Down to $0.21 now (a “Business Exclusive”)…just in case you were on the fence!

@ctujackbauer There’s a pretty long thread on another popular deal site that explains how to get those 500 bonus points from installing the Bing mobile app, where evidently you have to scan the QR code in your email invitation from Microsoft, and then somewhere in the installation process wait for some popup, or some such. It sounds too involved and I didn’t want to bother uninstalling/reinstalling a regularly used app for so few points. But it seems lots of folks are in the same boat, with some successfully getting the 500 points, and others not.

@sportsfan64 If I only had a nearby Kmart or Sears store to burn points at! Our local Kmart store shut down over a year ago, and our local Sears store is in the final stage of closing–not much left there, and no store pickup possible.

Plus for online sales, they no longer accept points to pay towards shipping. So I’m out of pocket for that on any online order.

Hmm. Do I sound a tad spoiled? I guess I am–those glory days of carloads of free stuff at Kmart while outfitting a woodworking shop at Sears are clearly over!

@fatwking I occasionally use DuckDuckGo, and would probably do so more if I was in a witness protection program or had a high security profile somewhere. I just use Bing for the rewards (it’s my home page, but I only use it a few minutes each morning).

At this point Microsoft should be aware that I like quickly flashing up news briefs, movie cast members, and dig Amazon gift cards. Beyond that, not so much–well, at least from Bing.

I too value privacy, and don’t participate in social media stuff like Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Never have! Oh well. And I’m more humored than bothered by “targeted” ads that pop for me thanks to prior Google searches.

@dionaea Ya, I’ve been in on this for about a year too. As you mentioned, I see it’s not really double the normal daily PC search points of 200, but an increase to 300 points…still good though.

Abtw, you do NOT need to use Microsoft Edge for your PC searches–I use Firefox for my main browser, and Bing and Microsoft Rewards are totally cool with that. However, you can get an additional 20 points a day for using Edge and doing a few searches.

I don’t bother with Edge though, and can’t actually on my Windows 7 PC. I also don’t earn points by buying stuff from Microsoft. I am much happier with them paying me, rather than the reverse!

Heads up for Bing search users with a Microsoft account, starting today and until Feb 20, you can earn up to 300 Microsoft Rewards points daily (normal max is 200) via Bing search from a PC (5 points per search). Plus other rewards points from the Microsoft Rewards page. Also, you can download the Bing mobile app to get additional points on Bing searches, normal is up to 100 points daily. I think you can also get a 500 points bonus for downloading the Bing mobile app if you don’t already have it.

There are various ways to cash out Microsoft Rewards points, but my fav is just to go for the $5 Amazon Gift Card, which requires 5,250 accumulated points. I get one about every 3 weeks just doing a few minutes of Bing searches daily (news items), the few activities on the rewards page, and some Bing mobile searches. On the latter, selecting Movies, a movie, then Cast, is a speedy search method.

Btw I realize that some will be too busy to bother with any of this, but it’s there if you have the time.

I’m cashing out once tomorrow, and with this double rewards bit, I guesstimate again in another 9 days.

I know it’s been a while since this was posted, but I wanted to comment what a good deal it seemed to be for me–at least on my first order last week. In my case, I wanted to take advantage of the free shipping with no minimum on this first “tryout”.

So I ordered 5 boxes of Hodgson Mills Oat Bran cereal, which has been “temporarily unavailable” at all my local Kroger stores for the last couple of weeks. It was on sale for $2.00 a box, vs. $2.59 normal price in-store. While nosing around on the Kroger Ship site, I noticed Kroger’s 13-gallon trash bags at a good price: $8.99 for 120, vs. $9.99 for the same in-store. So I got one of those and completed my order. No shipping charge and 15% taken off–sweet!

The kicker was, I made this ~$16 order on Friday morning, got an email from FedEx shipping in the evening to expect it by Monday, but there was the Kroger box sitting on my doorstep on Saturday afternoon! Everything well packed too. Look out Amazon Prime Pantry!

NOTE: Item prices on the Kroger Ship site often vary from the normal Kroger shop site (say for ClickList pickup), often being higher but some also lower, as I found. I suspect that different Kroger coupons are in play here too, just not sure.

I do know that if I decided to get the Hodgson Mills Oat Bran cereal from Amazon, it would have cost me almost as much for only two boxes with Prime shipping, that is $14.99 plus tax. It pays to look around!

Next year they should sync this up on 12/30, otherwise known as National Bacon Day.

@lo This last offer would make sense if you had a healthy Kmart store nearby, such that you could use the points on normal household supplies or grocery items (assuming there is such a thing as healthy Kmart store), and you were a gambler at heart. Otherwise, not so much.

Green for the tallest deal post so far in 2019.