Anybody been able to use this in the last couple of days??

Looks like the discount has dropped to only 8% at the moment.

only 8? Wow, i think i will hold off a while.

Whew, I lucked out then, I guess. I got it for 25% Friday night.

Jimi

Always looking for T222 Fatimas!

It was at 25% for most of the past month. It varies, sometimes from one day to the next. The best thing to do is put your target in your watch list and then when it changes back to 20%+, buy it.

Is this even working anymore? I tried using it an hour ago and the link no longer takes you to Ebay. Can anyone post a link that has worked recently?

Thanks

Could someone explain what you are talking about ? A discount on Ebay ? Let me know what I need to do. I buy alot on there without any discounts. Thanks Mike

Can anyone from the Great White North (Canada) confirm that they can see the link. I only get the ebay.ca links with no advertisement for the cashback in the grey area. First time poster, long time lurker. Hello everyone!!!

I received 25% back on a purchase today.

Hi guys,

I have a couple hundred "pending" in this account and haven't any idea how long it's been sitting there. Anyone know how long until the funds are actually "Available'?

Their FAQs are intentionally confusing/vague. Thankyou, Steve

Here's the info off of the website:



Q: What does it mean when my Live Search cashback is pending, available, in process or rewarded?

A: If your cashback savings is:



Pending - We wait up to 60 days (and in a few cases 90 days) after your purchase for possible returns, and then your cashback savings will be available for payment.



Available - When your total cashback balance is at least $5, your cashback reward is shown as available and you can request the reward.



In process - We're processing your request for your cashback reward, which you will receive about 7 days after requesting it.



Rewarded - We have deposited or sent the requested cashback reward.



The screenshot shows the purchase being made on October 14 so you should be able to cash it in around mid December per the 60 day pending period. Hope this helps!

Thanks Doug. that sux lol


Has anyone cashed in yet?.. Does it take a full two months?

Looks like a 25% rebate is back for now.

Frank

Hey Steve,
Well buddy, I'm only replying to your question cause you asked I really don't like to be the barer of not so good news, if I don't have to. I found out by waiting one day at a time.
After you've been waiting for 60 days to get your cash, you'll

Life's Grand,
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I believe if you click on the "pending" link, it will give you the actual days left until it will appear in your account.

how many times are you allowed to use this?

I believe it's now 12 times up to a max of $2500/year. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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I am correct. Here are the relevant rules:

The Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program provides cashback for up to 12 qualifying purchases per account on www.ebay.com. The amount of cashback will be determined by eBay, specified at the time of checkout on the "purchase review page" and equal to a percentage of the sale price (excluding shipping and handling fees, insurance fees and other such fees) ("Cashback Rewards"). The maximum amount of Cashback Rewards per qualifying purchase is $200.00 USD. In addition, all Cashback Rewards (including Cashback Rewards earned in connection with purchases made on websites other than www.eBay.com) are subject to the annual $2,500.00 per person cap set forth in the Program Terms.


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Jon - last time I checked that is correct. This particalar eBay promotion can be used 12 times up to $200 each time (the limit was 3 when the program started). Microsoft Live cashback (from any of their partners, including eBay) is capped at $2500 per anum.

The 12 uses is per ebay account, but the $2,500 per annum limit is per person.

i'm sorry. i am a reasonably intelligent guy but i cannot get to ebay sales offering for this cashback.
any help with links or

Here's the link

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=lego+table&go=&form=QBRE

Then press on the 25% cash back link

It will take you into an ebay search with the 25% cash back at the top.

When you purchase something BIN within an hour, the 25% cash back will show up on each page.

-Alan

i just used it and it seemed to work...we'll see!



peter ullman

It did work...yea...$55 back...woo hoo!

I just tried all kinds of searches and couldn't get any eBay auctions to come up.

Try lego table.
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You can also try the following: Topps, T206, baseball cards, wii ebay, iphone ebay.

Anybody get instant refunds to their account?

My wife got an instant refund Wednesday instead of the 60 day waiting period.

I received an instant refund last week too. All the others I've done have the waiting period.

As of right now, it's up to 30% again!

Thanks for the response. I got it working again with eBay last night.

Somehow I had been in a search area with results I had never seen before. It was showing an item with a listing of all the stores that had it, the price, the cashback discount and the net price.

Yes....30% right now!

It still caps the total amount at $200.

I just received Instant Cashback.

Was that your first purchase using this feature, or have you purchased before?

30%!
Made my first transaction and the cashback is already listed as pending.
Thanks for posting!

so, i bought an item on ebay with a 30% cashback offer. after completing the transaction, there was a link that said "get cashback" to set up the required microsoft cashback account. after clicking the link, i repeatedly get a message that says "We are having technical difficulties. Please try again later!" has this happened to anyone else out there? what are the odds that i'll ever see that 30%? god bless ebay!

Al. I also got the error message yesterday. I did get the right page through the e-mail they sent me. It was titled "You're eligible for cash back" There is a link in that e-mail.

thanks, doug! do you (or does anyone else) know when the annual $2500 cap resets? can i save up to $2500 by december 31 and then save another $2500 in 2009? or does the annual cap begin on the day you joined the cashback service? or, alternatively, does the year begin with your first purchase? thanks for you help!

Gotten from they're website. "You can earn up to $2,500 in cashback savings every calendar year! We want cashback rewards to go to a broad variety of consumers who search and shop on Live Search for their personal purchases. If a single purchase causes you to meet and also exceed this cap, you can still earn all the cashback savings associated with that purchase, provided that all other eligibility requirements are met."

I believe a calender year means it starts over in January.

From Ebay's terms and conditions:

1. Cashback Program
The Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program provides cashback for up to 12 qualifying purchases per account on www.ebay.com. The amount of cashback will be determined by eBay, specified at the time of checkout on the "purchase review page" and equal to a percentage of the sale price (excluding shipping and handling fees, insurance fees and other such fees) ("Cashback Rewards"). The maximum amount of Cashback Rewards per qualifying purchase is $200.00 USD. In addition, all Cashback Rewards (including Cashback Rewards earned in connection with purchases made on websites other than www.eBay.com) are subject to the annual $2,500.00 per person cap set forth in the Program Terms.

sounds good. but i'm still not sure how to interpret "If a single purchase causes you to meet and also exceed this cap, you can still earn all the cashback savings associated with that purchase" with the statement that you can not exceed $200 cashback for any one purchase. anyone want to take a shot at that? thanks!

Since purchases are pending for 60 days anything bought now is going to clear into next year. Anyone know if it counts for this year when the purchase was made or next year when the cashback is credited?

Al -
I think that statement refers to the Cashback will give you up to $2500 while Ebay caps it at $2,400 (12 eligible purchases capped at $200).

My guess, and it is only a guess, that Cashback will make up the $100 for eligible purchases. That's my interpretation. To me it makes sense, but you probably have to ask Cashback to make up the $100.

Doug -
It's calendar year...in part of Microsoft's Terms & Conditions
"You may earn up to Two Thousand Five Hundred U.S. Dollars ($2,500.00) of cashback rewards in a calendar year. You may earn Live Search cashback rewards on purchases that you complete in the same web browsing session after clicking on advertisements or listings in the Live Search service or the Live Search cashback service."...

It's pretty tough to type this so it doesn't seem so confusing, but what I was wondering is that by per year do they go by when the purchases were made or when the cash back is credited? If I buy a card today the purchase is occurring this year, but with the 60 day pending period I won't actually get the cash back until next year. To try and simplify it a little more, I'm not sure if they are going by the date you buy the item or if it doesn't count as a completed transaction until the cashback is credited.

Got this in my Ebay email this morning:

Here's how to save up to 40% with a coupon + Microsoft Cashback:
1. Search for an item on www.live.com.
2. Click the sponsored ad with the Microsoft cashback symbol You'll be taken to eBay.com.
3. Make sure the item is Buy It Now and the seller accepts PayPal. If the item is eligible,
you'll see a cashback notice on the "commit to buy" page.

Tell me about it!
I just used the Microsoft Cashback + eBay coupon and saved $215 on a new Blackberry Bold...

This has to be helping dealers. I just bought a few cards this past week at 30% off and 40% today with coupon. Now those Buy It Now's don't seem so high. This will also encourage dealers to sell more Buy It Now's at a higher cost knowing their customers are getting 30% off.

Quick question, can you use this to purchase multiple items from a seller or is this good for one item at a time?

Mike - it has helped me both as a buyer and seller - I've closed deals on cards with sellers using the $200 to bridge the gap and I listed my cards on eBay, adding the eBay/Paypal fees to my prices and have had some decent success there so far.

This is costing Microsoft millions of dollars, and I don't understand the business reason behind it, but I don't mind one bit.

Now it's back down to 20%. Maybe they are expecting a rush on people trying to get the rest of their 12 uses in before the end of the month.

Yes still 20% however, instant cashback for me this time, no waiting.

It's like the frigging Dow Jones. Now it's down to 15%

>>This is costing Microsoft millions of dollars, and I don't
>>understand the business reason behind it, but I don't mind one bit.

They are trying to get people to use the Live search engine. It's
pretty simple and I wouldn't be surprised if they had 50 million
dedicated to the project. If they get you to convert from Google or Yahoo
to Live that is pretty significant. I know I use Live as much as I use Google
since the promotion started and never used it before that.

Did they stop doing this all of a sudden?? The discount was 15% this morning and I just tried it and there wasn't any discount at all!

A real shame. I had some BINs spotted and with the 30% cashback was good to go until the 30% became 15% and now 0%. I guess we just check daily to see if it goes back up again....

tbob it's at 15%, if u don't get it just refresh the page eventually it'll come up.

Quan, I just checked again and it still is 0 on my computer

After a few refreshes of the live search screen the 15% did finally appear next to the ebay link, but when I clicked on it there was no mention of it on the ebay site.

This is truly wacky! The 15% appeared this morning after many page refreshes but then at 1pm CST, it disappeared again altogether! I am going to keep checking and refreshing all weekend in the hopes that it will bounce back to 30% again...

8% now. If Microsoft 's goal was to see how many hits they could get, they are probably smiling. Awful lot of folks clicking and refreshing to see what the frigging number is now. It's like a wheel of fortune...

I wonder how many sellers are marking their "Buy it Now" inventory up by the same percentage as the cashback live?
They have a place here that advertises suits at 75% off, but the public fails to realize that the suits go from $750 to $2000 immediately before the sale takes place.

I just now checked it and it's back up to 15% although it took about 10 refreshes before it came up.

Hi Andrew,
I used cashback live last week on a Green Cobb and saved $200. I was considering bidding on an auction for another card that had an opening bid of $999. I watching the auction all week, and it closed without any bids. I kept an eye on the card, hoping that it would resurface as a BIN for $999, then I would pull the trigger. Guess what, the card was relisted with a BIN of $1199.

I'll be watching to see what happens with this card. Maybe I should just email the seller and ask him to relist the card with a $999 BIN and I will take it.

Rick

Rick - If you want the card, I'd definitely contact the seller with that offer.

Matt- I think what Rick was going to do was to hit the BIN for $999, get $200 back so he would buy the card for $799. With it currently at 8%, if he asks the seller to list it as a BIN for $999, he gets $80 back and it costs him $909, $110 more than what he wants to pay for it.

Or maybe he is willing to get it for $909...

Bob

Bob, you are correct. I was hoping for a BIN of $999, with a 20% discount, and pick up the card for $800.

Rick

>>..hoping that it would resurface as a BIN for $999, then I would
pull the trigger. Guess what, the card was relisted with a BIN of $1199.

A lot of sellers on EBay are factoring in the rebate to their sell prices
especially on things like gift cards. For some reason they feel they are
entitled to part of the rebate you might get. There are $500 gift cards for
overpriced places like Saks with BINs of $600 being offered. I think you
need your head examined if you give a seller any part of your rebate.

Sounds like that's what may have happened with your Green Cobb.
MAYBE make an allowance for the sellers fees but that would be it
and that is being generous. A seller does not deserve a cut of your
rebate. Let's see - I do all the work, have to wait on the rebate and
I get to give a seller a healthy cut of it up front? Sounds great.
Maybe the seller will include a jar of vaseline with the purchase.

http://cgi.ebay.com/500-SAKS-FIFTH-AVENUE-GIFT-CARD-CERTIFICATE_W0QQitemZ350134796510QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Gift_Certificates?hash=item350134796510&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

now 8%....must be the economy.

I am hoping for 25-30% on Monday.

Bob/Rick - I understood that; I was suggesting he contact the seller with the offer of a $999 BIN so that it would be $800 post rebate.

Based on past fluctuation, I would expect the rebate to get back up to 20 or 25% sometime this week.

While this may be boosting Microsoft's page hit numbers, I certainly don't use it for my internet searches now - I just use it for the rebate.

Still at 8%. It seems like a lot of us are anxiously waiting for it to hit 30% again, probably a lot of sellers using BINs too...

"now 8%....must be the economy."

Well, we'll just have to find someone to blame for that. Won't we?

Wednesday....still at 8% (yuck)........anyone else buy something using their discount from somewhere other than ebay? I did and it seems to be a little trickier to get your doe. I had to fill out a cash back claim form. And am waiting for a response from MSN.

A search on "overstock electronics" is currently bringing up 20% for me. Other search terms still at 8%.

Hello and Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays everyone!
I have been out of the country for 10 days and just got back and noticed the cashbacks seems to have dried up and blown away.
Has anyone been able to find any offers on ebay with this or any other type of savings? Thanks.
tbob

It seems like it disappeared shortly after it dropped to 8%. I haven't gotten it to come up in the past two weeks.

There was an article I read in the WSJ yesterday about ebay, that said the promo with Microsoft ended December 17th. Hopefully it might come back after the holidays are over!