absolute best & fastest way to save money online

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Happy Monday!

Finally some nice weather in Connecticut–enough for the weeds to really start growing again!

Each of the next 9 weeks, I am going to be posting my absolute favorite ways of saving money online.  Since I have already introduced you to one of my top 10 in an earlier post (www.beautypedia.com), we only have 9 left!

For those of you who shop online regularly (and not so regularly), here’s my absolute, hands down, favorite and easiest way to save money online. 

Who’s heard of Ebates? If you haven’t, zip over to www.ebates.com ASAP!  Sign up and they give you a bonus of $5 or $10, depending on how you choose to receive it.  That’s not the best part, though, but it is not a bad start.

Here’s how it works: all you do is search for a website on www.ebates.com.  Each site that they work with automatically gives a percentage of cash back.  All you have to do is access the website through Ebates.   That’s it!  Ebates also has coupons for these websites, so you can save even more! Then, at the end of each quarter, Ebates sends you a check!

And Ebates has TONS of websites that they work with–everything from airline and travel websites to contact lenses and pet food. 

 Example: www.vistaprint.com.  GREAT for small businesses, personalized stationery, calendars, you name it–for great prices.  If you access through www.ebates.com, you will save an ADDITIONAL 10% plus whatever discounts they are offering.  Awesome!

What do you do if you have gone to a website, put everything in your cart, and are about to check out?  Open www.ebates.com in another window and see if site is affiliated with them. If they are, click through Ebates.com and go back to the sitewhere you were doing your shopping–now with extra savings coming your way! 

An easy thing that I have done is to stick a Post-It on my computer with a big “Did you use Ebates?” message.  This way, I never leave my extra savings behind.

If you want to be nice, tell them you heard about it from ktdelfau@yahoo.com…

 Happy virtual shopping!

Copyright 2008-2009 Kristin Delfau, author of Turbo-Mom's Guide to Saving Money Without Wasting Time a womens' personal finance book, and Aji Publishing.

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