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Buy now on eBay for 25% cashback

November 06, 2008, 03:58 PM by Bing | 29 Comments

Christmas presents to be purchased? Budget a bit tight? Microsoft Live Search has a solution for all the parents out there being harassed for big ticket items by our kids. Why not save up to 25% right now?

I need an Xbox 360 for ankle-biter number one. What is the plan? I head on over to http://www.live.com/ and search for "xbox 360," where I see a bunch of search results. At the top I see "Xbox 360" with the gold coin cashback icon and "Live Search cashback." That's what I'm after!

Image of Live Search cashback results for Xbox 360

Clicking the result takes me to http://www.ebay.com/ to complete my purchase. But first I need to make sure I have a cashback account so I don't miss out on my discount. If you're not yet signed up, do so at https://cashbackaccount.search.live.com/cashback/welcome.aspx. Opening an account is very easy. Find out more here

This 25% cashback offer has a few conditions attached. Remember, this offer applies to Buy-It-Now offers on eBay, paid with a PayPal account, and a total of $200 rebate. The cashback $$ will be available for you to redeem 60 days after completing the purchase. By the way, this is offered in the U.S. only.

I know where I'll be doing my shopping in the lead up to Christmas.

Kok Waii Wong, Group Product Manager, Live Search

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sean

Posted On November 07, 2008, 01:28 PM

Just a question for anyone from msft search team:

there is a new software package call Debug Assistant 3.5, we have just published on software download sites some two weeks ago. when you go to yahoo, search on "Debug Assistant 3.5", you get a lot results. but if you do the same thing on live.com, you get just one or two. also, on our website (www.seinactive.com), we see spiders from yahoo visit our site almost everyday, but we can hardly see one from msft (there ip mapping database to match).  Just wondering, is it those software download sites not in your database or your spiders are lazy?

We are a software developing company, we know a thing or two about how things work. our opinion, it's not about the search, there isn't much trick about that. it is just you don't have enough data in your database, or you don't go out to collect enough data from websites. Don't understand why any website would not be in your database. you should have a full list a all possible websites in the world. and you should have been refreshing data sources from all of them at least once a  day. huge work eh, but that's what make it great.

Can anybody give me answer regarding what i said?

thanks,

Sean


Mark

Posted On November 07, 2008, 02:27 PM

In the original post, after "conditions" it reads "and a total of $200 rebate".  Is that the maximum rebate?

Thanks.

- Mark.


Brent Quick

Posted On November 07, 2008, 03:07 PM

This deal has been going on for more then two months (since I have already gotten money back) and it is great for spending money that you might have spent anyway.

Mark - $200 is the maximum per transaction not overall. Last I heard it was $2500 per year.


Leslie D. Martin

Posted On November 07, 2008, 03:26 PM

Unfortionately, eBay results don't seem to show up in Live search very often. Is that because most eBay listings do not qualify for Live Cashback, is it intentional in order to keep Cashback payments to a minimum, or is it just because Live Search is....er....(dare I say it) a poor search engine when compaired to Google or Yahoo?


Iria

Posted On November 07, 2008, 05:42 PM

Here's my question: why isn't ebay listed in the store directory? That would make it easier to buy stuff and get the rebate.  


MarcomDaney

Posted On November 07, 2008, 05:57 PM

BEWARE OF EBAY & Paypal!!!  

ebay FORCES it's users to use the payment method ebay owns!!!  Paypal.

Paypal's new amendments allows Paypal, at it's "sole discretion", to withhold users funds for 21-180 days!!!

Read what they're own members have experienced by doing an internet search of "Ebay Stockholders and Sellers Calling For Immediate Termination of John Donohoe CEO"


Anonymous

Posted On November 07, 2008, 10:39 PM

Nice offer. Any chance we might see this bumped up to 33% or 50%? After all, the holidays season is coming soon.


anon

Posted On November 10, 2008, 01:28 AM

How long is this deal going to last?  Any word?


Anonymous

Posted On November 10, 2008, 10:16 AM

So, what's the exact story with this?  What exact steps do I need to take to get this rebate?

This is what I understand:

1) Log in to Live Search

2) Search for my thing

3) Click on the eBay link on the sponsored links

4) Choose something from the search results (Can I refine my "eBay search" from here?  Or search for something else?  Or is it tied to that specific list of results?)

5) Buy it Now, paying through PayPal

6) Wait for cashback


Johnny Canuck

Posted On November 10, 2008, 04:06 PM

Are there any plans to offer the 25% cashback to

Canadians?

If not, please explain why.


hunter

Posted On November 10, 2008, 09:55 PM

Why it is not succeed when I submit the orders in ebay? ebay cheat us! cashback does not work!!!


Tommas

Posted On November 11, 2008, 06:21 AM

Kok Waii Wong is a interesting name... kok way long?


Anonymous

Posted On November 11, 2008, 08:26 AM

Excellent offer. I will try it!


Al

Posted On November 12, 2008, 03:34 AM

does this work with ebay's "make an offer"?


Andrew

Posted On November 12, 2008, 12:17 PM

One assumes that if this works, it would have at least generated some interest over the last few weeks. Since it hasn't, one assumes it doesn't.


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