Entries from CompareRewards.com tagged with 'Upromise'
Upromise Weekly Bonus Merchant of the Week
Upromise increases their shopping reward for one merchant every week. Through September 3rd, you'll earn 7% (vs. the usual 5%) at Avon! Upromise has great ways to earn for college or cashback for yourself both online and off. Be...
Upromise Deal Alerts -- Customized For Your Favorite Stores
Upromise (aff) now has a feature called Deal Alerts, and I think this is something that could be REALLY handy for us diehard online bargain shoppers! You can select up to 15 stores and up to 15 categories of products,...
Upromise's Daily Double -- Double Cashback Merchant
Upromise.com has a feature called the Daily Double, where they double their usual cashback rate for one merchant. Today, December 28, they're spotlighting MyWinesDirect, with 10% cashback (instead of 5%) today only! Plus, they have a coupon to save...
Boston Upromise Tweetup Tomorrow, 11/12/09
Are you Boston area fan of the Upromise program? (Lucky you!) Upromise is hosting a Tweetup in Boston tomorrow night, 11/12, at a local restaurant for members to meet each other and some of the Upromise staff. From Evan Weisenfeld,...
Annual Rewards Chat Nov. 7 - Great Guests, Great Prizes
This year's annual Chat Bash with our honored guests within the rewards program industry will be held on November 7th, 2009 from 6pm CT until. Mark your calendars! We have a full agenda with some GREAT representatives from some of...
Exclusive Upromise Interview About TurboSaver and More
Two weeks ago, I posted about my frustration with Upromise's TurboSaver toolbar, a cashback reminder tool that I was prodded to install twice in one visit when all I wanted to do was get the name and rate for their...
Upromise Daily Spin2Win Game
Upromise is offering a Spin2Win game that you can play daily through October December 31st (contest extended!). You have to be a Upromise member to play (please support CompareRewards by signing up here). In addition to the requirement that you...
Upromise Badgers Members to Install TurboSaver Toolbar
I just learned that Upromise has added a Daily Double increased cashback merchant, so today I went to their site to see who it was to post about it. Twice in the process of getting from login to finding out...
Ebates Article in Washington Times
Ebates (aff) got a nice write-up in the Washington Times today: "Ebates.com links shoppers, store sites -- Coupons in a click." In the article, Ebates CEO Kevin Johnson says that 8% of Ebates shoppers are millionaires, people who can afford...
Upromise Members Have Earned $500 Million, Says Press Release
According to a press release on Tuesday by college savings/rewards program Upromise (aff), members of their program have earned $500 million through the use of their program. Upromise was founded in 2001 and has over 11 million members. Members...
CVS "See What's Free" Campaign Offers Freebie to All ExtraCare Members in August
If you're one of the over 50 million CVS ExtraCare cardholders, you've got a freebie waiting for you after your first purchase in August, according to a CVS press release sent out yesterday. The CVS "See What's Free" campaign offers...
Upromise.com Merchant of the Week
Upromise (aff) recently added a Deal of the Week -- one featured merchant will offer increased rebates for one week only. This week's merchant is Drugstore.com, where through 6/5 you'll earn 10% cashback vs. the usual 5%. (Note: you can...
Interview with VP of Upromise Investments
There's an interview in today's Boston Herald with Liz Robinson, VP of Upromise Investments. I love reading this type of article -- it gives you some insight into what happens behind the scenes at rewards programs, or in this case...
Upromise Launches eCoupons Paperless Coupons Program
Upromise announced today that it has launched a new paperless coupon program for its members. Upromise eCoupons will be electronically linked to their members' registered grocery and drugstore membership cards. As the member makes a purchase of eligible items, the...
Upromise Blogs
Upromise.com, which got into the social networking arena (to an extent) last September with the introduction of its Community section, has also been quietly developing several Upromise blogs -- one focused on style, one on college issues, and one for...
Upromise Offers Members $1500 to Pre-Order a VW Routan
In a press release today, Volkswagen of America announced it's offering Upromise members $1500 if they pre-order VW's new minivan, the Routan. It's kinda cute, really, starts at $24,700 with seven-passenger seating, a two-screen entertainment system, two power sliding doors,...
SallieMae, Owner of Upromise, Reports Big First Quarter Loss
In a press release today, SallieMae, the owner of the Upromise rewards program, reported a net loss in their first quarter earnings for 2008 of $104 million, compared to a net INCOME of $116 million in their first quarter last...
Upromise $10 Signup Bonus Promotion
Upromise is running a promotion through April where they'll deposit $10 into your Upromise account when you join and make just one purchase through their site. Order 22 issues of Parenting through Upromise's link to Magazines.com for $4.97 and...
More On the Rewards Program Patent Infringement Case
Source, Inc., the company suing 38 rewards programs for infringing upon its patent for a "Centralized consumer cash value accumulation system for multiple merchants," is no stranger to the Marshall, Texas courtroom. In August 2005, Source sued American Express in...
Rewards for Valentine's Flowers
You're going to order flowers for Valentine's Day, you might as well earn the most rewards for it, right? I re-examined shopping rates for at 15 online florists for these rewards programs (click the program's name to join the site...
Rewards Programs Sued for Patent Infringement
Latest update on the case is here. On January 23, Source, Inc. (a California corporation) filed suit against 38 rewards programs for patent infringement. They say that several patents issued to a Patrick D. McCarthy of Louisville, KY (one in...
Upromise Members Have Earned $400 Million, But...
On Tuesday, Upromise announced that their members have earned $400 million through the use of their program. They calculate this to be the equivalent of full tuition including housing for 7,000 students. Their press release goes on to say that...
$25 Bonus to Join and Make Purchase Through Upromise
This is the first time Upromise has done anything this huge -- if you join their program and make your first online shopping purchase through their site, they will deposit an additional $25 into your account. You can withdraw it...
Upromise Offers $25 Signup Bonus
Upromise has a new member promotion going on through December 31: when you join and make a purchase through the site, in addition to your shopping rebate, they'll deposit an extra $25 into your account! Yes, Upromise is set up...
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...
Upromise Starts Community Forum
Jumping on the social networking bandwagon, Upromise has started its own Upromise Community -- "to help members connect with each other." It appears this section of the site was started in September, but an email introducing it to members only...
Upromise Ups Rates for Some Merchants Through 9/30
Upromise has a Bonus College Savings promotion going on through the end of September. They've temporarily increased their rebate rates by 1% to 8% depending on the merchant. Their rates were pretty competitive before, so this is a great deal....
Rewards Programs Fudge Membership Numbers
One of my favorite writers at SmarterTravel.com is a guy named Tim Winship, who co-authored a book called Mileage Pro -- The Insider's Guide to Frequent Flier Programs (buy it through my Amazon link here). He's written a lot on...
Upromise's New McDonald's Offer -- Too Much Hype
When I read the news release last week about Upromise's new offer to rebate members 1% on the purchase or reloading of McDonald's Arch Cards (that's the relatively-new McD's reloadable plastic GCs), I deleted it with no intention to bother...
Stockholders Approve Upromise Sale
As announced in April, SallieMae -- Upromise's parent company -- is in the process of being bought out by an investor group that includes JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. Just as an update, SallieMae's shareholders approved the sale...
Upromise Unveils New Look
Upromise was down this weekend as they revamped the site to make it more user-friendly, and I think they've succeeded fairly well -- the new look is more intuitive, with the main menu options, "Earn," "Save," "Pay," and "Family and...
Jellyfish to Offer College Debt Repayment
In an update on yesterday's story regarding GradGold: In another press release on Tuesday, this one by AES (the loan servicer themselves), AES mentioned not only partnering with Upromise and Grad Gold, but also with Jellyfish, through an AES website...
Upromise.com Down This Weekend for Site Redesign
Update, 6/30: The Upromise site update promised two weeks ago (see below) was postponed to this weekend. The site is down but they promise it will be back "in a couple of days." From Upromise's website: "The Upromise website will...
Upromise and Former Nevada Treasurer Accused of Violating State Law
On Monday, legislative auditors for the state of Nevada charged that Nevada's former treasurer and Upromise spent some $6 million over the past 6 years without legislative approval, a violation of three separate state laws. From Tuesday's Nevada Appeal: "According...
Upromise's Special Rates for Mother's Day
Upromise isn't calling it a Mother's Day Promotion, but I noticed today that they have temporarily increased their rebate rates on several merchants that folks traditionally shop with for Mother's Day gifts. These sites have all been increased to a...
Upromise Celebrates Fifth Birthday
Upromise sent out a news release today mentioning that today is the program's fifth birthday. Upromise says it has 7.5 million members and over 23,000 participating grocery and drug stores. Please click here to join....
Upromise Sold...Again!
It was announced yesterday that Sallie Mae, which bought the Upromise rewards program just last June, has itself been sold to an investor group which includes JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America for $25 billion. If the sale goes through...
Earn Rewards for Ebay Bids/Purchases/Registration
I was asked to put together some information on sites that will allow you to earn for making bids or BINs on Ebay. To give credit where it's due, I started with the information provided by Andrew on RewardsDB.com and...
Download the Free Upromise Toolbar...Or Not
I got a postcard by snailmail today from Upromise, urging me to download and install their toolbar. I want to warn rewards program members to avoid this if you intend to shop through programs other than Upromise. I also found...
UPDATED: Standard Shipping Deadlines Near
My friend Rebecca at the Ebates Blog made a great post last week that detailed the standard shipping deadlines for Christmas arrival for 16 popular online merchants. I wanted to supplement it for my readers here. Please note: you can...
Upromise Program Review
Yes, it's long overdue, but I've finally put together my official review of the Upromise.com Rewards Program. Pull up a comfy chair and read on for the scoop!...
Feed Subscription
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'Upromise'. [What is this?]
