Online Shopping for clothes

I used to shop at Amazon and Chapters for books and other things. But I my sister does most of her clothes shopping and her kids shopping online. Recently I started online purchasing for clothes at Land’s end.  Initially I was bit nervous about sizes and quality but so far happy with the casual clothes purchases.  During November – December they had 30% off and free shipping and I was able to buy fleece tops for $10.00 and no tax or duty or shipping charges.   If you are purchasing anything less than $20.00, there will be no duty or sales tax but usually shipping charge will apply.

They have online chat line in case you have question about sizes and the online reviews are also helpful. Once your order, if they have it in stock you will get it in 3-4 days. They also adjust the length or make cuff for free.

Time to time they email discount coupons for 30% off or 40% off. Recently I bought ski jacket with 30% coupon and it is pretty good deal.  If you are not satisfied with the purchase you can return it but there will be shipping cost of $7.95 but if the product is defective they will waive shipping charge. I have done around 10 purchases in the last 4 months and only one I returned because the size was not what they indicated. You can also get rebate by going through rebates sites (Great Canadian Rebates, Red Flags Deals or ebates)

All the billing will be done in US dollars. I use amazon.ca rewards visa which provides good exchange rate without additional charge.

Cash rebate for online purchases for Canadians

Ebates at Blissdom 2012-2127 (Photo credit: BlissDom 2012)

Do you go through cash rebate sites to earn rebate on your online purchases?  It is pretty easy, you go through the cash rebate site to your online purchase site (provided your online purchase site offers rebate via cash rebate site) and do your purchase as usual.  Your rebate will show in cash rebate site in few days or sometimes in few weeks.  Once you reach the threshold amount, you can request a cheque or request to transfer to your pay pal account. The rebate percentage varies from merchant to merchant.

It is great savings for those who do lot of online shopping.  I thought it is common knowledge until I found that my sister who does lot of online purchases was not aware it.

To register for rebates sites please click on the links below.

Great Canadian Rebates

RedFlagDeals

Ebates

I have been using Great Canadian Rebates for few years and it is a great site. I have good experience with them except one instance where I was not paid for a rebate for applying American express ($20 rebate). Great Canadian Rebates blamed American Express indicating their tracking system is not accurate but in my view both are at fault. If they don’t have good system to track don’t offer it.  Other than that all my rebates over the last two years were posted correctly and they are very prompt in responding to questions.

I have not used the cash rebate option of RedFlagDeals and Ebates. Great Canadian Rebates and Ebates also provide you referral bonus if you refer others but I could not see any referral link in the Red Flag deals.  The sites also announce special bonus rebates time to time with increased dollar amount or percentage of the rebate.  Ensure to read the fine print clearly before you do the purchase the site may provide rebate based on type of purchase. For example, Gift cards may earn different rebate rate than the product purchase).