Treasure Trooper has closed its doors after 18 years, which feels like a shame. It was certainly one of the most colourful, and characterful money making sites out there.
Treasure Trooper has closed down
Gamekit closing
A quick note that Gamekit has announced that it is closing its doors on the 30th November 2023.
This is the e-mail sent out to users recently:
Dear Gamekitters,
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the upcoming closure of Gamekit. After a decade of providing free top-ups and gift cards, we want to express our sincere gratitude for your support.
As of 30th of November 2023, Gamekit will cease operations.
We want to express our deepest gratitude for being a part of the Gamekit community. It has been a pleasure serving you over the past ten years, and we are grateful for the memories and experiences we have shared.
Rest assured, your privacy remains our priority. All personal data collected will be securely and permanently deleted; it will not be sold or shared.
Please redeem any outstanding credit before the closure date, as we won’t be able to process any requests afterward.
Thank you for being a part of the Gamekit journey.
Best regards,
Gamekit Team
Problems with Gamekit
Just a quick post to say that I’ve had a pending order with Gamekit for several months now, and have received zero response from the support ticket I’ve created, and periodically updated since then.
As a result I can’t really recommend using their services at the moment. This may be an isolated incident but I do find it concerning that I have yet to receive any response at all from their support team.
Sweatcoin gearing up to offer a real cryptocurrency
So it’s been a long time since my last post – many things have happened, most of them bad. On a positive note, Sweatcoin will be launching a new cryptocurrency called SWEAT in the summer which totally compensates for everything else :).
Any Sweatcoins you’ve already saved up can be converted into SWEAT.
A review of the app from a few years ago is available here.
New brainstorming app added to the Pi network
A new app called Brainstorm has been added to the Pi network which allows you to propose ideas for apps to run over the network. You can also vote on ideas and donate pi to any project you think looks useful.
More info on Pi is available here.
Measure (MSR)
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MSR is an app which allows you to earn money through answering surveys. You can also share your app and browser usage if you wish to.
MSR is currently only available on Android and Apple devices.
One of the unique selling points of MSR is that any personal information you give to the app is encrypted. The data is used to match you to relevant surveys but you need to explicitly give permission for the data to be shared with the survey provider.
One other thing I like about the app is that, although payouts are in a MSR currency it always tells you how much you’ve earned at the end of each survey in your local currency.
So far each survey I’ve done has been very short and generally pretty interesting and the payout seems very fair.
Payout is available to a variety of gift cards including Amazon and, at least for Amazon (the only payout method I’ve used) the payout is immediate.
The only downside for me is that the frequency of surveys isn’t particularly high.
All in all I’m very impressed with MSR and would recommend it.
New Swago now available for signup on Swagbucks
In the UK this round of Swago has a 300 SB maximum bonus. This may vary by country or region.
Does your Swago board offer different bonuses? Please let us know in the comments below.
Swago is active from   at  through  at .
For those of you not in the Pacific time zone (like me) here’s a hopefully useful time zone converter. I’ve also done the conversions for a number of common timezones below. Let me know if yours isn’t covered and I’ll make sure to add it.
| Timezone | Swago Finishes |
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| GMT | 7 AM |
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8 AM |
| EDT |
3 AM |
Disney+ Swagbucks Team Challenge now live
If you’re unfamiliar with Swagbucks, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
The Swagbucks Disney+ challenge is now available.
Once signed up here, you will be allocated to a team and you can begin earning points. If you earn 200 or more points over the course of the event you’ll receive a reward, with the reward you receive depending on how well your team as a whole performed. The Swagbucks team describe it as follows:
All members who participate and contribute at least 200 points to their team’s total will receive a SB bonus in the form of a SB Swag Up Rebate! Members of the 1st place team will receive a 100 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 2nd place team will receive a 75 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 3rd place team will receive a 50 SB Swag Up Rebate, and members of the 4th place team will receive a 25 SB Swag Up Rebate. The Swag Up Rebate will be made available by July 11th at and expires on August 1st at 7:59AM BST.
You can accrue points in several ways including uploading receipts:
Treasure Trooper Arrowhead Contest July 2020 now live!
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
Treasure Trooper have a new contest each month, usually centering around collecting one of the currencies used by the site. This month it’s arrowheads, and the site is paying out bonuses when you collect specified numbers.
if you sign up via my referral link you’ll receive a $5 starting bonus rather than the $1 you receive if you sign up normally.
Here’s the detail from the contest page:
Earn 500 arrowheads and we’ll add 50 to your account
Earn 1000 arrowheads and we’ll add 200 to your account
Earn 1500 arrowheads and we’ll add 450 to your account
Earn 2000 arrowheads and we’ll add 700 to your account
Earn 2500 arrowheads and we’ll add 1000 to your account
Earn 3000 arrowheads and we’ll add 1350 to your account
Earn 3500 arrowheads and we’ll add 1750 to your account
Additionally, if you reach the top tier, don’t stop trying! We’ll give you an extra 20 arrowheads for every 100 that you earn over 3500. That’s a 20% bonus with no limit on how many you can earn!
StormX
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Update: I’ve found that the app hasn’t paid out automatically on a few occasions since writing this review. However, their support team have been helpful and have sorted out any issues. It can take a while though.
Update 2: StormX now uses dollar values for tasks rather than “bolts”.
StormX is another service which allows you to earn “Bolts” by completing surveys, playing games and shopping.
This is very similar to many other services we’ve reviewed like Swagbucks or Treasure Trooper. The twist is bolts can be exchanged for Cryptocurrencies. At the time of writing the available cryptocurrencies are:
- Storm X (their own currency)
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Dai
- Litecoin
Spare Time Income 