Bootleg Toys #2 Super Robots

Picked this up from the same place I got fake starscream. Not too sure who he's meant to be.
Again the card is in decent condition and uses actual artwork and fonts. The model itself looks ok, I haven't opened him to look however.

Bootleg Toys #1 Super Robots

Picked this up from a mega bargain store last week, now I don't condone fake copies of toys but this little guy was so cool I couldn't leave him there.

 

As you can see quality isn't awesome, but hey it was a pound. The backing card is cheap but looks pretty, also pretty sure they are ripping off original artwork, the font is super close to the official too.

The toy itself it okay, the bend at the base of the nose cone sticks a little when attempting to transform so theres a real worry that it could snap on day. I will be picking up a few more of these, I think theres six in total. When I post a new one i'll take a good snap of the back of the card so you can see the variations.

Oh and I think this is meant to be Starscream? Not sure tho, i'm not too huge on transformers.

How to get free MS points method #2

Welcome to the second part of my guide on getting free MS points, to use this it requires an iPhone app called AppTrailers which is available free from the app store.

The premise of this app is simple, you watch trailers on your phone and you get points for doing so. These can be anywhere between 3 and 25 points. You also have a chance at winning a free scratch card daily which usually (if you win) pays between 20-30 points.

Now while you do need to collect a lot of points for it to be useful, 9000 for 800 MS points, it does payout 50 cents per 500 points via Paypal. By far the biggest problem however is the fact that it is American thus resulting in all the prizes being dollars, quite a hassle for Europe users. However I use this app mainly for PlayStation network credit and downloading games to my PSP. 

A neat way to get around this is to simply have a American account, it's easy to google an address to enter and then you can take it from there. The downside to this is that over here when you top up your get £10 and games are £3.99, With $10 and $5.99 games its a little annoying to say the least.

While it may seem like it takes forever to earn points with this app, I can easily rack up the points quite quickly just leaving it going while i'm doing something else. Without really trying its pretty easy to earn 500+ a day.

How to get free MS points

Method #1

This method comes courtesy of Microsoft themselves, go here to register for Microsoft Rewards.

Once signed up to this service it opens up a number of ways to earn, by far the easiest is to take a short (never really more than eight questions) survey. You can do this once a month a get 20msp per survey.

Other rewards include bonus points for renewing live gold accounts and taking out subscriptions to services such as Netflix. One of the cool things they offer is recognition of your gamerscore, there are three thresholds, 3000 - 9999 Contender, 10000 - 24999 Champion and 25000 plus Legend. When you have an active gold account theses bonuses give you a special birthday present and rebates on what you spend in the marketplace (1% for champion and 2% for legend) per month.

You can also take part in punchcard offers, these work along the lines of buy x amount of games and receive x ms points.

It can sometimes take a while for points to be credited, and you never to accumulate 100 before they are added to your account, and we are only talking about small amounts at a time but considering that it is free and easy to do it would be pointless to miss out. Those ten points may just grab you that indie game you wanted.