Getting cashback on ebay purchases and other stores

I’ve been putting off writing this post for a while, because I wasn’t sure whether or not it was a scam. There’s a site called bigcrumbs. If you sign up, and then click through to ebay from their site before buying something, you get a cut of the sellers fees.

As an example, back in December I bought a Doepfer A-188-1 BBD from Noisebug for $175. Ebay charged Noisebug $13.85 final sellers fees (listing + a percentage of the sale price). Bigcrumbs gave me $4.99 of that fee.

Not a huge saving, but it’s free to sign up, and the more you use it, it adds up pretty quickly. As I mentioned above, I held off on blogging about this until now, because googling for ‘bigcrumbs scam’ turns up a ton of hits from sceptical people. I was about to write it off, given it’s taken two months to get anything, but today I got an email telling me that $4.89 got deposited into my paypal account. (Bigcrumbs took $.10 as a fee).

It’s not just limited to ebay either. They don’t have a huge number of music related stores right now (Just Music123, and Musicians Hut). I’ve used it to buy a bunch of other stuff too, like a $2k macbook pro from the Apple store, which should net me nearly $40 cashback when that clears. I even get cashback on my groceries from peapod

Whilst the music stores they have listed don’t sell modular synth bits, the usual modular synth stores have ebay accounts too where they sell used and new gear:
noisebug,Analogue Haven, and Big City Music

So, not a scam, and a nice way to save a few $ if you have an ebay habit anywhere near as bad as I do.

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