Swagbucks Reviews and Features

Swagbucks

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Swagbucks is a website where you can earn rewards by doing activities you normally do, such as shopping, searching the web, watching videos, playing games, printing coupons, and taking surveys.

Every time you complete one of these activities, you can earn points called SBs, which are redeemable for cash and gift cards.

Becoming a member of Swagbucks is very simple. Start by joining their website or downloading their mobile app (available on both Android and iOS). You can then collect points (known as SB's) by participating in a variety of different activates including taking surveys, shopping online, watching videos, and more. You can then exchange your SB's for gift cards or PayPal cash.

Joining is free (and new members even get the $5 joining bonus!), and is available to residents of the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, India, Australia, and Ireland.

After logging in to their website (or in the app), you will see links to Shop, Search, Watch, Play, Answer, Discover.

• Online Shopping

  Receive “cashback” for making purchases from major online stores through Swagbucks. These include Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and more. Simply log in to the Swagbucks shopping page and click on the online retailer you wish to make a purchase from. Swagbucks earns a commission from your purchases, but will return a portion of it back to you in the form of SBs which will be earned for every dollar spent.

• Searching

  Swagbucks has a search engine called 'Swagbucks Search'. You can use it just like a regular search engine to earn bucks. If you conduct a lot of internet searches in any given day, this can be a great way to easily earn SB's. You can install the Swagbucks browser extension for Chrome which can make it easier to get into the habit of using the Swagbucks Search over Google, Bing, etc.

• Watching Videos

  Using Swagbucks watch, you can watch videos about music, news, entertainment, pets, travel, and more, to earn credits to your account. The earning potential for this is on the low side, but it's still a method of collecting SBs if you're looking for some entertainment.

• Answering Surveys

  Access Swagbucks Answer to take surveys and earn points. Swagbucks lists a ton of different online surveys that can be answered for rewards. Each survey will list the estimated time it'll take to complete, the topic of the study, as well as the number of SBs you will earn. Product testing opportunities occasionally become available. Expect to earn approximately 40 - 200 SB points per survey (100 SB = $1), with earning potential up to $50 (5000 SB) for longer and hard to qualify for surveys.

• Discovering

  The Swagbucks 'Discover' section is one of the fastest ways of earning SB points. You can earn a significant number of points for signing up for product and service trials (things like TIDAL music streaming, audiobook trials, gambling website trials, etc.) or for opening new credit card accounts or bank accounts. If you're currently looking to switch credit cards, banks, or try a new financial product (such as a new type of investment account), log in to your Swagbucks account before signing up! You might be able to earn thousands of SBs just for clicking through to the service provider via your Swagbucks account.

• Printing Grocery Coupons

  Under the 'Shop' section of Swagbucks (depending on your country of residence), you can find printable coupons for things like cleaning products, diapers, toothpaste, candy, etc. Each time you print a coupon, you will earn 1 SB. It will take a few weeks after the redemption for the SB to show in your account, however without the added bonus of receiving SB points, the printable coupons offered on this part of the website are generally for products that you probably already purchase and from big brands such as Swiffer, Mr. Clean, Febreze, Pampers, Crest, Becel, etc.

• Referring Friends

  If you have friends who would be good candidates for Swagbucks, make sure you refer them so that you can earn 10% of what they earn (as they remain active). For instance, if your referral earns 5,000 SB ($50) in their first month, you will receive a $5 bonus (500 SB) credited to your account. Simply log in to your Swagbucks account to get your unique sign up link which you can then share with friends, extended family, on your blog, etc.

• Entering Swag Codes

  Swag Codes are promotional codes that can be entered into the Swagbucks website which give you free SBs (Swagbucks). Find out where to find swag codes that can help boost your earnings.

Millions in Rewards Awarded

You can redeem your SB's for two main reward options: cash, or e-gift cards. One SB is worth approximately 1 cent, so 2500 SBs = $25.00. To date, Swagbucks has awarded over 800 million dollars to their members!

PayPal Payments

If you're a fan of cold, hard cash, you can exchange your SBs for money by requesting a PayPal payment to your PayPal account. Payments take approximately 10-14 days to process and are issued in US dollars, regardless of where you live. If you are outside of the USA, PayPal can automatically convert these USD into your local currency, or you can keep a separate USD balance in your account if you wish. You can request a PayPal payment in the following denominations: $25, $50, $100, and $250.

Tons of e-Gift Card Options

If you choose to redeem your SBs for a gift card versus a PayPal payment, you'll find that you can receive it with a lower balance. Denominations for gift cards vary and depending on the retailer, but they can be as low as $1 and as high as $100. E-gift cards are issued within 10 days of request are available to a wide variety or retailers including Amazon, Home Depot, Starbucks, Facebook, iTunes, a huge variety of restaurants, hotels, and more. Denominations of as low as $1 - $100 are available.

You may also donate your SB's to charities such as Unicef, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, etc. Donation amounts start at only 5 SB’s ($0.05).

Bonuses

Swagbucks offers daily goal points where you can receive bonus SB's if you reach the daily goal by the end of the day. Simply log in to your account to see what that day's daily goal is. Receive another bonus when you reach the daily goal 7 days in a row. Bonuses are paid on or around the first day of the following month.

Swagbucks is Immensely Popular and Offers a Huge Community

Swagbucks has been around since 2005 (the same year SurveyPolice was created!) and has over 13 million members and over 2.4 million Facebook fans. Incredibly, they have awarded over 800 million dollars in rewards to their members making them by far, the internet's largest GPT website! Every day, they award 7,000 gift cards to their members.

Eligibility: Swagbucks is open to residents 13 years of age and older who reside in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, India, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Ireland

If you're already a member of Swagbucks and are looking for something different to join to make extra income, there are literally hundreds of alternatives out there. Here are a few of our suggestions. TGM panel is popular survey platform with tons of survey inventory. Branded Surveys offers online surveys, a low $5 cash out minimum and a $1 joining bonus! Tellwut is a fun community where you can take surveys, create surveys and answer daily polls for gift cards.

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April 18, 2018 by Marie from United States

I signed up for SB via PrizeRebel.com. I was quickly verified by SB, so I took the tutorial and started taking surveys. Within a few hours, I had earned enough to redeem a $5 Amazon gift card (which I am waiting on). They were the ones who emailed me multiple times saying I had earned enough to redeem a gift card. I was disappointed to see that the minimum payout for PayPal is $25, as that is my primary method of redemption at survey sites.
So I tried to log in to my account, and I am informed that it is deactivated. I checked their list of possible reasons for deactivation, and I've not violated any. This is coincidental, as I recently posted a negative review for Prize Rebel because they didn't reward me to signing up for SB through their site.

I don't know if they have banned me for being critical. But I think as subscribers, we work long and tedious hours to make money, and we should speak up when we aren't treated fairly.

April 13, 2018 by John from United Kingdom

They have got worse since I last posted. Now most surveys they send me to including the majority they claim I am suitable for, I get kicked from. They also often send me to sights which also send to other sights with all three and sometimes four asking the same questions. I have now reduced the amount of surveys I take from Swagbucks and doubt I will continue once I have received my next payment.
On the plus side I have earned and been paid £20 with Amazon vouchers in under four weeks. £10 of that was a special deal from another site and Swagbucks (SB) have temporarily reduced the points required to get Amazon vouchers.
The problem is SB give so much false information about the surveys that it's hard to know what you are doing. Over half the surveys SB link to and say take 10 minutes are listed as 25 minutes plus on the survey site. Pay varies, but is mostly poor averaging 40SB about 25p. Every survey I complete takes longer than they say and are often rejected right at the last minute. I have also been sent to "suitable surveys" where they wanted someone much younger or even a different sex.
I don't know why SB get it so wrong so often, but because they do, I would not recommend them to anyone unless you have nothing better to do and are ok with constant frustration.

April 3, 2018 by Daisy from United Kingdom

I started using this survey company almost a year ago and I probably cashed out about £20 at the beginning. Then I began to be screened out of every survey I tried to take. I then received an invite to come back again this year but yet again I was unable to complete a survey. Tried again today and each of the short surveys I tried screened me out after asking me a number of different questions. I certainly believe they are collecting data but don't wish to pay out by allowing me to complete any more surveys. I have been doing surveys for a number of other companies for up to a year now and I have no problems with those companies.

March 27, 2018 by simone from United States

hi
after i using swagbucks for months now i reach 1000 points and I decided to redeem them to 10$ visa gift card ... the time i clicked to redeem my account deactivated and I send to CS by email with no response
avoid using them

March 16, 2018 by James from United Kingdom

I was a member of Swagbucks for just over a year and for a while I rather enjoyed being on the site but recently it's gone severly downhill.

The customer service is some of the worst I've ever come across, rude, very blunt, are unable to deal with anything beyond a basic request and more then likely your ticket will be ignored.

You could submit tickets when Surveys disqualified you for no real reason most of the way through or right at the end for no real reason but recently they are really cracking down on this so chances are submitting a ticket for a survey that wasted your time you'll be denied and perhaps even prevented from submitting more tickets.

It's obvious Swagbucks doesn't really care about it's customers despite the facade they put on and are perfectly happy to have dodgy survey companies put surveys on their site and have no issue with surveys wasting your time.

There are other things as well. Ncrave suddenly stopped working on my Laptop, Swagbutton slows down computers and can flag as malware, some of the companies they have for discover offers are very dodgy and despite I request I made months ago they still do the app-a-day offer which most of the time links to Malware.

I deleted my account this week and unless you've got SB to redeem I advise you all do the same. It's going downhill fast and they are more looking out for themselves then you.