Awhile ago Chuck did a review on Inbox Dollar which is a shopping portal hybrid site (they offer a bunch of other stuff as well). The reason we were interested in this particular portal is that they are offering 5% cash back on eBay purchases (including gift card purchases). Inbox Dollar has a $30 minimum payout and we weren’t sure how long the 5% offer was going to last, so Chuck was somewhat hesitant to recommend it.
Reader, Nobody left this comment on that original post:
Data point: Topcashback will match the 5% cashback in Inboxdollars.
Purchased several gift cards on recent ebay deals (paid $270 in total) and submitted claim yesterday. Today the cashbacks were increased to a total amount of $13.5, which is 5%.
A lot of the shopping portals offer highest cash back guarantees (I’d recommend reading this post which talks about each sites policy in detail). With some portals, you can also get a match with Giving Assistant and their 5% back with Amazon on eligible categories (you won’t be able to get a match for a category not offered by the portal). Almost all of the sites that offer this matching actually give you some type of bonus (e.g Topcashback is 101% of the other rate, Shopathome is 110% and BeFrugal is 125%) so it’s actually possible to do better than 5% back with eBay.
I know some of you don’t like managing a lot of different portals and this is one way around it. It should also make any previous deals/purchases you’ve made more profitable/cheaper.
Update 9/22: Topcashback is no longer matching these claims, read more details in this post.
