Ebates.com is a rewards website where members can earn up to 25% cash back on their online purchases at over 1,200 online stores without having to redeem points, mail in forms, or pay membership fees.
Rewards websites like Ebates earn a commission when you purchase an item from one of their partner stores. In turn, they pay part of that commission to you to ensure you continue shopping through Ebates at their partner stores.
When you initially register at Ebates.com, you will be asked to choose a bonus $10 gift card. This gift card will be awarded to you after you have earned your first $25 in cash back.
Earning Cash Back
Whenever you are hoping to earn cash back with Ebates, you must use either their website or their downloadable toolbar to access their partner stores.
Even if you have purchased at that store through Ebates previously, you must access that store through Ebates every time to get credit. If Ebates does not receive credit for your purchase then you cannot earn cash back.
If you refer friends and family members to use Ebates, you can also earn cash back on their first purchase through Ebates.
Unfortunately, returns and exchanges of purchased items will cancel out your cash back earnings. When you exchange an item, the store will consider that a brand new purchase not done through Ebates, so you won’t be able to earn cash back.
Getting Your Cash Back
As long as you have earned more than $5.01, you will receive a cash back payment every 3 months in February, May, August, and November. If you have earned less than $5.01, your earnings will be carried over to the next check.
You can have the check mailed to you or directly deposited into your PayPal account. You can also have the check mailed to a charity or a family member, if you choose. Simply make sure to set up your account to reflect how you want your earnings paid out.
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You've been warned.
When trust is broken there is sometimes great biterness from some. No one likes feeling like they have been taken advantage of.
Any ethical outfit works hard to keep their supporters happy.
Has anyone had any luck contacting the online retailer about their difficulties with ebates?
So if you think it's a scam, you are wrong - it can be something that you do wrong.
They are A+ rated by the BBB - soo they must be doing something right!
Never had any issues, and always get my quarterly rebate quickly.
Then a month later I haven't heard anything so I log onto the site and there is no record of my previous purchase. So I fill out a request asking where is my cashback and I get a response almost immediately saying that "we do not have a record that you clicked through the Ebates link to this store on the date you selected on our form". Well I filled out that form correctly so I replied back and included the text with the tracking code that was emailed me from the day I made the purchase.
Now I'm hoping they honor their cashback because it looks like Ebates just conveniently deleted my tracking code from their website. Therefore I would say this site is a scam. Stay away and instead use a credit card cashback site as those companies have your business to lose if you they refuse to honor your cashback.
Any company that just deletes their tracking codes is not to be trusted!!!! I am just glad that it was my first purchase because that's the only purchase where they email you the code, otherwise I would have nothing to show for my purchase.
On a side note, stay away from giftcardmall.com too as they rip you off as well.