Does Anyone Else Do Microsoft Rewards?
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It's a good way of accruing points which you can exchange for vouchers; which can be used for a variety of different retailers. It doesn't take too long to do the daily tasks, I'm currently saving mine up for a SIM - self inflating mattress for next year's camping trips.
Yes I started using it in February and I’ve cashed out £30 (so almost £5 per month). Super easy to accumulate the points.
I recommend the Quechua SIM Ultim Comfort from Decathlon. We used it for our first camping trip last month and it was so comfortable; just like sleeping on our mattress at home!
I do. I find it fairly quick to stack up points. I cash mine in for Amazon vouchers. Helping towards Christmas.
I started a couple of years back.I wait till I get £10 and cash and spend at Tesco.My mum does the same.
Not used it before but will definitely look into it now. Always good to have these things on the go cause you can make a couple of hundred quid a year for treats.
Yes, but I've been having an issue with my last few vouchers. When I open the reward link in the email the currency of the voucher is in USA Dollars ($) rather than Pound Sterling (£). Even though I exchanged points for a Pound Sterling voucher and the email I receives incorrectly states it's in Pound Sterling. I can still use the voucher, but its value is only around £3.93 on a $5 voucher. I have contacted their customer support a number of times, but they still haven't fixed the problem.
I used to some years ago, not anymore.
Bing as a search engine is okay and the rewards are decent, but you give up some of your privacy away in favor of it.
PhilipMarc I never use Bing as my main search engine. I just click thru all the Trending News stories on it and that’s enough to gain my search points for the day.
snoogans888 I didn't know any of this. I always used Yahoo UK. I will give Bing a go. Also Microsoft Rewards.
Ive used them for a while now and the amazon vouchers do come in handy - just cashed another £5 this week. I dont make a big effort so it takes a while to get the rewards but at the end of the day its free money for doing something I would be doing anyway so Im up for it! The privacy question could be an issue - but then lets face it most competitions / free draws/ points schemes have been set out to collect our data anyway so its choice we have to make!
Has anyone else had issues cashing out? I tried to get an Amazon voucher but it keeps getting cancelled.
snoogans888 I am having the same issue. I only started using it a few months ago and I have only claimed one Amazon voucher up to now. I tried to claim another one yesterday but it won't let me and tells to contact support.
AnotherLondoner I think they’ve made some changes as I never had an issue before.
This time I had to do a phone verification and I had trouble adding a phone number to my account. I finally got that to work but now I still can’t redeem. Will have to try again tomorrow and then I’ll have to raise a ticket.
AnotherLondoner So after a number of tickets to Microsoft Support they’ve come back and said they’ve suspended my account because I’ve broken their Terms of Service! I haven’t done anything on their naughty list, although we have changed broadband provider recently so I’m not sure if that’s messed things up.
I won’t be able to redeem my points and will lose all of them. I’m glad I’d previously cashed out every time I had enough which is what I always do with all these reward sites just in case.
snoogans888 They said they have suspended your account. Doesn't that mean you will be able to use it again and redeem the points at a later date or is it an account closure?
I contacted them as well because of my gift card orders being declined and they told me that "there were activities in your account that do not align with the Microsoft Services Agreement." The only thing that I can think I have done wrong is when I somehow logged into Microsoft Rewards on another Gmail account of mine, or on the mobile app where I was using the Bing search and typing 1,2,3 etc to reach the points limit. They have not said I am suspended though and so I redeemed 5000 points for the £4,000 competition. I am just waiting for another reply from them.
AnotherLondoner sorry “suspended” was the wrong word. I am disqualified from participating in Microsoft Rewards. Strangely they haven’t set my points to zero yet.
I’ve sent them another support request to contest it but I don’t expect to get anywhere.
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