Stacking Amex Offers + eBates Birthday Week 15%

This morning I detailed how to maximize savings and rewards with eBates’ Birthday Week 15% cash back.  See: eBates 15% Cash Back Extreme Stacking game plan.

In that post, I mentioned the possibility of stacking portal rewards with Amex Offers.  So, today I combed through my Amex Offers to see which ones were also available on eBates this week for 15% cash back.

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Amex Offers + 15% cash back via eBates

Here are the options I found that were available via my Amex Offers and via eBates for 15% cash back.  For each merchant, the Amex Offer is described:

• 1800Flowers: Spend $50, Get $15
• 7 For All Mankind: Spend $250, Get $75
• Ashford: Spend $250, Get $50
• Birthday In a Box: Spend $50, Get $10
• eBags: Spend $75, Get $15
• Eve’s Addiction: Spend $100, Get $20
• Ghirardelli: Spend $50, Get $10
• Orvis: Spend $50, Get $10
• Puritan’s Pride: Spend $30, Get $10
• Rag & Bone: Spend $350, Get $75
• Samsonite: Spend $150, Get $30

11 opportunities is pretty good, right?  Not so fast…

Is 15% Cash Back a good deal?

Also in this morning’s post, I suggested checking Cash Back Monitor to see if 15% was actually a good deal.  Using CashBackMonitor, I looked at the best available portal rate for each store.  Here are the stores in which eBates is not the best current portal:

• 1800Flowers. Best alternative rate: 20%
• Ashford. Best alternative rate: 17%
• Birthday In a Box. Best alternative rate: 23%
• eBags. Best alternative rate: 20%
• Eve’s Addiction. Best alternative rate: 25%

Next, I looked at historic best rates to see if 15% or better is common.  For these stores, 15% cash back is fine, but it is not remarkable:

• Ghirardelli. Best alternative rate: 13% (historic best 15%)
• Orvis. Best alternative rate: 8% (often available for 16% cash back)
• Puritan’s Pride. Best alternative rate: 13% (often available for 15% or more)

That leaves us with only three stores which are available through Amex Offers and where 15% is a particularly good portal rate:

• 7 For All Mankind. Best alternative rate: 7% (historic best 10%)
• Rag & Bone. Best alternative rate: 6% (historic best 10%)
• Samsonite. Best alternative rate: 5% (historic best 10%)

Unfortunately, the combo of Amex Offers plus eBates 15% doesn’t yield as many great double-dips as I had hoped.

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