Swagbucks 2024.

Targa777

I haven’t been using Swagbucks except for collector bills, daily search etc..easy SB as I’d given up on their ridiculous surveys.
I had another go at completing a survey today and got nowhere, lots of starter questions then kicked out, hopeless. Those bitlab surveys offering 6 or 7 sb for 25 minute surveys still there too. Ridiculous, I just can’t fathom why anyone with a brain cell would touch those 🙄

mjm3346

SonOfPearl said:

The Swagbucks site has gradually become worse over the 6+ years I've been a member. It's been a handy way of earning some extra money but it's becoming less and less worth my time. I recently considered stopping using the site but decided instead to become more choosy about what surveys I complete. Therefore I now only complete surveys that pay at least 5SB / min.  

As a result this January I've only earned just over half as much as I typically did in previous months, but it's taken me far less than half the time to achieve it. Personally I'm happier with that, so I'm going to stick to it.

As £1/5 mins can be had elsewhere, Swagbucks survey starting point needs to be 20SB a min - ideally more than that to account for the number of survey failures they have and where the time to complete seems to bear no relation to what they say. Apart from picking up 1 survey DQ I only look at surveys under 5 mins that pay 20 or more SB. A while ago I saw a survey where SB were offering less than 10% compared to going direct to the survey site, no wonder they keep sending member benefit e-mails just pushing surveys.

missymouse

It’s very poor

also hate it when you apply for a survey and you don’t even get a chance to have a go despite it being on my page.

this survey isn’t a good fit etc

well don’t waste my time with it 

SonOfPearl

mjm3346 said:

SonOfPearl said:

The Swagbucks site has gradually become worse over the 6+ years I've been a member. It's been a handy way of earning some extra money but it's becoming less and less worth my time. I recently considered stopping using the site but decided instead to become more choosy about what surveys I complete. Therefore I now only complete surveys that pay at least 5SB / min.  

As a result this January I've only earned just over half as much as I typically did in previous months, but it's taken me far less than half the time to achieve it. Personally I'm happier with that, so I'm going to stick to it.

As £1/5 mins can be had elsewhere, Swagbucks survey starting point needs to be 20SB a min - ideally more than that to account for the number of survey failures they have and where the time to complete seems to bear no relation to what they say. Apart from picking up 1 survey DQ I only look at surveys under 5 mins that pay 20 or more SB. A while ago I saw a survey where SB were offering less than 10% compared to going direct to the survey site, no wonder they keep sending member benefit e-mails just pushing surveys.

Yes, the only other survey site I use is Y Live which gives £1 for 5 mins i.e. 20SB/min. But you have to wait to receive survey invites from them (which don't come frequently) and I like to do at least one or two surveys every day as part of my routine. If I only did Swagbucks surveys that offered at least 20SB/min then I'd hardly do any at all!   

Bazzalona13295

I've done ok with Swagbucks this month, at least relatively speaking. Got £25 in Tesco gift cards (don't fancy using up 625sb for paypal or waiting to hit £15) with another fiver round the corner.

I tend to only do surveys that look worth it, not an exact science but I'm not doing a 14 minute survey for 21sb as an example.

So its been a lean-ish month but could have been far leaner.

Edit - just done one survey, 16 minutes (took me 7) for 180sb. That doesn't happen very often!

mjm3346

SonOfPearl said:

mjm3346 said:

SonOfPearl said:

The Swagbucks site has gradually become worse over the 6+ years I've been a member. It's been a handy way of earning some extra money but it's becoming less and less worth my time. I recently considered stopping using the site but decided instead to become more choosy about what surveys I complete. Therefore I now only complete surveys that pay at least 5SB / min.  

As a result this January I've only earned just over half as much as I typically did in previous months, but it's taken me far less than half the time to achieve it. Personally I'm happier with that, so I'm going to stick to it.

As £1/5 mins can be had elsewhere, Swagbucks survey starting point needs to be 20SB a min - ideally more than that to account for the number of survey failures they have and where the time to complete seems to bear no relation to what they say. Apart from picking up 1 survey DQ I only look at surveys under 5 mins that pay 20 or more SB. A while ago I saw a survey where SB were offering less than 10% compared to going direct to the survey site, no wonder they keep sending member benefit e-mails just pushing surveys.

Yes, the only other survey site I use is Y Live which gives £1 for 5 mins i.e. 20SB/min. But you have to wait to receive survey invites from them (which don't come frequently) and I like to do at least one or two surveys every day as part of my routine. If I only did Swagbucks surveys that offered at least 20SB/min then I'd hardly do any at all!   

I also use y-live along with consumer pulse, pinecone and have a mobile app from Nielsen (I have used 30 plus sites in the past) - Swagbucks is just a little tag on at the end for me and was never about surveys (even before they cut what they pay for them) - the team challenges really help now, getting a £5 voucher for £2 or £3 for £1.50 etc and the daily trivia makes it easy to get enough points. Although I have eased off over the last 3 years, since 2010 I have earned over £30k from surveys/free to enter competitions and it doesn't seem to be just Swagbucks that have cut back.

emsi_b

@mjm3346 I was going to ask what else you use. I think Y live weren't accepting new people last time I checked, but will look at the others. I've made £40 from Swagbucks this month, which has been a very welcome boost. We had a massive unexpected and unrelated bill that's completely wiped us out during renovations, so every penny helps at the minute. Others may quite rightly put a lower limit on what surveys they will accept, but I will gladly take pennies at the moment! Perhaps that will change in a couple of months once all the bills are paid, but not right now.

pebblebeach8

emsi_b said:

@mjm3346 I was going to ask what else you use. I think Y live weren't accepting new people last time I checked, but will look at the others. I've made £40 from Swagbucks this month, which has been a very welcome boost. We had a massive unexpected and unrelated bill that's completely wiped us out during renovations, so every penny helps at the minute. Others may quite rightly put a lower limit on what surveys they will accept, but I will gladly take pennies at the moment! Perhaps that will change in a couple of months once all the bills are paid, but not right now.

I joined y-live about 2 hours ago, although 2 minutes after joining I had a spam email, could just be a coincidence but hoping I have joined the legit site and not something dodgy.

mjm3346

pebblebeach8 said:

emsi_b said:

@mjm3346 I was going to ask what else you use. I think Y live weren't accepting new people last time I checked, but will look at the others. I've made £40 from Swagbucks this month, which has been a very welcome boost. We had a massive unexpected and unrelated bill that's completely wiped us out during renovations, so every penny helps at the minute. Others may quite rightly put a lower limit on what surveys they will accept, but I will gladly take pennies at the moment! Perhaps that will change in a couple of months once all the bills are paid, but not right now.

I joined y-live about 2 hours ago, although 2 minutes after joining I had a spam email, could just be a coincidence but hoping I have joined the legit site and not something dodgy.

I belonged to Populas live for years before it became y-live and have never had any spam from them (I use different e-mail addresses for different things so would know)

emsi_b

I've looked again, and it wasn't y-live that wasn't accepting anymore. Don't know which survey company it was, but I've joined y-live. £1 per 5 mins seems much more profitable!! Thank you @mjm3346 and @pebblebeach8