Swagbucking into 2019... Nearly ;)

mjm3346

whattochoose wrote: »

I've been a member a week and at first did reasonably well, mainly by completing surveys.
However, I'm over 60 and retired, and I'm wondering if this is to my detriment, because lately I'm getting disqualified more and more.
Once I tick the retirement box I just cant help thinking they may think my views are not of sufficient interest to bother carrying on with the survey?

Many surveys are after a specific demographic say 18 to 35 year old females, 25 to 50 year old men, people who drive, renters etc if you don't fit the demographic you get screened out - if its a wide demographic that you fit in but they have enough responses in the bit that you match you will also get screened out

(You are better off taking surveys direct from the survey sites rather than swagbucks anyway - but demographics still matter)

whattochoose

mjm3346 wrote: »

Many surveys are after a specific demographic say 18 to 35 year old females, 25 to 50 year old men, people who drive, renters etc if you don't fit the demographic you get screened out - if its a wide demographic that you fit in but they have enough responses in the bit that you match you will also get screened out

(You are better off taking surveys direct from the survey sites rather than swagbucks anyway - but demographics still matter)

Thank you mjm. But isn't swagbucks a survey site?

mjm3346

whattochoose wrote: »

Thank you mjm. But isn't swagbucks a survey site?

Not really, it has lots of surveys on it that are for other sites so they take their cut and pass a (very) little on to you - better sites pay £1 for 5 mins which equates to at least 25 SB a minute where the standard reward on swagbucks (peanut labs) is 29 SB for ten minutes - this was an example from a few days ago

...the surveys can pay 90% or less compared to going direct - I had one last week that was offering 29 SB by chance I had an e-mail invitation from the site proper and was paid £3 (the equivalent of 400 SB) - even survey DQs, which are all I generally look for, are often poor value as it should take less than 3 seconds to earn 1 SB.

There are various other activates on Swagbucks to earn from instead of surveys

mikep22

whattochoose wrote: »

Thank you mjm. But isn't swagbucks a survey site?

Think of Swagbucks as a provider of surveys (the same as most of the other sites, to be fair) - its a portal from which you can access surveys from.

But pro rata you simply get much less Swag for your Buck then most of the others. For example a 20 minute survey is worth what, 100SB on a good day - whats that worth? For PayPal on SB, its £5 per 800SB, so that 100SB is 1/8th of £5...62.5p. IMHO that is below par. But as always, this is your decision as to what your own time is worth. That 62.5p, could buy you dinner.

Tolteca87

And each 62,5p adds up each time you spend your time doing exactly the same survey at this portal site rather than directly or at a portal which takes less of a cut.

whattochoose

Thank you for the advice and clarifying things. I've looked online and indeed see there other sites where there is money to be made and gift cards to be won, something I was hitherto unaware of.
However, I don't want this "answering surveys" lark to take over my life, so I think I'll persevere with just SB for now.
In truth I seem to hit fallow periods and then am able to do a few surveys which sufficiently boost my points intake.
Sad person that I am, I seem to get a buzz when I've successfully answered a survey and I see my points tally rack up.
If I can earn about £20 pounds worth of Amazon gift cards a month I'll be happy. It's not as if it's costing me anything apart from time, and now I'm retired I have a lot of that.
Thanks again.

thisone

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John1963

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Step 2 - 5 SB

Notes:
(1) His a 60 SB first thing for the second day running.
(2) Am getting continuous mobile watch repeats
(3) I hit a 30 SB search win yesterday, must have pre-empted the collectors bill (Hit the actual bill this morning!!)
(4) Won the first Swagbucks live last night but then most people did!

mjm3346

whattochoose wrote: »

Thank you for the advice and clarifying things. I've looked online and indeed see there other sites where there is money to be made and gift cards to be won, something I was hitherto unaware of.
However, I don't want this "answering surveys" lark to take over my life, so I think I'll persevere with just SB for now.
In truth I seem to hit fallow periods and then am able to do a few surveys which sufficiently boost my points intake.
Sad person that I am, I seem to get a buzz when I've successfully answered a survey and I see my points tally rack up.
If I can earn about £20 pounds worth of Amazon gift cards a month I'll be happy. It's not as if it's costing me anything apart from time, and now I'm retired I have a lot of that.
Thanks again.

That's more likely with swagbucks


I got £50 cash from one of the survey sites I use last month and have reached another £31 from them so far - total time taken less than 7 hours - the likely time to achieve the same amount of cash through surveys on swagbucks would be over 60 hours.

mjm3346

thisone wrote: »

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