I am here once again with my yearly reminder… you MUST use ebates for your online shopping this holiday season and ALWAYS. I posted about this last year, but I want even more of my friends to jump on this amazing bandwagon. You get $10 automatically when you sign up.
Ebates is a rebate system that gives you cash back for shopping online. And you don’t have to go out of your way to use it. Just shop at your usual stores (Nordstrom, J.Crew, Kohl’s, Old Navy, Shutterfly, Etsy, etc.) and receive cash back on purchases you were already planning to make.
During the year, I would say stores offer an average of 1-6% cash back on most purchases (which adds up, I promise… I just got a $15 check in the mail for booking Micah’s flight and car rental for his grandpa’s birthday party). BUT during the holidays, some stores offer 10 or 20% cash back to drive online sales. Picture this: Buy your husband the $100 North Face Jacket he really wants for Christmas, and receive $12 back in the form of a check in January. It’s amazing!
Last year, I think I made at least $100 during December alone through referrals and my own gift purchases. I have been using ebates for a couple years now, and I’ve earned almost $300 total just for buying items I was planning to buy anyway.
Sign up for your account here. (Reminder, you get $10 added to your account automatically!)
Make your first purchase (the cash back will be wild this weekend after Thanksgiving).
Get a check in the mail in the new year.
And ebates has a few tools to make your shopping even easier.
- Install the extension in your browser. When you are shopping a site that offers cash back, a tiny window will pop up that says “Activate 3% cash back now.” Click it, wait a few seconds as your window refreshes, and you are good to go. Anything you buy will be applied to your account.
- Ebates added a new trick to its service this year. Now when you go to check out, another window will pop up if ebates found any discount or promo codes online that might save you more money. You just click the button, ebates scans every code available, and they apply any available discounts to your price before you pay.
I highly recommend you sign up for ebates as soon as possible. Don’t make a single online purchase this Christmas season without putting money back in your own wallet.
