With the way our current economy is, I was looking to see if there were any ways I could save money and get free rewards from online shopping. While searching, I came across several sites, such as MyPoints, Swagbucks, and Ebates. At first, these sites looked appealing. However, when I looked into them further, the coupons they listed were limited. I also found out you had to spend hundreds of dollars just to get $5 or $10 worth of rewards back.

I then encountered Iteya.com. There are two great things I can say about this site. The first thing is that it doesn’t just list store coupons and deals, but their sales and clearances as well. This is the first site I’ve seen like this. Many stores have sale and clearance sections of their site where you can save 50-90% of what you would normally pay, and there was no way I would know about these if it weren’t for Iteya.

The second great thing about this site is that the rewards are actually attainable. When you create a free account on Iteya, you get 1,000 Iteya Points and you can earn more by shopping online. Once you get enough of these, you can redeem them for Amazon.com gift certificates (which I love because you can get anything there). Here’s a list of what each gift card is worth.

• $5 Amazon GC = 10,000 Iteya Pts.
• $10 Amazon GC = 18,500 Iteya Pts.
• $25 Amazon GC = 43,000 Iteya Pts.
• $50 Amazon GC = 80,000 Iteya Pts.
• $75 Amazon GC = 110,000 Iteya Pts.
• $100 Amazon GC = 140,000 Iteya Pts.

The average store on Iteya can earn you about 100 Iteya Points for every dollar you spend, although it can get up to 750. That means you can usually get a $5 Amazon.com gift card reward for $100 or less (as opposed to several hundred dollars with the other sites I mentioned above). You can also save up your Iteya Points to get a better value on your gift card.

Iteya offers free and cheap ways to earn Iteya Points as well. For example, you can earn 10,000 Iteya Points for trying a free trial of Shockwave Unlimited on Shockwave.com. All you have to do is create an account and cancel your subscription within 10 days, and then you get $5 Amazon gift certificate.

You can also earn a ton of Iteya Points on some other game sites. For instance, if you try 5 free games on Gameduell, you will get 1,000 Iteya Points. Then when you make a $10 deposit, you will earn an additional 30,000 Iteya Points. You can also earn another 30,000 Iteya Points by making a $5 deposit onto King.com. All this together is 61,000 Iteya Points, and if you include the 1,000 Iteya Point sign up bonus, that’s 62,000. That can get you $35 worth of Amazon.com gift certificates for only $15. Plus, if you withdraw what you deposit, it’s free. How cool is that?

Here’s some other free and easy point offers on Iteya:

• Big Contacts free account = 2,000 Iteya Points
• Charles Tyrwhitt first purchase = 8,000 Iteya Points + 80 Pts/$ spent
• DailyOM free courses = 1,000 Iteya Points
• From You Flowers orders = 15,000 Iteya Points
• Magazines.com orders = 1,000 Iteya Points on free B2B Publications
• Masterbeat.com free account = 2,000 Iteya Points
• Match.com orders = 750 Pts/$ spent
• MyPypeline.com free account = 5,000 Iteya Points
• Picaboo free account = 1,000 Iteya Points + 20,000 Iteya Points on first order
• Progene Healthcare free trial = 20,000 Iteya Points
• ShopNBC first purchase = 10,000 Iteya Points + 50 Points/$ spent
• Sirius Satellite Radio receiver & radio orders = 20,000 Iteya Points
• VistaPrint = 3,000 Iteya Points + 150-200 Pts/$ spent
• Wirefly cell phone plans = 35,000-65,000 Iteya Points

As you can see, Iteya has a ton of great offers, and the ones I listed just scratch the surface. You can also earn 2,500 Iteya Points for each friend you refer. There’s applications on the site that allow you to invite all your email and social networking contacts at once, so if you’re the kind of person who has hundreds of Myspace and Facebook friends, you’ll have the potential to earn a ton of Iteya Points.

It’s so easy to save money and earn free Amazon gift cards with this site. It’s definitely one you shouldn’t miss out on.

Tags: Websites

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm and is filed under Etc.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.