Today, many people shop online. In most cases, it is really much more profitable than in regular stores. The seller is not required to pay for the retail space, as well as pay wages to employees. In addition, here you can view a much larger range and quickly find the product you need. Internet shopping is very common abroad, but the post-Soviet countries are just mastering this type of shopping. But if you know about all the tricks and intricacies of purchasing goods on the World Wide Web, you can save a significant amount of money. For example, recently more and more online shoppers are paying attention to cashback services.
What is cashback and why is it useful to work with such services?
It's easy to guess from the name that "cashback" means money back. The question is brewing: "Who will return them back to you and who needs it?"
Cashback service cooperates with a number of online stores. From the purchases of each attracted user, the site receives a percentage from the store. In turn, the service sends part of the money back to the buyer's account. The more buyers, the morethe resource gets the profit, and the more it can pay its customers. The circuit is pretty simple. Some services offer payouts of up to 30%, which is a very impressive amount, especially if the purchase was expensive. Many users are rather skeptical about such services or do not believe at all that a partial refund is possible.
Distrust of cashbackers
Oddly enough, people living in the CIS countries believe more in saving on discounts. However, if you compare promotions and cashback, the latter is much more profitable, because discounts in most online stores are nothing more than fiction. Sellers simply increase the cost of goods for a certain period of time, then to "reduce" the price and present it all as a wonderful sale. But those people who have used proven and reliable cashback sites already know that using cashback services, you can save a lot without even waiting for promotions or special offers. You are guaranteed to get back the set percentage of any purchase in the partner store of your chosen service.
Ebates.ru: reviews
Foreign users of the "cashback" system are well acquainted with such a site as Ebates. According to statistics, about 20 million people visit this site every month. The site cooperates with about 1800 different stores. What do CIS users think about Ebates? Reviews indicate that the service is reliable and consistently makes payments. However, the interface for Russian-speaking buyers is not entirely convenient. To fully use this cashbacker, you must befamiliar with at least the basics of a foreign language. Of course, the translator or the browser's function of translating the entire page comes to the rescue. But some words or whole sentences end up far from the original meaning, which misleads many visitors. This was the impetus for the creation of Ebates.ru. The reviews were immediately positive, because now it has become easy for any user to make a cashback using this resource. Despite the fact that this is the Russian-language version of the giant Ebates.com, it has a completely different interface, design and payout system. But … In the vastness of the World Wide Web, there is an opinion that Ebates.ru is a hoax. Is that right?
Ebates.ru does not pay out money to its customers?
Such a rumor circulates on the Internet to this day. With the advent of Ebates.ru, reviews of skeptics haunted many users. They wondered: "Is it worth trusting this service?" Doubts are understandable. After all, young and unreliable cashbackers can really deceive a client. This is done according to the following scheme. The cashbacker promises the buyer a certain payout percentage (usually quite large in order to attract as many "victims" as possible), the person makes a purchase, the service receives its percentage from the store, and the buyer himself "feeds" the maximum with promises of payments, but in fact - does not charge not a penny. Here is a question about Ebates.ru and became an edge.
Suspicion was that no information was posted on the giant Ebates.com about this new offshoot, create an accounta completely new one was needed, and the resource itself was registered to an individual. But over time, the information that Ebates.ru belongs to Ebates Inc. nevertheless, it was confirmed, and on Ebates.com itself they began to place advertisements about the newly formed portal. So you can trust the cashbacker.
How to use Ebates.ru?
So, you have decided to use the services of Ebates.ru. The instructions for creating an account are quite simple: you can create an account through a social network or simply enter your email address and password. Registration will not take long. In this regard, the Russian-language version is not much different from its foreign counterpart. You can then view the full list of stores and select the one you need. Immediately you will see a link to go to the site of the trading platform. You need to go exactly on it and stay on it to get a refund. If you leave the store and then just go back in there, nothing will work. It is also important to disable the addblock in the browser so that it does not block the connection between the store and the cashbacker.
How to get money?
So, you have made a purchase through Ebates.ru. How to order a payment? The money will be credited to your account a few days after the purchase, but it will not be possible to withdraw it immediately. The fact is that the service is trying to protect itself from the return of purchases. That is, you can return the goods under a guarantee or under another purchase protection program, which means that you are not en titled to commissions, because the cashbacker himself will not receive payments fromstore.
We told you about the Ebates.ru service. Reviews about the resource from users remain mostly positive, and trusting it or not is your own business. We can only advise you to make a small purchase and check how the system works first hand.