3 inquiries, 626 Swag Bucks, Success!

Good Morning Swag Friends!

So tell me, how mega was your MSBD? I got two 11's... and a 7 ?!?  Ok, not terribly mega considering I've been averaging 28 - 35 a day from wins.. 29 isn't too special :-P  Never give up! Next week will be my mega! (I say that Every Week LOL)

I know I've been doing a list of offers every day. Yesterday I did a few, but my brain was on backwards and I didn't get any screenshots. I had to chase down after a couple of the offers, one in particular that a lot of folks on the Swagbucks Facebook page are talking about. But first let me update you about the Nextiva and "Win A Trip To New York" offer inquiries.

Yesterday I told you about my 3 week long effort to get Payment Wall to credit my Nextiva fax offer. This is the first time I have had a problem with Payment Wall. Which goes to show, everyone has their own individual experience with each company, because I read a lot of folks lately who have very hostile feelings towards Payment Wall. Anyhoo, yesterday I submitted a ticket to Swag Bucks via the Contact Us link on the home page. They must have worked FAST, because around 6 pm last night, the Nextiva offer credited. I received this notice on the inquiry screen.. very polite! And no warning about being banned lol.

Super, Thank you, Drive through! (uh huh huh huh huh - that's for you Kayla!)

This is the second time I have submitted a ticket to Swag Bucks about an offer wall, and both times they got right on it and made the company pay up! THANK YOU TEAM SWAG BUCKS!

There was also an offer on SuperRewards for 108 - "Win A Trip to New York City". I did this offer a couple of weeks ago and never got credit for it. I forgot to submit a ticket though, so the offer disappeared from my "Viewed" list. I saw the offer was still up a few days ago, so I tried it again. Only, the contest involved is closed, no way to submit your entry, therefore no way to complete it for swagbucks. I submitted a ticket a couple of days ago basically stating that though I had done the offer previously, and had not gotten credit for it, I was not writing for the swagbucks because they never sent a confirmation email. However could they please remove the offer from the wall because the contest was closed, no way to complete. I told them! I wasn't looking for swagbucks!

What did they reply?  "Please submit your confirmation email."

DUUHHHHhhhhhhhhhh    /drool!

I was already hot under the collar from the next offer I'm gonna write about, so that response really got my goat. I did something I don't usually do.. I got rude :P I wrote them back and said "Does anyone actually READ what we write you? If so then you look really stupid right now, sending me that response."   That's all, pressed submit. I should have controlled myself but COME ON now.. I just told them I have no confirmation email. Told them I wasn't trying to get credited. Stupid form responses ...

This morning when I woke up, they had credited me the 108 for the offer! I about fell off the couch LOL. I did *not* expect that. However, look at what they wrote back to me. They STILL didn't get the point of my ticket I guess. I mean.. Really!

Oh well, whatever, at least I got points I didn't expect! However this makes me leery of submitting any tickets anytime soon. Though I submitted one this morning for an insurance offer I did last night that never credited. *laugh* I think I will take a break from Super Rewards for a bit so I'm not put in a position of having to submit an inquiry.

Partially because I also had This experience with SuperRewards yesterday. Boy I wish I'd gotten screenshots, I'm sorry, it was so chaotic here yesterday. Always is on the weekends!

There is an offer for 300 on the free tab,  This Holiday do things differently with RightCliq. This is a Visa plug in for shopping. The thing is, the offer requirements state only that you have to sign up with accurate information. No where does it say you have to install a plug-in, or that uninstalling it will get your swagbucks revoked.

A lot of folks were talking about it on the Swagbucks Facebook page yesterday.  The consensus was that since the req's mention nothing about the download, you should be able to sign up and get your points without installing the plug in. And they are right. The spirit of the offer is that yo install the plug in but the technicality of it is you don't need to, unless they update the requirements.

The problem is, if you do not install it, you will not get your swagbucks without submitting an inquiry.

You know me, I'm always doing unwise things to be able to share my results with you *laugh* so I went ahead and installed the plug-in. Like magic, the 300 swagbucks appeared as soon as I was done. HUZZAH! Even better, it set off no warnings on my virus software. However, I'm pretty sure this plug-in is a privacy invader. Just a hunch, based on what it is. So I went ahead and uninstalled it. I was really hoping that wouldn't be a problem, but they revoked my 300 swagbucks within 10 minutes. Oo I was steamed but not nearly as much as when I went to submit an inquiry, and there was nothing about it on the list! Seems like I was shut out. It wasn't on Viewed, it wasn't on Awarded.. I was stuck and getting madder by the second.

I debated writing to Swag Bucks about it right there, but I really hate to bother them unless I absolutely have to. The offer was back on my wall so I decided to do it again, with another email. I wasn't sure if it would work, cookies, IP address, all that, but I gave it a go. Signed up, installed, and waited. And waited. After about an hour it went to "Viewed" and that was that, no swagbucks. So I opened a ticket and stared at the screen for a few minutes- did I submit the ticket from the first email I used? The second? Do I explain the whole story? I decided to behave as if this inquiry were my first attempt at the offer, and see what happened. I figured I had a good chance of being denied, in which case I would have had to write Swagbucks at the Contact Us link and explain the situation, which I didn't want to do. Technically doing the offer again from another email might be considered cheating or, whatever, so I may still have been denied.

The thing that decided me was the requirements. These companies have to be more careful about being explicit in their directions, or they leave themselves open to loopholes. We have to go by the written rules, So Do They!

So I wrote using the second email, and simply informed them of the offer requirements, that I had done the offer and installed the plug in despite not needing to, and that I wanted my swagbucks, please & thank you. Submitted the confirmation email and that was that. Left it alone and tried not to be so mad about my swagtotal moving up and down like a see saw.

Woke up to this response this morning! 300 swagbucks back in my swagtotal! HUZZAH!!!!!
I like waking up 518 swagbucks richer! In about 36 hours I went from a 0 swagtotal to 1500! Sweeeeeeet!

We had an interesting code hunt yesterday. It was in steps. First thing I noticed was all of the "Thanks TSG" posts on Facebook, which tipped me off. I started looking- first the toolbar, then the swidget, finally the blog.

The Swag Store now has its own Twitter account to follow! More information, and another place to find code hunts. I thought, Cool, I will go follow them and find me a code, I can deal with that!

Ah but the code wasn't actually on Twitter. a Clue was. I felt like I was jumping through hoops in a circus because I had only 10 minutes to find the code when I started my hunt! It was fun though. The hint on twitter said to check the MUSIC section of the Swagstakes page. Off I went to click click click through the items. Time was tick tick ticking away, but I found it just in nick of time!

Usually the code is at the end of the description, but lately they have been changing it up. I almost missed this one. The code was In the description, but if you train your eyes to look for Gobbledygook, you will find them! Remember- No Extra Spaces Before or After The Code! This one was for 11, but was supposed to be for 12. The Swag Guy posted a cryptic message on Facebook about 1 plus 1 equaling 11 when added to 1 is 12, or something equally confusing :-P  After the code hunt ended, they put another code out for 1 swagbuck with a VERY limited time to find it. I failed but I didn't mind losing the 1 swagbuck. I enjoyed having to jump through more hoops- guess he got me when I was in a good mood! *chuckle*

This morning there were videos on the Gambit tab- have you watched them yet?

With any of the offer walls, if you see the word VIDEO on the tabs, then there are, of course, videos to watch. *laugh* This morning I had 4 videos to view. Others on the Swagbucks Facebook page were getting 7 and 8. I think I get less because I check for videos a couple of times a day and watch them as soon as they are available. Anyhoo, go watch them if you haven't yet! Easy, 30 seconds long each (thereabouts) and 2 swagbucks a pop. No banner clicking, no sharing required.

Before I go I want to answer a couple of questions from the Swagbucks Facebook wall & from the comments section from Thursday's blog post.

I wasn't sure if the poster (Who are you ME, a mystery!) meant they wanted to order from a special offer, or the Swag Store. But to answer the question both ways - If you order something from the Swag Store, there is no shipping and handling. If you order something from a special offer, there is shipping and handling unless the company you are buying from provides free shipping. Each is different. As for having to sign, I have never had to sign for anything yet, but again it depends on the company you order from, and probably how valuable the item being shipped it. I've had things arrive through UPS, the post office, and Fed Ex, and haven't had to sign for anything yet, but I haven't ordered anything that required heavy shipping insurance. If you do have to sign something, it will just be a receipt of delivery, for shipment tracking purposes.

BTW- Thank you for the feedback! I must be doing something right, I must be learning! If anyone has any ideas for things they want to read, or ways I can improve the blog, Please, let me know! Layout issues, confusing language, whatever it is, let me know so I can keep making this a better, more useful, easy to read blog!

Last item before I go. A lot of people were asking about autoplay on SBTV yesterday. I even got a couple of questions in my PM box. Has to be because so many people are winning so many times.  The general gist of the questions was how to let SBTV run. Do you have to click videos? Do you have to check on it? Here is the response I put in my notes for easy reposting.

I have two browsers that I use- I downloaded Google Chrome after seeing so many people talk about how it works better with SBTV. (No toolbar for chrome though BOO.) So I just go to the SBTV page in my Chrome browser, pick a category, press play, and leave it running in that browser. (Autoplay will just keep going and going) 

I open up Firefox and do special offers, post, blog, what have you, while SBTV runs in the other browser. I keep the sound up just enough for me to hear if its still runnning. After a while, (I think it's my computer but it could be SBTV) the videos will start freezing, or have trouble loading. When that happens, I stop for a few hours. Doing it this way I've gotten at least 3 wins a day, and if I keep going back and doing the process over, up to 6. I know others are getting more wins but my computer can't really handle it.

That's it for today's SwagMelt. I'll be coming back with more special offers and various tidbits tomorrow! Until then, 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!