MyPoints Reviews

2003 was glorious for me as it was the year I bought a personal computer for my own home and also retired (which meant I had plenty of time to use the p.c., sometimes until the wee small hours of the morning).  It wasn't long before I had discovered the thrill of online shopping and in due turn stumbled onto MyPoints.com. 

MyPoints.com is a portal site, which means that you check in there first to gain access to merchants' online retail sites.  You earn so many points for each dollar spent and occasionally there are special bonus point promotions on certain purchases.  A MyPoints member also...

Want to earn rewards for doing practically nothing? You could get involved in politics, but there is another option that takes even less of your time and can be conducted completely from the comfort of home. It's a web service called Mypoints.com and it awards points for reading e-mail. Let's take a closer look at this online e-mail reading service:

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Mypoints.com is all about earning points and then redeeming these points for gift cards and other reward items. The most common way to earn points is simply by reading e-mail sent to your inbox each day from Mypoints.com and clicking...

Well I just got my first free gift from MyPoints today.  It was a $10.00 gift card for Bed, Bath & Beyond, and I got it without making any purchases through MyPoints.  I'm still waiting however, on another $10.00 gift card for Panera Bread, and after I receive it I'll come back and upgrade my review.

Part II of my review: 

I'm pleased to report that my $10.00 Panera Bread gift card arrived today, so I'm upgrading my review as I promised!  Thanks MyPoints!!

About 6 months ago, a friend told me about MyPoints in passing. We were out shopping, and she pulled out a $25 giftcard to Old Navy or the like and said that this was her reward for online shopping. I thought she meant that she had redeemed credit card rewards. I was wrong. It sounded easy enough - shop online, get points, take surveys, and open ads. Easy enough.

 I mean, I spend at least 40 hours online with work, not to mention a crazy life with two young kids almost forces me to shop solely on the internet (mall shopping has long been a luxury!). What do you have to lose? You don't have to...