I've been a Delta Skymiles member for over a year now, and also signed up for their E-Rewards program that's similar to some of the cashback sites like Cashbaq and Ebates, and I currently have 18,000 miles sitting my account waiting to be redeemed for something. How much does 18,000 miles translate to in dollars and cents? Can I get a plane ticket with it?
Delta's perspective
Well if I could sell my miles back to Delta, at the $0.028/mile rate they charge me for buying miles, my 18,000 miles would be worth a handsome sum of $504. Delta is having a "Buy Miles 50% Bonus" right now that makes it $0.019/mile, not that that affects anything since it's not possible to sell miles to Delta :)
Plane ticket worthiness?
According to the Delta Award Mileage Chart my 18,000 miles could get me a round trip flight to anywhere in the US. I might even make it to the Caribbean! Or so I thought. Their
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Review of Ebates, Fatwallet, Shopathome, Bigcrumbs, MrRebates cashback rewards
Summary of post
This is a review of some of the best cashback reward programs out there, helping you get money back for shopping online. In my experience, Ebates consistently comes out tops, followed by MrRebates, Fatwallet, Shopathome.com and BigCrumbs. However, you will benefit most if you sign up for all five cashback programs because the cashback percentage offered varies. (UPDATE: my previous review included Cashbaq - a good program that went bankrupt in 2011. Now Ebates is actively recruiting former Cashbaq members by offering to pay whatever credit was in their Cashbaq account. I've updated the rest of this post to reflect this development).
How Cashback Reward Programs Work
In a nutshell, merchants pay these cashback sites (Ebates, Fatwallet and etc) commissions to send us to the merchants. The cashback sites then give us a percentage of those commissions. Most of the sites require you to click through a trackback link that brings you to the merchant's online store and complete your purchase asap. And better still, the cashback rewarded is stackable (in addition to) any discount
This is a review of some of the best cashback reward programs out there, helping you get money back for shopping online. In my experience, Ebates consistently comes out tops, followed by MrRebates, Fatwallet, Shopathome.com and BigCrumbs. However, you will benefit most if you sign up for all five cashback programs because the cashback percentage offered varies. (UPDATE: my previous review included Cashbaq - a good program that went bankrupt in 2011. Now Ebates is actively recruiting former Cashbaq members by offering to pay whatever credit was in their Cashbaq account. I've updated the rest of this post to reflect this development).
How Cashback Reward Programs Work
In a nutshell, merchants pay these cashback sites (Ebates, Fatwallet and etc) commissions to send us to the merchants. The cashback sites then give us a percentage of those commissions. Most of the sites require you to click through a trackback link that brings you to the merchant's online store and complete your purchase asap. And better still, the cashback rewarded is stackable (in addition to) any discount
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