By Merkader
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Friday, September 24th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Microsoft is really trying to push the Bing search engine, and you my friends, can take advantage of it.
Currently Microsoft is giving away 250 Bing rewards points. I myself will never use Bing enough to build up points to buy anything cool. However, you can buy 100 Microsoft Points with 100 Bing rewards points. Thus netting yourself a cool 200 Microsoft Points that you can use either in the Xbox Live Marketplace or Zune Marketplace. I like free stuff.
A couple caveats. One, you have to download and install the Bing toolbar. The other is that supposedly it only works with Internet Explorer 7 or higher; however, I just used Firefox and got my free points just fine. I think I’ll buy a nice warm jacket for my avatar, winter is right around the corner after all.
But the bad thing is that it apparently takes 8-12 weeks to get the points delivered to your doorstep (which can only be in the US). 8-12 weeks for a digital download ¬¬
:(
Other than that, thanks a lot for the tip! It’s free!
I got 275 Bing Points just for downloading, clicking a bunch of random links they had under the rewards page, and using the bar to search the alphabet. They’ve got other cool stuff on there too, it just costs a lot more. Limited to 10 points a day excluding offers.
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But the bad thing is that it apparently takes 8-12 weeks to get the points delivered to your doorstep (which can only be in the US). 8-12 weeks for a digital download ¬¬
:(
Other than that, thanks a lot for the tip! It’s free!
Comment by Marcelo Almaguer — September 24, 2010 @ 7:44 pm
I got 275 Bing Points just for downloading, clicking a bunch of random links they had under the rewards page, and using the bar to search the alphabet. They’ve got other cool stuff on there too, it just costs a lot more. Limited to 10 points a day excluding offers.
But hey, free shit is free shit.
Comment by Ian — September 25, 2010 @ 1:26 pm
You don’t have to download a thing. It works with firefox. xbox points are awarded almost instantly via e-mail.
Comment by dudeinaroom — October 21, 2012 @ 12:52 pm