Ebates Daily Double: Nordstroms 12% cash back!

Today only, Ebates is offering 12% cash back on all online purchases at Nordstroms, instead of their normal 3% cash back.  That is the highest cash back I have ever noticed for Nordstroms. Couple with your cash back credit card to score even more savings!

Shopping for That Easter Bonnet?

Easter is a time of rebirth, both spiritually and practically speaking.  The grass starts to turn green, trees begin to bud, and Mother Nature seems to awaken from her winter slumber.  So it seems perfectly fitting that we celebrate this time of year with some new clothes.  Maybe not always an Easter bonnet, but perhaps that new colorful outfit or a pair of new shoes.  If the warmer temperatures have put an itch in you to go out and treat you or the family to a wardrobe spruce up, then I've got good news!

Ebates has doubled its cash back rebates on many of the most popular online clothing websites.  I have included their promo ad here.  Just log into Ebates, then head off to your favorite retailer to do some Easter shopping, and save a little cash while you are at it.

Attention Kmart Shoppers!

Today only, Ebates is offering 8% cash back on all online purchases if you go through their website.  First, pick up a Kmart gift card from Cardpool at a 10% discount, or 11% if you go through Mr. Rebates, then head off to do all your shopping and score a nifty 18-20% cash back on all of your Kmart purchases.  Of course, if you pay with your cash back credit card, the discount is even more.  

Happy shopping!

Daily Deal: Ebates Offering 4% Cash Back at Kohl's - Today Only

Today only, as part of their Daily Double, Ebates is offering 4% cash back on all online purchases at Kohls.  Their normal cash back is 2%.  If you couple that with a purchase of a Kohls gift card at a 14% discount, you are looking at close to 20% cash back.  And those savings come right off the bottom line.  Check out the gift card resellers shown on the right that I recommend.

Weekly Deals: Ebates Double Cash Back

   This week, Ebates is offering double cash cash back for purchases made at the following merchants:

Dell: Was 2%, now 4% back

HP:   Was 3%, now 5% back

Macys: Was 2.5% now 5% back

Staples: Was 2%, now 4% back.

If you plan on shopping at any of these sites, you may want to go through Ebates to pick up your extra cash back. Whether you use a discounted gift card, or your cash back credit card, you will be putting some extra money in your pocket.

Happy shopping!

Today Only: 6% off your Groupon purchase

 Are you a fan of Groupon? As part of their Daily Double, Ebates is offering for one day only, 6% off any purchase you make on Groupon through their portal.  Try this link. 


Not sure who Ebates is?  Read about them in my Post on Cash Back Portals on Feb. 28th.

Update: Cash Back Portal News

     Based on my recent purchases,  Mr. Rebates calculates their cash back percentage on the price BEFORE discounts are applied.  So if you have a discount code, that is not taken into account.  This makes the actual cashback percentage even higher than stated. For example, when I purchased the Nook Color on Ebay through Mr. Rebates, the original price was $249. Even though I had a coupon for $50 off, the cash back rebate I received was $7.47, or 3% of the stated price. Since I only paid $199, the actual discount was more like 3.75%.


     Ebates has just announced that their cash back at Walmart.com has increased to 2%.  If you plan on doing any shopping online at the big W, remember to go through Ebates.


What?  You say that you still haven't signed up for these sites? Ebates is giving out $5 cash and Mr. Rewards $7.50 just for signing up. Here are the links:

Ebates


Mr. Rebates

Breakdown of a Recent Cash Back Transaction

   Too much talking and not enough doing does not make Steve a very interesting blogger.  So I thought that I would occasionally post a recent cash back transaction that I did, so you can see the thought process and the savings realized.

   I have started to take up cooking, just to throw a little variety into our chicken-fish-meat-fish dinner routine.  Through one of the many "hot deal" aggregator sites on the Internet, I came across a 6 qt. slow cooker at J.C. Penneys, originally $59.95, now on sale for $29.95 plus S&H.  I probably would not have bought it, except that there was a checkout code that whacked another $10 off the price, bringing it down to $19.95.  Now I was interested!

   Here is how I proceeded.  I first went to the evRewards site to see which cashback portal was offering the best deal that day.  Ebates was offering 4% cashback if I used them to make my purchase at the J.C. Penney website.  Then I went to Gift Card Granny to see what kind of discount I could get on JC Penneys gift cards.  It turned out that you can buy these giftcards at a 13% discount through Cardpool, 14% through Plastic Jungle, and 15% through giftcards.com.  I already knew that I could get an extra 1% if I used Mr. Rebates to buy a Cardpool giftcard, which was the only site at the time offering Ecodes.  Since I was buying online and the sale was of a limited duration, I wanted my gift card fast. I paid for the giftcard with my 1% back credit card, bringing the total savings up to 15% for the giftcard.

  So I went ahead and purchased an eCode giftcard to J.C. Penney through Cardpool using the Mr. Rebates portal.  Then I went to Ebates, selected J.C. Penney as my merchant and was directed to the J.C. Penneys website.

   I placed my order, earning 4% back from Ebates on my $26.69 total purchase, and paid with my J.C. Penney's giftcard Ecode, for which I had just paid 85% of face value.  Net savings were 19% off the already heavily discounted price of $19.95.  

  It was a very small purchase, but it illustrates the power of stacking cash back rewards.  My slow cooker was shipped this morning.  Hopefully, by next week, I will be burning my first crockpot pot roast!