How to get $5 through xbox

One possible eay to acrue a microsoft giftcard is through the Bing rewards points program. Sign up for a Bing account, linked to your xbox or microsoft profile.

Through both simple searches on either your phone, tablet and/or pc, you can earn a minimum of 5 pts per search. Searching via Bing on your pc generates 10 pts per search. There are also various quizes and Bing emails you can explore to earn more points.

Once you hit, I believe 5,000 pts, you can exchange them for a gift card, a sweepstakes ticket, or even donate the money to charity. Check out Bing.com to see the various options to spend your points on.

i hope this helped!

the process used to select who gets a free gift from Microsoft is completely random.

if they've received it twice then they are extremely lucky.

all you can do is forget about the free gifts but keep checking your messages from Xbox Live on your Xbox and hopefully you'll get 1 eventually.

Hello. Thanks for replying. I have another question. Do the people with xbox live are the only ones who get the $5 for free or do people who don't have xbox live can also get it?.

I get about 2 hrs a night through the week as my downtime but over the weekend I can get about 4/5 hrs depending on how my night goes lol

Hey CastDaisy,

Usually when dealing with sound issues, we also need to take the controller headphone jack input on the bottom of the controller into consideration. Since you say it works when not plugged into your Xbox controller, it may be the headphone jack is dirty
or damaged and the controller can't recognize the headset.

To test this out, I would suggest to find an extra controller you may have and try it on that one. If you have any headphones or earbuds with a microphone and in the format pictured above, then test those out as well.

There are a number of indicators on your Xbox to let you know when the controller is not picking up the headset. On your Home screen, a headset icon will appear at the top right corner of the screen next to the battery level. When you start a party chat,
there will be a message saying microphone cannot be found and your gamer picture will be greyed out when a headset is not detected. Whenever you have a headset plugged into the controller, a new "Audio" setting is found in your system menu below Settings.
If you do not see that, the headset is not being detected.

Try some of these steps out to figure out if you need to replace the controller or find an Xbox Stereo Headset Adapter. Let us know the results!