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Swagbucks Reviews Summary

Swagbucks presents a mixed reputation among its users, with some customers appreciating the variety of ways to earn rewards, such as surveys and games. However, significant concerns dominate the feedback, particularly regarding account deactivations, unresponsive customer service, and delayed payouts. Many users report frustration over not receiving compensation for completed surveys and feeling misled about earning potential. The overall sentiment leans towards dissatisfaction, with a notable number of users warning others against investing time in the platform due to perceived scams and inadequate support. This suggests a pressing need for the company to enhance its customer service and reliability.

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value
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returns
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quality
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Kentucky
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Swagbucks is awsome!
April 14, 2015

Swagbucks has made it possible to celebrate Christmas on a tight budget. I save the swagbucks and turn them in for Amazon gift codes. Fanofds

Date of experience: April 14, 2015
Texas
1 review
42 helpful votes
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You suck and your tool bar has invaded every single browser I have. I will not stop unitl I expose you for the fraud you are. I have over 200,000 followers and I am collecting info on your deceptive practices. You just pissed off the wrong person, Good luck to you. You're going to need it. Have nice day

Date of experience: April 9, 2015
Pennsylvania
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Swagbucks...
March 2, 2015

I like swag bucks until you're 90 thru the survey they kick you off, you have to screenshot everything you do, I have cashed out

Date of experience: March 2, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Swagbucks is legit!
March 1, 2015

I enjoy Swagbucks! It is much like prize rebel http://mypr.link/Caressah and instagc http://instagc.com/******* they are all fun to use and have great payouts and rewards! If you want to try prizerebel and instagc, use my link for extra points!

Date of experience: February 28, 2015
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Works for me
February 20, 2015

So far I've made 25 in Amazon gift cards some days I can't get any points other I get loads just need patience :)

Date of experience: February 20, 2015
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Yes, I am the one of thousands who lost not just time but money and identity trying to figure it out why and how they sustain all legislation around to survive all these years. It was bother me, but things are simple because everyone think about themselves and their earnings. Swagbucks is scam no doubt! - I have personal experience. We a family of four kids and they stole in total $80 from us. we were trying to create new accounts and than swagbucks will monitor obviously our ip and every time we were about to claim $5 gift card they deactivate account... this is additional robbery that happened in total 62 times... and keep going. This is how they operate, so you think about who you dealing with. Beside, if you write to customer support, boi, there is only Ms Allison to answer... hehehehe... really, yeap... so, they are set. I ran Bitdefender anitvirus, my brother McAfee... etc. And each pf us experience same problem pointing and even showing to each other that some of the links a fishy... oh yeah they a phishing to your computer as well. But they or swagbucks are trying to send you as much as possible cookies... Many people already recognized that swagbucks always using same reason to deactivate your account... saying more than one person operated multiple accounts. SO, all your earnigs we steal from you and all earnings that you made from us...

Date of experience: February 18, 2015
Louisiana
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Initially, I was quite pleased to spend time on the site and now I have become very hesitant. Pretty quickly I was able to achieve three gift cards for their respective lowest reward. Great. Fine. Thrilled. Not so happy now that I would like to redeem those cards and it is worse than pulling teeth to get the code for any one of them. Three and I have managed to squeeze a singular code! I never got any of the emails they indicated have been sent and neither have I received an email when requested them to resend!

As I sit here, in my chair, — as time has well passed since having redeemed my points for the gift cards (due to their internal method of processing the request), ensuring that the rewards DO wind up in my account, reading every word of how to redeem, notifying them of the problem I was having in being ABLE to physically redeem the gift cards, discussing it via email on three separate occasions — (chair)I still need to get two codes!

Date of experience: February 16, 2015
Maryland
1 review
9 helpful votes
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This $#*!ing website is horse $#*! i cant make a $#*!ing account because my email i tried so many $#*!ing emails i made and still doesnt work if you see this swagbucks suck my $#*!!

Date of experience: February 7, 2015
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I have been a member of Swagbucks for more than a year now. I have redeemed about 1,000$ in gift cards. I am very pleased with the customer services and the type of offers the website has.

I have also won an iPod Touch and the 52 Pickup swagstakes, where you win 5,000 swagbucks a week for a year. Though, it has been taking a while since they fully processed my prize 52 Pickup prize as well as gift cards, which is the only catch about this website. Overall, very nice website to earn some money.

Date of experience: January 30, 2015
Germany
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I have played games over here a lot of time received gift cards and more. Excellent site to you

Date of experience: January 26, 2015
Illinois
3 reviews
23 helpful votes
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Swagbucks is not a scam I've used it for 2 years you have to get to know the site before u can get good earnings it may yes the surveys r a waste yes the mobile apps crash and don't pay as much anymore but by doing the random little videos and visiting those websites and viewing the slideshows on my old junk pc I get about 30 sb in 15 minutes from that I watch the sb tv at night and usually max it that's another 35 sb that's 65 sb then I do the daily poll toolbar noso offers and the daily crave I get 6 mor now I'm at 71 sb then I do a dozen easy offers that gets me to my daily goals I do this in 1 hour usually actually did the credit report one and I got 1500! Sb I wait about 7 to 10 days on rewards they never took my rewards and never have not paid me so these negative reviews are fake that these people are putting on here also I showed my roommate he also has had good luck a few changes should be made such changes are allowing more sb tv points a day actually using trustworthy survey sites and bringing back their trade in section I got 9000 swagbucks just from a few video games I didn't want now they don't do it anymore also the search should reward u the first time u search in that particular day not after searching for hours

Date of experience: January 26, 2015
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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You earn money, but 95% of the stuff you do to earn money doesn't even give you points. Sucks

Date of experience: January 11, 2015
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have only been on swagbucks for about 4-5 months and i have earned 6 different egift cards this is an awesome site for extra earning when you have time on your hands

Date of experience: December 16, 2014
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I have earned more then $500 dollars worth of gift certificates and get them fast and easy. I have never had an issue with any certificate I have used. I also use these gift certificates to either give a gift or send the certificate directly to someone for either Christmas or birthday. I find it very easy to earn and use Swagbucks. I don't see how anyone can call them a scam.

Date of experience: November 22, 2014
Utah
6 reviews
27 helpful votes
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Prizes come slowly or not at all. Scam artiststs. They will try everything possible so you won't get reward. Try Prizerebel http://www.prizerebel.com/index.php?r=dallinlee LEGIT website.

Date of experience: November 20, 2014
New York
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I a member of swagbucks since august 2014 and I earned two $10 gift certificates. Its not a lot but it helps. You can cash out quickly. The bad part is most of the offer require that you buy something unless you love doing surveys which take forever to earn enough swag bucks. Overall I enjoy it but I feel there are better ways to earn money online. Check out inboxdollar.com

Date of experience: October 14, 2014
Alabama
10 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I LOVE Swagbucks...
October 8, 2014

I LOVE Swagbucks... I have gotten so many gift cards. It's fun to search, watch videos, play games, and shop because you know your gonna get rewarded. Love it.

Date of experience: October 8, 2014
Illinois
1 review
23 helpful votes
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I can't really attest to the site so much because I've barely used it, but judging by the fact that there are multiple identical reviews on here from supposedly 'different' people, I can only ascertain that the company is writing false positive reviews on here. Take a look at the reviews from saravanan p. And Liz p.

They are identical.
"I've had a great experience with Swagbucks. There are so many ways to earn Swagbucks, especially if you just put a little time in or are patient. I use the search engine and I let videos play when I'm already using my computer. I do the occasional offer (free, usually just using my email and then unsubscribing later) and if I'm going to buy something anyway I check to see if I can do it through Swagbucks. Doing surveys gets you a ton of Swagbucks. Sometimes it's frustrating because you don't qualify for any, but when you do you can rack up quite a bit of Swagbucks."

Blah blah blah. Be wary of false reviews!

Date of experience: October 3, 2014
Michigan
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Why is there a need to enter the letters before getting 3 swagbucks in the videos? (Come on - it's THREE cents or less.) It seems like the company keeps trying to come up with new ways to keep its members from getting points. REALLY frustrating and a waste of time.

Date of experience: September 22, 2014
Utah
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Ordered an Amazon giftcard and verified the order (why do you need to verify the order?). It got REFUNDED. Even though I verified TWO TIMES.

Date of experience: September 18, 2014

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