Ebates Review 2021 – Leading Cashback App

• Easily accessible:

What we like most about Rakuten Inc. and its ebates programs is their versatility that has seen the brand explore numerous less stressful ways of maximizing their user’s earnings. Traditionally, you could only access the different online stores affiliated with the brand through your account on the company website. Today however they have come up with the more versatile browser extensions and plugins that will automatically reward you with the necessary rewards whenever you shop with one of the brands affiliated with the brand.

More importantly, the company recently launched the Rakuten mobile app that is designed to ensure that you don’t miss out on potential cash backs whenever you shop using your smartphone or tablet. Note however that you will do well not to delete the site in your browser cookie and cache as this may result in losing on accumulated rewards.

• Free registration:

Registering with the site is totally free. The company will also only maintain one general type of membership implying that you don’t have to subscribe to better rewarding premium programs.

• Access to the widest range of ecommerce stores up to 2500 stores:

According to Rakuten, they have partnered with over 2500 online commerce websites across the world that offer cash backs on purchases. This includes all your favorite direct selling ecommerce sites like Target, Amazon, Walmart, and Old Navy. They have also partnered with numerous hotels across the globe that offer a fixed 10% cashback on bookings. And in addition to this, they also operate The Marketplace – an ecommerce website where you can buy goods from third-party sellers and earn cashback rewards.

• Less intrusive on your privacy when signing up:

We also liked the little intrusiveness with which the company conducts its operations. Unlike most reward companies whose complicated registration processes involve collecting as much personal data about the subscribers as possible, Rakuten doesn’t pry into your privacy and doesn’t collect such sensitive personal data as your race, income levels, or social security number.

• Not all shopping products qualify for cash backs:

One of the biggest disappointments about Rakuten is that while they have partnered with thousands of sites that have millions of products listed for sale, most of these won’t earn you the much-needed cashback. The cashback reward program is only available to a select range of products which varies from one store to another. Some of your most popular purchases are like groceries and other daily-use products won’t earn you points. The reward program can thus be seen as a creative way of inviting consumer interest in the slow-moving goods.

• The cashback percentages aren’t constant:

Unlike with such other reward sites as Survey Junkie that maintains constant point redemption rates, there isn’t a standard rate for the amount of cash you get back for qualifying purchases in a single store or across the industry. This means that buying an electric nail gun from Amazon will not always attract the same cashback percentage as buying it from any other online store. You, therefore, might want to first shop around the different stores if you are looking for better deals on rewards.

• Will only pay after 3 months:

Unlike most other cash and shopping reward companies that provide for immediate cashouts and cash redemption features, Ebates will only make quarterly payments. The cash earned here will be sent to your PayPal account or via a check that is mailed to the address you used when signing up. To qualify for the payment, you must have a $5 balance in your account failure to which the amounts are carried forward to the next quarter.

• Poor customer support:

From unanswered phone calls to unsatisfactory email responses, ebates clients report to having suffered a deal of poor customer support. These complaints are documented in the different company reviews and you might want to first check them out and gauge the impact they might have on your interactions with the company before registering with the cashback platform.