[Update 8/18//17: Now showing just 1,000 SB, only a $5 moneymaker now.]
The Offer
Direct Link (CTRL+F godaddy to find it)
- Get 2,000 Swagbucks when you purchase a web domain for a year for the cost of $4.99 from GoDaddy
The Fine Print
- Must purchase a .com domain only
- Must not cancel within 15 days
- You will receive the 2,000 Swagbucks within 5 minutes
- It’s smart to use the same email address with GoDaddy as you use with Swagbucks, though this time the terms does not state that explicitly
GoDaddy Rules:
- Purchase a domain name, hosting, or other paid GoDaddy service and spend $4.99
- To qualify, you MUST be a new GoDaddy customer and complete the offer within 2 hours
- You will not be credited if you apply a coupon code or close your browser window
Our Verdict
I like that this one gets credited instantly. Just be aware of the implications of registering a web domain as some of your information is public (unless you pay extra) and companies will start sending you mailers and the like. If you can get past that hurdle, it looks like a fairly easy $15 moneymaker after cashing out the Swagbucks. It’s especially a good deal for someone who was looking into taking out a web domain.
Couple of things to keep before doing this offer:
- Some people end up having problems either with the portal tracking or with Swagbucks deactivating their account for reasons which aren’t clear, so keep the risks in mind.
- Remember to cancel after 15 days if you don’t want the website further. Should be possible to cancel online, I’d imagine. Mark it down on your calendar or set yourself a reminder.
If you’re new to Swagbucks, please read our review. You can also get a bonus of up to $5 by using a referral link.
Hat tip to Slickdeals
Too bad I wasted time and it dropped from 2,000 down to 1,000. I was planning on getting a website for some content anyway. Huh, actually an interested customer here. Point posted immediately.
Still no response from the complaint I filed with revenue universe. At least it was only $5 out of pocket….
Color me shocked – sent in a claim with SB after rev universe didn’t respond for 2 weeks and the gave me the 2k in SB’s!
Hi
They are worthless. I did the deal for Homechef and Gillette and none of them posted points. Even after I emailed them many times, they said they could not track it and so can not award points. I have cashed out all my points and not doing anymore deals with them
I see it, but down to 1,000 SB now.
expired only 1000 now
I’m seeing the same, I’ll update.
is this working for anyone else? tried the link in MS Edge… but it goes nowhere, theres just a blank link. I dunno if they’ve exhausted the referral quota or whats going on. all prev offers have loaded for me. but this affiliate just sits on a blank page. am I too late to this party?
I still see it. Maybe try a different browser or try logging in first (if you weren’t).
I am logged in. and tried diff browsers too. I can see the offer on the RevU page. that’s NOT the issue. the issue is when you clickthru, page doesnt go anywhere. its just blank. does it load for you to actually signup at godaddy aka landing page?!
Ah, yeah, mine is going blank now too. Maybe it expired.
FYI, for those who got the 2000 SB and want a relatively easy way to get to 2500 SB to cash out via PayPal (my preferred method), RevU has a 30 day Gamefly.com Free Trial for 536 SB. I just did this. If you use a virtual CC you will need to set it up for a $10 transaction as they will make a $10 pending charge (they state multiple times in their signup screens and in the emails they sent you this is ONLY a pending charge and will drop off unless you stay subscribed 30+ days).
I just did this with a (technically) different email than my Swagbucks (same email but with dots using gmail dot trick) and it credited. Took 10-20 minutes though, so I was worried for a while.
Just FYI.
Swagbucks is worthless. I signed up for the Dollar Shave Club deal in March. Stayed signed up for 4 months (only 2 months required). Never received 1,975 SB as stated. Sent email after email. Only response to each email was “Your ticket was updated”. Worst customer service ever.
Sorry to hear. I hope that you got any initial SBs at least.
Personally, I’ve really only ever relied on the initial SBs for their offers, and even then usually only for those that are supposed to credit immediately.
I take screenshots of literally every step I do and save them. Always use a virtual CC as well.
Most of the time, the offers through Swagbucks (rather than partners – although sometimes it is hard to tell whether or not an offer is through a partner) post right away for me. Those that don’t, I’ve always been able to get “made right” by support.
However, again, I’ve never tried for the “delayed gratification” offers that give periodic payments during a subscription.
I’m sorry to hear about your experience.
Same experience here. No one replied the e-mail. Just some automatic replies. Anyone knows how to solve this situation? Thanks a lot!
I’ve only had once where the SB didn’t post automatically, and in my case also I never heard back. 🙁
Can’t say I tried that hard.
I’m not sure. My inquiry was some time ago, so maybe their support has gotten worse?
One thing to make sure is that if the offer is through an offer wall, you need to contact support through that offer wall (Revenue Universe, Peanut Labs, TrialPay, etc.).
This is a bit confusing as, e.g., the Hulu offer that was available through “main” Swagbucks for a long time (probably still is for those who haven’t done it) is actually through TrialPay, and you need to contact them if it doesn’t post.
Not sure how you’d know that except by watching the address bar at the top of your browser carefully after you click (it goes through blahblah.trialpay.com before it gets to Hulu) or by reading Slickdeals/DoC for a given offer.
Also, to be fair, I am only talking about offers where I had to pay something that didn’t post. I’ve definitely had free trials etc that didn’t post, but didn’t really bother with those.
Interesting, I’m surprised you can contact TrialPay or another similar company and complain that you didn’t get credit when you don’t have an account with that company (the account is with SB). Typically, the consumer complains to the company they have a relationship with.
Did you ever have success contacting TrialPay, Revenue Universe, etc, directly?
You contact them through the Support tab on the appropriate offer wall.
My wife’s account’s Hulu didn’t credit, for example (one of the 2 times something didn’t credit). I contacted TrialPay support to get it fixed. Again, this is contacting TrialPay support THROUGH the SwagBucks site THROUGH the TrialPay offer wall.
But this is definitely different than contacting Swagbucks support.
In other words, they are different companies and different people handling your complaint.
The non-intuitive thing was that the Hulu offer was on the “front page” and there was no indication that it was through Trialpay and not directly through Swagbucks (or at least I didn’t see any).
Oh, and just to be clear, TrialPay did credit the account in that case.
I guess the point I’m trying to make:
When you do an offer through an offer wall like TrialPay (in the Discover section) and it doesn’t post, you have to contact TrialPay through that Offer Wall to get credit. Usually you’ll actually get redirected to the TrialPay site (I don’t remember the details).
If you do an offer directly through Swagbucks, like many of the donation offers, you contact Swagbucks support through the site. These are a different group of people and the interface for submitting tickets is completely different.
The confusion comes in because some of the offers linked from the main Swagbucks page are actually offers provided by TrialPay, etc. In that case, you STILL have to contact TrialPay if it doesn’t post, but it can be hard to figure that out.
It’s possible that you could eventually get support directly through Swagbucks. However, if you are, it would likely take a much longer time.
Have you ever tried contacting TrialPay directly?
Re “Have you ever tried contacting TrialPay directly?”
I have never INITIATED contact with them outside Swagbucks.
What I have done is gone to Discover -> TrialPay, then clicked on the support icon WITHIN the TrialPay section, entered my email.
I got an email from [email protected]:
“Dear ***,
To contact our support team, click the link below and sign into your account. If the link doesn’t work, copy and paste it into your Web browser’s address field.
Note: This link will expire in 4 hours.
https://www.trialpay.com/i/?t=XX&ae=XX&h=XX
Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail—it will not be received.
Thank you,
The TrialPay Support Team
http://www.trialpay.com/support”
I then used the link to THEIR site to fill in THEIR claim form.
Later, I got an email from [email protected]:
“Dear TrialPay Customer,
Thank you for submitting the requested information. We have confirmed that you completed an offer, and your SB will be delivered by Prodege, LLC in the next few minutes.
Offer Completed: Subscribe to Hulu
Application: swagbucks.com
Currency: SB
Thank you for your patience,
TrialPay Support Team”
I hope that answers your question.
The bigger point I am trying to make is that TrialPay, Revenue Universe, Peanut Labs are SEPARATE companies from Swagbucks.
When you do their offer, if you want it credited (at least within a reasonable amount of time), you’re supposed to contact THEIR support on THEIR offer wall within Swagbucks.
These are separate individuals who are providing you support.
Further, there are MULTIPLE sites out there like Swagbucks – the biggest competitor (#2) probably being MyPoints.
MyPoints ALSO has “offer walls” for TrialPay, Revenue Universe, Peanut Labs, that have pretty much the SAME offers as Swagbucks does. There may be differences in the numeric reward amount. Additionally, MyPoints are worth LESS than Swagbucks, so often times it is harder to get a moneymaker offer.
But there are literally at least a dozen companies that are similar to Swagbucks and have similar offer walls (I think instaGC, etc.).
For some of the popular ones, you can see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/
Chuck, re “Have you ever tried contacting TrialPay directly?,” I posted a detailed comment but it is awaiting moderation currently…
Screenshots to help illustrate.
How I contact TrialPay support: http://i.imgur.com/vHhjMCN.png
Versus
How I contact Swagbucks support:
http://i.imgur.com/6CvH9Wh.png
http://i.imgur.com/ctJXcfS.png
Thanks 007!
I have contacted trial pay direct and they told me I had to go through swagbucks (for the gamefly offer). Problem was it was no longer on the site so I couldn’t do it through swagbucks. I think I ended up picking a different offer and just submitted it that way. They paid it out a few days later. This was after 3 weeks of going back and forth with SB’s customer service….which blows!
If they are on the home page or in my inbox I contact SwagBucks on the “help” button. If I do an offer on Trial Pay, Peanut Labs, etc.,I go to the top of their page and file a complaint. The two I mentioned use to be the best at giving you credit when the offers didn’t credit. We all know that Lifescript and some of the offers are just not going to credit so I don’t even waste my time filing a ticket with me. I read where if your problem is not solved then you can go to the “help” section and they may be able to help you. I’ve also seen where people are getting deactivated for filing too many tickets. One lady had over 20,000sb’s in her account. I would never hold on to that many swagbucks. I was cash out my first $25 when it’s on sale and I may hold on to $50 worth but that’s the most. I’m going to cash out before there would be a reason to be deactivated. I don’t do anything wrong for that but just in case!
anyone else getting an error “We are unable to service the request. (2)” or know what this means?
I’m getting the same error. Will try again later. (Also, the offer I saw said SB awarded within 24 hours.)
Still can’t make it work…
same here, bummer
Waited 45 minutes and it didn’t post – filed claim swagbucks F#@$@$king sucks…..but I still get sucked in every time even though they have a 50% hit rate…
Ahhrgg
Within the website, where did you file claim. Is it under “help” section? Thanks
Click the link above and then on the far right at the top of the revenue universe there is a support button – looks like a person’s head.
In case it is helpful, on my Mac I always do the offers using Chrome’s incognito mode with all plugins (including adblocker) disabled.
With that said, I find the “offer wall” offers like this one (Revenue Universe, Peanut Labs, etc.) are a LOT more variable in terms of posting that the ones through Swagbucks themselves.
Of course, sometimes the ones linked from the main Swagbucks page ARE offer wall offers, so it can get a little confusing…
Good luck with your ticket!