List of new recently added shopping merchants

We added the following new merchants this week:

AnytimeCostumes
ashford
Brinks Home Security
CookiesKids(Cookies Department store)
GlassesEtc
Famous Footwear
Fortunoff
Frontier Airlines
Hanes.com
LensCrafters.com
Mrs. Prindables
PricelineEurope.com
SoftMoc
Steve Madden
Total Gym
Vanns.com
WebRoot Software
YourKidsDirect
ZipZoomfly.com

Blog Contest Winners

Thanks to all of those that participated in the two contests we ran on the blog throughout the week. Here are the winners:

Make Room for 2008 contest winner (QuickRewards Tshirt):
CindyWheeler

40 new offers added to QuickRewards contest winners (100,000 tokens each):
Normie
Dvc_doll
Mdapiggy
Heavenheir
Derrik
tinkorbelle1976
Ladyluck
Judith
Preciouskitti
Beforethedown


Claiming prize:Please email support@quickrewards.net to claim the prize.

QuickRewards Surveys Spectacular (SUPERB NEWS)

We have very good news. Starting 12/17 we made the following changes to our daily surveys:

1) Daily Greenfield survey will increase from $0.75 to $1.05
2) Daily OTX survey will increase from $0.60 to $0.75
3) NEW: GIVEUSYOUR2CENTS daily $0.75 survey (Can be done in addition to Greenfield)

And remember the $1.05 Greenfield survey also has a Survey Club were you can earn an additional $3 a month if you complete 15 survey or $5 a month if you complete 20 surveys. All of these rates are here to stay and are not for a limited time.

Make room for 2008 contest (this contest is only for blog visitors)

Since we just added over 40 new offers (see below) we need to remove expired offers to make room for new offers in 2008. Did you see an expired offer/link? If yes, post a comment with the name of an offer. If you can’t post in the blog feel free to email us.

Every single expired offer you post (please don’t repeat) will be an entry into a contest. Next weekend we will select 1 lucky winner to win a QuickRewards Tshirt.

40 new offers added to QuickRewards + contest (this contest is only for blog visitors)

We just added 40 new offers. You will find the list of the new offers below. Complete any of these offer(s) and leave a comment with the offer(s) you did from this list that credited to your account. 1 entry per offer (you can only win once). Over the weekend (Dec 22-23) 10 winners will randomly be selected to receive 100,000 tokens each.

**To locate the offers use the search box on the site

$1,000,000 Hunt For The Money Sweeps
Free Revlon Colorstay Lipcolor
Free Wired Magazine
Free LOreal Glam Shine
Free Maybelline Volume Mascara
FREE Clorox Disinfecting Wipes
FREE SpongeBob Stickers
Free Neutrogena PureGlow Sample
Free Sample of Jergens Natural Glow
FREE LifeSavers Candy
Free TV Guide Magazine
Free Sports Illustrated Magazine
Vote for the best pizza Free $10 Survey
POP THIS! (free popcorn samples)
PhoneHog.com
Credit Experts
ProductTestPanel - Free iPhone
Consumer Promotion Center
MysteryShoppingRewards - Mystery Shopper
BigWin - Free Dewalt Drill
CONSUMER PROMOTION CENTER - NINTENDO Wii
Winning Surveys - Harley Road King
Surveys for fun Win Lunch for a Year!
New home make over bedroom makeover
Rising Star Learning - Award Winning Childrens Learning Software
Nielsen NetRatings
Want to Start a Home Business
Investing in Success
First Option
Boca Java -Holiday Mug and Cookies
Betty Crockers Country Favorites
Canadian Glam
Best of Burgers Cookbook
Wis.dm

Grocery Sweeps

QuickRewards Holiday Shopping Promotion: Spin The Wheel Game

For every single order you place(including EBAY), you will receive 3 spins(David’s cookies orders receive 4 spins). You can win up to 25,000 tokens per spin and 1 raffle entry into a contest. Everyone wins in this game at least 500 tokens per spin.

In January we will raffle of the following prizes (most of them are sponsored by David’s Cookies)

Grand prize:

Davids Cookies: 1 winner chooses 12 month - 1 lb cookie of the month or 12 month - dessert of the month membership

Other prizes:

Davids Cookies: 2-lb assorted cookies

Davids Cookies: 12 pc brownies

Davids Cookies: 12 pc assorted cheesecakes

Davids Cookies: cookie-brownie-combo

Davids Cookies: rocky mountain mudslide cake

Jelly Belly candy 10 flavor sampler box

QuickRewards Tshirt and Tote combo

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE GAME AND ALL THE RULES VISIT THIS URL:http://quickrewards.net/contests/spinme.html

NOTE: You will see: ERROR FAILED TO GET SPIN DATA until you earn at least 1 game token.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE ARE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS SO PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK. REMEMBER THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO DO IS CLICK SPIN WHEEL BUTTON. ONCE YOU PLAY ONE GAME YOU WILL UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS.

It’s coming…………………………….

The biggest shopping promotion of the year (biggest one QR ever had) is almost here! It’s so big and unique that we are making you wait a little more until you see all the details.

Site Speed help needed

We are testing to see what is making the site load slower. I removed the digital clicks (they will be back). Can you let me know if the site loads faster now or not. If not is a specific section of the site slow?


THURSDAY NOON:
WE ADDED MORE CLICKS. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF IT IS SLOWER NOW OR STILL FAST

QuickyPot and David's cookies winners list moved

Please note that Quickypot and David's cookies winners will be updated weekly in our new blog:
http://quickrewardsweeklywinners.blogspot.com/

You can also find this url below the Quickypot/David's cookie offer banner.

Idea waiting for your feedback…..

Please go to the polls section to participate in a new poll. In a nutshell, our holiday shopping promotion is almost here (it will have a surprise twist you never seen on QR). In addition to that twist we want to reward bonus tokens. Here is my question to all of you: Would you rather keep the bonus tokens earned for shopping in December to yourself or donate them to Red Cross? Red Cross can do a lot with the money during the holidays. Your feedback is appreciated. Would you feel good about shopping for the holidays and knowing that by shopping not only are you getting a rebate, but helping others in need. Also if Red Cross is choosen should there be a way for members to choose if they want to donate or not or should everyone have no choice?

CYBER MONDAY SHOPPING RATES

Here is the official Cyber Monday rate boost chart. Thanks to everyone who posted their requests on the blog for a rate boost. We were able to boost the rates of all the stores you requested. Please note that on the site you will see the everyday rates, but we will bonus the difference (booster rate – regular rate) a few days after your account is credited.

These rates start 12:01 on 11/26 and are good until 11/26 11:59 EST:

Merchant: Regular Rate/1 Day Rate
123 Inkjets    15%   22%
4Inkjets   15%    20%
Alloy   2.6%    4%
Apple iTunes   3.3%    4.5%
Avon   5.5%    7%
Bare Necessities   5%;    7%
Barnes Nobles    4.2%    4.8%
Beauty.com   7%    10%
Best Buy    1.1%    2.5%
Blair   5%    8%
Bookcloseouts.com   6.7%    9%
Boscovs   2.75%    4%
Buy.com   2.1%    2.8%
Cabela's   2.1%    3.5%
Casual Male XL   2.5%    4%
Christian Book   5%    7%
David’s Cookies   5.1%    7%
DeepDiscountDVD   1.3%    1.8%
dElia's   3%    4.5%
Disney   4.3%    5%
Dr Leonards   4%    6%
Drugstore.com   6.5%   8.5%
EBGames   2.5%    4%
Eddie Bauer   4.1%    5%
Etoys   3.3%    4.5%
Fashion Bug   3.1%    4.5%
Fingerhut   6.1%    6.5%
Gamestop   2.5%    4%
Giftcertificates.com   2.5%    4%
Graveyard Mall   5%    6.5%
Haband   6.3%    7.5%
Hallmark   9.3%    11%
Harry & David   4.1%    5.5%
Home Decorators Outlet   3%    4.8%
HSN   4%    6.5% (excludes electronics)
J&R Music World   2%    4%
Joann.com   5%    7%
Journeys   5%    6%
King Size Direct   2.5%    4%
KBTOYS   3.3%    4.5%
Kmart   1.3%    1.8%
Kodak Gallery   6.1%    8.5%
Kohl’s   3.2%    3.8%
Land’s End   3.3%    4.5%
Lane Bryant-Woman Within   2.6%    4%
Lillian Vernon   4.1%    5.5%
Montgomery Ward (Wards.com)   5%    7%
NewEgg   0.8%    1%
Nordstroms   3.3%    4.5%
Overstock   3.6%    4.7% (excludes media items)
Perfumania   6.5%    8.5%
Perfumes America   6%    8%
PersonalCreations   6.3%    7.5%
PersonalizationMall   10%    14%
PetSmart   5.5%    8%
Photoworks   5.1%    8%
Popcorn Factory   5.5%    8%
Red Envelope   6.1%    8.5%
Roaman's   2.7%    4.3%
Sephora   3%    4%
Seventh Avenue   4.1%    4.8%
Shoebuy.com   14%    18%
Shutterfly   5.8%    6.5%
Spreadshirt   7%    14%
Staples   2.1%    2.7%
Target   4.1%    8%
ThinkGeek   3.5%    6%
ToysRus   2.1%    2.8%
Walmart   2%   3.3%
Walter Drake   8%   11%
WWE Shopzone   3.5%    6%
VistaPrint   13%    17%
Vitaminshoppe   5.3%    7%
Yves Roucher   10.5%    13%
Zappos   8%    10%

2 Important updates

I was away the whole Friday so I never had a chance to post this:

1)Daily Surveys(Greenfield): It turns out that their offices are closed Thursday and Friday. You will receive the credits for all surveys on Monday once they come back.

2)Clicks: I read that a lot of members had issues with the clicks section being slow today. The reason is because of Black Friday the stores like Target (which is an advertiser) had too much traffic and their banners had too much loading time. What we will also do on our end is split up the banners between multiple pages. As far as crediting for clicks goes (I will repeat this again) Clorax WILL NOT credit. We don’t have a way of fixing this. Just keep refreshing until another banner shows up.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cyber Monday shopping rate boost request

We will be having a lot of shopping rate boosts on Cyber Monday and YOU are in control of which merchants you want to see a rate boost on. Please post a comment with the merchant(s) you would like higher rates on and your wish will be granted (99.9% of the time).

3,000 Tokens a day blog contest

PROMO ENDED

How would you like to win 3,000 tokens a day for 7 days in a row? It’s simple with this new pre-Thanksgiving contest. It starts 11/14 and ends 11/21. This contest is exclusive to our blog visitors only.


Details:
Every day we will be posting 3 featured offers. We will rotate the offers constantly. Complete 1, 2 or 3 of them. One of these 3 will be chosen to win 3,000 tokens. Whoever completes that selected offer on that specific day will receive an additional 3,000 tokens the following day. You can participate In this game daily and if you do all 3 offers you are a guaranteed winner.

Additional bonus: If you earn 3,000 each of the 7 days email us on the 8th day and we will add 4,000 token bonus. In 7 days you can earn yourself up to 25,000 tokens. Super nice considering tokens no longer expire!


11/21 3,000 token offer: PaidSurveys.com

Feel free to leave a comment with feedback regarding the contest.

PROMO ENDED

Important information regarding the new hourly clicks

The new hourly clicks can be done once an hour. One hour you can see Target the next hour you can see Universal, Delta, Clorax and so on. They keep rotating. Some of the clicks such as Clorax do not credit in IE and work in Firefox (same for Delta). We do not have a way to fix this issue since it is not something that's happening on our end. Our only option is to get rid of all the new clicks which we can’t do since this is an awesome earning opportunity for members. Just letting you all know that if Clorax does not credit do not think it is an issue with our tracking or crediting. We suggest that you do these clicks in Firefox for best results.

Special Blog Promotion

This promotion will not be displayed on the site or our mailing and is only for those that visit the blog.
Successfully complete a daily $0.75 survey and daily OTX $0.60 survey for 3 days in a row starting Sunday until Friday. Then email us to get a $1 bonus once these surveys credit to your account! Promotion ends 11/16. You must respond to this blog by leaving a comment stating that you are interested or email us. Only those that email or respond will be able to participate.

Quick update regarding daily $0.75 Greenfield survey:
I was at a meeting with them this past Monday. She told me that around 15th they will be adding a whole new router of surveys so everyone should have better luck qualifying for them.

Introducing: OTX Survey -> New daily $0.60 Survey

QuickRewards is glad to introduce a new advertiser, OTX Surveys. It works the same way as the Greenfield Daily $0.75 survey, but has its own advantages. Members can now complete two daily surveys every 24 hours ($0.75 Greenfield and $0.60 OTX). Go to the surveys section to get started!

So what’s so special about OTX?
-OTX surveys credit within hours after you successfully complete them.
-They have hundredth of surveys in rotation and all have guaranteed tracking with no tracking issues. As soon as you finish a survey it will assign a survey ID to you so that you have proof of taking a survey. Their system is very powerful that can keep track of every survey you completed and attempted to complete. We were told that they have the most surveys on Friday and weekends.
-You can try until you qualify. If you don’t qualify right away it will give you an option of qualifying for another survey. No waiting hours to try again.

OTX Survey club:

Complete 15 surveys in one month and get a $2 bonus

Complete 20 surveys in one month and get a $3 bonus

Complete 25 surveys in one month and get a $5 bonus

Please remember that we also have a Greenfield Daily Survey club:
Complete 15 surveys in one month and get a $3 bonus
Complete 20 surveys in one month and get a $5 bonus

In a nutshell survey takers, this is your opportunity to earn more daily in addition to earning more bonuses at the end of the month. Don’t forget to visit the surveys section of the site daily.

QuickRewards Early Holiday Shopping Special

QuickRewards knows that REAL deal-hunters don't wait until Black Friday to start their holiday shopping!

Every day from 11/5 through Thanksgiving, QuickRewards will be increasing our cashback rebates on a Merchant of the Day. Unlike other rewards programs, we're telling you in advance who the merchants will be each day so you can plan your purchases around the promotion schedule. PLUS, each day on the QuickRewards Coupon Blog we will share available coupons for the Merchant of the Day as well as other information to help you make the most of your shopping dollar! Does the merchant have a big sale going on? Are they offering free shipping with a minimum purchase? What are some great gift ideas at the merchant, and at a great price? QuickRewards wants to help you find the deals!

New to QuickRewards? Here’s why our shoppers come back again and again:

-Highly competitive rates

-Rebates credit to your account FAST (within days)

-Cash out as soon as your rebates credit -- no waiting through a 6 to 12 week “pending period” like some other programs

-NO MINIMUM BALANCE REQUIRED to cash out your rebates to your Paypal account

-Cash out for emailable gift certificates starting at a low $5 or snail-mailable gift cards starting at $5($1 for Disney dollars)! Other programs have a $10 or even $25 balance required to cash out!

-Need a coupon? Have a question? We know your time is valuable and your emails get a response quickly -- from a real person, not an automated reply system!

-Ability to join our free frequent shopper club. Members receive the following perks: Double tokens on everything they do on the site (Starts Jan 2008), up to 1,000 bonus tokens per order, rate boosts and much more. To learn more about the club click on this link: http://quickrewards.net/policy/frequentshopper.html

Special: Place an order starting today until 11/21 and you can join the Frequent Shopper club under 1 order a month obligation instead of 3 orders. There will be a huge Holiday promotion for Frequent shoppers soon.

As promised, here is the schedule for QuickRewards’ Early Holiday Shopping Merchants of the Week (merchants change daily at midnight):

(CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO EXPAND IT TO VIEW ALL THE RATES)

We need your help!

We are creating a testimonials page for getting new advertisers into QR. If you would like to be included on that page please email or post a testimonial in the comments. In the testimonial please include how long you have been a QR member, your first name and the first letter of your last name (Not full last name for security reasons).

I appreciate your help on this.

Important changes to the token loyalty program starting January 2008

We have new and excited news to share with you regarding the terms of our token loyalty program. We heard feedback from our members and listened to what you had to say. As a result, we are redesigning the loyalty token program starting January 2008.

Starting today your tokens will never expire however in January 2008, you will not be able to redeem them for gift cards due to the fact that some advertisers don’t allow rewarding cash for certain offers and only allow rewarding tokens. This new rule will allow us to bring in new advertisers on board. You will only be able to redeem the tokens for prizes and QR merchandise. To make it clear this change only has to do with loyalty token program. You will still earn cash on the site and redeem them for Paypal or gift cards as you do now.

Another exciting change is that frequent shoppers will earn double the tokens for everything they do. If a member who is not a frequent shopper reaches $25 a month (100% on the bar) they will also be able to double the amount of tokens they earn during that month. Those that don’t earn $25 a month will not receive double tokens and will not lose 50% of the tokens.

Finally I know when other sites create changes like this they usually increase the token values of everything. We are not other websites and care about our members. We did our homework. We put ourselves in your shoes and asked ourselves “Why should we screw the members who have been so loyal to us?”. If we change the rules they will just get frustrated and will not be loyal any more. This will not be the case here with the value increases although we will be adding new merchandise/prizes and the QR branded merchandise will have a lower point value then the non-QR branded merchandise.

I am very sure that everyone will enjoy this new change. We are one of the very few rewards programs that have a loyalty program that rewards their members an additional incentive on top of the everyday reward earnings.

If you have any questions/feedback please share it by leaving a comment. This is the type of feedback I look forward to receiving so that I can improve things on QR.

Trick to getting the Universal clicks to work

One of our members, Normilda, posted a great response on one of our blogs on how to get universal clicks to work. I asked a lot of members who emailed us to do this and it works. Thanks Normilda!

"For those of you having trouble with the flash ads - I found a way to make it work.

First off - it won't work in Internet Explorer - but in Firefox it will after you do one thing. Go to the page of daily clicks - click on "tools" at the top - then click on "clear Private data" - put a check mark in the "cookies" box and leave all the other check mark in place - then click "clear private data now". You will then need to sign back in - but once you go back to the page - all the flash icons should be there.

The reason it isn't showing up is because of the cookie used to display this icon - once it downloads onto your computer for you to see it - it disables itself - it is in your temporary cookies - so it isn't seen as a "needed" cookie to save. so it disables itself and just sits as "internet junk" on your computer. So once you clear it and then go back to the website - it sees you need the cookie - and resends it to your computer to be used as a temporary "sessions" cookie."

Super Wacky Crazy QuickyPot Day is BACK!

This Wednesday 10/24, Thursday 10/25 and Friday 10/26 is Super Wacky Crazy Quickypot Day!

Why is this one better than ever?

Due to popular demand this game is back. This time once again we will have 10 offers and 5/10 offers will be brand new that were never on QuickRewards before. The secret offer that will be worth additional 10,000 tokens will be one of these 5 new offers. We will try to have more then 5 new offers, but so far at least 5 new once were already approved.

What is Super Wacky Crazy Quickypot Day exactly?

It is works just like a regular weekly QuickyPot, but with a twist: everyone will win part of the pot! In addition to the shared winnings some lucky members will win an additional 10,000 tokens each. The more members that participate, the more tokens everyone shares. 10 offers are going to be uploaded and each of them will have each own QuickyPot jackpot that keeps increasing for three days each time a member completes the offer. The more members that participate, the bigger the jackpot grows. You may do as little as 1 or as much as 10 offers. Over the weekend we will split the individual progressive jackpot between everyone that participated. Remember that you also get paid to do that offer.

New blog addition: QuickRewards Coupons Blog

We are adding a new blog that will allow us to display the most current exclusive deals, coupons as well as super sales.

Another great thing about this blog is the Member Coupon Request feature. Need a coupon for OfficeDepot? Need a coupon for Buy.com? Post your request there and we will respond with a coupon code if available.

Click here to visit the blog: http://quickrewardscoupons.blogspot.com/

YOUR FEEDBACK NEEDED:

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN? IT WILL TAKE A LOT OF OUR TIME TO UPDATE THIS NEW BLOG DAILY, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP YOU WITH THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING OR NOT. CAN WE DO SOMETHING TO IMPROVE IT?

Introducing VistaPrint store ***UNBEATABLE DEAL***

A new friend of mine who works for VistaPrint wants to offer a super special deal for our members. As you may know Vistaprint is the largest store that sells customized printed products as well as offers a lot of free samples. They sell everything from business cards, T-shirts, invitations, rubber stamps, pens, return address labels, checks, desk and wall calendars, and just in time for the holidays - Holiday Cards!

Holidays are just around the corner and just in time for the holidays she is giving all QuickRewards members 50% off on all the prices on their site when you use the special link she gave us. That’s in addition to 13% cash back QuickRewards is giving you. Start shopping today! Check out VistaPrint store on our front page when you login into your QR account.

Their prices are super low. I ordered 420 return labels and 250 colorful business cards from them. They arrived within 1 week and the products are high quality. You must click on our link to see these prices. It would cost double or even triple for me to get these business cards at a nearby office supply store.

Cash back for Wal-Mart is back at QuickRewards!

We are very excited to announce that right before the holiday shopping season we finally reached an agreement with Wal-Mart to allow rewarding members cash back for shopping at Walmart.com using the link in our shopping section.

You will receive 2% cash back for shopping. Check out the Every Day Low Prices at Wal-Mart!

August/September Token Donation Results / Future Plans

The August/September token donation for For A Child Wish was a huge success. Thanks to all the great QuickReards members we were able to donate 3,627,000 tokens combined which came up to $217.62 (we used a rate 500,000 tokens = $30 instead of $25 + tshirt like for all members). Since I like exact numbers we are rounding this off to $250.

Thanks to all of you Tina’s niece, who has a medical condition that is causing her to go blind will be going to Disney in a few days to see Mickey. They will use the money to upgrade the hotel to be closer to Disney.

What’s next for our donation section? It’s all up to you!
Do you know a charity that needs help? If so please leave a comment with the charity name, description and url. I will collect all the information and make a poll for people to vote on every month. The most popular once will be featured in our token donation section. This way members will have a few choices to choose from every month.

SuperWacky QuickyPot Shared bonuses were added

We uploaded the Super Wacky Quickpot promotion bonuses to accounts. Make sure you see them. The lowest bonus was 730 tokens and the highest was 13,000 (IDEAL BITE was the 10,000 secret bonus advertiser). This is the amount of tokens each member received.

Due to the popularity of this promotion we will have one again in a few weeks, but this time all the offers featured will be brand new.

Disney/Gift card promotion is back and more rewarding then ever!

The Good news:
For every other $25 gift card you request we will add $3 back into your account. For every $25 Disney gift card requested you will get $3 Disney Dollars. (Compare this to the usual $1 bonus per card! This is 12% bonus cash back for every gift card.)

The catch:
All the credits must be earned from October 1st – October 14th. Unlike the previous promotions you will not be able to earn these bonuses for balances earned before October. For this promotion we only will count the credits earned from surveys, signups, clicks, signups that were done starting October 1st. So for example if you have $100 balance, but only $25 was earned in October you will only receive the $3 bonus on the $25 gift card and no bonus on the $75 balance since it was not earned this month.

Promotional cash out dates:
You may take advantage of these rates on: 10/8 and 10/15

Let us know if you have any questions.

UPDATE: We will be adding about 25 new offers within the next few days to help you with the promotion.

Please spend a minute to respond with your feedback. I want to know if you think this promotion is good or not? I need feedback to improve future promotions.

New layout added/Don't like it here is how to go back to the old one!

Based on very positive feedback, the new layout is out. It should be easier to navigate.

If you don’t like it and you are used to the older one you have the option to go back to it. Just go to:
MY ACCOUNT -> THEMES -> Main Theme select SIMPLE -> UPDATE NOW

To go back to the new one select CLEAR in the Main Theme and UPDATE NOW

Super Wacky Crazy QuickyPot Day/New QR rule (good news)

9/26 and 9/27 is our first ever Super Wacky Crazy QuickyPot Day.

It is works just like a regular weekly QuickyPot, but with a twist: everyone will win part of the pot! In addition to the shared winnings some lucky members will win an additional 10,000 tokens each. The more members that participate, the more tokens everyone shares.

How it works:
10 offers are going to be uploaded and each of them will have each own QuickyPot jackpot that keeps increasing for two days each time a member completes the offer. The more members that participate, the bigger the jackpot grows. You may do as little as 1 or as much as 10 offers. On 9/28 we will split the individual progressive jackpot between everyone that participated. Remember that you also get paid to do that offer.

Another bonus:
1 of the 10 offers will be selected at random at the end of the contest as the featured offer. Everyone that participated in that specific QuickyPot will receive an additional 10,000 tokens in addition to the jackpot tokens that everyone shares.

NEW QR RULE CONCERNING 50% TOKEN LOSS
Starting end of September you will now have 2 months to earn $50 ($25 each month) before tokens are 50% lost. This way if you don’t reach $25 the first month you have until the end of the next month to earn earn a total of $50(for two month combined). Here is the current schedule:

September: All tokens will be carried over
October: Those who didn’t each a total of $50 between Sept + October will lose 50% of the tokens
November: All tokens will be carried over
December: Those who didn’t each a total of $50 between November + December will lose 50% of the tokens

This should give everyone more flexibility in terms especially if you don’t have enough time or good offers to do one month you can catch up the next month. FREQUENT SHOPPERS AND QR TESTERS STILL GET 100% TOKENS CARRIED OVER EVERY SINGLE MONTH EVEN IF THEY DON’T EARN $25 A MONTH.

Let us know if you have any questions/feedback/suggestions regarding the promotion or the new rule.

Frequent Shopper 1 Day Only promotion

***This promotion is only for members in our Frequent Shopper club or QR Testers***

Place any order on Wednesday 9/19 and get 5,000 tokens for every order over $25 or 3,000 tokens for every order $10-$24.99. This is an additional bonus to the bonus tokens you are already receiving as a frequent shopper.

Another great promo:
Check out ShoeBuy.com on the front page when you login. Place any order and get free shipping, 15% off and $10 cash back (instead of $7.75) for frequent shoppers only! This $2.25 extra bonus starts 9/17 and ends on Friday 9/21. ***Make sure to email support@quickrewards.net once the transaction credits your account for the $2.25 bonus***

Interested in learning more about Frequent Shopper club? It’s free to join! Click here for more details: CLICK HERE

Get paid to print grocery coupons is LIVE

Do you like clipping grocery coupons from your Sunday newspaper? Why not get paid to do that! Quickrewards will allow members to print out SmartSource coupons and use them in your grocery store to save money on hundredth of products. You will get paid 50 QuickPoints for every single coupon printed and used. (Please note that credits come in once a month. The exact date of when they will come in is to be determined, but it will be around the first week of every month).

To get started click on the COUPONS tab. You will need to do a quick registration for SmartSource and download the SmartSource coupon bar that will allow you to do the printing and selection of the coupons. Note that this software is 100% safe and does not monitor your activity, prevent you from getting credited for things nor has pop ups, viruses or spyware.

Come back often to check if they added new coupons.

If you will have an issue installing the bar please email support@quickrewards.net. Note the bar installation will work best if you are using Firefox. IE is a lot harder to get the bar to download especially if you have Firewall or SearchBot and Destroy software.

Very important update regarding Frequent Shopper Club

In a few weeks (most probably starting October) those members who are part of our Frequent Shopper Club will have a few extra perks added in addition to extra tokens for every single order. These perks will include 100% rollover of all tokens (even if you don’t reach $25 a month), extra double/triple token shopping days, super holiday gigantic promotion and much more.

As you may know if you are an older QR frequent shopper (before March 2007) or if you took advantage of 8/30 promotion you only need to place one order a month to maintain the membership instead of 3.

If you are an older frequent shopper who didn't join yet and wants to take advantage of maintaining 1 order a month perk you must email support@quickrewards.net to join before September 15th. Beginning September 16th everyone new joining the club (even if they are an old frequent shopper who didn’t register for the new one yet) will be required to make at least 3 orders a month to maintain the membership. This rules does not apply to current frequent shoppers. Those must maintain 1 order a month for as long as they are a member.(REMEMBER THAT THE NEW CLUB ALLOWS REWARDS FOR EBAY ORDERS. EACH EBAY TRANSACTION COUNTS AS ONE ORDER)

To learn more about the club visit this url:
http://quickrewards.net/policy/frequentshopper.html

NOTE: We might also be raising the requirements for those joining after October from 3 to 5 orders because of the 100% token rollover feature. Members joining in September will still have maintain a minimum of 1 or 3 orders (depending if you were an old frequent shopper or not) for as long as they are a member.

If you have any questions feel free to email support@quickrewards.net

1 day New Frequent Shopper Registration Promotion

Did you shop at QR in August at least once, but are not a big shopper? Did you shop at QR a lot in August, but never joined the frequent shopper club?

Email us on 8/30 if you are interested in joining our frequent shopper club and we will give you the same benefit as our old frequent shoppers. That’s right anyone who emails support@quickrewards.net to join the club (must have made at least one order (ebay included) in August) will have the ability to join the club and will only need to make 1 purchase a month (instead of 3) to maintain the membership. Anyone joining after 8/31 will once again need to maintain 3 orders a month.

Why join?
It’s free and you get additional tokens (up to 1,000) for every single order you place within a given month. In addition there will be special rate boosts and promotions (I know we didn’t have any promotions in August, but we will make that up in September)

To learn more about the frequent shopper club click here:http://quickrewards.net/policy/frequentshopper.html

Let me know if you have any questions

Token donation is LIVE

PROGRESS REPORT:
8/27 387,000 tokens
8/28 852,000 tokens
8/29 441,000 tokens
8/30 594,000 tokens
8/31 551,000 tokens
Sept week 1: ? tokens
Sept week 2: ? tokens
Sept week 3: ? tokens
Sept week 4: ? tokens

Total so far: 2,825,000 tokens

Since we will continue donating to this organization in October I will update the progress every week instead of daily.

You may now go and donate tokens (stacks of 1,000) for the forachildswish.com (Disboards member organization) cause.

To donate and find out more information about this cause go to:
Redeem (redemption center in QR) -> Token Cashout -> Donation

2 common questions:
1)Do I donate the full 1,000 tokens or only the 500 I will lose if I don’t earn $25 to carry over 100% of the tokens?
You will have to donate the full 1,000 (500 you lose and 500 you would keep). This way we are matching 500 tokens you are donating instead of us just taking them away.

2) Will I have more choices of where to donate?
Starting October every month we will be selecting 2 or 3 organizations (from what members recommend) so that everyone will have a chance to raise some money for their organization and a choice of where to donate. We will try to help out as many small organizations as possible with this new project.

Let me know if you have any other questions

Common questions rewarding the August 31st gift card promotion

Here are the common questions regarding the 8/31 promo:

1)I have no use for Disney Dollars what can I do?

For every $25 you redeem you will get ($1 or $2 depending on if you referred a friend) added to your QR account. You can redeem these credits for anything you like. Disney dollars will only be added to those who redeem for Disney Gift Cards unless they request account credit instead.

2)Do I only need to find a gift card that has $25 denominations to get the bonus?

No you can combine as many giftcards/denominations as you want. The key is to have $25,$50 and so on combined together during one redemption request. So you can get 2 $10 Walmart cards and 1 $5 Amazon card and still receive the $1 credit.

3)How do I claim the bonus?

Just redeem on 8/31 for gift cards. Once we process them the account bonus will be added accordingly. Please go to MY ACCOUNT -> CONTACT INFO and make sure that your full name and address is there so that we know where to ship the gift cards.

4)Does this promotion apply to those who get e-certificates like Ebay and Amazon?

YES

5)How will you know if I referred a friend and should be getting $2 bonus per $25 instead of $1?

If you earned enough to get the Tshirt gift make sure to specify if you want a Medium or XL size

It is your responsibility to email us the username of the friend you referred in August after you submit the cash out request.

If you have any other questions regarding this contest please feel free to leave feedback. I would also appreciate your feedback. Do you like this contest or not? How can we improve the next one?

new feature: Weekly David's Cookies Giveaway

Would you like to win this?

Every single Friday one lucky winner will win a tasty 2 pound cookie tin. The assortment includes triple chocolate chunk, peanut butter chunk, and s'mores decadent cookie.

To enter:

1) Go to the checklist and click on Daily Featured Offer

2) Scroll down until you see this week's contest entry offer and complete it.

3) Check the blog every Friday to see if you won.

Want your very own David's Cookies tin? Check out David's cookies in the shopping section and don't miss this great deal:

FREE SHIPPING + 5.1% cash back + 15% off any order over $29 code: QUICKREWARDS15A

Get ready to donate those tokens!

Thanks for all your feedback a few weeks ago regarding the idea of donating unused tokens before they expire. We got way too many requests for charities and we still have to find a way to organize all these. (Any feedback on how to select from the charities to feature would be very appreciated because I don’t want to avoid all the smaller charities and only donate to the larger once that everyone knows about. I think of it this way: the larger once like Red Cross will always get funding sources form millions of people, but the smaller once will have a harder time. So if anyone has suggestions on how to make this fair for everyone without displaying every single charity at once let me know!)

Anyways back to the point……………….I was reading Disboards a few weeks ago and found a post that I felt I needed to help in any way I can. A Disboards member, loveisforevertoo was asking others how to raise money for her niece. She is a big Mickey fan and might never have a chance to see Disney. Here is her story:

“Hello my name is Tina DeCesaro, you may recognize me from the Disboards as loveisforevertoo. I have a niece who has a medical condition that is causing her to go blind, before she completely loses her sight I wanted to give her the chance to go to Disney World. For about 6 months I searched for a program that would help make her dreams come true, but because she was not terminally ill no one could help. that’s when I decided to start a program called for a child’s wish. This will help children from every walk of life have a dream fulfilled. Thank you for any contribution you can make!”

This will be our first donation project for August and September. Hopefully together we can donate enough to buy her niece the tickets to go to Disney. A lot of you should know loveisforevertoo since she always posts in Disboards. Get your tokens ready. You will be able to start redeeming them for this cause in a few days.

Check out her site: http://www.forachildswish.com/

New features: Favorite offer of the day/Daily Check list

Favorite Offer of the Day

Check out the first click in the clicks section named: Favorite Offer of the Day. It is a new concept that will allow members to share which offer credited to their account fast on a specific day. Members will also be able to share experiences. This will help you decided which offers you can do in order to maximize your earnings. Best part of all this is that every single day we will be selecting 10 random posts and adding 1,000 tokens to their accounts. You must watch your balance daily since 1,000 tokens might be sitting there!

Daily Check List
Before I went on vacation we released the Daily Checklist. Some people figured out how to use it and some didn’t. In a nutshell it pretty much takes you through everything you can do on QR within a given day. All you do is click on the gray square, look at the task (do it if you like) and hit the [Check This Item] link located on the yellow box you will see on the top. Each check mark gets you 1 token a day. This is a great tool for those who were not sure how to navigate the site.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

PLEASE POST FEEDBACK ABOUT CHECKLIST. I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU LIKE THE IDEA OR NOT? IS IT HARD TO USE OR UNDERSTAND? HOW CAN WE IMPROVE IT AND MAKE IT EASIER?

QuickRewards Challenge for new QR members that participate on Disboards or inactive members

Message for current QR members:
I was reading Disboards yesterday after I came back from the vacation and was surprised to see that one competitor decided to close their site. I came up with a great promotion for those members who visit the Disboards rewards section, but never joined QR or joined it before and were never active. If you know someone in Disboards who was always interested in joining QR or finding another rewards program to substitute please let them know about QR (don’t forget that if you get a referral for the August promotion you can get extra perks). We need YOUR help to spread the word. Great chance to get referrals!

Challenge for new QR members who participate on Disboards or nonactive QR members:
We want you to try QuickRewards and see the way we work, how easy it is to earn free $ and why we are known for our customer service. If you join QR or start being active again we will match everything you earn (up to $3) starting today until 8/31. You can combine this with our current Disney promotion at the end of the month ($24 or $23 for each $25 Disney card redemption). If you don’t think QR is for you at the end of the month we will be happy to send you the payment and close your account. We are very confident that you will become a loyal QR member and join the thousands that have been with QR since 2002.

Claiming the bonus:
At the end of the month (if you don’t reach $3) or when you reach $3 email us with your Disboards username. The bonus will be added to your account accordingly.

August Disney Gift Card Promotion (Biggest Promotion Yet)

This promotion will be a little different then the previous once. Your bonus will not depend on the amount you earn, but on the fact that you referred a new QR member. If you don't refer anyone don't worry since you can still participate. In addition everyone who participates will get a free QR prize too. (AS ALWAYS THOSE WHO DON'T NEED DISNEY CARDS CAN RECEIVE ANY OTHER GIFT CARDS)

Date of promotion: Friday August 31st

2 Choices:
Choice 1: Refer a new member in August who also participates in this promotion and both of you can get $2 Disney Dollars for every single $25 gift card you redeem

Choice 2: (No referral) If you don't refer anyone you will receive $1 Disney Dollars for every single $25 gift card you redeem.

ADDITIONAL BONUS(In addition to Choice 1 or 2 Disney Dollar Bonuses) If you redeem for $100 you can also get a free QR tote or if you earn over $150 you can get a free QR Tshirt. Everyone else who earns less then $100 will receive QR mini Posted Notes.

Claiming reward:
If you have a referral email us your referrals user name on the day of redemption. Everyone else can go cashout for gift cards and we will add the bonuses once we ship the prizes.

Vacation Notice

I am leaving for vacation on 8/1 and will be back on 8/9. While I am way I should have internet access (I made sure we choose a hotel that has WiFi connection) so the site should continue to run normally and emails should be answered (but with a delay). Please do not panic if you don’t get a fast response. If it is an emergency email admin@quickrewards.net.

The only thing that I will not be able to do during these couple of days is process gift card redemptions. I am not sure about Paypal yet, but most probably we will be able to send these out, but I can’t guarantee it. Worst case scenario is that you will get payments after I come back.

The good news is that you can expect a good Disney/Gift Card promotion sometime in the middle of August.

Choose your promotion: 1,2,3 or 1,2,3,4,5

Here is a new promotion with a little twist to the popular member appreciation promotion we had last month and best of all you get to choose what your bonus will be. The promotion starts Monday 7/23 and runs through Friday 7/27 midnight EST.

Choose your promotion:

CHOICE 1: 1,2,3
Earn $3 or more on day one, earn $2 or more on day two and $1 or more on day three and get $2 bonus

CHOICE 2: 1,2,3,4,5
Earn $5 or more on day one, earn $4 or more on day two, $3 or more on day three, $2 or more on day four and $1 or more on day 5 and get a $5 bonus.

RULES:

1) These earnings include offer completions only and not daily surveys or shopping. All the offers have to be credited in your account with the exception of trial offers that take more than a day to post.
2) You can’t earn all the money in one day to get a bonus, but we are giving you a one day grace period in case you can’t participate one day. So for example if you are doing 1,2,3,4,5 promo and missed the 3rd day you can still earn $3+$4 on next day and qualify for the bonus.
Claiming bonus:Email support@quickrewards.net after you meet the requirements

2 common questions (Thanks Judy)

" Does the amount earned for each day have to be in that order? (earn $3 > first, then $2, then $1) or can one earn $2 on day one, $3 on day two, > then $1 on day three, for example? "

ANSWER: NO. As long as you earn $6 or more within 3 days no matter if you do 1,2,3, 3,1,2, 2,1,3 or whatever does not matter.

"Do the three days of earning need to be consecutive (e.g., $3 on > Monday, $2 on Tuesday, $1 on Wednesday) or can there be days in > between, as long as all 3 days are within the time frame of Monday > 7/23 - Friday 7/27? ($1 on Monday, $3 on Wednesday, and $2 on Friday, > for example)"

ANSWER: They don't have to be consecutive days unless you are going for the 1,2,3,4,5 promo

FEEDBACK WANTED:

Is this promotion kind of confusing or not? What do you think about the concept? Would you prefer something like this where it breaks it down into various days or let’s say would you rather want something like you earn $10 total in 5 days you get a $1 bonus? (we can still change it based on the comments we get)

7 new great offers added

Check out the 7 new offers added on the front page:

ECN research - Free Poker
Matthew Leskos Government Money Club
York Photo
SuperFoods RX
Brandarama - *FREE* Cinnabon Classic Cinnamon Rolls
Coupons.com CouponBar
1800-PetMeds


Please let me know what you think about them. If you complete them please leave feedback (positive or negative) on how easy/hard the offer is, how fast/slow did it credit and would you recommend others to join them or not?

TO MAKE THE BLOG MORE INTERACTIVE PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK. I KNOW THAT ALL THESE OFFERS WERE COMPLETED BY VARIOUS MEMBERS SO THERE IS NO REASON WHY NO ONE CAN'T COMMENT ON THEM. I KNOW THEY ALL ARE CREDITING.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT BY LEAVING FEEDBACK YOU ARE HELPING OTHER MEMBERS. IF YOU HAD A BAD EXPERANCE WITH THE OFFER THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO SHARE THIS EXPERANCE SO THAT OTHERS DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE. IF YOU LOVE THE OFFER AND IT CREDITED FAST AND WAS EASY SHARE THAT TOO. WE HAVE TO HELP EACH OTHER.

New daily survey router

If you didn’t qualify for daily surveys recently try them now. Today they finally changed the router (it was supposed to be done last week). Starting today a lot more members should qualify for daily surveys. Please give it a try and let me know if you see better results.

Update: Yesterday’s surveys came in and more than double the usual rate. You MUST check them out. The odds of you getting a survey to qualify is now higher than ever.

Help us test a feature that will be out in a few weeks

We need you to help us test a new feature that will allow us to introduce even more features in the next couple of weeks as long as this works. We need you to try out our forum and give us suggestions and report bugs. Sorry, but the new features are top secret for now, but I know everyone will enjoy them.
The forum you will see now is far from being the final version. It is not attractive looking or barely has any features. The point of the current test is to see how well it functions. We will worry about the looks and features in a few days. Remember that this forum is not a ready code such as most other forums you see on the web. It was created from scratch so that in the future it will be incorporated with our site. The current forum also does not have any categories. A lot more of them will be added once it is live.

How can you help?
1) Click on the FORUMS tab on the very top to the right. No need to register since your username is your QR username. (PLEASE READ THE TERMS BEFORE USING THE FORUM)
2) Look around the forum and try to respond to some thread or feel free to start your own. If you get any technical errors or have suggestions feel free to post them. There is a BUG REPORTS thread.

Your help is very appreciated. The more members that can help us test the better. Once the forum is fully live you will not regret it. The whole point of this forum (without me spilling the secret features) is to communicate with other members, discuss offers, discuss strategies and much more. The forum will also focus on ways to save money by shopping online and freebies (real freebies).

Want a free Quickrewards Tshirt or Tote and guaranteed 1,000 tokens?

I came up with a fun contest that allows everyone to win something just for trying. We want to know how you promote QuickRewards to get referrals. Do you blog? Did you place our banners on your site? Did you post a review on a forum? Did you write a review in some newspaper/magazine/newsletter? We want to know!

The object of this contest is easy. Send support@quickrewards.net the url showing us where you reviewed/mentioned our site or how you recommended it to others. Just for sending us this email you will get 1,000 tokens. If your review captures attention and brings in new referrals for you and members for us in addition to 1,000 tokens we will send you a free gift of your choice: QuickRewards Tshirt or QuickRewards tote.

Please remember there is absolutely no spamming allowed or posting in forums/blogs that don’t allow referral links.

The deadline to send your url is: July 15, 2007

Let me know if you have any questions.

Introducing: QuickyPot

On the front page you will find an offer QuickyPot with a number next to it (starting 1,000). Every time a member does a specific featured offer the pot grows (numbers are updated once every few hours). ***You get paid for doing the offer too***

Every Saturday (starting next week 7/14) visit the blog to see who is getting a share of that pot. 3 winners will be chosen randomly. The distribution of the pot is the following:
1st place 50%
2nd place 30%
3rd place 20%

It’s a great way to win thousands of tokens!

Please let me know if you have any questions or if you have any feedback regarding this new feature.

Frequent Shopper Club is back and better than ever!

Quickrewards is proud to reopen our popular Frequent Shopper Club. In addition to the old promotions such as extra bonuses per order, mystery bonuses, tier bonuses, cash back increases, contests and freebies for our frequent shoppers we will now offer an additional perk: free tokens for every order placed (including Ebay). Redeem these tokens for various prizes. The more orders you place in one month, the more tokens you get per order. Remember this is in addition to our competitive everyday cash back rates.
Here is the bonus tier structure:

Order 1 - Order 5----------------------- 100 tokens bonus per order until next tier is reached
Order 6 - Order 10----------------------200 tokens bonus per order until next tier is reached
Order 11 - Order 15 ------------------400 tokens bonus per order until the next tier is reached
Order 16 –Order 25-------------------500 tokens bonus per order until the next tier is reached
Order 26+-------------------------------1,000 tokens bonus for every order past the 26th

New change:
The only new change is the membership requirements. In order to sign up for the club you must make at least 3 orders within a month (1 order for older frequent shoppers) and maintain 3 orders a month (1 order for older frequent shoppers) in order to remain a member of the club every month. The good news is that we are allowing you 2 grace periods each year. So if you don’t meet that requirement in one month you can still continue to enjoy the benefits.

How to join?
If you already placed 3 orders in July (1 order for older frequent shopper members) email support@quickrewards.net to sign up. You start earning the bonuses as soon as you join.

NOTE: If you were a frequent shopper in the past you must join again and mention that you are an older frequent shopper.

For complete terms and conditions or if you would like to learn more please visit:
http://www.quickrewards.net/policy/frequentshopper.html


Please leave a comment if you have any questions or would like to express your feedback regarding the new frequent shopper club. I would love to hear your opinions about it.

New idea waiting for your feedback

Since today is the day some members lose 50% of the tokens if they didn’t earn $25 in a month this gave me a cool idea to help out local small charities. I got this idea from a member who emailed me yesterday (thanks Robert) and I am adding a little cool twist to it. Instead of just QR taking away the tokens that will not be rolled over we will donate them. Let me know what you think about this.

Every single month members can submit a local charity of their choice. QR members will vote for a charity to highlight on that specific month. Members can donate tokens in stacks of 1,000. This way if you don’t reach the $25 level and you know that some of your points will not be rolled over it’s a great chance to donate them. You can also donate the points even if you reached the $25 level. At the end of the month we collect all the points and convert them into cash.

This sounds like a great way with member support to provide local charities with a few hundred dollars a month (I hope). It might not be much, but every penny helps them.
Let me know what you think about this by leaving a comment and going to the polls section to vote. You will get 50 tokens to vote too. Feel free to start recommending a local charity for July by either emailing us or leaving a comment.