Swagbucking into 2014

jayII

You lot are amazing, my average is about 50SB. I usually manage a few before 8am, then about 40 in the evenings. Surveys seem to be gone by the time I get home at night and encrave is usually closed. I'm off work today so should manage a few more than usual.

leafittome

magic_alex wrote: »

Last monday i hit 930sb for the day thanks to the 609sb survey and thought they would shaft me the following day - i guess they take a few days to work out how to reign you in a bit!

my dilema is now whether i hit target 1 and quit or keep going - I can live with a 400sb target 2 as I have that daily average anyway but i dont want it to go further!

What I decided to do was set my own daily target of 140sb, this gives me £25 of Amazon vouchers per month (assuming I do hit 140sb per day for 31 days) not including bonuses.

I know people rave about the bonuses but they only pay you a max of 300 more per month if you hit the targets every single day. To me that is not enough. Especially when you get your bonus points earned on the days you earn them, even if you don't complete the winning streak.

loranius

leafittome wrote: »

I know people rave about the bonuses but they only pay you a max of 300 more per month if you hit the targets every single day. To me that is not enough. Especially when you get your bonus points earned on the days you earn them, even if you don't complete the winning streak.

I'm not sure whether you have misunderstood. You don't get the bonus points earned on the day you earn them, you get them on the 5th on the next month.

For example, last month I hit the 30 day streak, this gave me 300 bonus, then I also got 600 from the daily bonus making 900 bonus altogether.

Amyea

I'm a bit slow, when did the Collectors Bills start? Lol

Mullhon2

Amyea wrote: »

I'm a bit slow, when did the Collectors Bills start? Lol

Started today Amyea

leafittome

loranius wrote: »

I'm not sure whether you have misunderstood. You don't get the bonus points earned on the day you earn them, you get them on the 5th on the next month.

For example, last month I hit the 30 day streak, this gave me 300 bonus, then I also got 600 from the daily bonus making 900 bonus altogether.

Yeah, sorry. That wasn't clear how I wrote it in my last post. I do know you only get paid them late in the day on the 5th of the month.

The effort of logging in early in the day and at weekends means it is easier for me to forget the streaks and just set my own targets for the day. Then on the 5th of the month I get a bonus for all the days I hit my target too. But logging in everyday to hit the monthly winning streak and getting 10sb per day (300sb for the month) for that is just not worth the effort for me I'm afraid.

ma-ri-ella

first target today is 99 - very unlikely with no surveys and I will be at work all day... never mind i will still try it when i get home after 10pm..

jayII

leafittome wrote: »

The effort of logging in early in the day and at weekends means it is easier for me to forget the streaks and just set my own targets for the day. Then on the 5th of the month I get a bonus for all the days I hit my target too. But logging in everyday to hit the monthly winning streak and getting 10sb per day (300sb for the month) for that is just not worth the effort for me I'm afraid.

That's a really good idea. I've long thought that the monthly bonuses aren't worth the effort but I've tended to just make more/less effort on the site according to my mood and how much time I have available.

I've never thought of setting a personal daily target to achieve a certain payout, but I will now. Thanks.

leafittome

jayII wrote: »

That's a really good idea. I've long thought that the monthly bonuses aren't worth the effort but I've tended to just make more/less effort on the site according to my mood and how much time I have available.

I've never thought of setting a personal daily target to achieve a certain payout, but I will now. Thanks.

Fingers crossed you can then hit those targets and get it to work for you. Whether it be Amazon, PayPal or another reward. :beer:

QuackQuackOops

magic_alex wrote: »

To be fair to them, up until friday over the 16 days id been on SB my daily average was 410sb per day. obviously some days i got significantly less than that and others significantly more.

but i havent qualified for a survey since then and i really had to slog through just to get to 90 sb yesterday - so to wake up to a 400sb second target when they STILL wont give me a survey seems insane to me too.

ill make 1st target for sure but very much doubt i can get to 400 with no surveys

The target don't go up and down according to what you did the day before.
So if you only reached 30 yesterday out of a target of, say, 90, then your targets won't automatically drop the day after. Nor will they go up the day after.
It takes a few days for an average and then it goes up.

The second target is still high because your average for the week is high.
If you don't hit the 2nd target for 4 or 5 days, it will drop down.

Hitting the 2nd target isn't necessary anyway and only serves as a motivator for your own satisfaction.


Your situation is pretty much how I found it when I first started and couldn't understand why so many people found it hard to hit targets. I wasn't aware that it fluctuates for different people and not all the same offers and surveys were available to everyone.
After the initial mass of surveys they then trickled down to a steady supply but not nearly as many as the first few weeks and some days there are none at all.
I have gone a week without a single survey before now.

So best advice really is reach your first target so you get the monthly streak and one lot of bonuses and then only hit the 2nd target if and when its easy to do so but don't hit it on every 4th day. This keeps it down at a manageable level.