Swagbucking into 2017

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  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 46,898 Forumite
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    vampire-girl wrote: »
    . If there is not a sale on then I usually get £25 but at the moment it's cheaper to get two mastercard five pounds than one ten pound one.

    There is next to nothing in it value wise between the smaller or larger cards as there is a 20p charge per card so you lose £1 with 5 x £5 or 20p with a £25 card (the % charge is the same rate) so the lower cost of the card is used paying the extra 20ps.
  • GromitFan
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    Looking for a way to tick off discover.
    Sure, I know for a lot of people they can use EngageMeTV, but whenever I try that I get a "permission denied" message. It used to work for me a while ago, but have been getting that error for ages and no idea why. Maybe someone knows?
    Or maybe someone can suggest another easy discover?
    Fingers crossed someone has a suggestion...
    Thanks. :)
  • LSB1302
    LSB1302 Posts: 213 Forumite
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  • SergioRam
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    vampire-girl wrote: »
    Parksandrec,
    The £5 paypal is 800SB and the Mastercard is 700SB
    Someone else wrote about it before but I can't remember who to thank.

    When you use the mastercard it deducts so it's roughly £4.63 you get.

    In paypal you go to 'send & request', then 'create invoice', send it to an email address you have that isn't associated to your paypal account.

    When the email arrives at the email address requesting payment follow the link, go for the non paypal payment option, input the online mastercard details that you get from swagbucks as the payment method, your contact details with the email address you sent the request to, & pay it. & say 'no thanks' when it gives you the option to set up a paypal account for that email address.

    Then login to paypal and withdraw funds as you usually would.

    It is a bit of a fuss but once you've done them a couple of times it's not so bad. If there is not a sale on then I usually get £25 but at the moment it's cheaper to get two mastercard five pounds than one ten pound one.

    I hope that makes some sense, if not am sure others (who don't rabbit on like me) can explain better.

    Thanks for your explanation.

    To be clear, if you follow your instructions, for a 700sb cost do you end up with £4.63 or £5 in your paypal account?

    I've always bought amazon vouchers but if your system pays £5 into paypal I might change that.
  • Kavor
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    SergioRam wrote: »
    Thanks for your explanation.

    To be clear, if you follow your instructions, for a 700sb cost do you end up with £4.63 or £5 in your paypal account?

    I've always bought amazon vouchers but if your system pays £5 into paypal I might change that.

    You'll get £4.63 in your Paypal account.
  • SergioRam
    SergioRam Posts: 92 Forumite
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    Kavor wrote: »
    You'll get £4.63 in your Paypal account.

    Ah ok, thanks.

    700 sb = 4.63 (0.66p per SB)

    or 800 sb = 5.00 (0.63p per SB)

    I don't think it's worth it, hardly any difference and still worse value than the Amazon vouchers.
  • philgreen
    philgreen Posts: 205 Forumite
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    SergioRam wrote: »
    Ah ok, thanks.

    700 sb = 4.63 (0.66p per SB)

    or 800 sb = 5.00 (0.63p per SB)

    I don't think it's worth it, hardly any difference and still worse value than the Amazon vouchers.

    it depends what you want to do with your earnings, Amazon is quite often more expensive on the dearer items, so don't get Amazon if you haven't decided to buy from them, nowadays you can get M & S at £5 for 700sb's or if you go for the £10 vouchers you can get M & S, John Lewis and Debenhams for 1360sb's (80 sb's cheaper than Amazon). If you don't intend buying from these stores you may as well have paypal/mastercard into your bank.
  • SergioRam
    SergioRam Posts: 92 Forumite
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    philgreen wrote: »
    ...Amazon is quite often more expensive on the dearer items...

    I'm certainly no cheerleader for Amazon but think we'll have to agree to disagree on that front!

    In my experience they're always cheaper (even if you consider gains from UK cashback sites) and the range of products is far far greater than M&S, Debenhams, John Lewis.

    I recently bought a powertool, typically £900 in shops, got it on Amazon for £700.

    Say you earn 7000 sb in a month (about my average), would give £50 amazon vouchers whereas that Mastercard option: £46 and Paypal option: £43.

    For me it's still the best way but I do take your point it's perhaps not for everyone.
  • andrewsummers
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    One question about the Swag games - I always manage to get 10sb from swag run but I never seem to get any from the other two. Does any get points from the other two games?
  • Lost2
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    andrewsummers wrote: »
    One question about the Swag games - I always manage to get 10sb from swag run but I never seem to get any from the other two. Does any get points from the other two games?

    you only get 10sb total no matter what games you do
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