Cash back shopping

[Bruce Wayne]

Does anyone here use cashback shopping sites? Are they a productive use of time?

[loveviolet]

Microsoft just had the windows live cashback program, which seems to beat all the others such as fatwallet. You can get 2%-10% cashback on a lot of sites without any trouble.

[sweeps]

Sure it's productive. All you have to do is click through another web site to earn cash back. That's on top of any other discounts/coupons/rebates.

[Bruce Wayne]

Microsoft just had the windows live cashback program, which seems to beat all the others such as fatwallet. You can get 2%-10% cashback on a lot of sites without any trouble.

Have you used the MS Cashback search yet? I've heard about it but havn't tried it out yet.

[poundwise]

I prefer Mr. Rebates to Ebates, FatWallet, or some of the others; mainly because on the same sites/services, they pay a greater percentage cash-back. The only thing I don't like is that you have to wait for rebates to accumulate before cashing out. Ebates pays out every quarter as long as you have at least $5 in rebates.

If you have Discover Card, you may want to look into their 'Shop Discover' portion of their site. I understand that it pays back substantial percentages though on a fewer number of stores/sites.

[loveviolet]

Yes I have just began to use it

The biggest deal a few days ago was MS live search gives you 35% back on ebay "buy it now" items. That is a lot of rebate! Now they have reduced to 25%, still a lot!

Have you used the MS Cashback search yet? I've heard about it but havn't tried it out yet.

[Agent99]

Side by Side Comparision

I like to use evrewards. com to do a side by side comparison of the savings. They list a lot of stores and a lot of different cashback sites and programs. I love using them to do my online price comparisions before I shop.

[TBH]

The person who mentioned evreward.com sounded kinda like they work for the company or something, but I'll second their recommendation. You can quickly see how much each rebate site gives for a specific retailer.

I do use several rebate sites (Upromise, Ebates, MrRebates, Fatwallet). I like different things about each one. I also like MrRebates because of the size of the rebates, but I only accumulate enough to cash out about once a year--unless I buy plane tickets, which gives me enough to cash out right away. I have a nice trickle of referral income from MrRebates, too, because I have an affiliate link up on my blog. Fatwallet lets you cash out with any amount, which is nice. Upromise has super low rebates, but my spouse is only willing to use one site and he has a membership at Upromise, so a couple times a year he buys something online and we get a Upromise kickback into DS's college fund.

I don't shop online very much, and I know which of my regular places offer rebates, so it is pretty easy for me to click through from some site or other.

Favorite trick: If I am buying a wedding gift, I find out where the couple is registered. Instead of buying something on their registry, I buy them a gift certificate to that store. I know they like the stuff there if they registered there, and chances are they will not get everything on their registry. If possible, I buy the gift certificate from giftcertificates.com via Fatwallet or something, and get a rebate for it. (Try searching on Evreward for giftcertificates.com). I buy the gift certificate with my credit card, so there's another 1.5% rebate.

Am I cheapskate for wanting to get a small rebate when I buy somebody a wedding gift? Maybe.

[faithman1012005@yahoo.com]

Rebates

Last I checked paypal.com offered a debit/credit card that had a 1.5% rebate on purchases. It might be something worth looking into especially if you have a paypal account already as a way of maximizing cash back.