Don’t wait for Santa to place you on the “nice list” for Starbucks gift cards or things on your wish list.
We must admit…we’ve been using Swagbucks to get free Starbucks coffee (absolutely 100% free) over the past six months in New York City.
How?
Simple.
Join Swagbucks, discover, earn and more!
At first, we were skeptical. We joined while we were traveling in China (yes, we used a VPN to access Swagbucks) and didn’t do anything with it. After we returned to the United States in February, finally we began to put some time into learning the how-to of ‘earning’ rewards. So far, we have earned the following:
- $65 worth of Starbucks gift cards
- $25 worth of iTunes gift card
- $60 worth of Restaurant.com gift cards
- $50 worth Amazon gift cards
That’s a total of $200 in gift cards, 100% FREE. The amount is not much compared to what many other Swagbucks users earn who spend hours on it, but we can’t complain.
We get legit gift cards including Starbucks gift cards which allow us to hang out at any of Starbucks’ cafés in New York City, meeting with friends and family and at the same time getting work done with their free Wi-Fi.
The only type of coffee we order in Starbucks: Tall freshly brewed coffee at $2.12 each including tax.
With the Starbucks gift cards, we were able to use the Starbucks app on the iPhone and reap the benefits of Starbucks’ membership loyalty reward program.
Here were the benefits we received in the last six months through the Starbucks rewards program (which we were able to join thanks to Swagbucks):
- Free welcome drink
- Unlimited refill for green members
- Discounted drinks and custom offers through email
- Birthday drink or treat of our choice
- Birthday 15% coupon for all purchases at Starbucks online store
- Pay with the mobile app (money from the free gift cards)
- Free app of the week, like the one shown below
So far we have gotten 28 stars in our Starbucks app. It takes 30 stars to achieve gold status with Starbucks. You can read all the benefits on Starbucks website.
So how did we earn $200 in gift cards with Swagbucks?
Here are 10 ways to earn Swagbucks for free Starbucks coffee:
- Answer the daily poll. (1 SB point)
- Watch promotional videos. (2 SB points or more)
- Donate to a cause like The Nature Conservancy. You get 2,500 SB points (equivalent to $25 Amazon gift card) when you donate just $25 one time.
- Purchase merchandise through Swagbucks affiliate links. For example, we ordered flowers from 1800-Flowers and received 80 SB points.
- Join a wine club – we were awarded points when we joined the following wine clubs: Tasting Room (500 SB points), Club W (2,200 SB points) and WSJ Wine Club (1,650 SB points).
- Browse the internet using Swagbucks’ search the web and earn tool. We’ve received 5,6, 9, 11 and 23 SB points using this tool. Below is 6 SB points:
- Daily meter bonus is awarded monthly when we meet our daily goals. (Take a look at the screenshot).
- Answer simple quizzes.
- Enter swag codes. Swag codes are posted “randomly” on Swagbucks Facebook page, Twitter, blog and Instagram.
- Refer and Earn – which we haven’t done this activity thus far and today we get to refer you to earn some Swagbucks.
Our only warning to you is don’t spend time on Swagbucks during working hours. Playing and earning Swagbucks should be done during downtime, spare time and or ‘TV time!”
