The exclusive Swagbucks code for Hiffers that I wrote about last week expires tonight at 11:59 PT. If you haven’t signed up yet, what the heck are you waiting for? Go sign up for a free account, then use the code FREECODE (case sensitive), before basking in the glow of your free six Swag Bucks you now have.
If you’re new to the site, here’s the initial review I wrote about Swagbucks back in January.
How many times have we written about Swagbucks here? A gazillion? It probably has something to do with how awesome the site is – in fact, I just cashed out my fourth $5 Amazon giftcard this weekend thanks to them.
For anybody who is new to HIF, Swagbucks is basically Google + prizes. You search with them just as you would with Google, but the key difference occurs randomly when you win swagbucks, which can ultimately be redeemed for gift cards, books, posters, and starting today – video games!
In fact, to promote some of the new changes they’ll be rolling out this week, they’ve given HIF an exclusive code. Signing up for a free account will net you 3 points automatically. Then you can use the code FREECODE to gain an additional 3 points, giving you 6. For reference, a free $5 Amazon giftcard costs 45 points, so you’ll already be 13% of the way towards your first prize. Like I said in my previous Swagbucks post, I average about 2-3 swagbucks a day though my normal search habits, which takes me about 15-20 days to earn my prize of choice. (the code above will expire on June 16 at 11:59pm PST)
Some of their new features this week include a widget that you can place on your blog / website, a newly designed frontpage, and a favorites section in their store. If you were ever wondering why Swagbucks destroyed Blingo and Winzy, I think you now have your answer!
I know it kinda stinks that the Swagbucks code doesn’t work for members who have already registered, but they are holding point giveaways for all users on their Twitter, Facebook, and blog this week. Plus, I’ll be starting another survey tomorrow afternoon with some prizes. So there’s that to look forward to 
For the past few weeks, I’ve been putting together a big post on some of the best survey sites around. It’s been a bit time consuming going through each of them, but there’s one site that I thought I’d share with you today since it’s hands down the easiest way to earn a little extra cash. It’s called YouData and frankly, unless you hate free money, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be a member.
Basically you log on each week and view any ads that you qualify for. They generally pay out at around $0.15 to $0.25 each and once you’ve viewed all of your available ads, that’s it. It takes ~60 seconds to view all of my ads each week and in exchange, I generally get about $1. Now, we’re not talking about making millions obviously, but do the math.
$1 per week for 60 seconds of your time. That’s $52 a year for 52 minutes, or an average of $60/hr. If you’re making $60/hr in your current job, chances are this wouldn’t interest you, but seeing as how I certainly don’t make that much and I doubt many others do, this is a sweet little source of side case. Of course, this is predicated on the basis that you’ll qualify for $1 worth of ads each week, but I’ve been safely earning around that rate for the past two months so far.
The best part is that payments are automatic. Most of the other sites that I’m reviewing have a minimum cashout threshold and once you reach it, it’s up to you to request the payment. Not YouData. Every Friday, they automatically send whatever you earned the previous week via Paypal. No minimums, no extra steps on your part to ask for the money, no hassles.
My much longer post on earning some extra cash isn’t going to be ready for another week or two as I’m trying to be as thorough as possible, but I thought I’d share this site with ya now since I’m still searching for the freebies today.
EDIT: As mentioned in the comments, YouData requires a user to have a cell phone in order to sign up. My bad for not mentioning that earlier. Seeing as how I signed up a few months ago, I simply forgot.
H&R Block is offering a free Second Look Review of either your current-year tax return (filed or unfiled) or one of your returns from 07, 06, or 05. Usually this costs $29, so it’s a pretty good deal, especially considering that you can plan ahead and reserve an appointment at your local office. The offer is valid from today, April 3, through Sunday, April 5.
I have a feeling I should probably get my taxes looked at, especially since so many people are telling me that I shouldn’t have claimed the end of Battlestar Galactica as a hardship.
[via Craig - thanks!]
H&R Block is offering a free Second Look Review of either your current-year tax return (filed or unfiled) or one of your returns from 07, 06, or 05. Usually this costs $29, so it’s a pretty good deal, especially considering that you can plan ahead and reserve an appointment at your local office. The offer is valid from today, April 3, through Sunday, April 5.
I have a feeling I should probably get my taxes looked at, especially since so many people are telling me that I shouldn’t have claimed the end of Battlestar Galactica as a hardship.
[via Craig - thanks!]
Just a reminder that the exclusive swagcode for new members, HEYITSFREE, expires tonight at midnight. If you haven’t signed up for Swagbucks already, you’re missing out! A few dozen Hiffers in the last post left comments saying how much they love earning free prizes through Swagbucks and thanks to this code, now’s a great time to sign up.
We’ve written about Swagbucks quick a few times already (tons of forums posts plus this extensive Swagbucks review I made back in January). After two months of using them as my primary search engine, I’d say I’m even more in love with them than I initially was. I’ve already earned enough points for two $5 Amazon giftcards and I’m fairly close to a third. How can you not love free money just for searching?!
If you’re still sitting on the fence about joining Swagbucks, maybe this will help nudge you in the right direction. Starting today, any new member who signs up can use the code HEYITSFREE to earn two free swagbucks, which will be added to the three swagbucks already offered to new members, thus giving you five swagbucks starting out! For reference, a $5 Amazon giftcard costs 45 swagbucks, so you’ll already be 11% of the way to getting your first prize. But that’s just one example, they have hundreds of prizes to choose from and dozens of different gift card options.
I usually average around 2-3 swagbucks a day though my normal search habits, which takes me about 15-20 days to earn a prize. Just think how many giftcards you’d have by now had you signed up when I first wrote about Swagbucks in January!
The code expires at midnight PST on Wednesday, so you’ve got almost two days to sign up and use the code. For people who are already members of Swagbucks, feel free to leave a comment with your opinions on the site. I’m interested in hearing what others think!
This free $10 FedEx Office Digital Photo Printing Gift Card offer has apparently been around for a few months and is said to only be available for the first 19,000 people, so I wasn’t too optimistic when signing up. But it accepted all of my info, said I’d get the gift card within a few weeks, and immediately sent me a confirmation e-mail. So in other words, while you’ve been reading this far and waiting for a semi-witty comment, 10 other people have signed up for this freebie and you’re in danger of not signing up in time. Seriously, what are you still doing here? Shoo, I tell you, shoo!
For those of you who aren’t sure what this is, it’s a gift card that can be used for digital photo printing at any FedEx Office, which I guess is technically any Kinkos.
[via Alfredo - thanks!]
The buzzword of our times seems to be “stimulus.” Be it economic, coffee from Starbucks, or uh, other forms that involve various married governors, everyone is doing whatever they can to get stimulated. And here is where we enter with Officer Roseland.
Officer Roseland had a pretty cool idea with their latest album, Stimulus Package. And with that, you can head to a website they set up just for that and download it for free and get a buck for doing so. You can donate that buck to the Mr. Hollands Opus foundation or take that buck right to your PayPal.
One way or another, head to their myspace and check them out. I’d say even without the buck? You’re getting 11 tracks of aural stimulus.
[via the forums and Zachary]
(I refilmed this earlier today and cut it down to about 6 minutes, but YouTube is taking forever to get it uploaded and I don’t feel like waiting any more, so you get the extended cut! Also, I messed up in the video and said the coupons expire on December 31, when in fact they expire on November 1. Still, plenty of time to use them!)
Get your Entertainment 2009 Coupon Book here.
For those too lazy to watch the video above or maybe who can’t because they’re at work, read below for a quick recap:
So I’ve got a $50 Target gift card just sitting here and not being spent, so how about we remedy that? In order to win, all you have to do is follow Hey, It’s Free on Twitter and tweet the following message below:
Goob is giving away a free $50 Target giftcard! You can win by following @heyitsfree and retweeting. http://bit.ly/14tRIa
The contest will end this Sunday night at 11:59pm and the winner will be randomly selected from the people who are following Hey, It’s Free on Twitter. Fingers crossed Random.org doesn’t somehow try and force me to win my own contest again 
I decided to film myself picking the winner for the free Walmart $50 giftcard this morning. The results are below. If you can’t get the video to play, a synopsis and links mentioned in the video are available after the jump.
EDIT: Looks like the code is now expired. It stayed up longer than I’d expected though.
Use the code BeMine to earn a free Swagbuck. For those of you with short term memory loss, I wrote a Swagbucks review yesterday and a bunch of people in the comments section mentioned how much they enjoy the site as well. I have no idea how much longer this code will be active for, but it’s my experience that they die quite fast. So what are you waiting for?!
[via My Good Cents]
A while back I promoted a site called Winzy which basically was a search engine that rewarded you for searching. I’ve been using them for over a year now and have probably won somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 in Amazon giftcards. However, I’ve recently been hearing a lot about a site called Swagbucks and so I thought I’d use it for a week and see which I liked better. Final verdict? Swagbucks absolutely destroys Winzy.
Now before I go any further, let me just say one thing. There’s absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t be using one, if not both, of these sites. If you routinely search for things online via a typical search engine, then you’re searching without the possibility of winning something. Any time you search on Google, your odds of winning a prize is 0%. Even if your odds of winning a prize on these two sites are 0.01%, that’s better than nothing, no? Plus, given the facts that most people make multiple searches a day and that winning percentages are higher than that small number, you’re essentially throwing away money if you’re not using either one of these sites.
Ok, I’ve got bad news and then crazy awesome news.
The bad news is that I’m not going to be giving away all $400 in prizes over the next few days. Wait, put down the rotten vegetables!
The crazy awesome news is that I’m going to instead be giving away even more in prizes over the next few weeks! I was contacted by a few amazing companies last night that wanted to help sponsor some prizes, so I’m going to be stretching things out in terms of making the contests open to a lot of people. I’ll be holding a contest per week from now until at least March! Throw in the March Madness Contest and it’s hard for me to even fathom how much I’m going to be giving away over the next few weeks!
Of course, I said I’d give away something today and darn if I don’t keep my word! So for today, all you have to do is make a post on your blog about HIF while linking back to us with the anchor text “freebies” and then leave a comment here with a link to your post. Just write something cool about HIF and make sure you include the proper link back. Here’s an quick example:
Hey, It’s Free! is one of the leading sites on the internet for freebies. They filter out all the spammy freebie offers and the guy who runs it, Goob, is pretty legendary to boot! He’s even giving away a $50 giftcard to Walmart this week! So check out HIF and start getting some freebies in your mail!
Or something similar. See how the word “freebies” is linking back to HIF? That’s known as anchor text in nerdy, Internet lingo. You learn something new every day!
It doesn’t matter if your blog is on your own site, Blogger, Myspace, or wherever else you may write on the net. Just make sure you write a little something about HIF and link back to us with the anchor text “freebies.” If you don’t have a blog, then don’t fret! Posting this on a message board you frequent counts as well, as is any other place you can think of. Be creative and chances are I’ll accept your submission. Make sure you don’t forget to leave a comment here with a link to where you made the post so that I can verify it. Then, at the end of the week I’ll pick a winner!
As for what some of the future contests will be, well I will say that one of the upcoming ones rhymes with “scavenger hunt.” Wait a minute, I think I did that wrong… Oh well, if you’re not already a member of the forums, you might want to join up!
The next few weeks are going to be freaking awesome, if I do say so myself!
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