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Cashed out for Earning Station again today
cashed out again today at earning station as i hit day 140 yesterday. Got $3.50 bonus and won 15c on the spin. Last cash out was 3/9 for $25. I do the daily streak for 25c by doing the daily list and the coupon print for 20c. Some times i try a survey...i tried one today and it was a virtual shopping for first aid supplies that paid 96c...this was my 5th virtual shopping survey here this month...they are so easy to do!! Here is the link: http://www.earningstation.com/account/register?ref=1164863
ROBINHOOD now on web
Robinhood is now available on the web ;) But i still love the app. Click the link below...get your free share, cash out and take the $$...OR share this app and get MORE free shares (they will cut you off at $500...but hey...if you can get $500 DO IT!)....OR actually use the app for some investing and make a buck or two ;) They ARE expanding outside of US and australia...you'd have to contact them to see where they are active right now.
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http://share.robinhood.com/carolyf
cashed out again on swagbucks
just cashed out again for $25 to paypal on swagbucks. Last cash out was 3/5 for $25 to amazon. They offer that one $25 for $22 in points the first of every month so i usually grab it when i can. If interested here’s the link...you can loo at other posts i have here to see whats it all about ;)
http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/momarch45
Daily streak already completed for me at Earning station :)
Logged into earning station today and saw my 130 day streak was already completed by my referrals! Yep, referral earnings count! Only place i know of where they do! All you have to do is keep a 25c a day streak going and every 10 days you get a bonus...i got $3.50 today and a spin on the wheel...my spin was 5c lol. Thats the lowest i have ever received. One day I’ll hit that $25!!
Heres the link to join today and start earning: http://www.earningstation.com/account/register?ref=1164863
Grabpoints...grab a few make a buck.
GrGrabpoints is another GPT site that i use. Not as good as swagbucks, but a nice quick and easy little site to get that extra $5 here and there. For a goal of $300 a month i need to fill in dollars where ever i can. Grabpoints uses points as such 5500pts = $5. You can cash out to paypal at $5 which is nice..dont like those sites that make you wait til $50...makes you think they WANT you to give up. I set a goal for 100 points a day and indoing so usually end up making the 5500 each month to get the $5. What i do is first, the trivia (if its there) 3 questions = 15 points. You will find you know most of them...pretty easy stuff, but sometimes there will be one you have to google. Grab the daily 7..that used to be there every day, but now seems to be more like once a week. Then go to Tap Research. You will get 5+ points for trying, even if DQ’d. the nice thing is it appears that the further you go before getting the DQ the more points you earn. I’ve earned as many as 200 for DQ! those are sweet :) And sometimes you answer 20 questions think you are going to get the nice big award and still only get 5 or 10...but for the most part its an excellent place to start. Then if I havent reached my 100 by doing these (which usually does it) I’ll go to Grabpoints TV and watch the videos. 1 point for each video..most are under 30 seconds long. Right now they are having issues with videos so that part may or may not be working for you but they say they should have it all fixed by tuesday. OH and their customer service is really pretty good...they seem to answer quick and actually respond to what you are asking and not robo answers like SB does. Heres the link: grabpoints.com Use code: VLGSUX
Its SWAGO time!
Yep time to start begging for referrals for the swago board completion :) Join now and play...fill the board get $5. Minimum gets 5c, but you also get spin and wins with every square completed. there are 25 squares, i have 12 done...should have more but did a couple stupid things so have to wait til tomorrow to try those again. So far ive gotten 32 spins and have won 17c and two double surveys. Swago is a great way to get familiar with the swagbucks site as it asks you to complete several different things on the site.
If swago isnt enticing enough for you to join..another new thing they have it SwagIQ. Its a trivia game..they ask 10 questions..takes about 15 mins (the talk a lot...lol) and winner gets the jackpot. Yesterdays jackpot was 3000 and 3 people won so they each got $1000...SWEEEEEET! I have discovered i am NOT good at trivia and so far have won a whopping 12c...lol. In yesterdays game i won 2c..i believe i got one question right :) It was all about oscars which i know nothing. The next game is at 8pm (EST) tonight so join up and see how you do :)
Heres the link to join swagbucks: http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/momarch45
Keep Rewarding Always rewarding you.....well mostly ;)
Swagbucks #1 http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/momarch45
Earning Station #2 http://www.earningstation.com/account/register?ref=1164863
And my #3 spot is Keep Rewarding. http://keeprewarding.com/home?ref=momarch
Keep rewarding was #2 for awhile for me but that Earningstation streak stuff is just so easy, i had to move it up :) Keep rewarding is very much like swagbucks, has most of the same walls and a few more. They have far, far more survey ops if that is your thing, and lots of video ops too if you prefer that. In fact some of their video actually encourage you to use more than one device which is a HUGE no no at swagbucks.
A large majority of the offers that you see on both sites pay a bit more on KR. Like the otoro games...a few specific examples are FFIV 720 at SB 1370 at KR. Vikings 480 at SB 900 at KR. Magic jigsaw (love this one) 38 at sb 72 at KR. A lot of those click zip code entry that are 2sb are 4pts at KR. some of the RO 1pts on SB are 2pts on KR. You get it. KR also has more coupon print ops, in fact sb really only has RU if i recall which pays 4sb i think? Well in KR there is adgate for 27, RO for 20 and Otoro for 15. If you can get all 3 to work in one day thats 62pts right there. I usually get 2 because the otoro i do in ES for 20. Maximize them out baby ;) so anyways thats 47c easy peasy.
My daily goto is the two coupon prints then crowdflower (which is usually 50-100% more than SB) if i have time and then videos. Pretty easy to get 100pts a day if you stick to it.
They also have a facebook page which is pretty active and a few members post whats working pretty regularly. Cashing out can be done to paypal as low at $1 (but that will cost you $1.10) and any cash out over $10 is discounted (thru paypal) i usually go for the $10 which costs me $9.95 in points. So i save a nickel :) Cant do that at the other sites.
So why 3rd? For one they are S L O W to pay. once you cash out it takes about 10 days to get your money. Sometimes less, ive got it in 7 before, and sometimes more...ive also got it in 30...yikes. And people who ask why often get this lecture about the owner being a one man show and there has to be trust and honesty when running a business so he cant hire...yadda yadda...but isnt that the case for every single business on the face of the earth? I mean if there is no trust i think a business would fail pretty quickly. There is a weird vibe with the site monitors that seems a bit snippy at times...i cant put my finger on it but its weird. Its probably me. It is what it is. I’ve also had money reversed with the reason being that the site did not get their money for whatever task that was...wow. There are always going to be losses in a business, taking it out on the customers is not the way to handle it. It was only pennies, 18c here 25c there so i didnt pursue it in any means but its there.
And yeah i know a lot of the stuff i mention is ending up saying im doing about $1 a day with each site, but other ops come up as you do these things and then one day suddenly you make $25 in 2 minutes and feel pretty good :) and all in all last year my total income was over $3000 just by spending a couple hours a day total on these sites so to me its worth it.
Here is the link for keep rewarding if you want to give that one a try: http://keeprewarding.com/home?ref=momarch
EarningStation...a mere 25c a day will do.
So, my #1 earning dollars site is swagbucks (http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/momarch45) i reviewed a few days ago.
I would say earningstation is my 2nd choice. It does not have nearly the offers swagbucks does but has a couple good things that ranks it up pretty high.
First off, they have a daily streak goal. All you need to do is earn 25c a day for 10 days and you get a reward plus a spin on the prize wheel. Every 10 days you do this consecutively your reward goes up a bit. I cant remember what it starts at, I think it was 25c...but really not sure. I am on day 116; on day 120 i will earn $3.50 reward and a spin. The prize wheel has prizes as low as 10c and as high as $25. the highest i have earned is $1..my most popular reward has been 25c on the wheel...i have hit the 10c a time or two, but not that often.
So what do you have to do to earn the 25c? Well the daily list is a good start. You are asked to answer a quick poll ( one question), watch a video (usually 30 seconds long), attempt a survey, go thru the “daily dose” which is anywhere from 1-10 items you just click yes i want this or no i dont (i just say no to everything...i dont need anymore spam!), and look at the daily deal. All in all, these things should take under 5 mins to complete unless you do qualify for the daily survey. If you do, well kuddos because now you’ve earned another $1.50. It always pays $1.50. In February, this month so far, 6 of my daily surveys have been those virtual shopping ones where you have to go grab an item off the shelf. Fun and easy! Funny i NEVER get any of those in swagbucks...wonder why? Anyways, if you do not qualify for the daily survey and do the daily list you have spent roughly 5 mins and have earned 9c towards your goal. So you need another 16c. You could leave the videos playing...you get 2c for every 10...and they seem to advance pretty well on their own, just every 10th one you have to enter the captcha so you’d have to check on it now and then...or you could check out the offer walls. For me, i head straight to otoro and do the coupon print for 20c. It says you need to print 25. I’ll just leave it at that ;) So now it under 10 mins i’ve got 29c which means my daily goal is met and i just wait for the next day to do it again. Easy peasy.
But Wait! Theres More!! Several times a week they will post on one of their social media sites codes to earn extra $...usually its 5c. Sometimes they will do contests. I won once and they sent me some ES swag...lol. It was a key chain, stickers, plastic card/phone holder for the beach and a few other small items. Fun :) AND...if you get a referral you earn 10% of anything that person does...and get this...ive not seen this anywhere else...their earnings count towards your daily goal! Whoah! So if you can rustle up enough people to earn you the 25c a day...you can get away with doing nothing at all! I have not reached that status, doubt i ever will as im not big on soliciting these sites for referrals (but heck if you want to join thru me...do it!!! LOL). I have a couple referrals that might earn me 5c a day 3-4x a week...every bit helps ;)
Cash out is at $25 to paypal. They also offer gift cards but i only use paypal with these guys, so i really am not sure all the details of the cards...im sure they are same as everyone else. When you cash out the $ is in YOUR account usually within 24 hours. Often much quicker than that. I never understand these sites that take 2-3 weeks to send you $ when you cash out. makes no sense to me.
OH, and first time joiners...there is an “Easy $10″ you can do once. They have a list of maybe 10-12 other sites like inbox$$, vindale, etc and if you sign up for 5 of them and verify your email with those sites you get $10. When I did it, it seemed some were just not working...or were really slow to acknowledge. AFter 3 days of signing up for 5 and still showing that i only signed up for 3 i asked their help desk and the very next day they said “it looks like you got your credit” which yes indeed i did. Not sure if they bumped it along, or it really just took that long, but whatever...i got the $10..so if you try it and in 3-4 days still dont have the $10 ask ;) They have a page on facebook, twitter and prolly others, but i just belong to those two.
So heres the link: http://www.earningstation.com/account/register?ref=1164863
SWAGIQ swagbucks latest addition.
The last post i talked about Swagbucks ( http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/momarch45 ) and since then they have started a contest for SwagIQ. Its basically trivia for $$ :) Costs you nothing to play but if you win nice prizes...all in the form of swagbucks which you can cash out as low as $3 (amazon gift card). They split the pot...last game i played it was $1400 and i dont recall how many won but they averaged about $33 each in winnings so you can do the math there ;) Join thru the link above, download the app (android and ios) SwagIQ and start playing...monday they have games at 1, 4, 7 and 10pm...games take about 10-15 mins. They also have some sort of contest going on that if you load the app and YOU get x amount of people to join you get a bonus $100 but im not sure of all those details as I know that aint happening for me so im not concerned with it...but its there ;) So JOIN!
Play!
Make $$!!
Swagbucks, a great place to make a buck (translation: please give me a referral so i can finish this blasted swago board).
I started using swagbucks in June of 2016. By july of 2016 i made a whopping $5. I was ready to write it off as another of those stupid scams when someone told me to join the facebook page Swagbucks Swaggernauts and also gave me a few tips on things to do. Now I average $100 a month and have made $2480.76 to date (as of 2/22/18) and i spend maybe an hour a day on it...some days a lot less, some a lot more.
It is definitely my favorite money making site. They are the best from what i have found in shop and earn deals and money maker deals. Money makers are deals that you receive more than you pay out for those of you who didnt know that ;) A couple i have done there are Hulu...paid 7.99 for a month and received $30. Gamefly paid 0 for a month and received $20. Dollar Shave Club paid $5 for month one and received $15, paid $8 for month two and received $10. Right now they have an offer going on with glade and walmart...you buy an car air freshener device for $4.88 and two refill packs for $2.88 and receive $10 back. What sweetens this deal is there are coupons (in your paper, or at coupons dot com) that you can print for $2 off the device and a BOGO on the refills PLUS you can get $2 rebate from savingstar app. So for me i paid $11.38 (tax is 7$ here) less 4.88 is $6.50 and got $12 back ($10 from SB $2 from SS).
Swagbucks also offers a variety of other activities for those who “refuse to pay a dime”. I get it...some peeps dont have any extra income at all and cant spare the upfront $ on some of these offers...maybe they have no credit cards, no car to get to a store, etc. I dont quite get those who pull out the soap box and declare I am NOT spending any money here as it totally defeats the purpose. I dont agree with that. If I am about to spend $50 at walmart, why not go thru the app and earn 3% back? If I need a new razor..why not buy one and make $ on the purchase? Whatever, to each his own. But as i was saying, you can do other things like surveys (if you are younger...say 18-35 or/and if you have kids at home these surveys will love you..i have a hard time qualifying as my kids are grown and on their own and im in my 50s) or try numerous offers on the site that require an email address.
***If you decide to try swagbucks, make sure you have a spam email address set up AND a spam phone number*** my email is gmail, for all these SB offers unless it says USE sign up email i use a yahoo email address that gets about 50 spam mails every day most coming from these email offers. I got a spam phone number from text free dot com.
One thing i do here daily is meet my first goal. SB gives you two goals, a low one like today was 112 points and a 2nd one my 2nd was 455 today. If you meet the first goal every day you during the month you get a bonus at the end of the month PLUS you get a certain number of bonus points for meeting the goal. Lets just say for easy math goal one is 100 every day and if you meet this you get 10 bonus points. So at the end of the month you get 10x30 (days) =300 points PLUS 300 points for meeting the goal every single day..thats an extra $6 bucks right there. Big whoop? well it adds up in the end...and if you are more willing than I to spend the time, then go for goal 2. December was a super month for swagging with all the extra xmas offers and i met goal 2 maybe 15x during the month. I got the 300 points but also got around 1100 points because I met goal 2 so often.
SB also offers contests and games each month. RIGHT NOW SWAGO is going on. Its set up like a bingo board and you have to do activities like complete a survey, go look at a specific website, meet your first daily goal, etc. Complete them all and you can exchange your board for $5 bonus at the end. The toughest one for me each month is the referral...that square is hard to get filled....anyone want to join for me? :D you have to earn 10 points too which should be pretty easy for a newbie. If you cant complete the board, as it appears will be my case you can turn it in for lesser rewards, there is a X complete that is 150 points which is probably what i will end up doing.
So...an hour a day or so...$100 a month or so? Worth it? Considering the hour is sitting in your fav chair at home or where every you please not too bad I say.
Here is the link to join...and if you do join and have questions...contact me! I will try to help :)
http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/momarch45
Review: Vindale Research, two thumbs down.
There are zillions of paid for survey sites out there. Most have pretty poor reviews...3 stars or less. So i came across a site where a guy was reviewing these survey and make money at home sites saying he was making about 20K a year. Uh huh. But a lot of the reviews he was giving were pretty much the same as I was thinking....not so great...so I thought perhaps he was honest.
He only reccommended a couple sites and Vindale was one. So why not. I give it a try. The first flag I should have recognized, but was still green in the game was that the cash out is at $50. If you ever enter the survey world you will know that that is HIGH. They set it high in hopes you will give up and they wont have to pay you. Of course they will claim its less expensive accounting wise for them, but lets face it...in todays digital world, it probably really isnt.
So anyways, I started doing surveys. Or at least attempting. Started on Oct 25 and got a nice $2 sign up bonus. Did a profile completion and got another $2. Completed 3 surveys in a row that averaged 40c-$1 and maybe took 15-20 mins each. Yes I can do the math. You make maybe $2 an hour if you are lucky. But you cant compare these to “real jobs” like so many try to do. You can sit in front of your TV in your underwear and answer questions as you watch TV...do you really expect to be paid minimum wage or better for that?
So after the first three..things started changing. I started getting disqualified....a LOT. like 75% of the attempts. You waste a lot of time with the disqualifications, because they always ask the demographics FIRST...so you have to answer 10-15 Q’s about age/sex/race/income...etc THEN comes the disqualifiying question. They should put that one first! I mean really. And then it gets worse. You get a survey that you think, Yes! Im in! AS you answer 20 mins of very specific questions about a product. Then you get the sorry this survey is full! Or sorry you didnt qualify. Well if it was full, dammit why did you allow me to continue?? It really seems they gather the data they need, and just say oh sorry so they wont have to credit you. Jerks.
Well I was determined to get my lousy $50 so i continued. and continued. and finally on April 6..a mere 5+ months later (sheesh) I reached the glorious $50 mark. Now I will admit, that after a couple weeks, once I got disqualified, I didnt try again that day. they send you a daily email of surveys available. So i’d just wait for the next one and not go into the funnel...it seemed like a waste of time.
So i requested my payment on April 6..after a few days I got the processing status. Their website says that once in process mode your check will be mailed in 1 day and you get payment in 10. Hey guess what? Its april 28 and NO check! Not only NO check, but NO replies from them in my attempts to ask whats the hap? I’ve emailed them 2x since the 20th..gave them at least a couple weeks grace. So will i ever get this money? Who knows. But i certainly would NOT reccommend them. There are other better sites out there. Dont waste your time with these guys.
Review: Mintvine, a decent survey site
Like to give your thoughts and opinions on various subjects? and get paid for doing it? Mintvine might be for you.
A few months ago I was looking at the penny hoarder website because someting that I cant even remember now caught my eye and there was an article about how to make $1000+ a month doing surveys online. Hmmm. Attention grabber for sure. I had to see how realistic this was. (cut to the chase...not at all). So I got to looking at some of the sites and their fanatic claims....mostly spread by users who really just want referral $$ and not actually do any of the tasks the sites request you to do....claiming they make HUNDREDS a month on these sites. I have concluded that they mean hundreds of pennies, not dollars :) I’ve tried many. There are actually a few that are not bad...you wont get rich, but mabey and extra $10-$20 a month for taking 20 mins to compete a survey every day or so. I do them as Im watching TV at night......my other half likes so very few shows we seem to watch a lot or reruns, and I’ve found myself surfing the ipad in the evenings...so decided to make it slightly productive :)
I came across Mintvine.com from a referral on an IBotta facebook page I belong to. The referral writer was actually honest saying she loves the site and cashes in $10-$20 a month. So i figured I’d give it a whirl.
You get points for each survey, 1 point is 1c. You can cash in at 1000 points which is $10. YOu can use paypal and actually receive cash, or you can choose from a variety of gift cards..amazon is one of them (who doesnt use amazon right??) You do get a sign up bonus which I forget how much..might have been 50-100 points.
There are a lot of surveys offered which is nice. I usually get invites 2-3x a day, but if you want more you can go thru the “funnel” which will disqualify you from some, but eventually you will land on one. Personally, I have found this to be one of the few sites where I am qualified more than not. I usually stop at the first disqualification because I know I’ll get another invite soon enough that will work. And the nice thing is quite often if disqualified, they’ll throw 5 points your way for trying. Sometimes more. Once I got really steamed because I took 25 mins or so on a survey that disqualified me at the VERY END. Other sites do that a lot, but that was a first for Mintvine so I sent them an “I'm mad!” email and they gave me 45 points in apology. That was nice! Their average survey payout seems to be 70 points for about 20 mins of time. Yeah i know, do the math...big whoop you make $2 an hour. But this IS NOT about trying to make it a full time job. For me, this is making a few bucks cash whilst re-runs of Andy Griffith are playing for the 19th time.
They also have a daily poll which will give you 5 points for taking 3 seconds to answer their daily question. If you do 10 in a row you’ll get a 25 point bonus. So every 10 days you can get 75 points that takes less than 5 seconds to complete.
The downfall...there is always a downfall isnt there?? is that when you complete a survey they sit in a “pending” zone for about 2 weeks. Not all of them do, but most. I dont really get that part. It seems they could design a program that could catch the robotic and gibberish answers and toss them out without making everyone pay the price for the few who are trying to get around the system. Once you are finally approved and reach the qualified 1000 and cash out that also takes about a week. They say 48 hours, but they are really slow lately.
I joined this site on Feb 28 and within 2 weeks had over 1200 points and tried to cash out...I believe I had 1153 approved. I requested my payout on a wednesday and finally received it the following wednesday. In that time of waiting Im back over 1300 points again, but only 450ish are “approved”...so it seems that once a pattern of gaining and pay out is established $20 a month could be quite do-able. At my rate of doing them. I suppose if you did every single one that came through and considering some that you’d be disqualifed for maybe you could reach $50 a month, I dont know. I dont put THAT much time into it.
My goal basically is to pay for some subscriptions that I have for my stock market wants, and entertainment wants. So far, Feb & March have been paid for thru these sites payouts...so for me its working ;)
If you want to give Mintvine a try here is a link.
https://mintvine.com/users/register/eb678729c070a86e6cf410bd4
Grocery app review: Savingstar
Savings star is an easy to use grocery shopping app. You download the app, choose the items you are going to buy and activate them. After you do your shopping you verify what you bought by scanning the bar code, then uploading a picture of your receipt. Easy peasy.
Its very much like iBotta (which i reviewed previously) and the great thing is it can be used with iBotta; simply meaning they have had similar rebates so you can use both apps for the same product. Doesnt happen al the time but it does happen. A few weeks ago there was a rebate for 1.00 on savings star for general mills cereals (honey nut cherrios and lucky charms) if you bought 2. IBotta had a 50c rebate if you bought one...and you could use coupons. My local store happen to have some BOGO and sales during this time and we ended up with about 6 boxes of each that were free or close to free (around 40c a box) :)
You can cash out with Savingstar at $5 which is nice. And you can use paypal.
A lof of their offers are buy many. For example right now there is a $5 rebate if you buy $15 worth of International Deight coffee creamer by 4/15. This has been on the app since i downloaded it at the end of february so it has given a lot of time for those who like that particular brand.
Every tuesday they offer a produce rebate which is nice. Those are hard to find! So far I’ve seen bananas, lettuce, pears and cabbage.
The biggest downfall is they usually only have 10-20 offers at once. IBotta usually has 50 or more.
Over all I’d give them 4 stars. And if you use IBotta I’d download this and use it along side of it ;)
Give it a try!
www.savingstar.com
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This ap is so easy to do. They give you 10-12 questions every day and pay 10-20c. Takes very little time to complete. Usually under 1 minute. The way I figure...by Christmas I'll have a nice $25 waiting for me :). Is it worth it ? probably not, but what the heck right??
iBotta, a damn good grocery app.
A couple months ago I was looking at a local Facebook yard sale sight and I see an ad for a shopping app. iBotta. The ad claimed the poster made $900 since November (which would have been 2 months). The eyes automatically rolled. Yeah right. I am one of those peeps that initially disbelieves all these money making scams...but kinda deep down hopes one would actually work. So I had to take a look at what they were saying.
There were pictures of the app included...waitaminute....you can get money back from any store, any brand milk, eggs, cereal, bread...and produce?? No one gives you coupons on produce. This showed bananas, tomatoes, lettuce and onions. Hmmmm. I buy those things pretty regularly. I saw the poster got a $5 referral bonus, so I figured that was her ploy. I went to the actual site.
I went to the actual site. This looked pretty good. Lots of stores I use regularly, both here in sarasota and up north when Im in Amesbury. And lots of brands I use regularly...and lots of any brands any store....and BEER!! They are giving rebates on BEER! Ray will be so pleased :)
Decided to download the app and give it a whirl. This was the first week in January. So on my first trip i did my normal shopping, came home and picked a few things I had bought. Didnt look at it ahead of time because I didnt want to buy for the sake of getting a rebate. It was pretty good! Lots of anybradn rebates, got a $10 sign up bonus! and a $2 new user bonus! Sweet. It only took 2 weeks to meet the $20 minimum payout via paypal. Just two shopping trips.
IBotta also has bonuses if you have team members...they help you reach the cash goals..usually $20-$30. So I joined a group and found some team members. A lot more than I had expected really. Team members have to friend you on Facebook, then they appear on your team within 2-3 days of friending....which means since these are strangers and you dont really want to follow their daily antics on facebook, you have to remember to unfollow them all but keep them as friends. Unless you actually become friends with a few by chatting...which I did. Im a motormouth....as you can tell.
I soon learned thru the group that there are other apps you can use along with iBotta and with coupons you can stack up deals and end up with free items or some you actually make money on. Bananas kept resetting at 50c rebate. I ran into target one day for some lunch items as it was next to a job we were on and got 2 bananas for 47c. Used cartwheel and red card on top of that and ended up getting back 9c with those two bananas. I know 9c...big whoop. It adds up! There was a shampoo on iBotta with a 4.75 rebate. It cost 4.94 at walmart and with anothe apps $1 back you ended up with 81c in your pocket...plus shampoo. I did this 2x, but others on the group claimed to have done it 5-6 times...guess they wanted a year or two woth of shampoo ;)
So now that I have had this app for two months...my total rebates earned? $140.75. A far cry from the $900 the original poster claimed, but certainly worth keeping the app. I also wondered if Im spending more money, trying to do the stacks and what not. I compared my spending and found that I spent $60 more in groceries this year than last for the first two months. Some things have gone up a LOT. Thats to consider. Plus I have rebates on the other apps of about $15 so far to add to athe 140.75...so I am actually ahead of hte game about $90 it seems.
So what are the cons? There’s always cons! :) The main thing I see is the any brand products seemed to have tapered off. The first month there were a LOT of everyday items milk, eggs, cheese, cereal, butter, bread, produce...they lure you in for sure! But now, we just reset with new rebates on Wednesday and the any brands....butter, diapers and hamburger buns. thats it. Doubt I will use any of those. Also the bonus levels are harder to obtain....15 items and $25. Now your team will hit the $25 in two days (as was my case)...but you yourself have to do the 15 items and they have to be brand names. Not so easy. I find I can usually do this once a month..but level 2 is hard to hit.
All in all its a great app! I’d give it 4 1/2 stars. Much much better than others I have tried that I’ll rate in days to come.
And of course...here’s a referral link :D Saw that one coming didnt you? You will get $10 bonus after you use the app and complete one rebate. I’ll get $5 (of my $140 i have collected so far...only $10 is referral bonuses...got both my daughters to join.)
https://ibotta.com/r/rfycdhs
Enjoy!
A little revamping here..
I havent posted in a long time. Life gets busy! Sometimes busier than we like. Decided to try my hand at this again only making a few changes. I was posting only about trading. But some unexpected life expenses that fell in my lap forced me to change my trading habits entirely. No longer day trading and no longer have the need to sit in front of the screen all day. Actually for me, that is a good thing! My attention span anymore seems to be the width of a strand of hair.
Now don't get me wrong...Im still trading ;) Just not like before. And its gotten me to a nice place in life...that and some other investments (real estate). Its just that right now my trading accounts are pretty much empty. I have got to where i don't need to do the 9-5...havent since Jan 2009. Im in a happy place :)
One thing I thought would be fun to do is try (and prove wrong) a lot of these make money quick plans you see on the internet. The Penny Hoarder has the blogs it puts out that i see almost weekly on Facebook about all these wonderful things you can do on the net from your home AND NEVER HAVE TO WORK AGAIN. Right. Since i have a lot more free time now...thought I’d try them and see how accurate they are :) And I’ll post the results here during the week. Most likely not every day.
I’ll start tomorrow with iBotta which actually really is a good app.
Have fun! Enjoy Life! Peace out!