Swagbucks 2025

MollyR

MollyR said:

Ah, very good point  - thank you!  So for three weeks from tomorrow, the "Swagbucks Day" will start at 7am GMT rather than 8am GMT.  And the Swago will start at 3pm GMT on Monday, and end at 7am GMT on Tuesday 18th.

Ah, I think I am wrong there - their clocks will actually not go forward until their 1am this morning, when they switch to their 2am, so the "Swagbucks Day" today will (I think!) still start at 8am GMT because it will still be midnight Pacific time - but it will end at 7am GMT tomorrow.  The more years I go through this, the more confused I am liable to get!

Jimbobdibob

Search win was 7SB today. Appeared to be getting one random search win a month but pretty sure didn't get one in February. 
PS double points on RevU

justinjunk

Congrats. My search has been back to normal since 4 March 2025, but it's been 3/5/7 every day in that order.

Yesterday was a good day for me on RevU as I got a 294SB survey for watching a 42min TV episode (although the survey was advertised as 30 minutes).

justinjunk

It looks like SB has increased the cost of giftcards.

100GBP Paypal is now showing as 13,030SB, up from 10,000, an increase of 30.3%

Jimbobdibob

justinjunk said:

It looks like SB has increased the cost of giftcards.

100GBP Paypal is now showing as 13,030SB, up from 10,000, an increase of 30.3%

Flippin eck! Grrr

PS was the tv episode any good 

pecunianonolet

Glad that I redeemed my points yesterday for Paypal to receive my 10 quid before the increase. No longer worth it now so time to stop using them for good. 

New prices below:

justinjunk

Not great but ok, a supernatural series set in rural Australia. Kids playing with a ouija board and it goes wrong

I was planning to cash out the 100 pounds paypal at the next team challenge, even if I come last as usual. Not going to happen this time as not enough SB

If you notice, the UK paypals all end in 30 or 80.

On top of everything else, they've added a 30SB processing fee for paypal (the USD 10- costs 1030SB and the fee is explained there) so redeeming for N pounds costs 130N+30 SB

justinjunk

pecunianonolet: good timing and lucky you

MollyR

Right - so goodbye £100 Paypal, and hello again £5 Amazon.  Since every Amazon card costs 130 SB per £1, there is no point in saving up - I shall cash in several times a week, the way I used to do..... OK, just cashed in for a £50 and a £10, with 30 SB to go until the next £5.  Since I buy quite a lot from Amazon, this is no hardship for me.

Jimbobdibob

30% increase is massive.

Looking (desperately) for +v's

1. It was 30% when I joined, so back to normal.
2. Waiting to earn my £100 Amazon voucher was a real drag at times, especially since Christmas. Now can cash in more often.
3. Instant redemption now with lower values, not waiting for days.
4. Hopefully won't have to do verification, pain as all sent to partner as she holds Prime account

Bit of a tangent,  joined Y-Live (mjm3346 recommendation) 01.02.24 after 53 weeks reached £50 cash out, finally received money into account today
Y-Live, quick review, £ per minute very good, not many surveys, screen out % high (taking £ per minute way down). Will I still use, yes, not least because I had a £2 carry over