Comments on: Upromise Review: A Little Extra Savings for College

By: jjk

jjk — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:06:13 +0000

One other point that I forgot to make, keep in mind that your money does not make any interest while in your Upromise account, so every time it reaches $200, I send them a letter with my account number and ask to withdraw the $200. I then deposit the money into my children’s college funds where it can earn interest.

By: PT

PT — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:47:50 +0000

Nice earnings, jjk. Thanks for reporting. And thanks for sharing details about making sure you get credited.

By: jjk

jjk — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:16:50 +0000

I have been a member of Upromise since 2001 and I have earned almost $2200. As other people have said, no, it is not going to pay for college, but every little bit helps and if it will pay for their textbooks at least, great. I am conscious when I decide to buy something to try to use a Upromise member. I also have the Upromise credit card as well as use the toolbar. But I wanted to comment on the person who stated that some of their purchases didn’t show up on their account. I have to say that I also save my emails from online purchases and go through my account periodically. If a purchase is missing, which does happen, I simply follow their link to report it and once they verify the purchase, my account gets credited.

By: PT

PT — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:35:01 +0000

@nightdawg – you should earn points for both. Although there are some place you use your card that don’t give you points. It has to be a “partner”.

By: nightdawg

nightdawg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:19:15 +0000

I don’t quite understand. I signed up for upromise and put my credit and debit cards on there. Do I earn money every time I buy something with my credit card? Or only when I buy something from one of the upromise vendors with this credit card?

By: Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Smith — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:07:16 +0000

I have saved over $1,200 through Upromise (with very little effort) by simply using the Upromise credit card with 1% back. Although $1,200 isn’t alot, it will help buy textbooks. One caution though – I used my credit card to purchase many items I was purchasing anyway, but ONLY when I could pay the balance in full each month. Finance charges would quickly negate the 1% back.

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By: PT

PT — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:53 +0000

@FreeMyInterest – It’s definitely good to shop around when shopping online. But I like that Upromise offers money back for shopping offline. That’s really my favorite part of their program and why I suggest people sign up…for the free, brainless savings.

By: FreeMyInterest

FreeMyInterest — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:42:33 +0000

The problem with UPromise is that the cash back percentages are lower then other similar sites. Credit card rewards networks and even other online sites such as bing cashback, gradgold, ebates, and others routinely have higher percentages for the same stores. At times I have found a store with 4% for Upromise was 8-10% on other networks! It is important to search through your arsenal of these first.

By: MeagerMoney

MeagerMoney — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:43:27 +0000

I have saved $450 with UPromise thus far and couldn’t be happier! It’s free money and everyone loves free money.

I didn’t know about their toolbar, thanks for the tip!