Swagbucking into 2015 (Newcomers, please read the first post)

buzzyzoe

SPnomore wrote: »

Bonus rounds seem to be quite common with the iPhone apps but very rare with the Android versions. I have had literally 1 bonus round (2SB) in 3 months of using all the apps on Android. No one seems to know if this is intentional or a technical issue.

Many people seem to pick the short videos and add them as "favorites", They then play this "play list" and the same short video(s) get played over and over, hence not taking very long. I leave the apps with 10 second videos playing but for the others I manually play the first 3 seconds then move to the next video, so it does not take long to reach the daily limits.

Ah, that's really helpful - thank you!

philgreen

SPnomore wrote: »

Bonus rounds seem to be quite common with the iPhone apps but very rare with the Android versions. I have had literally 1 bonus round (2SB) in 3 months of using all the apps on Android. No one seems to know if this is intentional or a technical issue.

Many people seem to pick the short videos and add them as "favorites", They then play this "play list" and the same short video(s) get played over and over, hence not taking very long. I leave the apps with 10 second videos playing but for the others I manually play the first 3 seconds then move to the next video, so it does not take long to reach the daily limits.

I also do all the android apps and nearly every day get bonus rounds,
the only thing in my experience they must be the latest download. On old apps i never got bonus rounds.

System

I thought that people had been banned for not playing the mobile videos in full....or is it ok? I just do the 10 sec ones myself and let them run through....getting more videos than I can manage at the moment..never run out.

Iwani

rachelja wrote: »

I thought that people had been banned for not playing the mobile videos in full....or is it ok? I just do the 10 sec ones myself and let them run through....getting more videos than I can manage at the moment..never run out.

Argh I didn't know that, I did wonder if it was ok to do. Do you mean banned from the app or banned entirely??

System

Iwani wrote: »

Argh I didn't know that, I did wonder if it was ok to do. Do you mean banned from the app or banned entirely??

I really don't know, I haven't been using the site that long. I can't remember but I think it was discussed at some point.....someone will remember?!

Boodedoo

SPnomore wrote: »

Bonus rounds seem to be quite common with the iPhone apps

My other half uses an iPhone to run the apps. This week has been good for bonus rounds on the SBTV app (2SB for 5 videos and a usual cap of 10 SB)

I am sure it will end soon, but in the last 7 days, when the official total is 70SB, he has had 1,120 and its still running tonight.

Iwani

rachelja wrote: »

I really don't know, I haven't been using the site that long. I can't remember but I think it was discussed at some point.....someone will remember?!

Not worth the risk so I'll stop that now, only done it over a couple of days anyway as don't tend to use the mobile apps much. Do find it a bit stupid they'd build the facility into the app if they don't want you to do it.

I remember a few pages back someone talking about the Watch videos and moving onto the next once you have the tick, but from a bit of a google I see someone else has posted it's some kind of inbuilt trick to catch people out?? Anyone?

loranius

I remember people saying that if they played the entire old SBTV style playlist in one day their account will get flagged as SB will think you are using a bot to play the videos for you (it literally takes the entire day non stop clicking I believe?) but the user was saying they genuinely sat in front of the telly the entire day and played all the videos!

Considering most of us just manually move the videos after 3 seconds, most of us haven't been banned yet!

kippygolf

loranius wrote: »

Considering most of us just manually move the videos after 3 seconds, most of us haven't been banned yet!

I usually let the Apps with 10 sec favourites play through (SBTV, Lifestylz, EntertaiNow), but move the other three on after about 5 secs, otherwise it would take half the day. Have been doing this for a long time, and have had no warnings from SBs.

juliesg

I've just noticed that there is a swag up menu now