Plan on grabbing your Halloween costumes online? For a limited time, Ebates has raised the amount of cash back they are giving at select sites like Halloween Express, Costume Craze, Anytime Costumes & Lands End! During this promotion you can get as much as 9% cash back on your purchase.
The best part is that you can still use any coupon codes or promotions that the store is offering. Then, Ebates just gives you an extra Cash Back Bonus on top of it all.
Plus, on your very first purchase, you will get a bonus Cash Back of $5 added to your account!! The Cash Back really adds up fast if you use Ebates for all of your online purchases! And with the Holidays coming up, you can get a HUGE Cash Back check at the beginning of the year!!
Here are the participating stores:
- Lands End 3% Cash Back
- Halloween Express 9% Cash Back
- Costume Craze 7% Cash Back
- Anytime Costumes 9% Cash Back
So make sure you take advantage of cash back, or you are losing out on extra money!
If you want to know more about how Ebates Works… keep reading… 
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I’ve had a lot of people email and request that I tell you all how Ebates works. It is a different idea, so it can make people a little nervous to use it. But I am here to tell you that it is an awesome service that I use all of the time! And, a great way to make a little money back every time you purchase something online!
Stores like JC Penney, Victoria’s Secret, Aeropostale- they all pay Ebates to basically advertise for them. Instead of keeping the money themselves, they are willing to share it with you!
Before you shop anywhere online, I would recommend checking out if Ebates has partnered with them on their website. If they do, then you can make cash back on top of whatever deal you were getting online!
HOW TO GET YOUR CASH BACK
You will want to sign in or create an Ebates account. Then, you can search in their search engine for the store you want to shop at. Let’s say it is JC Penney.
You can then click on the JC Penney Orange “SHOP NOW” link on the Ebates site. Ebates will then forward you to the real JC Penney website. Going through this process ensures that you came from Ebates and that is how they know to give you cash back.
You will place your order just the same as you always would through JC Penney. You can still enter in promotional codes and get the same great deals. But because you started at Ebates, you will get a percentage of cash back (it is different for each store and changes all of the time). PLUS, if you are making your very first order on Ebates, they will give you a $5.00 bonus or a $10 Gift Card to Target!
After you have finished placing your order on JC Penney’s site, you can close the webpage and be done. In about 2-3 days, JC Penney will tell Ebates the amount you spent and Ebates will put the percentage of Cash back into your Ebates account. They will also add the $5.00 bonus to your Ebates account.
Once every quarter, Ebates will mail you a check or use your Paypal account to give you your cash back! It seriously is awesome! You may think that the little cash back amounts aren’t much. But, if you are always using Ebates to get cash back and still using your promo codes at the online stores, you are getting an even better deal! And it’s fun to get a check in the mail that you weren’t really expecting!
I have received a bunch of checks from Ebates over the three years. They always come and it is a great bonus- especially when you were already planning on buying something online.
Ebates also has the Paypal option to get your money back. I like that because it is an instant payment instead of waiting for a check.
I hope that answers some of your questions about Ebates! Everything is completely secure. You are not placing your orders through Ebates, but rather just changing from Ebates to the store you want to shop at. You still place your order through JC Penney, or whatever store it is and they still handle returns and any problems. Ebates just wants to pay you by starting at their website first!
Donna Shelley
Just remember this one BIG thing about how you use Ebates. DO NOT access Ebates through any other means, such as a deals blog where there is usually a link to take you to Ebates. This confuses their system and either the blog site gets this cash back or no one does. I did this last year at Christmas, and turned in over 2,000.00 in things bought through Ebates,even had the print out of each Ebates ticket # and all the confirmations from stores where I purchased, as well as the actual shipping invoices. I should have gotten a check for a bit over 300.00, but, Ebates tells me that because I went through these other links none of my purchases had been recorded,even though I had sent an envelope with all of the receipts I have mentioned,they gave me a 10.00 check just to placate me. I’m not slamming the blogs,but Ebates sent me emails, which I still have if anyone wants to see for themselves. These emails told me that these blog sites get paid for offering these links. As I said,I DO have the emails to show that this IS what they said. They basically dumped on my favorite blogs,and blamed the issue on all of them.
So, don’t use any links to Ebates! Access Ebates when you have all other portals closed, even email.