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Swagbucking into 2018

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  • mjm3346
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    dipdap wrote: »
    Well today is the last day I'll be hitting that minimum target.
    I haven't missed a day target since I started back in May 2015 :eek:
    I worked out that means I've religiously hit my target for more than a thousand days :o I can now spend that time doing more important things (like housework!)
    It's time for me to say farewell to Swagbucks. I'm gonna log on each day until I hit the amount needed to cash out for my last voucher and that's me done.
    Thanx for all the tips and help over the years, it's been fun!
    I'm sure I'll still be around if it gets better again :)
    xx

    Since I started playing properly I have met the daily goal and therefore monthly master for about 2 years but today will also be the last time I try for it as unless you get the daily goal everyday it is not worth making an effort for it.
    I will continue to run the apps, play swag run etc which altogether should total around 50 SB a day worth £135 a year, but apart from possibly swagos that will be it.

    I will go back to just using a search engine that raises money for charity (which I started using more often anyway since swagbucks slashed the possible earnings from search), only doing surveys direct with the sites and use the time saved for something else.
  • Lost2
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    Come Monday you will properly find things don’t work properly as it’s one of those team things. Search wins have gone down to about 2 a day if your lucky and only 4sb I can’t see many people bothering with the team thing on Monday that is just a waist of time and now that apps have gone down to 4sb that equales 28sb and 10sb for play :(
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  • acc
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    The Swagbucks references in several MSE webpages need updating to reflect the abysmal returns, and the continuously further cuts in returns:

    Make Money Online

    Top 25 Online Survey Sites

    (on both of these webpages, Swagbucks should be moved down towards the bottom of the list of websites),

    Boost Your Income


    A Message From Swagbucks
  • Throwaway1
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    Yeah it's got worse but I make between £60 - £100 a month so I'm not going to stop using it. I like that there's a mixture of surveys and other activities to do without having to visit lots of different sites. I never run the apps anyway so whilst I'd rather they didn't change it for you guys, it doesn't affect me personally.
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  • purplevamp
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    Lost2 wrote: »
    it looks like all of the apps have been dropped to 4sb
    the only one that is still giving 10sb is SB watch

    The only good thing about this is that my phone will no longer get red hot and the battery won't need constant charging.
    Mortgage: Was: £154,495 Oct 2039 Now: £82,340.34 May 2037
    Swagbucks ~ £155 (2024 ~ £395)
    Surveys ~ £160.79 (2024 ~ £280.14)
    Make £2025 in 2025 #5 ~ £964.62 ~ (2024 ~ £2,561.04)
  • mjm3346
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    Throwaway1 wrote: »
    Yeah it's got worse but I make between £60 - £100 a month so I'm not going to stop using it. I like that there's a mixture of surveys and other activities to do without having to visit lots of different sites. I never run the apps anyway so whilst I'd rather they didn't change it for you guys, it doesn't affect me personally.

    To me it is well worth visiting other sites, which I admit I had cut down on since using swagbucks as it is so easy to get sucked in for something that is perhaps worth less than one penny up to maybe three pence.
    Even doing less on other sites over the last 28 months I have got from Swagbucks £1150, other survey sites £1527 and other internet activities £2340 - If I used swagbucks for all the possible surveys I might kiss goodbye to most of the £1527 and replace it with a swagbucks payment of perhaps £150
  • shazzylou
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    So which are the best survey sites mjm? I do not mind surveys but Swagbucks definitely pay low for the time invested.
  • Emmaaar22
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    Lost2 wrote: »
    Come Monday you will properly find things don’t work properly as it’s one of those team things. Search wins have gone down to about 2 a day if your lucky and only 4sb I can’t see many people bothering with the team thing on Monday that is just a waist of time and now that apps have gone down to 4sb that equales 28sb and 10sb for play :(


    I`m averaging one a day now
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  • Sugarplum634
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    Adding to the discontent. Theres no way I'm going to hit a daily target ever again. Gutted cos I really need the money from swagbucks.
    Make £520 a year in 2020 so far (£0 cash £0 AGC)

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  • mjm3346
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    edited 17 July 2018 at 12:52PM
    shazzylou wrote: »
    So which are the best survey sites mjm? I do not mind surveys but Swagbucks definitely pay low for the time invested.

    There is the MSE list

    https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/make-money-surveys/

    From their list I like Populuslive which pays £1 per 5 mins, some of them are long enough for £4 each and it does not take many of those to reach the £50 payout.

    Onepoll which are usually very short and pay 10 to 20p, ongoing payment threshold is now £25 not £40

    Pinecone pays £3 a time (£4 if you joined long ago) and sometimes have product tests for even more.

    I do not mind YouGov and they certainly offer me more than the 1 survey a month mentioned in the guide

    I dabble with some of the other sites on the list but have not bothered much with them for some while

    There are 2 invitation only ones not on the MSE list that I have probably belonged to for over 15 years and together pay up to around £250 a year.


    (Election time can be good for surveys and because they often want quick responses some of the sites reward more than usual - brexit was good for that as well)

    Forgot to mention Mobilexpressions which pays £2 a week
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