Where does your buck stop?

As more of us savvy shoppers turn to the Internet for better deals more websites are popping up to give the customers the best shopping experience at the lowest prices.  As customer service in brick and mortar stores sink further into the dumps why should customers waste their time driving out the stores to purchase items?  You receive no better discount in the store than you do online.  Sometimes the online deals are even better, and here are a few of the websites where they are http://www.ebates.com/ and http://www.fatwallet.com/.  If you are one of the lucky few that have already discovered these sites. Bravo!  But for those who have not, these sites are a treasure. These sites are a shoppers dream, not only for the coupons and deals they publish daily but for their cash back program.  Essentially, these websites are in a partnership with all of the stores listed on their sites.  And whenever you visit these sites and click through to any store and make a purchase, the store that you purchased from compensates Ebates or Fatwallet (whichever site you visited) by paying them a certain percentage of commission.  Now this is common for most online e-commerce sites to pay commissions to other websites for sending purchasing customers to them, however this is where Fatwallet and Ebates differ from any other coupon site.  A percentage of that commission that they are receiving from your purchase they are passing back to you.  Genius!  So anytime you have the shopping urge, log on to your Ebates or Fatwallet account first, locate your store through their site and make your purchase, and a percentage of the sale will be banked into your account.  Its as easy and simple as that!  Happy Shopping.