Which gift card is the best value on Swagbucks?
Welcome to this week's Frugal Follies Frugal Tip!
I had an interesting dilemma related to Swagbucks this week.
I had earned 450 Swagbucks, so I went to get a $5 Amazon.com gift code with my points. But I couldn't!
You see, Swagbucks only allows you to get 5 of the same prize per month. And thanks to lots of great search wins by myself as well as those of you who have used my referral link, I had already gotten five $5 Amazon codes. (I'll have a giveaway soon for these codes - stay tuned!)
This is the first time this had happened. So I had a dilemma - what should I get with my points?
I decided to figure out which gift cards were the best value. I checked the values of the cards for Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Target, and Alice.com (a household products purchasing site), as well as PayPal cash. I ranked them in order of how many Swag Bucks you would need to buy $1 of card or cash value.
Here's what I found:
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