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Why MyPoints Is Worth Joining And What I Have Gotten From Them.
If you have not heard of MyPoints, you are missing out on a good thing. MyPoints is a program that gives you points for reading emails from them; that’s all. They don’t require you to buy anything, try anything or sign up for anything. Each email that you get is worth 5 points, and you get a from none to a few a day. Of course, you can shop through their portal and earn points for every dollar you spend, and the retailers are ones that you are going to buy from anyway. I have been a member since 1998 and have earned over 24137 points since then. Sure, it’s a slow process…it takes a while for the points to add up. But combine the emails you get with some purchases, and the balance goes up pretty quickly. Over the years I have redeemed the points for:
2 $75 gift certificates to our favorite resort in Palm Springs, CA - The Hyatt Indian Wells
2 Gift certificates for AMC theatres, each good for 2 people, 2 drinks and 2 popcorns
1 $15 gift certificate to Starbucks
1 $25 gift certificate to The Gap.
Total redeemed reward value: $250 just for reading a few emails over the years. And that is without redeeming anything in the past year, as I have been saving the points up for a bigger reward. I have not found that they sell your information, but just in case they ever did, I am signed up under my “misc” email account that is not my main account. That way, I can cancel the account if the spam ever got too high, but after all these years, it still has not.
Anyway, just thought I would mention it to anyone that was looking for a good email reward program, as it has paid nicely for me over the years!
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Hi,
I can vouch for My Points also. Over the years I have used dozen of their gift cards,just from reading their emails.
It’s very satisfying to get so much for doing so little.
Marie
That’s great Marie, so glad others enjoy the freebies!
I used MyPoints too but I think I have only had it for around 2-3 years now because I thought it was a scam at first. I have only redeemed my points (no pun intended) for the Walmart gift cards because I am a poor student and I shop there all the time. I love it and always encourage people to join.
I signed up for MyPoints with a misc email, too (in a fit of “I am totally going to make money by taking surveys and reading buttloads of spam!”) but I have never redeemed anything. I think part of the reason I haven’t used it is that I still don’t shop online all that much. Another reason is coming across this article, which compares the different rewards programs. There are a lot of rewards programs, and I guess MyPoints does not actually do all that well as far as the dollar value of each point.
I had joined them years ago and I haven’t thought about them since. I should probably look into that account. It sounds like it could be worth my time.