Mele20
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Hilo, HI
1 edit | Re: Opinions, please: eBates MoeMoneymaker What spyware? I used eBates when I bought my new Dell. You get an additional 2% off the price of the Dell ....that is if you first buy the coupons at Ebay so you can get 25% off your entire Dell purchase. The coupons come with the eBates rebate. You have to connect to Dell's store through eBates though so that eBates can see the purchase. So you get the Dell 25% off and the eBates 2% off. I had trouble connecting through eBates though to the Dell store and having the Dell store see the connection and I was working against a very tight deadline as the Ebay coupons are usually good for 24-48 hours only and I was down to the last ten minutes! The Dell site chose that evening to barely work and to be down much of the evening and my time to purchase with the coupons was getting less and less. Dell is one of many reputable companies that you can access through eBates for the additional discount.
I never got any spyware at ebates. I still belong and I am puzzled as to why you would target that site. Maybe I am missing something here but I think the site is very useful. The person on Ebay that I purchased the Dell coupons from got a bonus too because I did go and join eBates which I thought only fair as the Dell coupons saved me a bundle.
Perhaps I got no spyware because I connect through Proxomitron? I had no idea there was spyware there. What kind of spyware? I run Spybot regularly on that 98SE Dell box that I used to purchase this 8300 Dimension and it doesn't find any spyware. I also have Spyware Blaster but I was using Firefox for the purchase.
You said "certain parts" of eBates won't work with IE-SPYAD? Well, as I said I use Firefox and Mozilla not IE and I don't have your IE-SPYAD since I don't use IE. Perhaps, I did not go to the "nasty" parts of eBates on my Firefox? I haven't seen anything at that site that is suspicious...but maybe the nasties there work only on IE?
What exactly is the problem with eBates? I think it is a fine site. I guess I should go there on IE with Proxo bypassed and see what nasties it tries to install if any. If tries to install spyware then my opinion of it would change although not that much unless it can successfully install spyware even with Proxo and Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape/Opera being used.
Edited because I typed 10% thinking of one of the Dell coupons I had which was 10% off the total price. The eBates rebate was 2% of the total purchase price not including taxes paid. Sorry for that error! 
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