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Not sure to list here; bing rewards earn Amazon gift cards

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philipma1957

philipma1957

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http://www.bing.com/explore/rewards


I have been with this for more then a year. You earn points by searching the net. You can earn about 1 $5 gift card in a month.

I get 2 Amazon cards one for me and one for my wife. We each have an account with a separate phone number. A separate email but Same home address is allowed.
About 10 dollars every 26 days. Basically they give points for you to search the net.

I use the gift cards to get Amazon prime. Takes me 2 or 3 minutes to do the searches each day.


To mods I do not know how to qualify this but 'free' gift cards seems like a hot deal to me.
 
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I used Bing to pay for $25 of my 3770k computer upgrade a year ago. I took me about a year to save up, but I did it while working. I work for Bing, so it was easy 🙂
 
Yep, this works, and same arrangement (one account each for the wife and I).

Figure we use search anyway, some freebies don't hurt. And yeah, Amazon cards seem the easiest (and after you reach "Gold" status, you don't need as many points).
 
It's just a way to "bribe us" to use their bing search engine by paying us with gift cards or MS points... and it's worked on me for a year+ 😛
 
dfuze said:
It's just a way to "bribe us" to use their bing search engine by paying us with gift cards or MS points... and it's worked on me for a year+ 😛
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yeah I see it as that but why not. Also every once in a while if you glance at what you are searching you see something new and different.
 
Thanks OP. I used to get Bing cashback.....then when that went away, I went to Google. Now I'm signed up and back to Bing. Guess I'm a search engine whore.
 
I am about to roll out an app at work that uses Bing maps. I wonder if those count and if I can embed my ID somehow. That would be hundreds of free hits. 🙂
 
Nice! I gotta check this out. Can we set up our web browser to use it (with the rewards) in the search box? Or do you have to go to Bing and then search?
 
dfuze said:
It's just a way to "bribe us" to use their bing search engine by paying us with gift cards or MS points... and it's worked on me for a year+ 😛
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I used to get the MS points, but they all expired on me. 😕

Now I get the Hulu codes and we've had ~1 year of Hulu for free thus far. I'll probably continue with the Hulu until they stop offering it.
 
I have gotten a few Amazon gift cards from BING over the last few months. One querstion though is within the account settings for whatever reason it will default my location to Tampa and I live an hour away. Any reason why it is defaulting to a different location from where I live? This happens on every browser I use.
 
AMD K9 said:
One querstion though is within the account settings for whatever reason it will default my location to Tampa and I live an hour away. Any reason why it is defaulting to a different location from where I live? This happens on every browser I use.
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Maybe your ISP is reporting that as the location for your IP address?
 
dfuze said:
It's just a way to "bribe us" to use their bing search engine by paying us with gift cards or MS points... and it's worked on me for a year+ 😛
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I did this with their cashback thing and got fairly nice rebate total from them by the time they ended it.

Be careful with this one however. the Cash back thing was a rebate so it wasn't deemed income and not taxed, but these gift cards and stuff might be considered such. Not sure on this but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if greedy uncle sam wanted a part of it 🙄
 
Yep leave it to uncle sam to erect a $5 billion infrastructure in order to collect $13,000 in gift card taxes. Is there a limit to how much money you can get? Say if I write a program that spams random pseudo-intelligent searches, will it max out at 10 a day or some such?
 
SparkyJJO said:
I did this with their cashback thing and got fairly nice rebate total from them by the time they ended it.
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Ahhh, fond memories of 40% back at eBay.

sm625 said:
Is there a limit to how much money you can get? Say if I write a program that spams random pseudo-intelligent searches, will it max out at 10 a day or some such?
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I think so. I think you only get up to 10-15 points a day, and can have up to 3 household accounts... or something like that. I think the limits are low enough that you can easily hit them with "regular" use.
 
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