Swagbucks Challenge May 2013

paulshorse

matttye wrote: »

A lot of the special offers that say 'no purchase required' actually do require a purchase of sorts and it's really annoying. Has anyone noticed that? I was filling in a survey and then came to a box asking if I wanted five free lotto lines. I said no, and the survey wouldn't let me progress until I chose yes. I decided not to bother with it because the small print talked about signing me up to a weekly thing.

A lot of the offers on the walls are total scams and it's a case of 'buyer beware'. Swagbucks UK keep saying that they're trying to get the offer walls cleaned up but it's just not happening. Surveys on the offer walls are very often not surveys at all but just pages and pages of tick boxes. You need to be very careful with these because you can end up paying for things or subscriptions that you can't get out of. Never enter your credit card details into those kinds of offers and if possible use a mobile phone number that you no longer use. Set up a separate email account just for spam so that once a month you can just delete anything in it.

The things that you download (games and software) from the offer walls are often wrapped in adware that can be difficult to get rid of, so again be very careful of these.

If you think about it, these companies are not going to give you something for nothing - and usually they will earn a lot more by passing on your details or monitoring your internet usage than the meager amount of swagbucks that you earn from them.

I'm not saying don't do offers on the walls, just be very careful

matttye

paulshorse wrote: »

A lot of the offers on the walls are total scams and it's a case of 'buyer beware'. Swagbucks UK keep saying that they're trying to get the offer walls cleaned up but it's just not happening. Surveys on the offer walls are very often not surveys at all but just pages and pages of tick boxes. You need to be very careful with these because you can end up paying for things or subscriptions that you can't get out of. Never enter your credit card details into those kinds of offers and if possible use a mobile phone number that you no longer use. Set up a separate email account just for spam so that once a month you can just delete anything in it.

The things that you download (games and software) from the offer walls are often wrapped in adware that can be difficult to get rid of, so again be very careful of these.

If you think about it, these companies are not going to give you something for nothing - and usually they will earn a lot more by passing on your details or monitoring your internet usage than the meager amount of swagbucks that you earn from them.

I'm not saying don't do offers on the walls, just be very careful

I've seen the adware wrapper you're talking about. As long as you untick the option to install the bundled adware (also wants to change your search page) at the start, it seems to only install the software you actually wanted. I installed VLC media player, FLV player and 7-zip and haven't noticed anything dodgy bundled with it when I unticked that box.

Also signed up for two free trials (Audible and Sky Now); already cancelled Audible but I'll keep Sky Now for the month seeing as it's free

osmonddiva

im getting really p****d off now,today I have done a survey about cars for 110sb, a game download for 10sb and the survey meter thing for about 140sb and still only showing8/80 for todays goal which means am risking losing my 7day bonus :mad::mad::mad:

dolphin19

paulshorse wrote: »

Just did the win an iPad or Samsung Galaxy tab offer on Sponsorpay for 41sb. Used my spam email address. You don't need to put in a phone number but you do need to put in your address which is OK for me because any junk mail doesn't get opened and just goes straight in the bin. There's about 7 pages where they try to get you to sign up for things - I clicked on 'no' for everything apart from a brochure for holidays in Pembrokeshire and one for Hull and East Yorkshire and it credited straight away

That wasn't on my wall but I got an offer for winning Top Man vouchers for 44 sb which also required clicking through several pages of offers I didn't want. It credited straightaway. This one did require a phone number but I don't answer my landline and only answer my mobile when I know who it is so it's not a probelm for me

dolphin19

juno wrote: »

You need to earn 20sb to get paid. So when you earn another 4sb (doesn't have to be today, it saves it) the whole 20sb will be credited.

I left mine on 16sb yesterday so today I only had to do one casino task at 4sb to get the 20sb, and it shows in your daily goal as the day it's credited.

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Yes, I realise that you have to wait until the metre reaches 20 before you get credited. I should have said my metre did not credit so no sb

CathWales

osmonddiva wrote: »

im getting really p****d off now,today I have done a survey about cars for 110sb, a game download for 10sb and the survey meter thing for about 140sb and still only showing8/80 for todays goal which means am risking losing my 7day bonus :mad::mad::mad:

Some people have said their daily goals have not updated immediately. If you had the congrats screen for the survey that should have credited (offers are hit and miss) so try logging out and back in and see if that helps than do more than needs to get goal.

CathWales

Went over to IE from Firefox and finally got a DS on brands to take me to target, thought my luck was in when I got 2 PL's, but one DQ'd before starting and the 2nd on body washes just elbowed me part the way through but had 2SB added from somewhere 96/80.

dolphin19

Is there anyone who does the tasks that require writing questions?
I quite like doing them but I wondered what people do if the keywords are quite obviously going to take you to a !!!!!! site?

I just type in something like "graphic content" and move on but I can't see in the instructions what you should do? Are we still supposed to write a question?:eek:

osmonddiva

CathWales wrote: »

Some people have said their daily goals have not updated immediately. If you had the congrats screen for the survey that should have credited (offers are hit and miss) so try logging out and back in and see if that helps than do more than needs to get goal.

Thanks, I did log out and refresh and they havent added survey points even though I did get the congrats screen......hopefully they come on eventually. Am having a rant at the idea of doing sbtv to get to target as am not doing any more surveys if they dont credit the 30min one I did :mad:

juno

dolphin19 wrote: »

Is there anyone who does the tasks that require writing questions?
I quite like doing them but I wondered what people do if the keywords are quite obviously going to take you to a !!!!!! site?

I just type in something like "graphic content" and move on but I can't see in the instructions what you should do? Are we still supposed to write a question?:eek:

I try to move the keywords round so that it creates an innocent question. You can't change the words but you can change the order. I haven't had anything I can't do that with.