Many websites offer cashback on purchases if you click through their merchant link. Generally the website will get a percentage of the sale as a commission and then kick back some of that money to you. Different websites will decide to kickback different amounts and therefore it’s sometimes worthwhile for you to check around to see who’s offering you the most cashback (especially on large purchases).
In the past whenever I purchased anything from an online retailer I’d generally just go through the Fatwallet cashback portal out of habit and laziness. However I’m getting into the habit of looking around for the highest cashback I can get since Fatwallet doesn’t always have the highest cashback percentage these days.
Recently I was looking to make a purchase from Buy.com in the “home” category. I only noted what category my purchase was in because some cashback websites tier the cashback percentage depending on the category of your item. I check several different cashback websites to see what they were offering.
- Fatwallet – 3% in home & outdoors item purchases
- BigCrumbs – 4.5% in home & outdoors item purchases
- Mr. Rebates – Flat 3% cashback on any item purchases (currently $5 sign-up bonus)
- ebates – Flat 3% cashback on any item purchases (currently $5 sign-up bonus)
BigCrumbs was the site offering the highest cashback at 4.5% while all the other sites seemed to offer 3%. Spending 5 minutes to check different cashback sites netted me an extra 1.5% cashback on my purchase. Generally this is wasted time when the purchases are low amounts but if it’s more and more worthwhile the larger your purchases are.
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