The Offer
- Receive 10% back in eBay bucks when you purchase qualifying items of $50 or more
The Fine Print
- Who’s eligible? Only invited, registered eBay Bucks participants who receive the promotional offer from eBay in My Messages are eligible. Sorry, no forwarding—the offer is not transferable.
- 10% in eBay Bucks on every qualifying item of $50 or more Promotion details
- The Promotion starts at 5:00AM PT on October 19, 2016, and ends at 11:59PM PT on October 20, 2016.
- Extra eBay Bucks can only be earned on every single item purchased that meets the minimum purchase requirement specified in the offer.
- Valid on multiple qualifying purchases made within the promotion time period. In order to qualify for the offer, you must click the email to activate.
- *Qualifying purchase excludes all items in the following categories: Classifieds, Business & Industrial, Real Estate, eBay Gift Cards (within the Gift Cards & Coupons category), Bullion (within the Coins & Paper category), and eBay Motors (including Parts & Accessories).
- Rewards are capped at $100 per transaction and $500 per Earn Period.
- Purchases must be completed during the Promotion period and paid for with PayPal before the Promotion ends.
- eBay reserves the right to cancel, amend, or revoke the Promotion at any time. Other restrictions apply. See Terms & Conditions for details.
Our Verdict
You can no longer earn eBay bucks on gift card purchases, although what’s interesting is that the e-mail they sent out says that you can earn 10% back on a gift card purchase. Unfortunately that’s just a marketing error. Do people want to still see these eBay bucks offers? This is likely the last one we will post if not. Remember to use a shopping portal if you do plan to make a purchase, you can view your best options here.
Hat tip to Danny Deal Guru
Could care less about ebay bucks. Can’t earn or use on GC’s. I’m for not posting these deals anymore.
“Zed’s Dead.” RIP Ebay
I’d still like to see these types of posts. I buy a lot on eBay. This information is very useful to me.
These are clutter now. Just like eBay and PayPal.
Still bought something useful for me today
DAMN YOU EBAY!
btw. you can still post these eBay 10% notices in the spirit of your blog. just like any other nice offer you always post. this helps your readers A LOT in a personal finance way.
Just no need to spend time writing too much about it. just make it a notice. people still read your blog to get the FYI on good crap even tho the GC angle is gone.
What’s weird is that the email I got gave a gift card and a gold coin as examples of deals for which you’d get the bonus.
Yeah and 2 of the 3 examples in the photo above are gift cards. DOC are you sure that the third party cards are not eligible?
I think it is nice to see it since I do buy stuff on ebay that isn’t gift cards, but I saw it at 9am. It really sucks that they took ebay bucks away from GC, but I totally understand why. listing fees are 10%, but on a 10% ebay day the break even or lose 1%+ if you use a portal. It would have been nice if they just left the 2% and excluded them from the ebay bucks multiplier tho… That would still make them money, but apparently that wasn’t good enough…
The big gift card sellers aren’t paying anywhere near 10% in fees, so eBay was likely loosing tons of money on gift cards on these bonus days. Particularly when people were using eBay gift cards, which were purchased at 3rd-party retailers (which eBay gives a cut to), to purchase other 3rd-party cards on eBucks bonus days… I’m sure they were hemorrhaging money from these transactions.
Odd that gift cards are not mentioned as excluded in the fine print.
Yes they are: Qualifying purchase excludes all items in the following categories: Classifieds, Business & Industrial, Real Estate, eBay Gift Cards (within the Gift Cards & Coupons category), Bullion (within the Coins & Paper category), and eBay Motors (including Parts & Accessories).
But isnt that only ebay gc, which were always excluded with that same language?
I wouldn’t be interested to see these any longer.