NOVEMBER 2020 PCWorld 117select a merchant, and begin shopping from
the page itself. Either way, any discounts that
Bing Rebates supplies should be
automatically applied—
but not at checkout.
Anything you earn
from Bing Rebates
eventually will come
back to you as cash, but
because Microsoft uses
PayPal, you’ll need a
PayPal account for that
money to reach your
wallet. (Don’t shop with
an ad blocker! It may
block the ad “cookie”
to apply your rebate.)
That money won’t arrive
right away: Microsoft
says it will wait between
30 to 90
days—basically, beyond the
period your purchase is eligible for
a return—before it credits your
account. If you do return the item,
you won’t receive a rebate; if you
buy multiple items and return one
or more, your rebate will diminish
accordingly.
Another catch: For now, the
maximum amount of cash back
that you can earn in the form of
rebates is capped at $1,000, with
one loophole. If you think you’re
going to exceed that, you can petition
Microsoft’s support page and ask for that cap
to be raised accordingly.Search with Bing for a discounted product, and you’ll see a
small icon indicating that.
Microsoft doesn’t do a fantastic job organizing Bing Rewards partners. You
usually have to dig a bit to find a particular vendor.