Category - Portals

Shoprunner + Portal = ? I was recently in contact with someone in the shopping portal industry and he mentioned as an aside that Shoprunner may negate portal cashback. I was very surprised to hear this since I’ve never seen anyone... Read More →

Raise Vacillates One great way to buy and sell electronic gift cards online is the Raise.com martketplace. (We wrote more about the selling part here.) A popular way of increasing the value of using Raise is to start the transaction at... Read More →

Portal Delays We often go through shopping portals as a way of accruing extra cashback or extra miles or points. How long will it be until you hear from the portal that your purchase tracked and you have pending points/cashback... Read More →

[Update: Shopathome no longer offers their cashback guarantee program.] The Guarantee Most of you are probably familiar with the idea of using a shopping portal to get extra cash back or points when shopping online. There are lots of... Read More →

Our friend over at BigHabitat reported a couple days ago that shopping portal BigCrumbs is down and “currently offline”. He offers different possibilities of what could have happened. The Big Crumbs site updated their... Read More →

5% Off eBay We’ve mentioned in the past that eBay is currently paying out on eBay e-gift cards purchased from Paypal Digital Gifts. We also mentioned that Ebates is offering 5% back on gift cards. This is a very odd phenomenon... Read More →

PPM on eBay Frequent Miler coined the term ‘Perpetual Point Machine‘ (PPM) to describe a situation where you can use a ‘scheme’ (I’d rather use the word ‘idea’) over and over again to accrue... Read More →

eBay e-Gift Cards eBay gift cards have long been available as physical gift cards via GiftCardMall on eBay. Recently, a new eBay store called Paypal Digital Gifts started selling lots of e-gift cards, including eBay e-gift cards. I was... Read More →

In my recent review of Topcashback (TCB) I mentioned that I’d never had a tracking issue that resulted in cash back not posting to my account. I guess I tempted fate because I recently had ~$300 in pending cash back suddenly... Read More →

This post contains a referral link to topcashback, if you use my link and earn $10 you’ll receive a $10 bonus and so will I. I appreciate you using my links where possible. Topcashback is offering $14 cash back per booking made... Read More →