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Originally Posted by scrapking
What's Swagbucks, IIMA?
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Swagbucks is one of those sites where you "earn" points for using their search engine and doing daily tasks and for shopping via their affiliate links or filling out marketing surveys for their advertising sponsors which you can then trade in for merchandise or gift certificates or whatnot once you've accumulated enough.
Among others, you can trade for Amazon US, UK (only for UK residents) and Canada (only for Canadians) gift certificates, as well as B&N and Paypal, which may be useful for getting "free" e-books (or discounted paper books/other merchandise).
Mind you, it does take a while for enough points to accumulate if you're not a dedicated shopper/task-taker and generally it's 2-4 months before I acquire enough for a $5 Amazon GC.
I've checked their FAQ and the MR guidelines and this doesn't seem to be against the rules since it's not going towards getting a cut out of a shopping purchase and I'm disclosing my interest outright, so if you happen to be interested in joining, this happens to be my referral link which will give me some sort of points bonus if new people signup while using it:
Referral linkage so I get some sort of points bonus if anyone wants to join Swagbucks using it
(mods, feel free to delete if it actually does turn out to be against our affiliate-linking rules)