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Swagbucks

Operated by: Prodege, LLC
100 N. Pacific Coast Highway, 8th Floor, El Segundo, CA 90245
Contact: https://help.swagbucks.com/home

Rated #3 out of 21 GPT Sites

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.

How Swagbucks Works

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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.

Earning SB's

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.
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Payment and Rewards

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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.

Member's Tip! Look out for “sales” on gift cards, where you can redeem your SBs for around 10% less the SB's they normally require.

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).

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Swagbucks Features

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

Joining Bonus! Swagbucks is currently offering a $5 sign up bonus to new members.
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Swagbucks Alternatives

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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Pretty good site

July 2, 2018 by Christine from United States

I enjoy this company because you can do surveys and other activities to earn points. It doesn't take long to accrue Swagbucks.

It works

June 28, 2018 by Shane from United States

You won't get rich, but you can make a bit of extra money. I have received several gift cards from them. My one complaint is that you are never credited for external offers such as signing up for their partners, but the surveys, watching videos, etc all work.

ripoff

June 23, 2018 by harold from United States

didnt receive $32 rebate for hulu signup. followed procedure and filed a ticket. next day acct deactivated by them.. i kept being told file a ticket about hulu. after 3 weeks samething, file a ticket. never an answer on why acct deactivated.. no access to money i already earned from surveys. on their facebook page a "user" kept giving me crap and after she claimed she "had made thousands and thousands of dollars" i looked up her profile. she is a swagbucks employee. crooked from the start. some people get their money. i didnt get approx $50. other sites are reporting this happening to more and more people

Great, can easily make $19+ a month

June 22, 2018 by Kurt from Australia

It's a great site where you can easily earn $19+ a month for very little effort.

They have apps where you can just play the videos and they play by themselves, you get points for x amount of videos and then you can redeem those points for gift cards or money through paypal.

They have surveys, which I sometimes do but usually can't be bothered with. Don't bother with most their offers, they either don't pay out or are in impossible.

1 Swagbuck (SB) = 0.01 USD
Every SB you earn is 1 cent.

Here's how to make the $30 a month:

Sign up before the 31st of June, 2018 and earn 500SB before then to earn an additional 500SB

Also using this code while signing up, gets you points 70SB. RSWAGBUCKS

How to make Swagbucks:

1. Do the daily poll everyday for 1 SB.
2. Play any of their games to get 10 SB a day. (Only 10 SB total for all their games, not each game).

Just play Swaggasaurus run:
-Play, die straight away. (You won't get points). Close the thing that says game over.
-Wait 5-10 second
-Play again, die straight away. You should get 2 SB.
-Rinse and repeat until you've made 10 SB

If you have a smart phone, which I assuming you do, install their apps, there's 6, they work for both Android and iOS.
1. SBTV
2. Sportly
3. Lifestlyz
4. EntertaiNow
5. Moviecl.ips
6. Indymusic.TV

These apps you can play videos, which automatically play and you can just leave it and earn SB points.

You can either play random videos or find the shortest one and favourite it so you only have 1 video looping. The videos rotate around so I can't tell you which one will be the shortest. Reddit is usually on top of that.

If you max out these apps you'll make 60SB a day from just this alone.

Maxing out the apps, plus doing the daily poll, playing any game should make you a min 1988 Swagbucks.

You can also do surveys and other offers, but they're not required to make $19 a month, if you want to make more, go ahead.

The reason the title says $19+ is because you can make more than $19 with the bonuses.

Btw you won't make money really fast with Swagbucks but it's money for very little work.

I like them

June 14, 2018 by Michele from United States

I mainly go here to fill out the surveys. I have cashed out a few times with this one. This one treats me right.