$10.00 for Free!

This morning I'm going to give you a step-by-step guide to getting $10.00 for free. Totally serious - no strings attached. $10.00 for free and it takes about 5 minutes to do it. The only catch is this - if you've already signed up for Ebates.com, you can't get the $10.00 because it's an introductory offer that they're using to get new members to sign up. Here's how you do it, step-by-step:

1. Go to http://www.ebates.com/doublebonusoffer/index.htm?id=1576495&eeid=17890 and register for an Ebates account. You can enter my email address as your referrer if you'd like (it will make me eligible for a bonus too!). My email address is CLTWBB and the provider is AOL.COM (don't want to spell it out exactly in case my blog gets some spam software looking at it and it starts spamming me!).
2. Go through whatever little sign-up routine you have to do on Ebates
3. When you're all signed up on Ebates, go to the Search box at the top left of the screen and type in AVON.
4. Your search results will come up and you'll see 5% cash back at Avon at the top of the list. Click on the word 'Avon'
5. Now you're being taken to Avon.com
6. On Avon.com, in the Search box at the upper right of the screen, type 'Lip Balm'
7. You'll see that they have several types of lip balm on sale for $0.69. Select any of those and add 1 to your shopping basket
8. Click on the 'Shopping Bag' icon at the very top of the screen
9. On this screen, you'll see your lip balm and under it, you'll see a field called 'Enter Coupon Code'. Type EREPFS in that field. This is a coupon code for free shipping.
10. Hit the Update Order button.
11. Hit the Proceed to Checkout button
12. Checkout on Avon.com and you're all done

Those are the steps to follow - it takes about 5 minutes. I told you it was $10.00 for free but it's actually $9.31 and a tube of lip balm (because you're buying a $0.69 tube of lip balm here). What happens now is this - Ebates kept a tracking ticket when you clicked Avon on their site. Over the next 2-3 days, they'll contact Avon to see if you bought anything. Once they receive notification that you bought something, you'll see a $10.00 credit in your Ebates account and you can either request that be sent to you via Check or via PayPal.

So...long story, short - sign up for Ebates, purchase something really cheap, and take advantage of their introductory offer! Going forward, anytime you shop online, start at Ebates. You can rack up some savings by just clicking through them and allowing them to 'refer' traffic to other sites!!