) It's only fair you ask him; if he hadn't been kind enough to invite me, I never would have known about this to share with you!
That's it for today folks! I know it's not directly about Swag Bucks and special offers but this was too good not to share. I'll see you back here tomorrow with another detailed, Swagcentered post! Until then...
Happy Swagsurfing!!!
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