Yesterday Miles to Memories had a post on a feature that RetailMeNot offers called ‘Cash Back offers’. For those not familiar, RetailMeNot is a cash back shopping portal. This cash back section of their site is slightly different though and akin to Chase or AmEx offers. You receive a fixed cash back amount for spending above a certain threshold. For example here are some of their featured deals:
- Staples: $15 cash back for online purchases of $75+
- Amazon: Up to $10 cash back on Home, Garden, Kitchen & Housewares ($5 for $40+ or $10 for $80+)
The minimum spend requirement needs to be met before taxes, shipping and other discounts. In addition each offer has it’s own terms (e.g the Amazon offer excludes gift cards and is locked to some specific categories). Cash back will become payable within 15-30 days. If you look at the Staples deal you’re saving 20%, whereas the next best portal is offering 5%. Unfortunately this isn’t a card linked program, so you can’t stack it with other portals but it’s still worth keeping an eye on to see if you can get a bigger discount by using this rather than a traditional portal.
