woo, I just won $10

So I do Hotspex surveys every once in a while when I have free time. You take surveys and in exchange they give you points that you can redeem for stuff.

I like their surveys because it's actually semi entertaining and I can use their points to convert to esso points & get a free car wash. Well I was doing one of their surveys a few days ago & won $10. Totally not expecting $10 and happy with the points that I'd have gotten instead, it was nice little surprise. It's not much but that's me eating fast food or getting snacks.

Earn Air Miles for searching

I found this deal via smartcanucks but air miles now offers points for doing searches using their toolbar. Their toolbar uses yahoo! for results. Uh hello, there are still people out there that don't use google? Well apparently but you get 5 points for 50 searches up to a max of 30 points per month. Considering how long it normally takes to rack up these points, I signed up for when I have time to kill & search using an inferior search engine.

I suspect Air Miles is doing this so they can track more consumer information. I for one don't have a problem with it, so the toolbar is now part of my browser.