What’s best? Ibotta, MyPoints, Shopkick

TexasErin · Jul 22, 2018

I’m trying to work on getting free money for my Disney trip next year. I am looking for the best way to get money, Disney cards, or Southwest rapid rewards. I already use Walmart savings catcher, Disney visa, and swagbucks. However I like to save up my Walmart savings catcher for Christmas, as well as Best Buy rewards. I use to do Perk, but that took way too long since you had to watch thousands of movie trailers to earn a couple of cents.

Are any of the three in my title worth doing or are there some better ones?

I have a few thousand Rapid reward points already, on each of my four family members sw accounts. I have to travel a night or two per month for work and we are allowed to keep the points we get from hotel stays. I try to stick with either Marriott or LaQuinta since I can get Rapid Reward points as rewards from those chains. I also occasionally answer surveys on e-rewards. We have a SW Visa and should get anniversary points on DH’s RR account next month.

I would love to earn enough to get free flights and pay for Disney annual passes.

happ · Jul 22, 2018

TexasErin said:
I’m trying to work on getting free money for my Disney trip next year. I am looking for the best way to get money, Disney cards, or Southwest rapid rewards. I already use Walmart savings catcher, Disney visa, and swagbucks. However I like to save up my Walmart savings catcher for Christmas, as well as Best Buy rewards. I use to do Perk, but that took way too long since you had to watch thousands of movie trailers to earn a couple of cents.

Are any of the three in my title worth doing or are there some better ones?

I have a few thousand Rapid reward points already, on each of my four family members sw accounts. I have to travel a night or two per month for work and we are allowed to keep the points we get from hotel stays. I try to stick with either Marriott or LaQuinta since I can get Rapid Reward points as rewards from those chains. I also occasionally answer surveys on e-rewards. We have a SW Visa and should get anniversary points on DH’s RR account next month.

I would love to earn enough to get free flights and pay for Disney annual passes.

I use ibotta and mypoints. I mainly use ibotta for grocery unless there is a good bonus for mobile shopping. I've made $51 in five months. I do the mypoints daily 5 list and email clicks and let it build up slowly. Their surveys don't usually work well for me and the shopping rates are low. For online shopping, I check cashbackmonitor and then use whichever portal is paying out the most for the store I want. I also do eRewards for rapid rewards points.

trenty · Jul 22, 2018

I use Swagbucks and Mypoints. I tried Ibotta and didn't like it; others here will tell you they love it. I do use Shopkick, but it is a very slow earner for me as I don't live near any major shopping.

I also use Fetch and Receiptpal, Bing Rewards, and several survey sites, including erewards. Erewards is a good earner for me for SW points.

Dabble is another one - but very slow; I earned maybe $10 in about 6 months, but the time invested is minimal - less than a few seconds sporadically - maybe every week or two.

havaneselover · Jul 22, 2018

Shopkick is definitely slow for me but the past few months have been decent. Sometimes I save $30/month with Ibotta. Other months it’s $5. Ibotta is more a save than a make for me because you are spending money to get money.

I make about $25/month with mypoints and $100/month with swagbucks. Although with the Best Buy qr code it’s more (but again that’s a save vs. a make imo).

DharmaLou · Jul 22, 2018

Swagbucks and Ibotta. I've earned $250 in Southwest gift cards just the first 6 mos of 2018 on Swagbucks; I've earned about $100 just half-assing it with Ibotta this year so far.

Patches Lee · Jul 22, 2018

Mturk. It's a crowd sourced type job. Can do data entry, surveys, ect. Made $998 in a year which can be put into Amazon payments then transferred to bank. Only thing that sucks is they only allow so many users but if you get in check it out. I spend a couple hours each week during my free time. Couple with Ibotta, Walmart savings catcher. Swagbucks has slower because I don't fit the survey demographics. But if I'm going out to eat I'll buy a giftcard on there then use it and earn points. Also check Unclaimed.org, I had over $300 from an old auto insurance refund that was never sent to me.

TexasErin · Jul 23, 2018

Thanks everyone for the responses! I’ll check out all of the recommendations.

Marionnette · Jul 23, 2018

TexasErin said:
I’m trying to work on getting free money for my Disney trip next year. I am looking for the best way to get money, Disney cards, or Southwest rapid rewards. I already use Walmart savings catcher, Disney visa, and swagbucks. However I like to save up my Walmart savings catcher for Christmas, as well as Best Buy rewards. I use to do Perk, but that took way too long since you had to watch thousands of movie trailers to earn a couple of cents.

Are any of the three in my title worth doing or are there some better ones?

I have a few thousand Rapid reward points already, on each of my four family members sw accounts. I have to travel a night or two per month for work and we are allowed to keep the points we get from hotel stays. I try to stick with either Marriott or LaQuinta since I can get Rapid Reward points as rewards from those chains. I also occasionally answer surveys on e-rewards. We have a SW Visa and should get anniversary points on DH’s RR account next month.

I would love to earn enough to get free flights and pay for Disney annual passes.

I prefer earning passively to earning fast. So, iBotta has not been too good for me as of late. I just can't be bothered with claiming a deal and then trying to hunt the product down (scanning the bar code to make sure that it's the correct size) while I am shopping. The same is true for Shopkick. Best Buy has a ton of kicks but they are all 10 points which means taking a considerable amount of time to locate and scan the exact items. I'll gladly accept the walk in points but I have very little time to be scanning items when I'm running errands.

My best earner is Perk. It's not as good as it used to be but I can start my devices in the morning and let them run. I only check on them every couple of hours and I earn enough for a $25 Amazon GC every week or so. SB is next but requires a lot more interaction. I shoot for the daily goal while I have breakfast and throughout the morning and then I move on to other things. By far, the most passive earner, albeit slow, is EarnHoney. I get $25 in PayPal every 3 weeks or so but all I do is start the computer in the AM and shut it off in the evening. No resetting. No "are you still watching?" pauses.

TBH, the Disney Visa is not a very good rewards CC. There are much better ones out there. IMO, travel hacking with CCs is the way to go if you are trying to get free flights and cash to pay for APs. So many of them offer a bonus for signing up and meeting a minimum spend within a few months. And the right card can get you a good number of points that can be used for statement credits, discounts on travel or cash back. You may want to read the I Love Credit Cards thread for inspiration if this interests you.

trenty · Jul 23, 2018

Patches Lee said:
Mturk. It's a crowd sourced type job. Can do data entry, surveys, ect. Made $998 in a year which can be put into Amazon payments then transferred to bank. Only thing that sucks is they only allow so many users but if you get in check it out. I spend a couple hours each week during my free time. Couple with Ibotta, Walmart savings catcher. Swagbucks has slower because I don't fit the survey demographics. But if I'm going out to eat I'll buy a giftcard on there then use it and earn points. Also check Unclaimed.org, I had over $300 from an old auto insurance refund that was never sent to me.

Thanks for this info. I signed up for mterk. Did a few tasks last night and this morning. I can see how this can slowly add up. Any tips for quickly searching/choosing tasks to complete?

Narnia_girl · Jul 23, 2018

Swagbucks is my biggest earner
I like Shopkick because it involves no purchasing (although you can do that). If you have responsible kids you can let them go around Walmart or Target scanning bar codes while you are doing your normal shopping. Also, Shopkick is one of the few that may be cashed out directly to Disney gift cards.
Ibotta used to be great because they had so many "any brand" offers. Now, not so much, it's getting harder.
Fetch Rewards, Receipt Hog and Walmart Savings Catcher are slow earners but take so little effort you might as well do it. Just take a pic of your receipt/scan bar code.
I also do well with Field Agent (secret shopper that is done with your smartphone). I earned $8.90 yesterday evaluating a grocery pick up service.

Patches Lee · Jul 23, 2018

trenty said:
Thanks for this info. I signed up for mterk. Did a few tasks last night and this morning. I can see how this can slowly add up. Any tips for quickly searching/choosing tasks to complete?

Use the search term survey and filter it top paying first. I used p9r requester hits to get my numbers up, but they are very unforgiving on mistakes. That requester posts 5 cent hit I can complete in less than a minute. Also join "turkopticon" which reviews requesters. Some are horrible with low pay or give false rejections.

trenty · Jul 23, 2018

Patches Lee said:
Use the search term survey and filter it top paying first. I used p9r requester hits to get my numbers up, but they are very unforgiving on mistakes. That requester posts 5 cent hit I can complete in less than a minute. Also join "turkopticon" which reviews requesters. Some are horrible with low pay or give false rejections.

Thanks. I did some tasks from p9r last night simply because they were at the top of my list. Simple enough. I will look into turkopticon.

You state you use p9r to get your numbers up. Is that important (getting numbers up)?

Patches Lee · Jul 23, 2018

trenty said:
Thanks. I did some tasks from p9r last night simply because they were at the top of my list. Simple enough. I will look into turkopticon.

You state you use p9r to get your numbers up. Is that important (getting numbers up)?

Some requesters require you to complete so many hits before you can work for them. It's meant to weed out people who turn in work that is rejected. Unusually 1000. Which doesn't take too long.

Dakota731 · Jul 23, 2018

I wouldn't count on any of those to get any real money for Disney. If you have nothing to do and want to play around fine, but none of these sites will be providing much Disney money in my experience.

trenty · Jul 23, 2018

Dakota731 said:
I wouldn't count on any of those to get any real money for Disney. If you have nothing to do and want to play around fine, but none of these sites will be providing much Disney money in my experience.

I have over $650 in Disney gift cards from these sites. Started earning them in February.

trenty · Jul 23, 2018

Marionnette said:
I prefer earning passively to earning fast. So, iBotta has not been too good for me as of late. I just can't be bothered with claiming a deal and then trying to hunt the product down (scanning the bar code to make sure that it's the correct size) while I am shopping. The same is true for Shopkick. Best Buy has a ton of kicks but they are all 10 points which means taking a considerable amount of time to locate and scan the exact items. I'll gladly accept the walk in points but I have very little time to be scanning items when I'm running errands.

My best earner is Perk. It's not as good as it used to be but I can start my devices in the morning and let them run. I only check on them every couple of hours and I earn enough for a $25 Amazon GC every week or so. SB is next but requires a lot more interaction. I shoot for the daily goal while I have breakfast and throughout the morning and then I move on to other things. By far, the most passive earner, albeit slow, is EarnHoney. I get $25 in PayPal every 3 weeks or so but all I do is start the computer in the AM and shut it off in the evening. No resetting. No "are you still watching?" pauses.

TBH, the Disney Visa is not a very good rewards CC. There are much better ones out there. IMO, travel hacking with CCs is the way to go if you are trying to get free flights and cash to pay for APs. So many of them offer a bonus for signing up and meeting a minimum spend within a few months. And the right card can get you a good number of points that can be used for statement credits, discounts on travel or cash back. You may want to read the I Love Credit Cards thread for inspiration if this interests you.

I agree - for free flights, look into a credit card if you can handle it without getting into debt and the I Love Credit Cards thread has tons of info. Go ask there and you will get lots of advice.

Marionnette · Jul 23, 2018

Dakota731 said:
I wouldn't count on any of those to get any real money for Disney. If you have nothing to do and want to play around fine, but none of these sites will be providing much Disney money in my experience.

We're going to have to agree to disagree. While some programs require a lot of hands on time for very little return, last year I had to declare over $3K on my taxes for rewards money from "get paid to" programs. Almost all of them were passive earners that required little to no hands on time. Things are down this year, but that's the way these things go. I still manage a few hundred dollars every month, which goes a long way toward paying for Disney. When I combine the rewards money with the Disney GC deals, I do very well.

Jason_V · Jul 26, 2018

I love my Ibotta...since last August, I made $84. There were months I didn't d0 anything and I'm slowly learning how to get bonuses and things like that. I also use Drop, Dosh and Spent, so I tend to get money back in most of the places I already shop. Ebates has been completely hit or miss with me, but I keep it around to even passively.

tink89 · Jul 26, 2018

Dakota731 said:
I wouldn't count on any of those to get any real money for Disney. If you have nothing to do and want to play around fine, but none of these sites will be providing much Disney money in my experience.

i disagree.
I have earned about $250 on My points in 4 months just doing surveys.
I have earned over $650 on Swagbucks in 6 months surveys and sign ups
I have earned over $30 in Ibotta in 6 months just scanning receipts from regular purchase
I have earned over $15 in fetch in about 4 months

This is not including all the extra money I made when i turned them into gift cards for Disney which can easily be an extra $100.

about $1000 in 6 months of free money sounds like good Disney money.

Jason_V · Jul 30, 2018

I've been on Ibotta for a while now but never really maximized it, I think. When I made the current grocery list, I figured out the things I needed (coffee creamer, for example) and stacked in store offers with Ibotta.

Went grocery shopping on Friday night. Total before any coupons was over $200. Apply the paper and digital coupons I have...down to $159 total. I scan my receipt into IBotta...$7 cash back plus $0.50 bonus. Balance there right now is $45.

Also scanned into Fetch. Got 715 points...2,465 total points which will go to an Amazon GC at some point. And Drop points haven't come through yet.

I was also at Target a few times this weekend-don't ask-and some of those Drop points already posted.

My end goal is to PayPal as much as I can apply that to the mortgage. Anything that has to be a GC will be Amazon.

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