Good evening everyone. If you are expecting a Q3 Big Fat Check from Ebates, be on the look out for an email with the subject line “Cash Back Update: We’re Processing Your Big Fat Check” from the email address “ebatesmemberservices@mail.ebates.com.” If you get that email, you can receive your cash back in the form of an egift card instantly and you will get up to a 15% bonus. For example, if you earned $100 cash back in Q3, you could receive an egift card up to $115. That’s pretty good, but what kind of egift cards are available? That is a great question…
After I clicked on the link in the email, I saw 32 merchants with bonus amounts ranging from 0% bonus (Walmart – boo) to 15% bonus.
To simplify the egift card bonus amounts, here are the bonus amounts sorted by bonus percentage (left table) and alphabetically by merchant name (right table). A few merchants that interest me are Best Buy (10% bonus), Dell Consumer (10% bonus), GameStop (10% bonus), and Groupon (10% bonus). I have a few days to decide if I want an egift card, otherwise I will receive my Big Fat Check next week. I’ll talk to my girlfriend and decide if any of these egift cards would work for us.
Did you receive this email from Ebates? Will you pick an egift card or wait and receive your standard Big Fat Check? Lastly, if you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Have a great day everyone!
P.S. If you are not earning cash back with Ebates, click here to create a free account. You will get a $10 bonus after you make your first qualifying purchase of $25 or more. Happy shopping!
Best Buy at 10% is probably a money maker since some can sell it at 91 or 92%
Probably not worth the effort unless a large payout though.
It might not be worth the effort when you could just wait for your Big Fat Check and make out about the same.
Two questions:
1: Do the Ebates paychecks have the monopoly man on them, I assume you get direct deposit so do the pay stub have the monopoly guy on them?
2: Do you get a bonus for converting people away from the checks?
Haha, great questions. I do get direct deposit and view my paystub on WorkDay. Unfortunately, there is no Monopoly Man (his name is Max Cash, btw) on the paystubs. I have no financial motive to have people sign up for an egift card. Only certain members are even eligible for egift cards.
He has a name, and a clever one at that… learned something new today. I’m still going to call him the monopoly man though.
Haha, have a great day and happy shopping with Ebates.
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It’s a bit strange because they were trying to get people to switch to paper checks from PayPal, indicating surprises (including bonuses) could come with the check. Now they want people to go from checks to gift cards.
Ebates is trying different payment options to give their members choices on how they want to be paid. I think most people still receive a check.
Can the bonus be cash out in increments? For example instead of $112 or some weird number I select up to $100 (including the bonus) to cash out to Best Buy or Gamestop and then take out the rest of the loose change as cash back?
That would be really useful, but unfortunately it is all or nothing with the egift card options.
its hardly an actual bonus when you consider that you could use your ebates check to purchase anything through ebates again and get about the same back without tying up your funds.
Some merchants will give you cash back when you pay with a gift card or egift card. I did that yesterday with Groupon.
Hello, if choosing an E-gift Card, can it be used in store of the chosen merchant? Or only online? Thank you!
You can use it in store too. Just print out the eGC and bring it with you to the store. The cashier can type in your gift card code and PIN.