Good evening everyone, I hope you all had a great Mother’s Day weekend. If you love online shopping, this next week is going to be a lot of fun for you. Ebates is turning 16 years old on May 11 and they are celebrating their Sweet Sixteen with 16% cash back at 150+ online merchants. All the major online retailers are going to participate in this week-long promotion. If you are new to Ebates, please sign up for a free account here. You will receive a $10 bonus after your first Ebates purchase.
One of my favorite features of Ebates is the Ebates Cash Back Button. The button is a plugin that works for Google Chrome, Safari, and Mozilla Firefox, which you can download here.
Every time you visit an online merchant that is an Ebates shopping member, you will see the Ebates cash back banner at the top of the page. All you need to do is click the Activate Cash Back button and you will be redirected back to Ebates and then automatically redirected back to the page you were just at.
You will see the current cash back rate and each transaction creates an Ebates Shopping Trip ticket number. After you see this screen, everything you purchase on the merchant’s website will earn you cash back (some exclusions may apply).
This leads to my second favorite thing about Ebates. Each time you use Ebates to begin your online shopping trip, an Ebates Shopping Trip ticket is created. This makes it very easy to track all your shopping trips and follow up if there are any cash back discrepancies.
Ebates may not always have the highest cash back rate, but when they are, I prefer to use them over any other online shopping portal. To compare online shopping portals, you can check out Cashback Monitor. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Happy shopping everyone!
Any way to maximize this with current deal that some merchants/stores have right now? What is your plan to maximize this deal?
Lots of ways to maximize this deal. I haven’t had a chance to look at ways to maximize the deals yet, I am packing for my early morning flight back up to SFO.
Awesome, let us know if you have any good plan. Wish you a safe trip back here!
Would love to hear too! :) I have an idea or two but not sure how viable they are…we can chat on twitter if you prefer!
Thank you Jay, I’ll let you know. Have a great day.
Then, I wish it’s Ebates’ 100th birthday, then I could get 100% cashback, lol!!
Haha, check back in 84 years :)
Nice! I’ll buy a $50 GC from 1-800-Flowers and combine that with the $15 AMEX offer. If all goes as planned, I’ll get the $50 GC for $27.
That should work. Hopefully GC purchases earn cash back.
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I made 2 purchases at Macy’s (5/14 & 5/15) but only got 3%. Contacted Ebates Customer Service. Woman named Krystal said some stores only participated on certain dates of the promotional period, and Macy’s offered 16% only on 5/12 & 5/18. I can’t find anywhere that confirms her claim.
That is true, only some stores were 16% cash back the whole week, other stores were only 16% cash back for certain days.
I can confirm those were the only dates that 16% was offered for Macy’s specifically. I remember because I was trying to buy bridal shower gifts and missed the first date so I was going to forget about it until I saw that the last day it was back again. ;)
Thanks for confirming. I remember emailing my mom about the Macy’s deal both days :)
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