Got my second “big fat check” from Ebates.com yesterday. Not a big deal, but $60.76 is not a tiny amount either. It’s sort of good news and bad news. Good news is that I got free money. Bad news is that this is not exactly *free* money…I must have spent quite a bit on buying stuff online to get this kind of a cash back within the last 3~4 months.
For those who are not aware about Ebates.com, it’s an online portal (similar to Fatwallet) that offers cash back on certain online purchases if you go through them. You can read more about Ebates in this post that I wrote long time back. I tend to maximize the cash backs/rebates by going through such portals (sometimes it’s Ebates and other times it’s Fatwallet). For example, I have a Circuit City store within a few blocks of my apartment; however, instead of going to the store to buy something, I usually buy it on their website by going through Ebates/Fatwallet. That way, I get the cash back (in addition to reward points on the credit card)…sometimes that comes to about 5%~10% in all. Not bad if you are looking for big ticket items like computers, digital cameras, or shopping for holidays…and such.Currently, Ebates is running a referral promotion:
If you are interested here is a referral link for you (valid till March 15th). If you sign up using this link, you get $10 and I get $10 too (drool…Homer Simpson style). However, before you sign up, make sure you read the fine print (click here to read it). It’s a good habit to always read the fine print before signing up through any referrals.
Btw, on a related issue, I don’t seem to get enough from my Upromise account (although I have all my cards registered with them). Over the 6 months, I have barely managed about $0.35. Does anyone have any Upromise *hacks*?
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Golbguru,
Congrats on the rebate amount. Agree it’s a benefit, provided one is buying something that was already planned:-)
On Upromise, we’ve had the same experience. Although we only registered grocery customer reward cards, we’ve also been only credited with less than $1 in about a year. We didn’t register credit cards since I’m hesitant to provide that type of information to organizations that really don’t need it, in my opinion.
Super Saver: yeah, it included some planned things (like external hard drive for back up, new cell phone contracts) and such..plus, there was some referral bonus too.
Hmm..I might cancel all my registered cards at Upromise soon if things don’t improve on that end…it doesn’t look like worth it.
I’ve had a Upromise account for 8 years, and have only earned $42 on it, but the only card we had signed up for it was a supermarket card. It definitely takes some time! I wouldn’t see any reason to cancel the cards, though - Upromise doesn’t cost anything, and doesn’t take any time after you sign up (except for checking in on it - we signed up in 1999 and forgot about it until 3 months ago, so there was no time involved in checking on it!).
Stephanie, yeah it doesn’t any resources after I sign up…but it sort of makes keep checking the Upromise account like every couple of month..wasted time :). Ah..well..probably I will keep them like you did and just forget about it.
ya upromise for me i have earned about $7 with e-rewards taking surveys that’s about the best thing to earn a quick buck on upromise.
anyways nice check I want to ask if we can just make new ebates acc and referral our self and but something and earn that $5-$10 is that a wrong thing to do
o anyways use me as a referral if anyone wants also get $10
leon1008@gmail.com
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