Morgan M.

Despite the dated look of the webpage, this is one of the best survey sites I've found! Quick to accumulate points and to pay out, with the benefit of cashing out at any amount - even a penny. Totally worth it. When I concentrate on surveys I've earned $21 in just 2 weeks there.

Sign up for the emails, you'll get a ton every day but it's easier than figuring out their website.

I've been using Swagbucks for many years, and have finally given up on it. They used to be a great company, an easy to use and generous rewards site. Since they got "big" and more popular though, it's become a matter of diminishing returns. It's not a scam per se, you can earn money, it just takes much too long to do that now, in my opinion. Their rating on Survey Police is no longer very good, and I would suggest finding other sites that pay you more, with a lot less hassle.

I used to spend around an hour a day on Swagbucks surveys to make both daily goals there, plus running SwagTV overnight on my mobile. With their recent changes to the surveys it's been taking me up to 4 hours daily, on surveys alone, to make just my first goal, and it's become a very frustrating and unrewarding process.

The survey companies they use now, Peanut Labs especially, make the surveys much harder to qualify for, linking to malware sites or to "funnel surveys" that bounce you from site to site, collecting up to 20 minutes of highly repetitive demographic information, before finally indicating that you don't qualify. These surveys then give you nothing, or occasionally one SB, for all your time and trouble. I've had 2 surveys this last month alone that I completed and never got the points for as well. Personally, I really don't appreciate companies that mine my data with no rewards, or sites that support them.

Between the surveys and other activities like SBTV I've been spending an average of 5 hours every day, or 150 hours a month, on earning Swagbucks alone. At earnings of $60 a month, with that very conservative estimate of 5 hours spent a day, it nets around $2 daily, or 40¢ an hour, which is way too little money to make it worth my while to work this hard and be this frustrated any longer.

I'm done. My Wife is done. We've both addressed these issues with Swagbucks on several occasions and received the exact same canned email response, along with 25 SB to try to placate us, which was not enough compensation for all the time we both wasted. (The copy/paste response from Amanda in Customer Service there also contains a typographical error that changes the meaning of her response entirely, which is just a sloppy practice for any business.) It's always a shame to see a company stop respecting the people who make their business possible. This one used to be great.