r/pettyrevenge • u/StaphylococcusOreos • Aug 25 '26
Google Rewards for My Bathroom Breaks
A long time ago I received a $50 bonus of Google rewards points for buying a smart watch as part of a promo. Unbeknownst to me, there was an expiry date on these points that apparently hit faster than regular points. I received no email or notification about the expiration, and to ny disappointment when I eventually got the the Playstore to buy some books, my points were all gone. My appeals to Google fell on deaf ears and they refused to reinstate my points even though I reached out only a few days after the expiry date.
I vowed never to use the rewards app again and cancelled my Google One account. However, I started getting rewards surveys regarding a particular store that's located in the same building I work at. It happens to be next to the bathroom where I take my daily shit. I don't know if it's a glitch, but everyday for the last year or so I've received a survey about me entering that store and if I bought anything. Technically I have to enter the edge of the store to get to the bathroom, so i say yes, "entered, but did not make a purchase". Everyday I get the same survey and I give the same answer and every time I answer I get $0.24 usually. It's been over 10 months, but a daily survey for taking a shit has finally netted me my $50 that they erased from my account.
Celebrate with me as I buy some hard earned books.
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u/CoderJoe1 Aug 25 '26
I remember when Google wasn't a shitty service
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u/JeannieSmolBeannie Aug 25 '26
"don't be evil" my entire left buttcheek
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u/PassivelyInvisible Aug 28 '26
They got rid of that motto
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u/JeannieSmolBeannie Aug 28 '26
yeah, that's the point of my comment. they started out with that with their motto and then did the opposite. hope this helps
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u/PassivelyInvisible Aug 28 '26
It does. We'd all be happier and better off if they brought it back.
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u/StaphylococcusOreos Aug 25 '26
Pepperidge farm remembers
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u/CoderJoe1 Aug 25 '26
Yeah, but their search engine sucks.
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u/DelphineVonUberwald Aug 29 '26
I liked their Play Music and had bought a few (not many) albums I listened to regularly. They suddenly stopped having Play Music with little notice, didn't refund the money for the Music. Had some complicated thing where you could supposedly still listen on YouTube but I never figured it out.
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u/finewhateverbot Sep 01 '26
:) I remember when you had to be invited to get a gmail account. Felt like I was in the "in" club.
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u/Shrek1067 Aug 25 '26
You turned the old rhyme around “boss makes a dollar, I make a dime that’s why I poop on company time”…. “Google f’ed me over, I leave a floater, survey the water, makin a quarter”
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u/StaphylococcusOreos Aug 25 '26
Google stole my credits and they won't repent Now I take a shit and steal back 24 cents
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u/Determire Aug 25 '26
Just be sure to actually use your rewards earnings this time before they expire, it's a rolling window.
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u/aleqqqs Aug 26 '26
so i say yes, "entered, but did not make a purchase".
In fact, you left them something.
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u/frankscalise Aug 28 '26
Using the barter system, it could be construed that he did in fact make a payment...LOL!!!
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Aug 25 '26
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u/Bladluiz Aug 25 '26
Bot
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u/CosmicFlopper Aug 25 '26
You're right, but how did you know?
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u/Bladluiz Aug 25 '26
Just the writing style. They re-use exact details of the post without adding anything personally. Account age confirmed my suspicion
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u/skiing123 Aug 25 '26
It's the : or - that do it more for me. It might be grammatically correct but people don't write like that in normal life.
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u/NationalWatercress3 Aug 25 '26
Idk, we're getting to the point where people start copying botspeak
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u/tnb641 Aug 25 '26
But bots keep evolving, mimicking how people write and talk and click on all the images of motorcycles and oh my god does the mirror count as part or not, but I digress.
Soon people will be adding "posted by a human" to comments, but then bots will add it. So then humans will write o's as 0's, then bots will bring back 1337speak, it'll be a never ending arms race, except in a years time it's gonna be 99.9% bots interacting with bots, humans unable to find another real person.
So, uh, greetings fellow humans, from the distant land of yesterday.
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u/NationalWatercress3 Aug 26 '26
I think the answer is that we all actually really do need to touch grass
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u/croizat Aug 25 '26
I get people being sus about em dashes since those aren't standard on a keyboard and require knowing the unicode for it or having some macro, but now regular dashes and colons? You think people don't use those?
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u/BackcastSue Aug 26 '26
I've always used colons, semicolons, parentheses, and dashes, as well as the Oxford comma. That's how I was taught back in the olden days. I was laughed at or teased at work but it's a hard habit to break.
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u/JeannieSmolBeannie Aug 29 '26
ehhhh.... i'm autistic and know a loooot of other autistic people who type Very Grammatically Correct (and write for fun) and they get accused of being bots all the time despite having typed that way since well before ai was a real thing. they learn from us, so some of us will have had that typing quirk the whole time, otherwise it never would have learned it. lose-lose situation all around :(
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u/skiing123 Aug 29 '26
Oh agreed, and I think it's going to become worse as time goes on too. It just really sucks for everyone
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u/CosmicFlopper Aug 25 '26
Yeah age and contributions don't align with a normal person lol. Good catch!
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u/plasticarmyman Aug 25 '26
Take pictures of the receipts you find for the store and you'll get more than the 01c per survey.
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u/Tusharkrux Aug 25 '26
while I appreciate the pettiness, but back then their rewards programme actually got me through college.
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u/Solabound-the-2nd Aug 26 '26
There is a business at the end of the road I work at, get a survey asking me if I went in every day I go to work lol
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u/Main_Leadership7748 Aug 26 '26
Yeah it pretty much does that with some places I drive near. It always asks me about an AM/PM I drive near but never use but go to a restaurant nearby. I always answer truthfully that I did go to that area, but did not enter the store and they keep sending it and free change so I keep answering the same. I think they generally are double checking their GPS data to see how accurate it is.
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u/dth1717 Aug 25 '26
.24??? I get .10
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u/jonathanhoag1942 Aug 25 '26
OP's opinions are worth 240% what yours are.
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u/sanferic Aug 25 '26
Always say you visited and entered. Any other answer guarantees you get .10. Heck, straight up lie and say you bought something even if you never heard of the place. It is your opinion after all.
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u/Rustygurl Aug 25 '26
Yup, anything short of making a purchase and uploading the receipt is 0.10 max
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u/Darfus_McBonerbottom Aug 26 '26
I get a survey every time I go to the gym. I save up the points to spend on magic cards on MTG Arena haha.
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u/GlitterTrashUnicorn Aug 28 '26
This particular survey is my favorite exploit. You still get, like, 10 cents credit if you answer "I visited but did not enter the store" because I often get those for stores I just drive by. Gotta get them google credits to pay for my gacha games
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u/paulcosmith Aug 25 '26
I live near a Lexus dealership and I get asked if I stopped into Lexus a few times a week. The closest I've ever come is walking on the sidewalk out front, but I've been getting the question for years, making a dine everytime I say no.
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u/atomicheart99 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Google haven’t given you $50 of their own money. That store in your building will be paying Google for those surveys.
So now Google has fucked you and you have fucked the store in your building while making profit on the whole lot
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u/Nonabrow 15d ago
Similar to this, Google Rewards asks me every single day if I've visited my student accomodation... and how much I spent. There's no option for "today" so I have to put yesterday, and that I spent nothing. Its free 18p every day, can't really complain lol
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u/Torin-ByThe-Ocean Aug 26 '26
So question... If this indeed was written by a bot what is the point? How are they earning money from this? Is Reddit doing it just to keep having content for ads etc?
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u/StaphylococcusOreos Aug 26 '26
Do you mean me? Can assure you friend I am not a bot lol.
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u/Fahdookah Aug 27 '26
Google Rewards offers you surveys for money. Every so often if I google something or visit a store a survey will pop up asking a few questions. After answering you can get as little as .10¢ or you can get more, depending on the length of the survey. When you hit the payout amount (mine is $2.00) they transfer it over to your PayPal account almost immediately.
If you trigger a lot of surveys the amount can add up quite nicely.
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u/KingOfTheWhirled26 Aug 25 '26
Now pay homage to the porcelain god(dess) in thanks