Why you should use a Shopping Portal

I have mentioned using a shopping portal as a way to get points for travel or get cash back. These are often just a webpage with links to online shopping retailers. Airlines, banks and independant shopping portals exist so you have a range of options for how to be rewarded.

The hard part is remembering to always use a shopping portal before you click buy when you see that shiny new product on sale. Using a shopping portal is actually pretty easy. If you were going to use ABC airline’s shopping portal for example, you would go to their website and click on the link to the online retailer you wanted. From there on it is exactly the same shopping experience you are used to, except you will receive points to your ABC airline rewards account.

One shopping portal not associated with hotels, banks or airlines I have been using is Ebates.com.
It rewards you with cash back, and just for signing up you get $10.00 credit. You can choose to receive this through paypal or a check. They also have a referral program where you can earn $25.00 for referring your friends. Here is my referral link https://go.ebat.es/imsk/IOM2j6OSmI so if you sign up I will get $25.00 and you will get $10.00 (I know it is so unfair).

Another site similar to Ebates that I recently found is befrugal.com. I will get $10 and you will also get $10 for using my referral link. https://www.befrugal.com/referral/?ref=FWYEVXI

You should take a look at which portal is offering the best rewards for the retailer or product you are looking at. You can use sites like http://evreward.com/ or http://www.cashbackmonitor.com/ to see which portals have the highest reward for say Walmart.com. When I ran this search Ebates had the highest rewards in cash back at 6%. As Cyber Monday opens be sure to give shopping portals a check. Used in combination with a credit card like Chase Freedom, which is currently getting 5 points per dollar at Walmart and departent stores, you could be getting an additional 11% back on already rock bottom prices. Happy online Shopping!

Mike