Entries from CompareRewards.com tagged with 'Greenpoints'
Greenpoints.com Sold
DigitalTransactions.net is reporting that Greenpoints has been sold. The new owner, YT Acquisition Corp., is a newly formed company made up of lenders of the former owner, Solidus Networks, Inc. The purchase price, which includes several other assets of Solidus,...
Interesting Reading About Greenpoints' Owner
I haven't covered the bankruptcy of Greenpoints.com's owner in all that much depth -- their online shopping site is incredibly ho-hum and there are no participating grocery stores where I live, so it's just not a program that I ever...
Greenpoints to Be Sold at Auction
I've mentioned here before that Greenpoints' owner, PayByTouch, was in financial troubles and was looking to sell off its "non-core" business. Word is now that with no buyer, both "halves" of the business are up for auction. It was initially...
Debit Rewards Programs Can Offer Higher Cash Back
My bank formerly had a debit rewards program offered through Visa Extras Rewards, but this year it switched over to a program run by Affinity Solutions. Affinity provides debit rewards programs to several banks including Regions and US Bank. The...
2007 Shopping Rebates Comparison Chart
Note: this analysis was updated for 2008 here. It's October again, and with Black Friday just weeks away, it's time once again to take an in-depth look at rewards programs' online shopping rebates. A Gallup poll conducted the first week...
How to Choose a Rewards (Rebate) Program
The holiday shopping season is right around the corner, and maybe you're finally deciding to get in on this whole "online shopping rebate site" thing...but you have no idea what programs are out there or how to choose. For the...
Busiest Rewards Programs -- Revised for August 2007
Last September, I put together a little list of how some of the popular rewards programs stacked up traffic-wise, according to their rankings at Alexa.com. Alexa ranks websites based on the number of site visits they receive, on average, in...
Disney Rewards and Disney Rebates
If you're a Disney fan, you are missing out if you're not using online rewards / rebate programs. It's as simple as that. Not only could you be earning rebates on your purchases at DisneyShopping.com, you could also be earning...
Greenpoints Announces New Grocery Store Partner
Greenpoints has entered into a partnership with Harps Foods to offer Greenpoints to customers at their grocery stores. Harps Food Stores was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Arkansas. The company has a total of 52 stores, in Arkansas,...
Greenpoints Commercial Wins Award
On Thursday, Lowes Foods (well, actually, their PR/advertising firm) won an award for a commercial they made for Lowes' in-store GreenPoints program. The ad won a bronze award in the Regional 28th Annual Telly Awards. The press release announcing the...
2006 Year in Review
Wow, 2006 was a busy one in the rewards program biz. Not a lot of new programs last year, but we saw a lot of old ones fail... and a couple of big ones change ownership. How well do you...
S&H Greenpoints Sold!
This has been a big year for rewards programs changing hands, and on Wednesday, Greenpoints became the latest. S&H Greenpoints, as the parent company is called, was bought for $100 million by a company called Pay By Touch. Sperry &...
Greenpoints Down (Temporarily)
Update: Site's back up...They really need to get this problem fixed -- two weekends in a row?? The Greenpoints.com website is down again today -- it's giving an "exceeded bandwidth" error message to site visitors. This same thing happened last...
Greenpoints
Greenpoints Program Review - Updated 10/07 Please click here to join. Date Launched: Feb. 2000 Reward Per Dollar Spent: 20 Points (except FTD is 100) Minimum to Redeem: 2900 for merchandise, 4900 for GCs ($5) Prizes Offered: GCs, merchandise Earn...
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