FYI: Bing Cash Back ending July 30, 2010

[mshan]

Dear valued cashback customer:

We are writing to notify you that the Bing cashback program will be discontinued, and the last day to earn cash back on your Bing Shopping purchases will be July 30, 2010.

Until July 30, 2010 9:00 pm PST, it's business as usual so continue to take advantage of great offers from your favorite merchants. You can redeem all of your earned cashback savings consistent with the cashback terms and conditions and access the Bing cashback customer support system through July 30, 2011. We encourage you to redeem your cashback savings and to further support redemption, we are waiving the $5 minimum payout effective July 31, 2010. To assist with prompt delivery of your cashback earnings, please visit https://cashbackaccount.bing.com/cashback/welcome.aspx to ensure your account information is current. For more details and answers to your questions, please visit our frequently asked questions page.

Thank you very much for being a loyal cashback user. We remain committed to delivering great value to our customers, and we are currently working on an exciting new program which you will hear more about from us later this summer.

Sincerely,

Bing cashback team

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[qliveur]

End of an era.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[MJinZ]

It was always a promotional program for Microsoft's Search engine.

I think they realized that it was costing far more money than new users of the engine.

I know I search for things using Google and only use Bing for cash back. And I used it like... once.

 

[manimal]

I was wondering when the beancounters would squash this. I can hear the board room now.


" Wheres the ROI!!!!!" answer " Its an investment in mindshare" response " The investors wont stand for throwing money away" ......end scene....

 

[darkewaffle]

Whenever I use BCB, I google "bing cashback" to find it.

 

[zagood]

Exciting new program? I can't wait to hear more about it from them later this summer!

 

[psihog]

Praise the LORD! I can start saving money again.

 

[Adam8281]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What's the next best alternative? FatWallet with their crappy 2-3% ?

 

[MJinZ]

Praise the LORD! I can start saving money again.

Bing Cash Back was actually MS's way of contributing an economic stimulus for the government...:sneaky:

 

[mikeford]

I got a few bucks back from Bing, but usually only in a backwards way, find the item with google, then figure out how to get bing to pay and find it again.

Last straw for me were two $100 refills from Tmobile that bing said I would get 30% back on and nothing despite follow up with transaction etc. numbers.

Recently I've gone back to using one of the oldest shopping searches, www.pricewatch.com to get the bottom price from many sources, double checked with google and amazon.

 

[notposting]

Dang just used it again last week. Best I ever did was using it on a washer/dryer combo I picked up new on ebay. Got $200 back on it which was sweet.

 

[heat901]

I guess this is goodbye bing...I feel this will end out relationship.....

 

[Terzo]

Before I go on a tangent, I'll be sad to lose BCB. I haven't used it that much (no more than $100 in savings, I'd say), but it was the reason I bought a ps3, which cost me a cool $258 after tax and BCB. I wonder if any irresistible deals will come to be for father's day.

Right, so now I'm going to be an asshole.

Zap's locked thread

Are you pointing out a Hot Deal or the possibility of a Hot Deal.

The first is allowed; speculation is just that, speculation/unconfirmed/possible/maybe,etc. Such does not fly here


Anandtech Moderator
Common Courtesy

This isn't a hot deal, or even speculation. Why should Zap's thread be locked and this one remain?
Truthfully, I think this thread is in the appropriate place but according to the above quote it's not.

 

[s44]

What about all the amounts "pending" until after July? Is that just disappearing?

edit -- never mind, I see the last redemption date is July of NEXT year

 

[Stas]

wrong forum lol
this should be stickied until the 30th of July then

 

[Engineer]

There are others.....


(but nothing beats the big bonus cash backs via Bing).

 

[Zap]

I've gotten well over $1000 in BCB, the bulk of which was during the 40% off eBay days. Good times, and another legend in the annuals of Hot Deals.

 

[Pardus]

i got almost $300 back from bing, some really amazing deals that i wouldn't have purchased from those stores otherwise. stores like dell, walmart, newegg, etc are gonna lose out. but i suppose there will be some other cashback program later on down the road.

 

[Danube]

I found Bing too much work to use. If I took the time I used learning how to use bing, and then hunting around for bing deals (which at Newegg were like 2% -3% by the time I got to them) and used it at work instead I would make more money that way. Spending hours power shopping becomes a waste at some point and Bing was always funky to shop with. Won't miss it.

 

[jjmIII]

Thanks Microsoft! Great American Company!!!!!!

 

[Xcobra]

It was awesome while it lasted. R.I.P.

 

[konakona]

the biggest thing since the VA bucks...

all good things must come to an end

 

[heat901]

I still cant get over this.... this makes my heart hurt....

 

[Winterpool]

This sucketh. Though I didn't participate in the great HP deal / debacle a couple of Christmases ago, I did get the odd cash back here and there, and of course it's been a great boon on eBay.

That said, this never made sense as a MS market strategy, though it may have made sense for some of the retailers.