Should I Sign Up For Ebates?-Yes, Here’s Why

 

You may be asking yourself, “Should I sign up for Ebates?”

I have been using Ebates for about four months now, and it has been working out great for me.

For the rest of this post I want to go through what exactly Ebates is and how it works.  I will add a few “Ebates buttons” in the post as well.  Once you have read the post (or sooner by clicking HERE), you can click on either of these buttons to sign up for you own free Ebates account.  This will be an affiliate link, in which I will earn a bonus if you sign up.  It won’t cost you anything, and you will be helping me help you 🙂

Let’s get started.

So What Exactly Is Ebates?

Ebates has a very simple business model based around affiliate marketing.  They have set up relationships with over 2000 retailers who are willing to pay Ebates a commission for sending customers (you) to their websites.  Ebates in turn collects those commissions and splits them with you.

It is a win for the retailer, because you are making a purchase on their website (some even offer in store cash back options in case you are shopping via a brick and mortar store).

It is a win for Ebates, because they collect an affiliate commission based on your purchases.

And ultimately, it is a win for you because you get half of the commission they collect in the form of a cash back rebate.

 

 

Should I Sign Up For Ebates?

 

How Does Ebates Work?

Some of you might be wondering just how cumbersome it would be to actually go through the process of shopping through Ebates to get to your cash back.

The best way to describe the process is to offer an example:

Let’s say you wanted to buy shoes for your child.  You are a fan of TOMS, because for every pair of shoes you buy, the company will donate a pair to someone in need.  You login to Ebates and see that TOMS is a retailer who has a relationship with Ebates.

This is great news!

You were going to spend money at TOMS regardless.  Now you can access the website through Ebates, and collect a cash back rebate of 4%.  Sometimes they even offer additional savings, such as this one below:

 

 

For this example, you would get and additional $10 off $100 or $25 off of $250 PLUS 4% cash back.

This is so simple to do it is a no brainer.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t want take the extra step of logging into Ebates and searching for a store every time I want to buy something online.

Apparently I am not alone.  Ebates has partnered with Chrome to form an extension that you can add to your browser.

 

 

By adding the Chrome Extension to your computer, you bypass having to log into Ebates before shopping at your favorite websites.  All you do is type in the website (or search Google for it) name of where you want to shop and you will have the option to click the top right hand corner to apply your Ebates cash back, if that retailer is part of the Ebates program.

Going back to our TOMS example from above, all you would need to do is type in www.toms.com into your browser and you would see this:

 

 

All you would have to do next is click on the red rectangle in the top right hand corner.  You will see it says “Activate 4% Cash Back.” Next, start shopping.  When you check out, any promo code available through Ebates.com will be already applied.

You can then log into your Ebates.com account and see how much you saved.  Here, you can also see when those savings will be made available to you.

Talk about simple!

You are going to shop online anyway, so you might as well earn some cash back for it.  Not to mention, you also get bonus for referring people to Ebates.com once they sign up.

I trust this answers the question: “Should I sign up for Ebates?”

So here is what to do next…

1.  Click this image below and sign up for your own Ebates.com account:

    2.  Send an email, text, snapchat, whatever, to your friends and family so they can join as well.

3.  Put some time aside to respond to all your friends and family. They are going to reach out to you and thank you for being          awesome.