iBotta Portal Doesn’t Work for Gift Cards on eBay Anymore

Shopping portals for eBay no longer work for third-party gift card purchases since a few months ago. The one portal that remained was the iBotta app. They were paying 2%, then lowered it to 1%, and consistently tracked gift card purchases on eBay.

Yesterday, iBotta overhauled their app design. They also added terms excluding any kind of gift card from earning cash back on eBay.

No cash back will be earned on the purchase of gift cards or gift certificates of any kind

A friend made a gift card purchase yesterday using iBotta and the app denied the cash back. “Unfortunately, your purchase did not qualify for cash back.”

Ibotta made a positive change to the app that you no longer have to Unlock Rebate for online  purchases – it now works more like an ordinary online shopping portal. We’ve updated our iBotta review to reflect that change.

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Zack
Zack (@guest_410546)
May 25, 2017 15:35

How do you guys even find this? I was not even aware of its existence and I dont think it’s on cashbackmonitor? 😀

William Charles
Admin
June 6, 2017 23:37

They claim they paid out $100,000,000 last year.

Rose
Rose (@guest_410526)
May 25, 2017 14:36

Ibotta is a tricky company. They refused to cashback me the purchases from Boxed.com. They used all kinds of excuses not to credit. I’d suggest to avoid it.

joe
joe (@guest_410943)
May 26, 2017 14:35

pretty sure boxed refused to credit them. i get my boxed cashback declined almost everywhere.

Rose
Rose (@guest_410947)
May 26, 2017 14:51

But why Ibotta used all kinds of different, ridiculous reasons not to cashback? If Ibotta advertises 10% cashback for Boxed, Ibotta needs to honor it.

ted
ted (@guest_410235)
May 24, 2017 20:09

Never mind, found it 🙂

ted
ted (@guest_410234)
May 24, 2017 20:08

Hey DoC,

Can you please create a dedicated iBotta referral link? They’re running a promo of 30$ for 3 referrals.

chaseaholic
chaseaholic (@guest_410186)
May 24, 2017 18:30

RIP