The general gist of it was this: Sign up and use our search engine, and you'll earn free stuff.
Upon first glance, it looked like a pretty basic scam to me. As I was doing some research on it (mostly to send out saying 'Hey guys, that's not a good idea'), though, what I found was that it was actually a legitimate operation.
So, I signed up about a week ago (June 1st) and decided to give it a go. In comparing it to Google, I haven't had to go back and use the Google search engine at all. The only place that I noticed a difference was in the number of image results, which I wouldn't have noticed except that my friend mentioned it in her blog - I very rarely search images myself.
In the past five days, I've accrued 211 'Swag Bucks' - instead of using Google, I use the SwagBucks search engine, and I earn points. These points can then be turned in for prizes.
As I hear it, one of the best deals is the $5 Amazon.com giftcard, which takes 450 SwagBucks to redeem.
At 211 SwagBucks in 6 days, that means that I'm averaging just over 35 SwagBucks a day.
Lets do that math on this for how much I'll have earned by Christmas.
Assuming that over the course of the next few months, I don't use the search engine every day, I'm going to say I'll average approximately 20 SwagBucks per day (not counting any that I might earn for anything other than using the search engine - there are additional ways to accrue SwagBucks). There are (as of today) 202 days until Christmas. I'll want to give myself some time for things to process through, and for shipping on anything if I need it, so lets work with 185 'earning' days.
185x20 = 3700
If I use all those SwagBucks to trade in for those Amazon.com gift cards...
3700/450 = 8.222
That's $40 in Amazon gifts that I can redeem in time for Christmas. I don't know about you guys, but saving some money just by using a different search engine works for me.
In case you're interested, you can sign up here by clicking this link, and not only will you guys be able to get started, I'll get a couple referral points (another way that you can earn SwagBucks):
http://www.swagbucks.com/r
I'm loving it so far. I've made $20 in 3 weeks thanks to referrals. I mean, I make some on my own but those referrals really make the difference!
ReplyDeleteSeriously! I'm hoping I can get some referrals too... it'd make a big difference I'm sure!
ReplyDeleteMaybe one of these days I'll try it out. I don't like search engines when there are too many things going on. Actually, I'll sign up for you, but I probably won't use it, lol!
ReplyDeleteIt's done! Hope you get something out of that! :)
ReplyDeleteYay Caroline! Give it a try, it actually seems to work really well. I usually open it and search 'twitter', 'facebook', 'gmail' - things I use often, and half the time I get points just for that!
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