Redeeming Rewards

I apologize for not posting last week, it was quite a busy weekend for me.  So to make up for it, I'm going to post two this weekend.

This week I redeemed two awesome things from two of the rewards programs I already talked about in this blog.  I was so happy to finally redeem something from them that I wanted to share it with everyone!

Bing Rewards

I finally reached my goal for a $5 Amazon Gift Card!  I signed up in the middle of December, so it took about a month and a half to earn $5.  Not too shabby.  And it will only get easier once I reach Gold status which I have a little way to go still.  But it's still exciting nonetheless!

For those of you who want to read more about the Bing Rewards program, check out my article: Bing Rewards.
 For those of you who still need to sign up, here's the link to sign up: Sign Up for Bing Rewards.

Disney Movie Rewards

I only just talked about this program a couple weeks ago and I have some very exciting news about my reward for this one . . . I got a $250 Delta Gift Card!  The rewards program was having a sale for the month of February that this reward was half the points (4175 instead of 8350)!  I was only a few hundred points shy of that so I finally went through my fiance's family's massive movie collection and was able to redeem enough points in a matter of moments! 

For those of you who want to read more about the Disney Movie Rewards program, check out my article: Disney Movie Rewards.

Bing Rewards

This week I'm going to be talking about something I just learned about a few days ago: Bing Rewards.  I'm sure a lot of you have heard of Bing, it's a search engine that has really been advertising and trying to compete with Google.  They have a test, Bing It On, where you try 5 searches and choose between two screens (Google and Bing) of which results you like better.  Honestly, I chose Google more times, 3 out of 5.  I don't know if I've been using Google so long that I'm just trained to like it or what but regardless, I have switched my search engine to Bing because of the rewards program they have.  (Want to try the Bing It On Test?  Click here)

Bing Rewards is simple -- they reward you for searching through Bing.  You get a reward point for every two searches made (up to 30 a day) and reward points can be redeemed for a number of options, primarily gift cards.  Now if you're like me, you use the computer a lot and search for things multiple times a day.  Why not get rewarded for something you already do all the time?  As I said before, I actually prefer Google's results for the most part, but generally I can find what I'm looking for on Bing and if not,  just go back to Google for that one search.

On the Bing Rewards dashboard, they also have really easy tasks to get more rewards points.  Simple!

Some of the redemptions offered are entries into sweepstakes drawings.  Don't be tempted to throw away your reward points!  I always think it's funny that with many rewards programs some of the things offered to be redeemed are entries into sweepstakes, what a waste!  There are plenty of ways to enter sweepstakes that are free, just do those.  You might as well get something useful out of the rewards.  I'm aiming towards the $5 Amazon Gift Card, because that's what I use the most.

Like the idea?  Sign up for it here: http://www.bing.com/explore/rewards  (Guess what?  You get rewards for referrals too!)