Earn Cash Back on Purchases with Ebates
Earn Cash Back on Purchases with Ebates
Over the past week, I’ve had quite a few emails/comments from readers asking about Ebates, which is an online program that allows you to earn cash back for online purchases through a variety of retailers, and the entire program is free. You’ll also find various coupons/discounts active for the retailer. The percentage of cash back varies from store to store and sometimes increases during certain periods for a retailer. Â As you can see, the list of stores Ebates offers cash back on is quite robust!
For instance, retailers like Beauty.com and Sephora currently offer 12% cash back, which means when you click through Ebates and purchase, you’ll receive 12% cash back for that purchase.  Every three months, Ebates will send you a payment (assuming you have earned $5.01+) via check or PayPal.  It’s saving money every time you shop through one of Ebates’ merchants, because you’ll get paid in cash (not credits, gift cards, etc.)–and if you do a lot of shopping, the cash back can add up!
You can either sign-up through Temptalia (which is a referral link), or you can simply go to Ebates.com directly to sign-up.
Woah! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before… I spend an average of $500 a year on sephora.com alone. Just placed an order about an hour ago actually for $130. I’m sad now, but I guess I can always start now rather than later. Thanks for sharing this! <3
No prob!! 🙂 Honestly, I’ve known about Ebates FOREVER but always forget to use it, LOL.
I just received an email from Ebates that they’re celebrating their 12th birthday with 12% cash back from over 100 stores, including Sephora, Drugstore.com, Beauty.com, Lancome, Stila, Murad, Prescriptives, Body Shop, Fragrance Net, Pur Minerals, Elizabether Arden, Lab Series, and The Container Store (for holding all your makeup 🙂
Uh, make that Elizabeth Arden. Must learn to type :-/
Hey thanks for this neat tip Christine! I need all the cash-back and rebates I can get considering my husband thinks I’m outa control with my beauty product spending 🙂
Cheers,
Kimberley
Oh yeah, I use this for every single online purchase. To date, I’ve earned about $80. And I’ve only had it for about…3 months? It’s nice.
Nice!! 🙂
I LOVE Ebates! I’ve known about it for years but wasn’t sure it was legit until I joined it last Christmas. Thankfully, I got a nice bonus for myself for all the gifts I got off Sephora, Nordstrom, ToysRUs, Ebay and Bluefly =) btw for anyone wondering- the 12% is for a limited time. Majority of these stores offer 3% to 8% (or more) most of the time. Plus, they don’t restrict you on using coupons that aren’t listed on ebates!
Is ebates open internationally? Does it depend on whether or not the shop (for e.g. sephora) ships internationally?
I usually use ebates when I buy online, but I always check evreward.com to make sure that they have the most in cashback. evreward.com checks all the reward/cashback websites and shows you which one gets you the most money. I love it!
what a helpful link! thank you!
Thanks for this as there are so many cashback sites now(another good one is mrrebates).
I’ve used Ebates for quite awhile now. I travel quite a bit and even get cash back for plane fare, car rentals, and hotels. It’s the greatest. I also like that Ebates keeps up with the latest coupon offers and posts them for members to use.
I remember when they used to install spyware on people’s computers, I just can’t get over that, even if they legitimately give people money.
Really?! Eek, that freaks me out. Could you direct me to more info about this please? I haven’t tried it but it sounds pretty good…. that’s scary though!