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The biggest survey I've gotten was 250 points. I don't usually end up waiting for them to credit but if you're getting larger amounts, that might be why. Their Facebook page does codes and things that give you 5 here, 9 there, and right now they're going a team challenge. Team challenges require virtually no work, unless you want to.
I've been hearing about a 4000 point survey that required a married couple who both had Facebook accounts, and it was supposed to send an email to the spouse who didn't complete the first part so they could complete their part. Apparently, it hasn't been emailing spouses at all, and there wasn't a timeline given as to when it would happen so people are missing out on their $40. Swagbucks does reward higher values than most other sites I've seen, though. Usually, it's 10 points per survey, then at 1000 points, you get a $5 gift card. Swagbucks does 1 point=1 cent, so it's easy to calculate their rewards (1000-$10.00).
Disqualifications are a rule, sadly. It's only worth it for me because I can usually get about $1.50 a day and being a stay-at-home mom, I make nothing otherwise. I've learned to live with the disqualifications (they usually don't get past the age-household income-zip code part), and just check back regularly.
Back to the original topic, another free-but-you-can't-complain incident: my grandpa got a car from one of his friends for free. It needed a few repairs after sitting out in the garage for a couple years, untouched, but Grandpa said he'd let us have the car if we paid for the repairs. Well, we get it signed over (which took twice as much as we thought it would, and our tag office doesn't accept cards which is really really frustrating because we were withdrawing from savings which isn't hooked up to an ATM and the nearest bank was 40 miles away and we don't use checks for anything), and the repairs turn out to be twice as extensive and three times as expensive as we were told. So now we have a car that won't start sitting in our yard and we can't afford to put the insurance on it because we dug into that money to get the title transferred and start the repairs. We were quoted $250 by my grandpa's mechanic (who charges barely anything for labor), and expected $70 for the title transfer. Total bill so far? $500 and we're not even close to done. But the car was free, so we're stuck with it.
I've been hearing about a 4000 point survey that required a married couple who both had Facebook accounts, and it was supposed to send an email to the spouse who didn't complete the first part so they could complete their part. Apparently, it hasn't been emailing spouses at all, and there wasn't a timeline given as to when it would happen so people are missing out on their $40. Swagbucks does reward higher values than most other sites I've seen, though. Usually, it's 10 points per survey, then at 1000 points, you get a $5 gift card. Swagbucks does 1 point=1 cent, so it's easy to calculate their rewards (1000-$10.00).
Disqualifications are a rule, sadly. It's only worth it for me because I can usually get about $1.50 a day and being a stay-at-home mom, I make nothing otherwise. I've learned to live with the disqualifications (they usually don't get past the age-household income-zip code part), and just check back regularly.
Back to the original topic, another free-but-you-can't-complain incident: my grandpa got a car from one of his friends for free. It needed a few repairs after sitting out in the garage for a couple years, untouched, but Grandpa said he'd let us have the car if we paid for the repairs. Well, we get it signed over (which took twice as much as we thought it would, and our tag office doesn't accept cards which is really really frustrating because we were withdrawing from savings which isn't hooked up to an ATM and the nearest bank was 40 miles away and we don't use checks for anything), and the repairs turn out to be twice as extensive and three times as expensive as we were told. So now we have a car that won't start sitting in our yard and we can't afford to put the insurance on it because we dug into that money to get the title transferred and start the repairs. We were quoted $250 by my grandpa's mechanic (who charges barely anything for labor), and expected $70 for the title transfer. Total bill so far? $500 and we're not even close to done. But the car was free, so we're stuck with it.
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