Money Saving Hacks for Ebates

One of the easiest ways to to save money when you shop online is by using Ebates. There are some money saving hacks for Ebates that you may not have heard about. There are many ways to save even more by using Ebates when you shop.

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$10 Cash Bonus for New Users

If you are new to Ebates, you will get a $10 bonus when you make a $25 purchase within the first 90 days of signing up. This is on top of the normal cash back you will receive on your purchases. This is one of the best new member offers I have seen.

Refer Friends to Earn Cash

A lot of places that offer referral programs give you store credit or rewards. Ebates gives you cold hard cash! They have a great referral program. You get $25 for the first friend, $50 for the 2nd and $75 when you refer 3 friends. Each friend after is $5 each but you can get bonuses when you reach a certain number. The people you referred have to make a purchase for you to get credit. But who doesn’t want to save money?

Use Ebates in-store

Did you know that you can link your credit or debit cards and earn cash back when you shop in-store as well as online? Ebates allows you to choose which offers you want linked to your card and when you make a purchase, it will be automatically sent to your Ebates account. There are only a handful of stores that offer this so check out the Cash Back In-Store Offers page. This is great if there are awesome clearance finds and you don’t want to worry about paying for shipping costs.

Score Discounts on Gift Cards

You can use Ebates to get cash back on your gift card purchases. Simply shop through Ebates like you normally would and instead of buying a product just add some gift cards to your purchase instead. This is a great way to save at stores that don’t normally offer decent discounts. I saw that they offered 9% cash back on a JC Penny purchase. You could buy a $50 gift card and get $4.50 back. Then use the gift card with any coupon codes to really save on your purchase. This is nice to do if you have a larger purchase like furniture or appliances that you want to save on as well.

Double Cash Back Offers

Ebates routinely offers double cash back on select stores every day. They tend to change so make sure to check out which stores are being doubled every week. They will sometimes even offer triple cash back but this is normally during a holiday weekend or big event, like Cyber Monday.

Daily Double

Ebates also does a daily double cash back offer. Every day there is a new store and it only lasts through that day. For example, today was Gap that is normally 2% but now it is 4% through today only.

Use Coupon Codes

You can shop through Ebates and use coupon codes as well. They have a tab labeled Coupons on the site that offers a bunch of codes for most of the stores that they offer cash back on. You can also check out Retailmenot.com to get even more codes to use if you can’t find a good one on Ebates.

Ebates App

You can download the Ebates App on your phone, it is free. I like that they usually offer more cash back when you shop through the app then they do on the site. Not all the time, but sometimes. I also like that they have a price comparison feature. If you are out shopping, just click on the little barcode icon in the top right hand corner and you can scan the barcode of the item you are interested in. It pulls up the price at various stores and shows how much cash back you can earn as well. This makes finding deals so easy!

Cash Back Button

You can download the Ebates Cash Back button to your browser. Automatically see Cash Back alerts when shopping, compare store Cash Back amounts when searching, and enjoy one-click access to all of your account information. Forgot to start your shopping trip at Ebates and missed out on Cash Back? The button will alert you anytime you are on a store that offers Cash Back through Ebates and in some cases it will automatically be activated for you! I can’t tell you how many times I have kicked myself for forgetting to go through Ebates.

Can you tell that I love Ebates? I really do use it all the time to save when I shop. It is easy and free to do. I love that you can save on pretty much anything: apparel, furniture, home improvement, airfare, beauty, hotels, etc. It is by far my favorite cash back site.