The Offer
Signup for the ShopBack shopping portal (this link contains my referral code)Â
- ShopBack is offering 120% cashback on ExpressVPN.
- You can find the deal at this direct link.
- This deal is valid today only, 7/7/25. It ends at midnight PT.
The terms allow for any ExpressVPN membership plan. The most expensive one is the VPN for plan for 2 years + 4 months, and that plan is explicitly mentioned on ShopBack as eligible for the 120% cashback.
The portal does not specify that cashback is only on specific membership tiers, and so the VIP tier or Premium tier or Basic tier should all work. The VIP plan costs $209.72 and has no sales tax (AFAIK). You should get back $251.66 from ShopBack for a $41.94 moneymaker, plus some credit card points.
Our Verdict
ExpressVPN is a popular VPN service and so this is a good chance to try them out. I bought the most expensive plan which is VIP for 28 months and the cost was $209.72 without any sales tax for me. My purchase tracked in less than an hour and I got an email from ShopBack with the pending cashback details, noting that “$251.66 coming your way soon”.
Note: I only see the VIP plan option in a web browser, not when clicking through via the ShopBack app.
ExpressVPN has a 30 day money back guarantee. If there’s some issue with the portal tracking I’ll simply cancel the service within 30 days. If the portal tracks, I’ll keep the service for the 28 months. I’ll make a note to myself to cancel before the 28 months is over, if I don’t want to pay the next subscription fee.
The only real ‘risk’ with this deal is if the portal does track, yet somehow ends up not paying out (payout won’t occur until around 90-100 days). I considered that a minimal risk, and so I got in on this deal for the $42 moneymaker + some credit card points (for me it’s an extra ~$8 with the U.S. Bank Smartly 4% card).
I may also try out the VPN service if I need it, as I’ve heard of ExpressVPN in the past. I have not yet downloaded the VPN, and IÂ don’t think that would be a requirement for the portal tracking since the portal payout should be for the purchase.
Let us know in the comments how ExpressVPN compares with the others.
$5 Cashback & More
Separately, ShopBack is also offering today only $5 back on any Giftcards.com purchase. You can buy a $10 Target gift card (or gas or Lowe’s or any other) and get $5 back, or buy a $15 Starbucks gift card and get $5 back. Any gift card found on Giftcards.com works, and many have a minimum of $10 or $15.
These deals will work for new or existing users. If you are new to ShopBack, please sign up for ShopBack using my referral link and you’ll get $15 along with some other bonuses, see full details in our main Shopback review. I’ll also get a $35 bonus, so thank you!
I try to keep the best ShopBack deals updated in our original review post.
Subscribbed 7/3, waited a week no tracking info on Shopback, submitted missing cashback no response. Escalated to agent, confirmed denial, no reason, just said ExpressVPN decide who is eligible. I paid the 28 months plan 139.72, all default settings without change a thing. Well, lesson learned.
Back again as 100% cashback now (until july 13)
Payment keep failing when tried via apple pay/google pay/paypal like others said.
Tried one last time using credit card – it worked successfully.(Hate to give cc to vpn sites – guess will have to update the cards before removal soon)
not showing as tracked but shows in click history, will wait for few days
I wasn’t able to get an order through. Kept getting an error that something went wrong, please try again. I was using different devices, different networks, different emails, different payment methods. Everything failed for me.
“bad merchant” is all I see when clicking the link.
Payment keeps failing for me on both desktop and mobile, with different cc’s, using Apple Pay or not. Oh well.
same
working now
Same thing.
same. tried a few times with different methods and they all fail. gave up
Same. Will try again later.
How long did it take to track? I purchased, but nothing showed up yet.
Took about an hour for me
Hmm..been several hours for me….frustrating. I’ll probably just wait a day or two and then request a refund if it doesn’t show up.
Mine hasn’t tracked yet after 10 hours.
Not tracked over 2 days for me. Unable to raise ticket as they will allow ticket only on September !
Whatever issue expressvpn had might have affected the tracker to shopback i guess!
Should be able to submit missing cashback 2 days after clicking on store, at least it let me after waiting.
Same – submitted report after 48 hours. Haven’t heard anything from them though.
Worked for me, cashback tracked in about an hour and a half. Now to wait for it to become available…
hey
Chuck Chuck, what am I missing here. I only see $139 offer like lukerhead.
no went back to 209 for me
I purchased on desktop for $139. But mobile showed $209.
For me, on mobile I can’t find the VIP $209 option. But on desktop it’s easy to toggle to the VIP $209 option.
What do you mean by “toggle VIP” option? All I see are three plans. 2nd being the 2 year for $139
Not so relevant anymore, but for me there was a toggle on top to select the 2 yr or 1yr or 1month, and then a separate toggle to select the plan: VIP or Premium or Basic
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Same not sure its worth the possible headache for $24
Just claimed this! Similar to Lukerhead I also got a discounted rate, but added the dedicated IP option for an additional fee, bringing my total to $251.44. Worst case scenario, if it doesn’t track, I’ll take advantage of their 30-day money back guarantee.
The terms state that add-ons don’t count. Let us know if it tracks, in practice.
I’ll add a note to the post.
Can confirm it didn’t track, ShopBack reports $139.72 in spend. Was worth a shot I suppose