Ibotta

Ibotta app is such a waste of time! Most of the times app functionalities doesn't work, ex: i was unable to withdraw cash, never received rebates for Uber rides, had taken 10-12 rides, never got a rebate! When i contacted support team, they closed the ticket forcibly and mentioned they will investigate and get back! Its been a month, i am not bothered contacting them anymore!
Ibotta smartly collects personal info, which they sell to 3rd parties, ex: whats ur annual income, do u own a house, whats ur ethinicity, how many kids in your household, these are never related to any rebates but just personal data that they can sell! Never share these details, avoid rebates when asked these questions or choose a wrong option!
There is always spike in automated calls/spam emails after registering with ibotta, thats bcos ibotta has traded personal info with these!

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Ibotta has introduced new policy to authenticate with mobile no! This is complete non-sense. Ibotta wants customer phone no and hold on to earnings which ppl cannot withdraw! Never ever give your phone, as it will lead to spurge in spam calls. Ibotta has blocked my earning bcos i didnt provide my phone no. Just to prove Ibotta sells user info, i update my name purposely, changed to ex: "abc", next day i had 20 emails on email id registered on ibotta with "Hi abc". This not only proves ibotta shares personal data but can misuse it in any way!
U can try it urself, ibotta will never delete ur email once u register with them, even if u wish to delete ibotta account permenantly. So atleast avoid sharing phone no! Hope this help!

Had $530 in account and they deactivated and will not help you someone else I knew lost$125 they are scanning people

Cash back on products I'm already going to buy, hek yeah! Some items you get 100% cash back. It's a no-brainer!

[This is a second update to the original review, below.] The combined efforts of Ibotta and their partner's customer service folks are worth a sincere "thank you". They were attentive and thoughtful, going the extra mile to get everything ironed out, and I'm grateful to them.

[This is an update to the original review, below.] Give Ibotta credit for trying. After several back-and-forths and escalation, people with discretion became involved, things were sorted out, and a full rebate was issued. Not exactly a sterling experience, but they've tried to be fair... and to give them the benefit of the doubt, it could be that the Ibotta platform is intended, and works better, for regular repeat purchases than for one-time rebates like my own. I'm raising my rating from one star to three to reflect their efforts and a satisfactory outcome.

[Original review, with some redactions.] My introduction to Ibotta was in the form of a neck tag on a bottle of Kahlua, offering a $40 "cash back" rebate for the purchase of six (6) bottles. Having purchased the same, saved my receipt, brought the Kahlua home and unpacked it (from the gift-box packaging), I went down the Ibotta rabbit hole of installing a phone app, setting up an account and trying to find the process for obtaining a rebate.
News flash: There is none. The offer is not a rebate, and not cash back, and not $40 for six bottles. Instead, it is some sort of earn-credit-by-buying incentive system. Moreover, the offer is not a $40 cash back rebate, but rather $7 unless one purchases multiple brands (and no more than three of a single brand)... Of course, along the way Ibotta obtains as much information as possible about users' identities and buying habits, and no doubt plans to market this information to third parties...
Multiple email exchanges with Ibotta's customer service group shows them to be well-meaning... but ineffective. Their handling has been more or less robotic, and time spent taking and uploading product photos and UPC codes per their requests for supplemental information yielded absolutely nothing apart from the automated, inadequate $7 credit.
I would give Ibotta zero stars, if that were possible...

My greatest pleasure in life is shopping and spending money on great deals. I am feet away from reaching the $500 Club and all of a sudden out of nowhere as unexpected as an erupting volcano I have been BLOCKED from withdrawing my earned and credited cash reward of $37.10 to my PayPal.

"OOOOOPS SOMETHING WENT WRONG IBOTTA LOOOKING INTO IT" This is the error notice that appears each and every time I attempted to withdraw my $37.10

I sent a total of four (4) emails requesting that I be given an explanation of what & why they have restricted me from withdrawing my earnings.

NOT A SINGLE REPLY AFTER 4 DAYS! They advise to read articles and rules which I have done many times and none of them pertain to me.

Another odd tidbit of information is that approximately 45 minutes prior to me attempting to withdraw my $37.10 to PayPal I had successfully transferred $43 that I had earned and been credited without any problems.

IBOTTA EXPLAIN WHY YOU HAVE RESTRICTED ME FROM WITHDRAWING MY EARNED CASH $37.10 STOP BEHAVING CREEPY!

Earn money for buying everyday groceries and shopping online at Walmart, Groupon, Amazon, Bestbuy and many more

Wtf is wrong with this app? I made the $50 club and go to withdrawearn8ngs and my account is disabled.

Have 24.00 dollars. Won't let me withdraw. Has no good products, very fewwont even let me review. La do da

I did some of the offers and they never credited me at all the sucky you in to do it and not creditu

This app is so easy and a easy way too make easy fast cash if you go grocery shopping and we all do just scan your reciet and you get paid

Hello, I downloaded this app because a friend showed it to me and then referred me. We did all the proper steps to use referal code and then since I have used app so much I have gotten 70$ back in two months. My main two issues with app are: the customer service is horrible. Takes days and sometimes weeks to get a responce ans a lot of times they send you articlws to read, which is not what you want. You want your issue to be solved or credit to be given that is missing. Also the friend referral is either scam or they do not want to honor it. Person who referred me two months ago never get her 5$ and now 3 days ago I referred a friend, who used the app, and they never honored it. My last straw was when I did a liquore store purchase of 1.75L smirnoff for the 3$ rebate and got reciete from store. Ibotta told me it was not a valid reciete. Well ladies and gentleman I dont know how much more valid it can get or wha they want from me because that is what the store gave me. So i did everything right on my part and they never paid me. Then they took the whole offer away next day. Once again, poor customer service, do not honor their friend referral and now telling me that my store reciete is nof valid which was from a actual liquore store.

I leave the house and check my "any item" offers, deciding where to shop the night before my 20 dollar "join" redemption ends. They were set to expire in six hours. I return home a couple of hours later to redeem, one receipt redeems just fine. Cool, 9 more offers to go/something similar and I get the 20 bucks... WRONG. The second receipt is photographed, it wouldn't redeem my ay item offer. So, I went back to search the store the other ways it shows up; the any item category was gone... I search stores for my other receipts; 1 product shows up under the any item for all the other stores instead of that generic receipt icon that should be there. When I left the house, my 20 dollar bonus was set to expire at 1:59 AM. I hit "any item" on a couple more stores, the only one that shows the offer the correct way says it expires in two hours. Great, I have a receipt from there. I click it, it says "not available" on a red icon after jumping pages. I go back to my 20 bonus offer and click it, and it shows the same message for the first time. I still have time before that bonus expires, right this very second. It seems pretty scammy, so I search "any item" in general search, and the same 1 product that took over the general any item receipt category shows up: a mixer set for alcoholic drinks. There website also says you don't need a barcode, so why does it ask for one and produce offers that are product specific for scanning and not any item before the expiration of the any item offer... They didn't want to cash out on the bonus and they removed any item close to bonus check out time to reduce the refunds given. Deceptive.

I have such a good experience... it is so easy going... i love it! I am not used to recomended pages but this you must try it.

I love this app and it's so easy to useSo many offers and a great chance to try new products! It's the best!

So I started doing this because I'm a mom 3 and I'm always shopping is great to have cash back for my needs for example Gas money

I have been emailing Ibotta customer service since Oct 2017 because I can't withdraw funds from my account due to my cell phone number got deactivated and do not have a working phone. I have emailed them at least 20/30 emails and they say that the only way you can withdraw funds is through the app, but the app does not let me log in. Everytime, i login to app it keeps giving me error "OOPS... Forbidden". I have the most updated app and the operating system. I tried downloading app on galaxy S6, HTC U11, samsung note 3 etc, but the app does not let me log in... it seems like they have BLOCKED my account. Their customer service is so worst that they do NOT understand my problem. Not sure where to go and who else to complain. I do not like to bring the issues to the internet, but this is ridiculous and it is so frustrating since the emails are going back and forth between me and ibotta since Oct 2017. I even asked them to send me the check of my earnings and they say NO. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS CHEATER COMPANY to anyone.

This is great site to earn money i like this site i get alot of point for shopping you could get gift card from many stores

I like Ipotta really helpful and easy, Also it didn't take along time to give money back and ithe costumer service really help for everything

I really like this app. Its easy to use and you earn cashback that goes to your bank account. LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

It's hard to make the minimum unless your an alcoholic. The bonuses are impossible unless your a shopaholic and have nothing else to do

Ibotta is my favorite app.love the fact you can cashout your earnings and there is always something on my shopping list that's on ibotta

I can earn money by this app and it works great.
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Love this app. I have saved alot and have try items I would have never known of. Its way and makes shopping fun