Why am I not getting rewards points for searches?

Anonymous
2023-12-13T03:48:31+00:00

I was searching for my daily rewards points on my phone and computer. For my computer I was rewarded for 9 searches, and it stopped granting points after that and on mobile only 2 searches granted points to my account. I tried multiple browsers and devices and searched a variety of searches. I would like to know if this is a bug or if I need to fix something on my end.

Microsoft Edge | Browser extensions | Windows 11

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Anonymous
2023-12-16T17:22:44+00:00

They changed everything lately. No more bonus as everyone has mentioned. Now, I just read on MSN that they are requiring a 3-search/15minutes capacity... they are calling it a "cooldown". So, you can only get 15 points per 15 mintues.... so much for Bing... I'll go back to Google Search for all my research... Bing isn't worth it anymore. It'll take forever to get any rewards so it's not worth it for a sub-par search engine. As of October, you could possibly max everything out in searches and activities and MAYBE get a $10 gift card in a month's time... now it'll take about twice that time... and you have to work on it throughout the day instead of an intense hour or two. I don't sit on a computer all day... only for a couple hours with work while I do product research... I'll search hundreds of websites in a couple hours... so all I could get from Microsoft Rewards is maybe 100 points... the rest of the 50 allowed per day in searches is unachievable as I'm not on all day.... so, forget it Bing, sorry, you lost a customer with this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-03T01:41:33+00:00

    It's not even giving points every 15 minutes. I've been stuck on 40 all day. I'll try three searches, both in Edge and Firefox and get nothing, several times throughout the day. If the intent was to drive everyone away from Bing and make them use Google, it's working.

    To reiterate what I said upthread, this has all the earmarks of them planning to do away with Bing entirely and turn everything over to their inane Babblebot. That thing should be nuked from orbit, it's such an abomination.

    If this situation doesn't improve within the next few days, I'll have no choice but to remove Edge from my taskbar so it's out of sight and out of mind, unsubscribe to the various and sundry emails I get from Microsoft, sign out of everything including Rewards, Bing, Outlook, Edge, MSN, etc. . Like Ms. Fitzpatrick mentioned above, this is not a threat. I know they don't really care about me not using their services anymore. It's just what I have to do.

    Because the heart of the matter is that they've taken what used to be a pleasant way to start my day and read the news with my morning coffee while earning points, and turned it into nothing but an unending source of frustration. I don't need that in my life, so it's just healthier to cut it off at the source and move on.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-02T20:20:34+00:00

    The same for me!!!!! This is frustrating and to be honest it was a good thing to look forward to daily; but now only getting 15 points or less for every 2-3 hours is not feasible for me. Therefore, I will no longer search with Bing....going back to Google. This is not a threat or anything just the right thing for me to do.!!!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-02T15:28:03+00:00

    Now not even getting the 2 point searches....you know the ones that were 5 point. Send feedback to them you get the same old form letter over and over.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-02T14:39:49+00:00

    I have been trying for a week to get a Walmart gift card for 1000 points as offere3d in the Rewards section. The points are deducted from the account but then a page says there is a problem with the account or order. Inane responses saying the order is duplicative are sent to me. Ultimately the order is declined. Then the points restored. I cannot get an answer to what is wrong.

    I have written to customer service without avail.

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