Today I am going to tell you how you can earn cash back whenever you shop. We all buy items for our living space, gifts for birthdays and holidays, clothes, groceries, so on and so on. Wouldn’t it be great to get some of that cash back? Ebates is an app that gives you cash back for shopping.

Ebates offers online and in-store cash back opportunities using both their website and phone apps. In-store is great because sometimes you want to see the product you’ll buy prior to making a purchase. You simply link your credit card to the store that you will be shopping at. Once a purchase is made using that card at the store it will show up in your Ebates account. Online cash back is even easier:

At Ebates, we don’t ask you to fill out forms or earn points. In fact, earning Cash Back with us is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Shop: First, start an Ebates Shopping Trip. To do this, simply be sure to click on any Ebates link to the store you’ll shop with before you make a purchase.

2. Validate: When you click an Ebates link, you’ll see a pop-up confirmation letting you know you’re ready to shop and earn Cash Back at that store.

3. Purchase: Complete your purchase as you normally would. This will also complete your Shopping Trip.

Ebates Help

Sign-up Is Easy

Sign-up for Ebates today prior to your next shopping trip online or in-store. Always check their site prior to making a purchase when you are shopping online and in-store. You’re going to buy the product, so you may as well earn some cash-back. I will be writing an article on how you can even double-up on cash back using one of your credit cards that is giving cash back at the type of store you are shopping at.

There are a couple of caveats with the online cash back. One, not all categories are eligible for cashback. You’ll see all the eligible categories when you click on a store. Larger online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart contain a large amount of categories, so make sure you pay attention to whether your category is eligible. The second caveat is that you need to add items to your cart after you link to the store from the Ebates website. The cash back works best if you follow this pattern. You can still get cash back after a purchase if it does not appear after a few days by going to Help and Missing Cash Back.

Big Fat Checks

Ebates sends out their BIG FAT CHECKS quarterly. This money can be used to pay bills, buy gifts, give to charity or buy something for yourself. I have personally been using Ebates since 2018 and have earned close to $500.

You may be wondering how they can afford to pay consumers to shop, what data are they tracking? According to their website:

How Do We Make Money?
Our business is based on a simple idea: When you follow our links to visit a store, that store pays us a commission on whatever you buy during your visit. We then share that commission with you, our members, as Cash Back.

In other words, retailers pay to partner with us because we send shoppers to their websites or brick-and-mortar stores. They may also pay us to help grow their brand. That means we might feature them on our website, in emails, etc. Because of these partnerships, members like you benefit by earning Cash Back and getting great offers.

To sum it up, we help retailers succeed and, at the same time, help our members save money.

Ebates Advertising Disclosure

Ebates has been a great addition to my financial arsenal. I have personally not received promotional emails from the stores I have made purchases from using Ebates. Their advertising disclosure displays their business model and you can contact them for additional information. Anytime I they have missed a cash back, their online customer service is quick to fix the error, even giving cash back as a courtesy for ineligible items or categories. Sign-up and try it out. I’m glad I did. Happy shopping.

This post is the opinion of the author and results may vary. Please research this service and understand the terms and conditions prior to signing up.

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