| Don’t Forget About Bing Cashback!
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For those who like saving money, read onward! With the news and excitement surrounding Bing having died down to not even a whisper, I thought I would cook up a post to serve both as a reminder for those who are familiar with and those who are new to Bing’s cashback program. I was familiar with it, but at the time of Bing’s launch, the cashback program wasn’t near as fruitful as it is now. Honestly, the cashback program has become the most exciting feature of Bing for me! Why? Because I do a lot of online shopping. Naturally, we all have our preferred merchants who we find typically have the lowest price of anyone out there. This is *really* where Bing’s cashback action comes into play, because I get cashback for just about every single one of my preferred outlets: Buy.com, Newegg, Amazon – you name it, they probably have some kind of cashback percentage for it. Heck, I’ve even purchased items from Ebay sellers who had Bing cashback discounts! For reference, you can find a massive list of participating online retailers right on this section of Bing. Example: I’ve recently had my eye on the SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB GPU. First, I try searching Google Shopping and sort the results by lowest price first. Then, I did the same with Bing Shopping. The results? Not counting Google Shopping’s one false-positive (the acmemicro.com link is actually a 1GB model; not the 2GB), Bing has the lowest price from Newegg with cashback factored in. Even with going to Newegg and factoring in shipping, I still come in at equally as much as Google’s first lowest of $194 (antaresdigital.com, but the site doesn’t show you how much shipping is). For good measure, I searched for the same card on Amazon.com, Buy.com and pricewatch.com. Amazon was priced higher, Buy didn’t have the card, and low and behold, the lowest-priced card on pricewatch.com is our $194 friend from Google Shopping’s results (antaresdigital.com)! And would you look at that; we have a shipping price included! It’s $10, bringing their total to $204. Newegg’s total with Bing cashback and shipping is $194, so there you go. While those aren’t savings that are going to allow you to go crazy buying scratch-off tickets at your local gas station, this is just one example. More results like this one will add up over time and there are *plenty* out there where you can save in the 10’s of dollars (and like I said, that’s especially awesome when you find cashback like that on items that are already priced the lowest you can find on the net). So, if you’re new to Bing’s cashback program or you haven’t checked it out since Bing’s launch, go ahead and give it a shot! Take about 5 things you want to buy, find the lowest price you can via Google, then go to Bing’s shopping section of the site and search for the same item. Even *if* you find your item priced lower elsewhere directly from a vendor, with Bing’s cashback applied to the same item from a different vendor with a higher cost, you still may very well end up with a lower price when all is said and done! Soooo… that’s it! Go have a field day shopping with Bing! ATTENTION DEVELOPERS: This post just made me think of a cool gadget that I’m sure one of you talented programmers out there could whip up. How about a Bing gadget that will allow you to type the name of an item you’re searching for and have it return Bing’s lowest price on that item (with or without cashback) which you can then click on to be taken to that vendor’s site? Maybe something like this already exists… but if not, I know I’d certainly help you promote it! -Stephen |
