Since I just “purchased” my second Amazon gift card using Swagbucks, I decided to post about them.  Swagbucks is a search engine that claims to be a full-search engine – to which I say “HA” and ha yet again.  It does pull up a lot of sponsored sites (which is certainly easy to ignore); in point of fact, though, I think they’ve improved over the past few months.  If I search for a different site it usually gets me there.

Having said that, I use it mainly for when I’m going to sites for which I already know the address.  After a certain number of searches you earn 5, 6, 7, up to 11 swagbucks, which are automatically deposited into your account.  You can use these swagbucks to purchase things at the swagstore.  Easy, huh?  Well, actually, it is.  And there is often an alert to earn extra swagbucks code by visiting a specific site.  I choose the $5 Amazon gift card which costs 450 swagbucks.  Visit the store, buy the card and the code is emailed to you.  You apply the code to your Amazon account in the gift card section and boom!  You have an additional $5 to spend on stuff.

So what, you say.  It’s only five bucks!  Well, true, but then I’m not doing anything other than my usual searches:  I’ve never downloaded their toolbar, I don’t watch the dumb TV and have only attempted one or two surveys (for which I failed to qualify, I might add) – all the things that bring the most points.  There are actually people out there who try to earn over 480 swagbucks a day.  So let’s see, spend all day running commercials, trying out for surveys, swagbucks TV to earn the munificent sum of ……..five bucks… i pass