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Home » Reviews » How to Never Pay Full Price for Anything (Almost): BigCrumbs (Updated)

How to Never Pay Full Price for Anything (Almost): BigCrumbs (Updated)

September 2, 2014 By Al 14 Comments

BigCrumbs Online Rebates

Updated 12/11/2016: I no longer recommend BigCrumbs, and have switched over to TopCashback instead.  I’m leaving this post up for references purposes, but click on over to my new post that replaces this one.

In our last post, we shared a simple but brilliant way to score a discount at just about every major US retail store by using discounted gift cards. However, with more and more commerce moving online, how do we score discounts on our online shopping since not all offer gift cards?

That’s the topic of our post today, and I’d like to introduce you to a special service called BigCrumbs. (Yes, I’m not making this up, that’s really what they’re called!)

Saving the Crumbs with BigCrumbs

Surely, with such an amazing name like BigCrumbs, we can’t go wrong, right?

So what is BigCrumbs? BigCrumbs is essentially an online rebate company. All you do after creating a free account is click through the links on their webpage to a respective retailer’s website, and everything you purchase will result in a percentage cash back that is deposited into your PayPal account monthly. That’s it! Literally all it takes is a few extra mouse clicks and you get cash rebate back for your online purchases.

Here are a couple more quick bites about BigCrumbs:

  • It is completely FREE to join.
  • [UPDATED: 9/3/2014] The only fee that they charge is a 2% or $1 processing fee (whichever is less) that they pass on from PayPal to transfer the money to you.
  • They have access to a dizzying number of retailers, more than I can recognize.
  • They even give you cash back for eBay winning bids and purchases.
  • They consolidate many coupon codes for retailers right where you click through for even greater potential savings.
  • I’ve seen cash back rebates of up to 39%!
  • For every dollar you earn in cash back, you also get credited what they call a CrumbShare. These CrumbShares can actually be cashed in for real money in the event that BigCrumbs gets acquired by another company. Whoa!
  • They have a referral program so if you recommend others to join BigCrumbs, you’ll get a percentage bonus.  The links on this page are referral links, so thanks in advance if you click through our links on this page to sign up.
  • It’s not just for the US.  BigCrumbs works for Canada too!

Multiplying the Crumbs with BigCrumbs

Now that we own a home, we frequent Home Depot a fair bit so here’s how we trim the fat off of each purchase there:

  1. Purchased $100 Home Depot gift card from Cardpool at a 12.5% discount. $12.50 discount.
  2. We paid for the gift card with our credit card with 1.5% cash back reward. $1.31 cash back.
  3. Instead of going to the store to pick the items off the shelves, we buy them from the Home Depot website for free in-store pickup. By clicking through BigCrumbs we get an additional 1.8% cash back (and we save time from having to run around the big warehouse). $1.80 cash back.

So the total savings for $100 spent at Home Depot would be $15.61. Or a 15.61% discount on anything we buy there.

If you look through the retailers available on BigCrumbs, you’ll even find the big social coupon sites like Groupon and Living Social included. Getting cash back on those already-super deals sound like having your cake and eating it too!

BigCrumbs for Big Ticket Items

One of the best uses that we have found for BigCrumbs has been to get cash back on major travel expenses. Usually plane tickets, car rentals, hotel rooms, cruises, etc. can cost thousands of dollars, so getting even a few percentage points back can be a decent chunk of change.

A couple of months ago, I booked a hotel room for a friend for $330 on Expedia after clicking through BigCrumbs. About a month later, I got $15.84 automatically deposited into my PayPal account. That was a 4.8% rebate for just a few mouse clicks.

Start Saving BIG Crumbs!

Seeing that you’re reading this on a blog called Saving the Crumbs, what do you suppose I’m going to tell you to do?

That’s right, mosey on over to BigCrumbs, open your account, and start saving on all your online purchases. (Don’t forget to use Cardpool discounted gift cards as well to further compound the savings!)

You may have noticed that neither Cardpool nor BigCrumbs offer discounted gift cards/rebates for Amazon. That’s a glaring omission since Amazon is pretty much the biggest retailer out there these days. But never fear! We will be sharing one way we’ve been saving big on Amazon in our next post.

The Rest of the Series

Here are the other articles in this series on how to save on nearly every purchase:

1. How to Never Pay Full Price for Anything (Almost): Cardpool – We share a technique to save on most retailers by purchasing discounted gift cards from a service called Cardpool.

2. How to Never Pay Full Price for Anything (Almost): TopCashback – We share an online rebate service that helps you get back a percentage of your purchase from thousands of online retailers.

3.  How to Never Pay Full Price for Anything (Almost): Swagbucks – We share how to earn virtual currency online by completing free activities that can be redeemed for Amazon gift cards.  We’ve earned over $1460 with it.

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Comments

  1. Lynette Kittle says

    September 2, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    How does bigcrumbs.com make money?

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 2, 2014 at 3:49 pm

      That’s a great question. I believe they get a percentage of affiliate sale revenue from the respective retailers, some of which they keep before giving us our cut.

      Reply
  2. Delene says

    September 2, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    I hope the next post will arrive soon. I am looking at making a couple of purchases on Amazon this week. Thank you so much!

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 2, 2014 at 5:34 pm

      Sorry to keep you in suspense! It’ll be coming soon. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Mr. Frugalwoods says

    September 2, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    Hadn’t heard of BigCrumbs before, thanks for pointing them out! I’ve used ebates in the past, which I think is much the same.

    How’s the purchase process work on cardpool? You get the code right away? I’ve bought gift cards on craigslist before and it’s been a bit of a hassle to arrange a dropoff… though saving some serious money can be worth it!

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 2, 2014 at 9:06 pm

      Yup, BigCrumbs and Ebates are competitors, but I gotta be faithful to the Crumbs! With Cardpool you can order physical cards, which will be shipped to you in 5-7 business days, or you can order the e-cards, which means the code will be emailed to you within 1 business day. Easy peasy.

      Reply
  4. Daisy @ Prairie Eco Thrifter says

    September 2, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    Impressive rebates. I love the idea of buying gift cards and then using them later online to get even more rebate. I don’t use a rebate site but I’ve heard of eBates. I don’t shop online all that often, or shop often at all for that matter.

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 3, 2014 at 10:20 am

      The best way to save money on purchases is always to BUY LESS. The 100% off deal is the best. You don’t buy what you don’t need, and save 100% on the purchase.

      Reply
  5. Marc says

    September 3, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    Thanks for sharing.

    It would be important to note that Big Crumbs takes a 2% processing fee from the total payable to you.

    From their website:

    Is There A Payment Processing Fee?

    PayPal: Yes. A processing fee of 2% of the payment amount with a $1.00 cap per payment will be deducted from each payment that we send to you.

    This is the fee that PayPal charges BigCrumbs.com. We do not make money from this fee. Note that you will not be charged again by PayPal when you receive your payment.

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 3, 2014 at 3:08 pm

      Thanks for pointing that out! I don’t remember seeing that before in the FAQ. I’ll update the post above to reflect this new info.

      Reply
  6. [email protected] says

    September 4, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    I’ve never heard of BigCrumbs but I’m definitely will give them a try. Thanks for the information.

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 4, 2014 at 1:24 pm

      You’re welcome! Thanks for dropping by. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Jason @ Phroogal says

    September 4, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    I stack savings like these too. I’m going to check them out and curious if you know of any programs/apps that make stacking the savings like this easier?

    Reply
    • Al says

      September 4, 2014 at 4:01 pm

      Yeah, it would be easier if there was some program or app to tie them together. I don’t know of any yet, but maybe would be a good business idea for some entrepreneur out there. 🙂

      Reply

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