Microsoft Rewards is a scam!

Anonymous
2022-08-12T06:31:38+00:00

So yea, the reward support team never replies back, I cannot redeem anything (literally wasted my whole hours on this)

who agrees? this is seriously unbelievable! I thought reward actually works.

and it literally says "Theres an issue with your acc or order" infact, theres no issue with my microsoft account.

Any one help please?

Bing | Microsoft Rewards
Bing | Microsoft Rewards

A program that grants points for using Bing search, which users can redeem for gift cards, sweepstakes entries, or charitable donations.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-07-15T16:16:56+00:00

    That is unfair. I did not know it was different for other places. I think it should be the same offers for everybody. Everyone that has a microsoft account. Like i said above, 500 is a bad day. More like 700 or s usually and with good days getting 1 or 2 thousand if you finish weekly and monthly tasks on that day too. What country are you in if you dont mind me asking? Yeah, i didnt realize its different. I wouldve thought you get the same pages. And maybe just translated to the official language for countries that have other than English. That sucks. Im dorry to hear that.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-15T15:22:22+00:00

    Yes, this all is nice, only issue is that living in a smaller country equals only daily Bing search points, which are 2 times less than the search points in, for example, USA. Yes it isn't a scam, but they really don't worry about the users as much as other programmes. In USA it is easy to earn almost 500 points daily, but where I live, the number is only little over a 100. Plus their support system is very slow and not very caring. Microsoft Rewards isn't a scam, it just feels unfair.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-15T15:12:09+00:00

    I get a lot of points wnd turn them in for xbox gift cards, which redeems instantly. I get at least $30 free every month. I get the auto redeem for a $10 card on the 1st of every month for 8750 points. Its 550 points cheaper. So I got $10 on the 1st, and since the 1st, today being the 15th , I have over 19,600 points. And i still have to do a pc game today for another 100 points, searches (quick clicks) and whatever else on the rewards app on xbox for at least another 150 points, and then game pass play a game for 3 points, and get an achievement for 50. So ill get another 303 points today and be over 19,900. The regular exchange rate for a $10 xbox card is 9300 points. Well if youre level 2, which im sure you are from seeing your post. And if I did cash in right now and got $20, spent it in the xbox store, you get 20 points for every dollar you spend, so i would actually get 400 points back. But im waiting to get a bigger card, $100. Probably in september at this rate.

    I have 465,500 lifetime points. And ive got everything Ive ever cashed in for. Mostly xbox gift cards. But i have occasionaly gotten a sweepstakes for 200 points, ive gotten amazon gift cards, a walmart card once,burger king, a couple weeks ago my neice wanted to go to stsrbucks, do i just cashed in for $10 starbucks, and text her the code for the gifr card. ,a couple times i cashed in to get my xbox game pass ultimate membership for free that month. Which, never pay the full $16 price for that. You can use reward points to get it free, or if i am paying, go on cd keys. You get a 1 month code for a little over $8. And you can buy multiple, put the codes in, and be paid up on your membership for months to come. But, So people saying its a scam dont know what theyre talking about.

    As for the sweepstakes, Ive only rarely got tickets for points. But i check the sweepstakes section every now and then because sometimes theyll give free tickets. i won one time, $80 in my xbox account. And it was really weird because they gave 10 free tickets for the sweepstakes. And the one and only time i won a sweepstakes, i won 4 times. I won a $50, a $20, and two $5. So it totaled $80 they put in my microsoft/xbox account. But 4 wins? Crazy. But it is possible to win. And those tickets cost me 0 points. I like Microsoft Rewards. A couple times i didnt get my points for something so i contact them. It does take like a week or two for them to get back to you, but they usually credit the points to your account. A couple times gave more, a few hundred extra bonus points. In all the years i been a member of this,maybe 4 or 5 times i had to contact them. My lifetime points should actually be much higher, but ive missed doing it for ling periods at s time, a lot,probably added together over 2 years,or 24 months ive missed. My points would be over double that 465,00 easy. But, county jails, VA hospitals, and rehabs lol. It is what it 8s, idc. But people, you do all the activities available, like (im thinking she) outlined for you, you get well over 300000 points a year. Probably closer to 400k. Its no scam. Its free money for a few minutes of your time. The searches, you just click on things and it searches. Dont have to actually read it. What takes some time for me occasionally is the 50 points for an achievement. Sometimes it takes a while before one pops. Other times, you open a game you never played before on cloud,so you dont neef to install nothing, and it gives you the achievement, and 50 points, right away. Like i see achievements called "the journey begins". Lol

    Or you change the hair on your character and get an achievement for it.

    Xbox app on the phone, 175 points every day. But one is play a pc game pass for 100 points. It says 50 points, but it gives you 50 bonus points. I just pull out the laptop and play a game or two of microsoft solitaire. The other thing on that app is play one round of their jewel game. Takes 3 minutes or so. Says for 30 points, but its actually 60 because you get 30 bonu points on that too. The other thing was just for opening the app. I say 15 points, but that averaged. Its a 5 day rotation and gives 5 points, then 10, then 15, then 20, then 25. Then the cycle repeats. Do 4 dearches on edge app for quick 20 points. You can search "1", "12", "123", "1234", and youre done. Then open bing and go to rewards. Click on daily login for 5 to 25 points. 20 searches for 100 points. Open the news feed that has the picturesthat scroll. Just click on the pictures. Each one is a "search". Go back to the bing homepsge. Now youre going to "read" 10 news articles for 30 points. You dont read ****. Click on them. They open, the points dont come instant lime with the searches. It takes 3 seconds, then gives you 3 points. Then you click back, and click on another one. Ive seen people complain and say the news feed poinnts dont work. They always work, but it takes 3 SECONDS! talk about impatient. Then theres the 3 daily things, they give you at least 30 points, somtimes as much as 80. Theres big pictures for special tasks. Theyre easy and give points, but sometimes it takes a few days. For example, one of the tasks on the list may be log in to rewards on 3 seperate days. Then theres usuaully things for 10 points just for clicking on them. Some days theres quite a few. Then at the bottom, click on Rewards Dashboard. There will be more things you just click on for 10 points each. Theres a weekly puzzle. These are just daily things ive said that are every day. They also put things weekly, and monthly that give points. On a bad day you get about 550 points. Usually its more like 650 to 800 or so. If you happen to complete weekly or monthly tasks that day, you can end up with 1 or 2 thousand points. Plus you get the 20 points for every dollar you spend on xbox or microsoft. Even if it was with points. Because the points give you a gift card, and when you use it , it counts. Just make sure youre logged in. Then theres two hings on the xbox console. Game Pass, and the rewards app. In game pass, its quests. One is everyday, only 3 points, for playing a game pass game. The other is 50 points for an achievement. When you launch the game youre going to try to get an achievement in you get the 3 points right away. If you dont want to play for the 50 point achievement, just launch a cloud game. As soon as the title screen shows you get the 3. Now gamepass also has weekly and monthly quests. They put the weeklys up every tuesday i think. Its usually a 250 pointer, a 5 pointer, and one or two 50 points, and i think 100 pointer. The monthly they put in the beginning of the month, and theres one for 1000 points, and several for like 100 , 250 and 500. Then the rewards app. 30 searches for 150 points. Each search literally 5akes 1½ seconds. You click on something, the 5 points pop, go back, click on the next thing. Theres usuauslly a 5 point thing if you look at something they have on youtube. Then theres these 10 point things you get for clicking on something. It will show you ithe store page for a game or something like that. Some days theres none of these, other days there may be like 10 of them. And then they monthly stuff too for bigger points. If you do most of this every day l, you get a little more points than needed for $30. Some months ive gotten much more. Like i said, im almost at 20k points for this month, and its only the 15th. 18600 gets you $20. So im on pace for a $40 month.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-15T12:57:51+00:00

    My experience with Microsoft Rewards: Scam or not?

    Hi All,

    I've seen a lot of comments on this thread and just wanted to give you guys my honest experience as an Apple User using Edge for Microsoft Rewards

    (1) DO NOT ENTER SWEEPSTAKES - I entered 1 and the change of you actually getting something is super rare

    (2) REDEEMING TAKES TIME - It took me about 48 hours (after contacting Microsoft) to redeem one of my rewards (Spotify Premium)

    (3) REDEEMING CAN HAVE ISSUES - Sometimes redeeming is a huge pain - I feel for so many people here. It's terrible to work so hard for Microsoft rewards but not get them. I've contacted Microsoft myself once so far and it's worked out OK but if you're having issues try contact Microsoft

    (4) LEGAL & COMPLIANCE - Please please please please read the terms of service - there are certain things you can do that may get you band. ULTIMATELY, IT'S AT MICROSOFT'S DISCRETION TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL

    (5) I HATE EDGE BUT I LOVE MONEY - Honestly as bad as edge can feel I think using it is OK in order to get Microsoft Rewards

    (6) DO NOT GET YOUR HOPES UP TOO HIGH - FRANKLY MICROSOFT'S SUPPORT TEAM ISN'T AS GOOD AS OTHER COMPANIES (FROM MY EXPERIENCE WORSE THAN APPLE'S AT SOLVING ISSUES) - THEY CAN TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT

    (7) MY TOP TIPS TO GET MORE POINTS: (a) Download Edge/Bing on your iPhone - you get daily log in points, points for reading the news (don't actually read it just click on it and scroll for like a second) and of course you get additional browsing points (b) GET TO 2ND TIER QUICKLY - you get soooo many more points (c) DO NOT ENTER SWEEPSTAKES - low change of rewards + takes like 200 points (d) READ THE LEGAL USER AGREEMENT - know what you can and can't do

    (8) Final notes:

    Thanks soo much for reading this! I hope this has helped you guys!

    As an all-apple professional user I have to say I actually find Microsoft Rewards super cool! Enjoy them!

    To those having issues with Microsoft Rewards I really hope they can be sorted out and hope you can redeem points you've worked so hard to get. I know how frustrating it can be to not be recognised by a company you've been quite loyal to (was originally dell user)

    Please do reply to this post to share your own experience and ask any questions you may have about mine

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-11T01:13:30+00:00

    Personally never had problems u don't get lots of points and they even just dropped how many u get but considering I spend loads on xbox anyway it just builds o only redeem things like £5 microsoft credit. I used to make enough a month to cover xbox gamepass cost

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