Microsoft rewards and free rakuten movie codes

paulofalus

Hi. It's possible to earn reward points for doing bing searches and mini quiz questions etc. But I've never been able to actually get a rakuten code. It lets me go through the redeem process but then it says there's been a problem. When I email customer services, they say they UK codes are out of stock.

This seems like a feeble excuse. Either it should automatically generate more codes as needed, or it should show how many codes are still available and then show out of stock in the redemption page.

Anyway, I just wondered if anyone had been able to successfully get and use a movie code?

flaneurs_lobster

Doesn't help at all - I get the same negative result.

paulofalus

Out of interest has anyone been able to redeem anything from Microsoft rewards? Or is it a sneaky game to trick you into generating clicks for them?

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82006914#Comment_82006914

Think I might have got a couple of months of Spotify, but not really anything that's not given away elsewhere.

Gizmo72

I get a £5 Amazon voucher every few weeks or so, but a lot of the time it's out of stock just as I get enough points to get it, and I have to wait a few days for it to come back in.

paulofalus

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82007355#Comment_82007355

Do you claim on Xbox? PC? Browser?

How do you earn points?

Gizmo72

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82021738#Comment_82021738

On PC, and I earn points for doing various searches, or ones they suggest when I click on the medal in the top right hand corner of my account page (like the ones you mention in the first post).

paulofalus

Finally... I actually got a voucher! £5 at Waitrose. I set it to auto redeem when I was close to the total and it worked. So it's just a bug with the rakuten codes.

Takes me ages to get points... But I'm only using my mobile to get maybe 60 points a day. Are there any tricks to boosting points?

paulofalus

Update... I got a rakuten code! I set it to auto redeem on the old website but the new one doesn't seem to have that option. However it let me click the button this time and after about 4 or 5 hours, the code was there in the redemption history.