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Old Sep 8, 09, 2:06 pm   #4066
 
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Bing/LiveSearch has completely deteriorated. What a waste of time.
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Old Sep 8, 09, 6:46 pm   #4067
 
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Um, that's a useful post.
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Old Sep 8, 09, 6:48 pm   #4068
 
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Um, that's a useful post.
.. no more useful than yours.
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Old Sep 8, 09, 7:15 pm   #4069
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4100 miles posted to my AA account today
Request of 2,500 Delta points that was done first week of July posted today.
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Old Sep 8, 09, 11:27 pm   #4070
 
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Um, that's a useful post.
Um, that's a useful post
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Old Sep 8, 09, 11:29 pm   #4071
 
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Um, that's a useful post
I can see this going round and round in circles
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Old Sep 9, 09, 7:51 am   #4072
 
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Mine was pointless as well so I'll not edit it but expand on it. I was looking for more explanation.

How has it Bing deteriorated? Is it the Club that has or the search engine in general, which is how I read the post.

I find the prizes and restrictions to be less interesting than when it started; that's for sure. I don't go after tickets nearly as religiously as I did. But I have moved away from Google for my search engine. I see roughly the same results returned, and there's just something about all the data that Google seems to want to collect on me that makes me think 'anything but Google' when I can.

So how or what has deteriorated?
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Old Sep 10, 09, 2:50 pm   #4073
 
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Mine was pointless as well so I'll not edit it but expand on it. I was looking for more explanation.

How has it Bing deteriorated? Is it the Club that has or the search engine in general, which is how I read the post.

I find the prizes and restrictions to be less interesting than when it started; that's for sure. I don't go after tickets nearly as religiously as I did. But I have moved away from Google for my search engine. I see roughly the same results returned, and there's just something about all the data that Google seems to want to collect on me that makes me think 'anything but Google' when I can.

So how or what has deteriorated?
the changes in the terms and conditions of redeeming tickets has made earning tickets more of a time-consuming venture than a worthwhile one.
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Old Sep 10, 09, 5:01 pm   #4074
 
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the changes in the terms and conditions of redeeming tickets has made earning tickets more of a time-consuming venture than a worthwhile one.
Plus, the reliability of actually receiving miles is no longer there.
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Old Sep 10, 09, 9:16 pm   #4075
 
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For anyone not watching regularly, they re-added the GPS and the massaging neck pillow today. Get em while they're hot. I got a GPS today and am pretty happpy with it, especially for free.
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Old Sep 10, 09, 10:24 pm   #4076
 
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Plus, the reliability of actually receiving miles is no longer there.
I dont think its true. I have ordered and received over 40 items from them. Never missed one.
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Old Sep 10, 09, 11:02 pm   #4077
 
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Plus, the reliability of actually receiving miles is no longer there.
great point - they are STILL holding 4300 tickets after NOT completing a 2500 mile redemption.

i gave up on it ... redeemed my remaining tickets for the Bing tent and called it good - i'm done.
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Old Sep 11, 09, 12:20 am   #4078
 
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I dont think its true. I have ordered and received over 40 items from them. Never missed one.
You must have missed the December massacre. Lots of miles disappeared into the ether. Then when I tried again mid-year, with my account and those of two relatives, only three of my redemptions and two of another account ever showed, and no tickets were restored to any of the accounts.

I don't really care about the other items, only the miles. That was a very good thing.
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Old Sep 16, 09, 2:34 pm   #4079
 
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For anyone not watching regularly, they re-added the GPS and the massaging neck pillow today. Get em while they're hot. I got a GPS today and am pretty happpy with it, especially for free.
Bah!

I can't believe I was out of town for that all too brief period they were available. I wanted that neck messager.

Now... we have new prizes such as an iron, and a purse (really expensive purse btw at 38,250 tickets).

I do notice that we get to 'vote' on what will be the next available prize: A food processor or a 'slow cooker'.
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Old Sep 20, 09, 9:02 am   #4080
 
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Be careful with this site. My husband and I both earned a number of airline points prior to the change in the rules. I think he earned about 20000 and I earned about 10000. My daughter (who lives with us) played but never redeemed. When the rules changed I was the only one playing regularly and I tried to redeem for a Zune. After waiting the 12 weeks I contacted Bing by e-mail and was informed we had violated their mutiple prize per household rules and that my order was cancelled. So in other words I lost all of my points and did not receive the zune. I tried to ask about an appeal, since we had not received mutilples of anything but airline miles prior to the rule change, but they sent me the same canned message. I had read so many posts of people receiving lots of prizes and disregarded the negative ones. You may want to be very careful about saving for large items if you have used multiple accounts in your household.
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