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How to get discounts, gifts and refunds in America

You can often hear from friends or relatives that someone either bought unreal cheap trips to a resort, or had a very cheap dinner at a famous restaurant, or got something for free. We immediately ask: "How did you do it?". In this article I want to share information about the sites that my friends and I use to get a discount on a certain thing or even get something for free, writes Andrey Boychuk in the article for Immigrant porada.

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Here are these sites:

1. Ebates - a site that saves you money. For example, you want to buy some equipment. Instead of a hardware website (for example, bestbuy.com), you type ebates.com on the Internet, and on this site you need to enter links to the electronics website.

After that, you will immediately receive information in the window about a possible discount on your equipment. This is mainly 1-5%.

The amount seems to be small and you will not get rich with it, however, if you buy often, you can save a decent amount.

Here, for example, the total amount of my discounts. As you can see, I registered on the site back in 2012 year. If you buy a lot of things online, then this site can be very profitable for you. My average for 3 months comes from $ 10 to $ 50.

 

2.Groupon и Social living - These are sites that sell discounts. For example, the site has the following promotion: dinner at an expensive Italian restaurant for $30 - while in reality it costs $80. Do you have a question about why business owners need this? This is both good advertising and an opportunity to sell many more goods or services, which in total will bring good income.
3. Coupons. If you want to make an expensive purchase, then go to ebay.com and see if someone sells a discount on the product you need. Basically, these coupons are $ 1-20 and give about 10% discounts. If you are planning a really expensive purchase, then you can save a few hundred dollars. Set yourself a mobile application site and will always be aware of all possible discount coupons that are offered. For example, if you buy a washing machine, a refrigerator, or maybe make repairs, buying a $ 500 coupon in 10% will save you $ 50. And if you also do this with ebates.com, you will be given an extra discount in the form of a cashback.
4. Rewards cards. Many stores offer their cards, which give you either an automatic discount or the possibility of accumulating points. Keep the cards of those stores whose products you really use. The savings may be insignificant, but if there are stores that you visit regularly, then why not take advantage of this opportunity and not get a discount. Once I had a whole bunch of these cards, but after a while I realized that I only used two. Therefore, and threw the rest, so as not to disturb me.
5. Member rewards is a free service or product from a company whose products you always use. For example, if the cafe where you drink coffee every morning is running a promotion where every 10th coffee is free for the owner of such a card, then why not take such a card. However, only take cards from companies whose services you actually use. There are also cards on which you must first put money in order to receive some kind of bonus. For example, Starbucks offered every 10th coffee free, but you had to put money on the card first and use it.

6. Dansdeals. If you live in America for a long time, then, most likely, you already know about the sites listed above. However, I am almost sure that you have no idea about Dansdeals. So, on this site every day, except for Friday evening, they put up various discounts on everything in the world. In addition, on the site you can find a lot of useful information about opening a credit card, charging bonuses and using discounts.

Фото: Depositphotos

Фото: Depositphotos

7. Coupon code. On many sites, when purchasing, you can enter a special code and get a discount, which I always do successfully. It takes me no more than three minutes, but it saves me some money. How to find out the code? Enter the name of the site and the word “Coupon code” into Google and, in most cases, the search engine will give you a code that you insert into the required field when purchasing a product or service.

8. Plenti card. Recently my sister told me about the Plenti rewards card. This is the same type of card as in point 4, but it covers several companies at once: Macy's, At&t, Exxon Mobil, Rite aid and others. This is very convenient if you use the services of these companies. For example, I fill up at Exxon Mobil, and my wife buys things at Macy's. We collect points, and then we can use them to pay for gas. Don't expect global earnings. You won't make much money there, but if you use these services, why not use a card?

9. Company Perks. If you, your friends or acquaintances work in large companies, for example, Verizon, Chase, MTA or similar ones, then they have access to the website of discounts of this particular company. And, most likely, they can add you as friends or relatives, so that you also use that site. My sister used to work at Chase Bank and added me to Chase Perks, and later my friend added me to MTA perks. On these sites you can get significant discounts. For example, for $ 4, you can buy a coupon for lunch or dinner, which would cost $ 20-30. Or you can get an 20% discount on your monthly phone bill. Here, for example, the site Chase perks.
10. Cable Television and Internet from Verizon. Verizon offers points rewards if you pay on time and set up automatic payment. Since we have cable and Internet at home from Verizon, I simply activated these rewards - and for each month I receive a certain number of points. You can use them to buy gift cards, which is what my wife and I do.

Caution!

Don't buy gift cards by hand or on Craigslist. I had a bad experience. I once found a loophole - I bought Starbucks gift cards at half price on Craigslist. And then I almost got into trouble when I found out that these cards were bought with stolen money from other people's credit cards. Miraculously, everything worked out. Therefore, please do not step on the same rake.

Those cards work, but when they find you, they will begin to find out where you bought them and so on. For example, I entered the words Starbucks gift cards on Craigslist and saw that they were selling a lot of them. For example, a $100 card sells for $50. I am more than sure that this is a card purchased with stolen money.

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You can combine all of the above information. For example, go to the desired site through Ebates and pay by entering the number of member rewards, for which you get an additional discount. Or buy a coupon on Ebay, and go to the site through Ebates, for which you get another 5% discount. Plus, if you pay everything from a credit card that gives you cashback or miles, you also earn money on it. That is, besides your purchase, you still get a lot of additional and nice bonuses.

About the Author: Andrey Boichuk is the founder of Immigrant Porada (iporada.com), a platform for Ukrainian immigrants in the United States. Cheerful husband beautiful wife and father of a joyful daughter.

This blog is translated from the Ukrainian language. The original article can be found on the website. "Immigrant Porada" (Ukrainian online advice platform for immigrants in the United States).

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