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Swagbucks?
urahonky
Cynical Old ManRegistered User regular
Cynical Old ManRegistered User regular
Okay so I've got a friend who swears up and down about swagbucks. (If you don't know what it is, you can go to www.swagbucks.com and read their FAQ; In short: you do stuff on their site to get points, turn these points into items)
I have a question: Is this shit real or a scam, or a way to get your personal information? All my googling has turned up almost nothing. I hear 50/50 that it's a scam... People who don't use it say it is a scam, and people who do use it say it isn't a scam. Does anyone KNOW for sure?
I have a question: Is this shit real or a scam, or a way to get your personal information? All my googling has turned up almost nothing. I hear 50/50 that it's a scam... People who don't use it say it is a scam, and people who do use it say it isn't a scam. Does anyone KNOW for sure?
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For what it's worth their own privacy policy says they won't sell or give your details to third parties.
Lastly, like facebook, they may link you to sites which WILL take your personal information and use it for direct marketing and such. It says so in the privacy policy:
Please note that this policy applies only to the Swagbucks.com sites, and not to the sites of other companies or organizations to which we provide links.
It doesn't look like it is a scam to me, just another creative way to make money of information personal or otherwise.
A lot of people probably used it, or something similar. Several radio stations here in Michigan have a similar thing - you do stuff like answer surveys and vote on the daily top list or just call into the morning show on their daily discussion topics or show up at whatever business they send interns to for publicity and get points that you can trade in for stuff. If you hit ALL of their stuff EVERY day you might get a T-shirt after a month, but they have stuff like DSi's and iPads in there for hundreds of thousands of points to keep people refreshing their personal information on a daily basis.
I can't speak for swagbucks specifically, but the radio station ones here are "legitimate," as far as you can actually get all the stuff on there and your identity isn't going to get stolen as a direct result. Your spam volume is going to skyrocket and your going to get a lot of junk mail at home as well, you might even end up giving marketers consent to bypass your do-not-call status, or it might end up counting as actually doing business with them and negate that status anyway. Combined with the time investment, it can be a pretty high price to pay for some free crap, but some people will just do ridiculous thins for free crap because they have no concept of opportunity cost.