Ebay Coupon Codes Compared
Just in case you were thinking of getting cashback rebates on your ebay purchases using some of the coupon codes floating around, I thought I’d take a look at a few websites offering discount codes and promotional codes for ebay cashback. I found that all is not what it seems…
If you join BigCrumbs they rebate 36%… NOT of the winning bid, but of the ebay fees the seller pays. Coupon Cactus does the same, but only pays 20% of the ebay seller’s fees as a rebate.
The clear winner is ebates who pay you 3%. Yes, just 3%. How can that be the winner? Simple. It’s 3% of the winning bid.
Let’s look at the math (ooh, scary!). If ebay fees are 6% of the winning bid (that’s a ballpark number because ebay’s fees are complicated!) then unless a site offers MORE THAN 50% of ebay’s fees as a rebate, you’re better off going with the 3% flat rebate from ebates.
(if you use one of the links to ebates in this post, you’ll get $5 for signing up when you become a “qualified member”, and I’ll earn $5 too, so, hey, why not?) 
