eBay Bucks - Do they affect your bidding habits?

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by stlcardinalsfan

Another great way to FREELY save money is to sign up for EBATES. I've done this for a couple months and it does rack up the money. EBates allows you to start at there sight (a referral service) they automatically open a link to ebay which depending on the day gives you 1-5% cash back in the sports memorabilia category. You still also get to keep your ebay bucks too.. IT IS FREE AND GIVES CASH BACK TO OVER 2000 stores. Just click the icon below to sign up

Ebates seems too good to be true. I travel a lot for work, and another person (actually a competitor) turned me on to it a couple months back. I have yet to receive a check, but am piling up a nice little stash spending on hotels and cars ahead of the quarterly check. Just figured out about eBay, and curious to see if my purchase registers. Seems to often be a several day delay between a purchase and an actual confirmation on the account. Regardless, it's free money, and really maybe only adds 5 seconds to the process.

Guessing they in turn make a nice penny selling marketing information based on people's buying habits, etc... but given my spam filter already gets stuffed, seems like a small price to pay.