Terms & Conditions

Mr. Rebates utilizes commission-based affiliate marketing from our merchant partners ("Affiliate Merchants"). Our Mr. Rebates "Members" share in these commissions via "Cash Back Rebates".

To ensure that you, as a Mr. Rebates Member, fully understand what you will be paid for, when you will be paid, what rights you have as a Member and what our responsibilities are to you, we have created this document, "Terms and Conditions".  By becoming a member of the Mr. Rebates web site, you agree that you have read, understood, and agreed with the following Terms and Conditions, and consent to be bound by all said Terms and Conditions, including any future amendments or updates.

Program Overview

Mr. Rebates offers Cash Back Rebates by working with online retailers utilizing affiliate marketing. As a Mr. Rebates Member, you will be automatically credited, subject to the agreement terms listed below, a specified amount of Cash Back Rebates of the net purchases or a specified flat amount for purchases or offers made by you through the Mr. Rebates website at Affiliate Merchants designated by Mr. Rebates. In addition, you may receive Cash Back Rebates for participating in such other activities as may be designated by Mr. Rebates from time to time by amendment to this Agreement setting forth the specific terms.

Cash Back Rebates that are earned by you as a result of a purchase from Affiliate Merchants will be held in an account maintained by Mr. Rebates that is accessible online.  Cash Back Rebates can be requested as payment via check, Paypal. Venmo or Amazon Gift Card once the amount in your "Available Rebates" account equals or exceeds $10.00 US Dollars . You, as the Member, must request payment through the appropriate mechanism on the Mr. Rebates web site.

Mr. Rebates is not responsible for the products or services offered by the Affiliate Merchants. Mr. Rebates is responsible only for establishing and maintaining your account based upon the information you provide, posting the purchase information provided by the Affiliate Merchants and compensating valid members who request payment of Cash Back Rebates.

Eligibility

The program cannot be combined with other reward mechanisms including but not limited to other cash back/points/miles websites.  Usage of other reward mechanisms in addition to Mr. Rebates will cause cash back rebates to not be reported from affiliate merchants and no manual adjustments will be given in these cases.

Any attempt to accumulate Cash Back Rebates by means of an automated machine or computer, scripts, software computerized or automated process, or through the use of multiple accounts is expressly prohibited. Mr. Rebates will cancel a member's account and that member will forfeit all Cash Back Rebates earned if they are found to be manipulating the system.   Cancellation of a member account due to any of the above prohibited activities or system manipulation is at the full discretion of Mr. Rebates.  Mr. Rebates reserves the right to pursue such prohibited conduct to the fullest extent of the law.

Members must maintain one unique account and any duplicate accounts are subject to cancellation.  Determination of what is a unique account is at the sole discretion of Mr. Rebates.  Duplicate accounts can result in cancellation of account(s) or removal of sign-up bonuses and/or referrals.

The Program is currently offered for purchases made through links on the Mr. Rebates web site. You must have Internet access and a valid working email address to receive the privileges and benefits of participation in the Program.

In cases of suspected purchase fraud, false identities, duplicate/ multiple accounts or any other non compliance issue, Mr. Rebates' reserves the right to disable any account suspected of any of the said offenses which includes restricted access to the account as well as forfeiture of cash back.

If a compliance review is requested by a disabled account, Mr. Rebates will first ask for full identification of the customer (government picture id or equivalent) that must match the customer name and address before a compliance review will be opened. A compliance review will follow Mr. Rebates' internal procedures to determine if a customer has or has not violated the terms and conditions. If terms and conditions are considered violated (in Mr. Rebates' sole discretion), all cash back will be forfeit and the account will remain disabled / closed.

The program is only offered if customer agrees that an order number / reference, order amount and order date can be utilized by Mr. Rebates to award cash back.

Refer a Friend Program

A "Referral" is deemed as any new, unique member of Mr. Rebates that registers either under a referral link given from Mr. Rebates or by the new member providing an email address of another existing member in the registration process.  If a referral link is clicked by a potential new member and the new member provides a referral email address that is different from the referral link's email address, the referral is awarded to the email address entered in the registration process.

Potential members who do not initially register at Mr. Rebates are given a persistent cookie tagged with a referral link's original referrer ID.  If the potential member signs up on a future date and the cookie is still present on their web browser, the referral will be awarded given all other conditions are met in these terms and conditions.  Mr. Rebates makes every effort for the referral tracking system to be accurate but cannot be responsible for cookie tracking that is disrupted due to visitor's clearing cookies, changing computers or utilizing any other mechanism that could potentially disrupt referral tracking. 

Determination of a "Referral", when in question, is at the sole discretion of Mr. Rebates.

Referral purchases are awarded at a rate of 20% of the original rebate and are posted to the original referrer's account.  The referral bonuses are automatic and are credited daily within 24 hours of the original rebate being posted.  Referral rebates are not rewarded on manual customer service adjustments to any referral account.

Mr. Rebates provides four basic ways to refer members including referral email templates, text links, banner links, and the ability for others to provide an email address of the referrer in the registration process as given on this webpage: http://www.mrrebates.com/raf/refer_a_friend.asp

'Spamming' other individuals to join the Mr. Rebates program via unsolicited email, direct mail, newsgroups, message boards, or any other means is strictly prohibited in the Refer a Friend program.  Mr. Rebates reserves the right to remove a member from the Mr. Rebates' Program if they are found to be 'spamming'.  It is the sole discretion of Mr. Rebates to determine if a user is 'spamming'.

Referral text links, banner links or referral email addresses should only be posted on websites that the member has direct ownership such as personal websites, personal blogs, personal facebook pages, personal Twitter accounts, etc.  Please respect posting guidelines on any public forum, blog, auction, etc. and any referral posting deemed inappropriate by Mr. Rebates will be asked to be removed as detailed below.

Furthermore, Mr. Rebates reserves the right to prohibit any referral mechanism deemed inappropriate in Mr. Rebates' sole discretion.  This includes but is not limited to the following types of referral mechanisms:

* Trademark violations of either Mr. Rebates' affiliate merchant partners or other trademark violations.
* Inappropriate content such as hate, porn or violence content.
* Any pay per click ad purchase in a search engine for any keyword. (I.E. Google, Yahoo, etc.)
* Content intended to falsify or mislead consumers about Mr. Rebates.

Any content that is deemed inappropriate by the Mr. Rebates' compliance department will be asked to be taken down with one warning email.  If the said content is not removed within 3 business days or if the content is found again at a later time, the member's account will be disabled until further notice.  The member will forfeit any current cash back, referrals and/or future privileges.

A referral may be removed by request of the either party by contacting the customer service department via the Help section of Mr. Rebates.

Referral rebates (not regular cash back rebates) will be totaled for each calendar year and a 1099 form will be provided after a valid W9 form has been signed and completed by any member who exceeds $600 in referral rebates for that calendar year.  The 1099 form will be provided within IRS deadlines if a valid W9 is received within those IRS deadlines. The total referral rebates include the referral rebates that were paid out in each respective payment request for that calendar year.

Self referral is not allowed within the Mr. Rebates' Refer a Friend program which can include separate accounts registered in the same household.  Determination of what a 'self-referral' consists of is at the sole discretion of Mr. Rebates.  If Mr. Rebates deems two accounts as self-referrals, Mr. Rebates reserves the right to suspend the accounts, reverse referral rebates or take any other action that would remove the referral structure.

The Refer a Friend program is subject to change at any time per Mr. Rebates' sole discretion.

Earning Cash Back Rebates

To be eligible for Cash Back Rebates you must make a 'Qualified Purchase'. In order to make a 'Qualified Purchase', you must satisfy the following criteria: 

1. You must have cookies enabled on your Web browser. 
2. You must make all Qualified Purchases by clicking on the 'Affiliate Merchant's' link that appears on the Mr. Rebates site, and be successfully connected to the Affiliate Merchant's site based on that click. 
3. You must complete the 'Qualified Purchase' during the same session immediately following the initial click-through to the Affiliate Merchant's site.
4. Discount codes, coupon codes or promotion codes that are NOT supplied by Mr. Rebates can negate a 'Qualified Purchase'.
5. Purchase must not be made with a gift card, points method or gift certificate as part of the payment method.

Members will be awarded a specified percentage of the purchase price of the order (minus taxes, shipping, fees, etc.) in Cash Back Rebates.  For example, if 2% is specified as the award for shopping at a specific merchant and a user purchases $100 worth of goods at that merchant through a Mr. Rebates link then that user has earned $2.00 in their Mr. Rebates Account.

Certain cash back restrictions can apply to select merchants. It is the members' responsibility to review all restrictions that are present on the merchant's respective coupon restrictions page regardless of where the merchant is clicked on the Mr. Rebates' website. 

Also, the following purchases at ALL merchants do not qualify for rebates:

* Gift Certificate / Gift Card / E-Gift Card purchases
* Purchases made with a gift card, points method or gift certificate
* RX prescriptions
* Pet prescriptions
* Extended warranty products
* Recurring monthly subscriptions (excluding magazine subscriptions from magazine subscription websites)
* Trial and free products
* Any order that includes back-ordered items and monthly delivery products such as 'auto-ship' products and 'wait-list' items
* Any order that originates outside of the U.S. based version of the merchant (Canada, UK, etc.)
* Any order that is deemed a high-volume / reseller order as determined by the merchant or Mr. Rebates' sole discretion

Mr. Rebates makes no guarantees that cash back will be rewarded on purchases even if all steps are followed for a 'Qualified Purchase'.  When a rebate inquiry claim is filed by a member, Mr. Rebates customer support will contact the merchant in question and will seek a resolution but Mr. Rebates will not offer the rebate in question unless the merchant agrees to pay Mr. Rebates for that particular rebate.  If after 4 weeks, a merchant does not resolve the rebate issue, this will constitute non-payment from the merchant and the rebate inquiry cannot be paid.

Determination of whether or not a purchase made through an Mr. Rebates 'Affiliate Merchant' is a 'Qualified Purchase' is at the sole discretion of Mr. Rebates. Mr. Rebates is not responsible for tracking problems resulting from incorrect usage of the Mr. Rebates site, disabling cookies, computer issues resulting from unknown causes such as third-party software or other issues, merchant partner errors/omissions or from any other failure of tracking mechanisms.

The appropriate Cash Back Rebate information accrued from a Qualified Purchase from an Affiliate Merchant will be posted to the Pending section of your personal account within 30 days from notice thereof to Mr. Rebates by an Affiliate Merchant. Once we receive payment for your transaction and the return period defined by the Affiliate Merchant has expired, the Pending Cash Back Rebates balance, adjusted for returns or other such variables, will be moved into the Available Cash Back Rebates section of your account. Your Cash Back Rebates, according to the amount indicated in the Available Cash Back Rebates section of your account, will be eligible for request of payment when you have exceeded $10.00 in your account.

If a discrepancy occurs in an Mr. Rebates member account such as a rebate not being credited to an account and the Mr. Rebates member believes he/she made the purchase through Mr. Rebates, then the member must contact Mr. Rebates via our Customer Support forms within 90 days of the purchase date of the goods/services with proper documentation/proof of purchase.  Failure in contacting Mr. Rebates within that 90 day period will result in no customer support rebate inquiries to the merchants for the said orders/purchases.

Please note that some merchants do not allow claims to be opened on behalf of the customer (eBay, etc.).  In these cases, the restriction will be posted in the appropriate "restrictions" area for each respective merchant and no claims can be filed for that merchant as such. In cases where no claim can be filed, Mr. Rebates will not be compensated and will not provide cash back.

In the case where a customer is filing "excessive" claims, Mr. Rebates' reserves the right to disable filing claims for an individual customer per merchant or for all merchants.  The definition of "excessive" claims will be at the sole judgement of the Mr. Rebates' customer service department.

Cash Back Rebates awarded to you are subject to adjustments for returns, cancellations or reversals by each respective merchant for any reason. In case of return or cancellation, Mr. Rebates retains the right to reverse account credit. In addition, Mr. Rebates reserves the right to make adjustments to Member accounts at any time in Mr. Rebate's sole discretion. If you disagree with any adjustments made to your account your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the Program.

In the event that a Participating Merchant shall withhold any portion of the fees payable to Mr. Rebates on account of a Qualified Purchase, Mr. Rebates reserves the right to withhold the same amount from the Cash Back Rebates credited to your account based on such purchase(s).

In the event of a Affiliate Merchant bankruptcy or non payment of owed commissions from any Mr. Rebates' Affiliate Merchant, Mr. Rebates has the right to enact the following procedures to Member cash back:

* All cash back for said Affiliate Merchant that has not physically been paid out both in "Pending", "Available" or "Processing" status will move to a "Disputed" status.
* This "Disputed" cash back will be shown in the customer Account Balance page and cannot be requested as payment unless this cash back is collected by Mr. Rebates or their affiliate provider partners as detailed below.
* Mr. Rebates will make every reasonable effort to collect this cash back working with the affiliate providers that also collect funds from said Affiliate Merchants.
* If the commissions are collected from the said Affiliate Merchant within 90 days of the cash back moving to "Disputed" status, the "Disputed" cash back will immediately move to "Available" status and the Member may request that cash back as a payment of their choice.
* If the commissions are not collected from the said Affiliate Merchant within 90 days of the cash back moving to "Disputed" status, the "Disputed" cash back will be forfeit and removed from the Member account since Mr. Rebates has no commissions to fund the "Disputed" cash back transactions.

Use of Online Coupons

Mr. Rebates also provides online coupons as a free service to its members.  These online coupons are entered in by our administrative staff on a daily basis.  Mr. Rebates is not responsible for the redemption, errors/omissions or expiration of online coupons and it is the member's responsibility to make sure that a discount, % off, special pricing, or free offer is present in the checkout process of an affiliate merchant.  Coupons are generally not valid with any other offer from a specific merchant unless otherwise noted.

Coupon codes obtained outside of the Mr. Rebates website can nullify a cash back rebate given for a particular merchant.  Mr. Rebates reserves the right to cancel any cash back rebate because of coupon codes that are used from external sources other than Mr. Rebates.

All offers and promotions on this site are subject to change without notice. Mr. Rebates provides a venue for obtaining the information contained in this site and has no control over the legality of any coupons or other offers made by vendors, the ability of any of the vendors to complete the sales in accordance with the offers, or the quality of the goods offered by the vendors. Mr. Rebates has no control over whether vendors will honor the offers shown on this site and does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this site. In the event you have a dispute with a vendor in any way relating to this site or the use of information from this site, you agree to waive and release Mr. Rebates from any and all claims, demands, actions, damages (actual and consequential), losses, costs or expenses of every kind and nature, known and unknown, disclosed and undisclosed relating to that dispute.

Requesting Cash Back Rebates

 Cash Back Rates / Product Pricing

Browser Extension

The Quick Cash Button (browser extension) is meant to assist customers who are interested in activating cash back directly at a merchant's website.

Only select merchants participate in the Quick Cash Button extension and merchants can be added or removed at any time per Mr. Rebates' or the merchant's sole discretion.

Installation of the button is completely voluntary for the customer and maybe uninstalled at any time by simply removing the extension from an appropriate browser.

To activate cash back directly at a participating merchant, simply click the "Activate" link in the appropriate slider that appears in the browser. The action of clicking "Activate" enables cash back for that participating merchant barring any merchant product restrictions or merchant policies.

For full details on data usage from the Browser Extension, please refer to the Mr. Rebates' Privacy Policy's "Browser Extension" section.

Member Responsibilities and Inactive Accounts

Membership in the program is free: there is no charge to be a member or to earn and receive cash back rebates. If your account is inactive (I.E. a member does not visit the Mr. Rebates website for over 12 months in their logged in account) for more than twelve (12) consecutive months, Mr. Rebates reserves the right to debit your account balance two dollars ($2.00) per month to recover the cost of account maintenance until (i) you reactivate your account by logging in to your Mr. Rebates' account, completing a qualifying purchase, or updating your account information (providing a valid name, email and mailing address), or (ii) your account balance is zero. If the balance in your inactive account is or becomes zero, Mr. Rebates will close the account permanently and cease to maintain your account records and Program access. The inactive account maintenance charge will not cause your account balance to become negative and will not cause you to owe money to Mr. Rebates.

You authorize Mr. Rebates to disclose to third parties information you have provided, or information that Mr. Rebates has obtained about your Mr. Rebates account: (i) to agents of Mr. Rebates or its affiliates, such as independent auditors, consultants or attorneys; (ii) to comply with government agency or court orders or requests; or (iii) where it is necessary for redemption or transfer of your Cash Back Rebates. You authorize Mr. Rebates to receive any account information from any Affiliate Merchant including, but not limited to information regarding the Qualified Purchase such as the products ordered, the order number, the time and date the Qualified Purchase occurred, the email address entered for the Qualified Purchase. You agree to hold the Participating Merchant harmless for any information disclosed to Mr. Rebates.

Disclaimers and Limitations on Liability

Termination and Modification

Dispute Resolution

Miscellaneous