BigCrumbs Can Save You Big Bucks

I have been a fan of sites that pay you to use their links for a long time.  The one I most recently have come across, and my new favorite, is BigCrumbs.com.  It has been a while since I have written about one of these sites so let me explain how they work:

Advertisers are willing to pay these types of sites a percentage of their sales in order to gain traffic.  BigCrumbs then turns around a returns the majority of that commission to its users for clicking on their links.  Lets use a practical example:

1. I need to order new ink cartridges for my printer
2. I log into big crumbs and do a search for ink
3. I see that the 123 inkjets link will give me 25.2% back on my purchase
4. I click on the Shop Now button and purchase my two cartridges for $30.13 after shipping
5. If this is the only purchase I make through Big Crumbs in the month of October I will receive a check for $6.35 in December (math ($30.13-$4.95 shipping) x .252 = $6.35) making my total cost for a color and black ink cartridge $23.78!!

The percentage back varies greatly by retailer (25.2% is much higher than most), but the savings are always significant.  For instance, when I was about to get married my parents offered to purchase a washer and dryer for us.  I found a good deal and got them both from Sears for $550.  I purchased them online because they were clearance items and the local store was out.  If I had known about BigCrumbs at the time I could have gotten 1.8% back or $9.90.  This seems small but if I keep doing this on most thing I purchase online the savings add up.  It may also push you to purchase online and then choose the pick up in store option (which saves you the shipping cost).  This option is available for Target (6.3%),  KMart (1.8%), Best Buy (2.7%), Wal-Mart (3.6%) and many more.

There are three  reasons I like BigCrumbs more than the other sites that it competes with is that there is no minimum for payout, it pays directly to my PayPal account (if you do not have a paypal account you can get one here), and it has an ongoing payout for referrals.  So if you refer Aunt Bertha to Big Crumbs you will get a small percentage back for whatever she purchases through the site (in the ink cartridge example you would get 70¢).

You can sign up for Big Crumbs by clicking here and start getting cash back for almost everything you buy.