$5 from Sears by signing up email ad alerts. This may be the easiest $5 to get so far. Click this link to sears.com and then click “get email alerts” to registration page. Fill in your name, address and email address, you’re expected to receive the $5 sears gift card in about 4 weeks. NOTE: Offer is valid from 01/30/2008-04/06/2008. Limit one free gift card per household. If you have more than one address/email address, you can get more!

$5 from Ebates.com. Click this link to ebates.com. After registration, you will get $5 in your ebates.com account. In order to make this $5 payable to you, you should finish online shopping through ebates.com before a certain time. Why choose ebates.com? Ebates.com is a large online shopping rewards site. It’s very similar to Chase Rewards Plus. You click their link to buy products online, then they will give you a certain amount cash back (from 1% to 25%). You have to remember that you can still earn cash back from your credit cards! If you accumulate more than $5 in your account in 3 months, a check will be mailed to you. Of course, you can choose to use PayPal to receive the money. For example, if you you want to buy a Canon S850 at Staples.Com ($200). You can login at ebates.com and then click the staples.com link at ebates.com to finish this transaction. Within about 2~3 days, the 2% cash back will appear in your account ($4). If you use a simplycash business card to buy this camera, you can still earn 5% on that card ($10). If you make a lot of purchases online, ebates.com is a good choice. Another feature is they offer free coupons! This will save you a lot of time. This feature makes ebates.com one of the most popular online shopping cash rewards site.

Some featured online merchants: 4% at Target, 6% at Adobe, 1% at BestBuy, 4% at CircuitCity, 2% at Dell Home and 1% at Dell Small Business, 2% at Staples, and 4% at Sears.

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