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Originally Posted by ThatGreenNick There are gamecards with MSPoints on them, at least I saw some while in London. How will they verify that I'm not cheating anyway? Unless this doesn't apply for the MS Points, this definitely means mail.

They sell points on cards, but they don't print up 100 point cards. In the US that's $1.25. All you could buy with that is some gamerpics or something equally useless. The amount is too small to bother with at retail.

Microsoft has another promotion called Club Bing that has been around for years. What they do there is wait about a month after you order. At that point that look at your history to see if you've been ordering items from multiple accounts, have suspicious play (like using a bot to play instead of doing it yourself), and other things that are against the rules.

There are digital goods there, like free song downloads, that require you to enter your physical address. They still email the codes.

There was some other promotion that used to e-mail Amazon codes, which got abused, so that promotion eventually started mailing out print-outs of the codes... They were NOT the retail 'pastic' cards, but simply the code printed on a piece of paper (not a full sheet per code, though, probably 8-up, so about the same size as the retail cards).

So, yes, in order to keep people from creating hundreds of accounts with fictitious addresses, it is possible (although I agree improbable), that they could simply print out the 100 MSP codes on paper 'cards' and mail them. They are giving you $1.25 code, so adding another $.15 for postage (pre-sorted bulk mailing) would not be unthinkable, especially considering how Club Bing was abused.

If they don't do something, the 200 MSP for signing up will be abused big time.

VM + Proxy = unlimited MSP (in 100 MSP increments)

I guess we will see in a couple months...

Decided to post it here, reply from the Bing RewardsSupport

Original Email

I was wondering, are the Microsoft Points sent by mail or is a code sent via email? And is it only for US accounts? I would love to give my nephew in the UK some points. Regards, Nick

Hello Nick, Thank you for contacting us at Bing Rewards Customer Support. My name is Darwin. With regards to your inquiries, if the points earned thru the Bing Rewards program will be notified by mail or email, if it is only for US accounts and if it's possible for your points to be transferable. Let me help you out with these issues. As the Terms of Use indicate, the credits earned through the Rewards program, are not transferable. The Rewards program is available to US residents in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia C. who join by October 31, 2010. I'm sorry to inform you but there will be no email notifications that will be sent out to your account , you can check your balance on your Bing bar by clicking on the View Search Rewards button or by logging into your account and checking your Account Summary. Should you need further assistance or if you have additional feedback on the program, please don't hesitate to contact us again. Thank you for your continued support as we strive to provide you with the highest quality service. Sincerely, Darwin Bing Rewards Customer Support - http://bing.com/rewards

Guessing that means mail.

P.S my giving my nephew, I meant email him the code, not give him credits lol

Originally Posted by ThatGreenNick Decided to post it here, reply from the Bing RewardsSupport Original Email Guessing that means mail. P.S my giving my nephew, I meant email him the code, not give him credits lol

It sort of sounds like they misunderstood your email and thought you were talking about the points you earn for searches, not the microsoft points you redeemed them for.

Originally Posted by louiedog It sort of sounds like they misunderstood your email and thought you were talking about the points you earn for searches, not the microsoft points you redeemed them for.

I would second that reading of it.

That's what I thought too. But I cba with writing to them again.

I got 1 point for every 2 searches up to 16 points a day and bonus offers are worth 12 points.

Only got 20 points today because all the current offers I already did yesterday.

Originally Posted by iiinightmar3ii Only got 20 points today because all the current offers I already did yesterday.

Yeah, no new offers here either. Fortunately an offer that was broken yesterday (I clicked the link and the connection failed. It wouldn't give me points, but wouldn't get marked as clicked either) became fixed, so that's something. I really hope they ramp up the ways to earn. 8-20 points a day, depending on luck at signup, isn't a good way to get a 4k prize.

Thanks for posting this OP! I had no clue Bing was doing this,I guess I'll start using them now.

Originally Posted by louiedog Yeah, no new offers here either. Fortunately an offer that was broken yesterday (I clicked the link and the connection failed. It wouldn't give me points, but wouldn't get marked as clicked either) became fixed, so that's something. I really hope they ramp up the ways to earn. 8-20 points a day, depending on luck at signup, isn't a good way to get a 4k prize.

Yeah seriously. I can only get 8 points a day beyond the "offers" that haven't updated. At that rate, it'll take me 125 days just to get 1000 points.

Sweet. Thanks OP I was looking for a way to get points too. So much DLC coming out XD

I've emailed the support again, this time specifically asking them about the reward, not the credits you earn.
Should get the email by this time tomorrow

Originally Posted by ThatGreenNick I've emailed the support again, this time specifically asking them about the reward, not the credits you earn. Should get the email by this time tomorrow

since this Preview is only open to US residents, I would think you're out of luck. however, maybe you can edit your account info and hope it's emailed


Did my 50+ searches to get the limit of 10 points . also my offers (15 points) did not reset and no new ones

yeah hopefully by the time this goes live it is updated daily and better offers are available

Just signed up and it worked great for me. 200 MS points are already on the way and I'm only a day or two from another 100.

I can't see this lasting too long though...at least the 100 point reward anyway.

Originally Posted by Gamer SDP since this Preview is only open to US residents, I would think you're out of luck. however, maybe you can edit your account info and hope it's emailed Did my 50+ searches to get the limit of 10 points . also my offers (15 points) did not reset and no new ones

I have family in the US, so I can just put in their address and they'll email me the codes once they get them.
BUT, I'd rather get it by email, thats why I'm asking support

Originally Posted by ThatGreenNick I get 1 for every 5 searches, up to 16 points a day. Also, I get 6 offers, 12 credits each.

Same, I will take it.

Can you only checkout with 100 MSPoints at a time? or can you do mutliple quantities?

edit: I get 1 point per 5 searches up to 20 points a day. My offers were all for 6 points a piece.

Originally Posted by tlwizard Can you only checkout with 100 MSPoints at a time? or can you do mutliple quantities? edit: I get 1 point per 5 searches up to 20 points a day. My offers were all for 6 points a piece.

I had to put 3 different orders in for the 100 ms points. They don't seem to let you add more than 1 of the same item during checkout.