TapJoy Saga Resloved & Buy 3 PayPal Get 1 AGC! (Black Friday Sale)

Good Afternoon Swag Nuts! 

Ok, I am sorry there was no post yesterday. I had to take the day off to recover :P My husbands best friend came over Friday night, drinking (something I have Never seen him do) and in the mood to reminisce. It turned into a reunion with various friends from their youth plopping down with more beer *laugh*. I don't drink often, once in a blue moon, and I only had a few beers, but I didn't get to sleep until 3 am. Then had to wake at 5 am with the toddler. So I was VERY brain blurry yesterday. I couldn't even remember my password to log in to blogger or my email *LAUGH!*

So I took the day off. I guess I'm able to do that, right? You didn't miss me didja?

We didn't miss too much in the Swag World yesterday anyway. Holiday weekend and all that. However I read on the Swagbucks Facebook wall that The Swag Guy made a comment about looking out for Cyber Monday. !! !! !! !! !! Could it be? Could my dreams come true, and Amazon gift cards will go on sale? I am still hanging on to the swagbucks to buy a $25.

For the moment, the Black Friday sale is still going on over at the Swag Store. PayPal, Starbucks, and iTunes cards are still available at their discounted price. On Black Friday, I'd ordered two $5 PayPal deposits. Then I saw emails from Swag Bucks and PayPal in the inbox. My first 2 PayPal ordered on the 16th came through YAY!

This is the email you look for to find out both if Swag Bucks shipped your PayPal, and whether it has cleared into your PayPal account. Of the 15 or so PayPal deposits I've ordered, only one hit a snag. Swag Bucks sent the email saying the card shipped, but PayPal never sent one saying it arrived. I ended up writing to Swag Bucks via the Contact Us link on the homepage. I waited about 30 hours after receiving the Swag Bucks email before writing. I gave them the order number and explained the situation. Within a few days (it was over a weekend so allow time for those non-business days!) they got back in touch with me, letting me know they had refunded the card so I could purchase it again if I wished. Which is just what I did, and have had no further hiccups.

When I saw the PayPal email, my brain got to working.. "Are the cards still on sale? Should I get another one??"  Sure enough, the cards are still on sale, so I snagged one more, bringing me to my limit of 5 for the month. I kind of wish I'd waited on the other two, earlier in the month, but I needed to be sure I had money in PayPal to fund Netflix and extraneous Christmas shopping on eBay / Walmart.com. (Yes, WalMart takes PayPal! Free site-to-store shipping this month!)

That's a lot of cards! (I know, right?) This is what I've ordered so far for November. I still have bucks in the bank HOPING for a Cyber Monday sale so I can snag that $25 Amazon gift card. I also have the bucks in the bank for December 1st when I start ordering Decembers five $5 AGCs. By purchasing these three PayPal cards now, on sale, I saved 450 swagbucks, enough to cover one of those five $5 AGCs. Sweeet.

How Did You Get So Many Swagbucks??

I did a lot of special offers. A few of which were for large amounts, free trials such as Equifax. Using a prepaid, reloadable Visa gift card means not having to have, or use, a real credit card (though not all offers accept them.) and checking your own credit score does NOT harm your credit, so you can sign up for quite a few of the free credit check trials. I would definitely recommend you only do one at a time. Open one, (write down all details such as email used, log in name, password, and when to cancel by! Get a cancellation phone number or link as soon as you sign up so you don't have to hunt it down later!) get your swagbucks, leave it open at least a week, then CANCEL before you open another one. (Or Keep It! LOL) Just safer, easier to keep it straight that way, with the added benefit of spreading out your big bucks wins for a few months. If you do them all at once, your well will run dry!

My swagtotal was also aided by a positive resolution to my TapJoy saga. I was watching special offer videos the other morning. Refreshed my total expecting it to go up by three. Instead it flipped and showed up about 500 swagbucks higher. YIKES! YAY!  What?? LOL!

I had a feeling.. more than one inquiry credited! But, which, from who, when?

Booyah is RIGHT! 6 SBTV wins (been getting 6 a day the past few days- some folks are getting 10 - 12!) and FIVE inquiries from TAPJOY credited!

Whaaaaaaa.... How? Swag Bucks! You Guys RULE! It had to be them! I ran over to check my email...

Josh from the Team Swag Bucks wrote me to let me know that TapJoy had responded to them, and was crediting the offers I'd written to them about.

To refresh your memory, after writing the BBB about TapJoy, I finally took my own advice and contacted Swag Bucks via the Contact Us link on the homepage. I told them that TapJoy has not responded to a single inquiry I've submitted since September, and that I'd even contacted them Twice about some of the offers. That the inquiries were vanishing off of the status screen because TapJoy hadn't responded, so they were closing out automatically after a certain time limit. I gave them the ticket numbers for the 5 that were still open and available, and didn't even bother trying to pursue the offers I could no longer see.

I got credit for all 5 of those offers on November 26th. What  nice Thanksgiving 2.0 kind of present!

Over in the mailbox I used for all of these special offers I found 5 emails from TapJoy. Each one stated which offer it was and that it had been credited. Of course, I have to laugh at the response in the last email...

Please note:

Excessive number of manually credited offers may be automatically flagged as potentially fraudulent activity and result in the disabling of offers from your account.

Should you have any further questions, please let us know.

Thank you,

Khajavali
Tapjoy Support

ROFLMAO! Really? You can flag ME for fraudulent activity if I pursue the swag bucks you owe me, but are you not being Fraudulent when your users fulfil all offer requirements and you don't bother to pay, or respond?

Also interesting to note is that the Perfect World offer was listed as 162 swagbucks. I received only 136. Oh well, they are so screwed up, I will be happy with what I got.. for now... ! 

My Advice?  Use TapJoy Sparingly, because you Will have to submit inquiries. It's a pain in the BUTT keepin track of them all, especially since they don't respond. And who wants to be threatened with being banned? This is the second time I have been given that warning by the way. The first time was in August, when I'd done several offers and none credited. After about the 4th inquiry, I received my warning. Ridiculous.

Forget the negatives though, I'm focusing on the POSITIVE-  Team Swag Bucks Has Our Back!! 

I love Swag Bucks for so many reasons - it's LEGIT for one! It has a thriving community. It is always evolving, improving. And their customer service is TOP NOTCH. I challenge you to find another search & win or rewards site that is as good, reliable, or helpful as Swag Bucks. (If you do, send me a referral link LOL!)

That's it for today. Good News for the Good Day. Tomorrow I hope to be all excited and goofy over Cyber Monday sales- let's cross our fingers and toes! (Not your eyes, please, they'll stick that way you know!)


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!


Until tomorrow my Swag Friends....

HAPPY SWAGSURFING!!!