Psst! Wanna discount off everything you buy online? Of course you do! You'd be mad not to right?! Then read on...

Ebates is primarily a shopping portal - a site which provides easy access to major trustworthy online retailers to save you the time and effort of searching them out for yourself. However, that's just a small part of what Ebates is all about because the really good thing about this site is the amount of money you can save by using them! By signing up for free with Ebates and clicking through to the shop of your choice through their onsite links you can save anything up to 25% on the shopping you do there - and it hasn't cost you a dime!

How does it work? Simple. Advertisers realised a long time ago that most traditional forms of online advertising(banner ads, pop-ups etc.) has ridiculously low response rates so went looking for new ways to drive customers towards their sites. What better way than to pay website owners on a commission basis for every sale made? And what better way for those website owners to encourage surfers to use their sites than to pay back a little of that commission to their visitors!? That's how Ebates works. When you click through to a site like Barnes & Noble from Ebates and make a purchase, then Ebates gets a commission from Barnes & Noble for sending you there. To encourage you to actually click through from Ebates instead of going directly to Barnes & Noble yourself they give you a rebate of say 1%-25% (dependant upon the store) and in that way...everybody wins! You get a discount off your shopping, Barnes & Noble gets a new customer and Ebates gets commission for sending you to them! It really is that simple.

Ebates currently has over 400 respectable, trustworthy online stores on their site, all of which will earn you a rebate of up to 25% when you log in to Ebates and click through to the site of your choice. Don't think they are full of shops you would never use either because you will find respected names like Barnes & Noble, 1-800-Flowers, Office World, Wal*Mart, etc. there, all offering rebates and discounts on the shopping you already do.

There is no need to do anything differently other than to log into Ebates the next time you intend to buy something online and click through to the store of your choice and make your purchase. The percentage cash back you will receive is shown next to each store name in their directory and once your purchase is completed you will receive a cash amount added to your Ebates account. Once this account reaches $5 or more, you will be mailed a check for that amount. Simple! More money can be accrued by signing up to certain offers on the site if you want to and by referring friends to the site as well - the first time they make a purchase using Ebates a $5 reward will be added to your account just for telling them about a way to save money online!

Can you trust them to actually pay up when you reach that $5 or more? Sure! They have after all been saving shoppers money for a long time in internet terms and are well respected for doing so. There are many similar sites which offer the same kind of thing but Ebates is the best there is for American shoppers with many more features for saving you money than I'm going to list here. Go there and see for yourself how good it is!

People who do not live in the US should check out the other sites I list here because most of the stores listed at Ebates are for US shoppers only.

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