Friday, October 8, 2010

Am I the only one who didn't know about Swagbucks?

Caroline posted on January Moms last night about Swagbucks and almost everyone responded with, "yes, I love swagbucks!" I felt out of the loop, given that I had never heard of them before.

Search & Win

Here is her explanation of what Swagbucks is (I hope it's okay I cut & pasted this, C):
"It's basically a program where you use their search engine and are randomly rewarded with 'swagbucks' which you can then trade in for stuff. I think the consensus is that the $5 Amazon.com giftcard for 450 swagbucks is the best deal.

I basically search a few random terms every few hours until I get swagbucks (usually 7-12 swagbucks per "win"). You can get extra swagbucks for doing surveys and polls. And sometimes they post random codes on Facebook that are good for a few hours.

As a deskmonkey who's on her PC all day anyway, it's really no effort for me and it took me about 2 weeks to get my first $5 Amazon.com giftcard.
"

So I jumped on the bandwagon and signed up. My first search, which was "tidy cats coupons" got me 11 swagbucks. LOL. I am hoping they add up fast since I have a feeling there will be quite a few things left on our Amazon.com registry after our baby showers next weekend.

Please tell me that I wasn't the only one who didn't know about this. If you'd like to sign up, the website is Swagbucks.com.

9 words of geekdom:

Sweet Jo said...

Never heard of it. Signing up right now!

Anonymous said...

I also never heard of Swagbucks, and I am the queen of coupons, refunds, rebates, etc. You have me signing up asap!

heather said...

i know someone who uses it and gets stuff all the time - im going to go try it again - i did the same search as you and got 50 swag bucks!

Melissa @ Growing Up Geeky said...

50?? I'm jealous!

Heather said...

i know - i was expecting the 11 that you got.. or none at all!

The Many Thoughts of a Reader said...

i use swagbucks the surveys sometimes piss me off because you answer a ton of questions and then suddenly you dont qualify. ive only had about 3 successful surveys that went all the way through. so that is aggravating. but i just use swagbucks to search and then on fridays they tend to give out more..

PinkLove-S said...

Don't feel bad! I didn't either! :(

Shan said...

That's a great idea - thanks for linking it up!! I haven't heard of it...but may just get on that tonight!

Tina said...

I'm going to have to check that out, so, no, you're not the only one who hadn't heard of it. :) Thanks!

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