Update: Get your book for better than the $19.99 advertised price when you buy through Ebates or Cashbaq. You’ll get $6 cash back when you buy through either site, plus a $5 bonus if you are new to Ebates or Cashbaq.
Cashbaq will send you a check when your account total reaches $10. If you are a new customer and make this purchase through them, you’ll have $11 in your account and can expect a check within 6-8 weeks. It would make the bottom line price of the book just $8.99.
To order through Ebates or Cashbaq, click on these Ebates or Cashbaq links, search for “Entertainment”, click through to the Entertainment website and order. Voila! You’ll get the $19.99 book, plus money back in your Ebates or Cashbaq account.
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Finally! 2010 Entertainment Books are on sale for a price worth mentioning. All books, for all cities are $19.99 now through December 20 when you order online. Shipping is free too. I doubt you’ll find these at a better price anywhere else, so if you have been holding out now is the time to buy.
Just to be clear, this is not a deal where you’re actually ordering a full-priced book next year too (which I did once by mistake – ugh!). They will offer you a $5 discount if you order next year’s, but your under no obligation to select that.
Besides picking one up for your family here are a couple of ideas about these books:
Vacation. Order a book for a city where you’ll be vacationing to get discounted admission to attractions, buy one, get one free meals and much more. You can leave it on the bed of your hotel when you check out and be a blessing to housekeeper.
Gifts. Most everyone I know loves these books and for less than $20 they make a fabulous gift. With free shipping included you can buy a loved one in another city the book for where they live.
Your family. A few of our family’s favorite restaurants have high-value coupons in this book, which makes it well worth the money for me to purchase multiple copies. Last year I bought three for us and we got more than our money’s worth out of them.
If you aren’t familiar with the Entertainment Book, it is full of buy one, get one free coupons for restaurants, local attractions and museums.
Your turn: What do you love about the Entertainment Book?
About Carrie Rocha
I have often bought two books, and I also trade many of my coupons for places I never go to for the handful of coupons I use regularly. Some coupons, like McDonald’s, are highly coveted, but if a local restaurant you like is in the book, you can stock up. I had more than a dozen coupons to restaurants near my office a few years ago. For whatever reason I find that some of my favorite haunts disappear, and not enough favorite places replace them, but such is life. For trading purposes, being able to offer people two of what they like makes it much easier to get a bunch of what you want.
This group use to be active, and I’ve helped moderate it. Perhaps it has lived past its usefulness: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mnhappeningexchange/
Other post trading lists via Craig’s List.
Can you use the $10 off coupons that Rainbow has so ubiquitously printed out recently on this deal as well? Does anyone know?
I believe if you go through ebates.com you will also get $9.00 cash back.
Awesome! They try and get you to sign up for automatic ordering of future year’s books by offering an additional $5 off this year’s book. Be careful to click the “No Thanks” link.
A trick my single godfather swears by for using these books… Since he is single and, usually, dines alone, he asks if he can use the coupon to purchase a second meal to go. He said most restaurants do not turn him down!
I haven’t used cashbaq or ebates before. I think it’s pretty self-explanatory how you order the books and qualify for cashbaq. If you order a second book, it’s $15, not $19.99. So in theory two books are $34.99 minus $12 from cashbaq. And since I qualify for the $5 first-time user bonus, it’s looking like I can get two books for $17.99. Or am I wrong? I’ll find out tonight.
I’m new to cashbaq – not sure I did it right – when will I notice the $6 on my account?
Carrie,
Thanks for sharing the Entertainment Book deal with your readers and helping spread the word about Cashbaq! Entertainment Book has a great product that allows you to get out and have some fun while saving a little money along the way. At least for me, around this time of year, that’s something I’m more than ok with.
Mike, you are spot on.
Kari, so long as you created a Cashbaq account, then clicked through directly to the Entertainment Book website from ours, you will qualify for both cash back and your $5 sign-up bonus. In terms of when your account will reflect this–it depends on the store. Once we receive verification of your order from the store with which you placed it (in this case, Entertainment Book), we will credit your account. You’ll generally see it in your account within a couple of days (but it can take longer with some stores). Like Carrie said, once your account reaches a balance of $10, we’ll either send you a check or PayPal you, as long as you tell us where you want it sent.
If you would like a little more information about how Cashbaq works, you can read about it here: http://www.cashbaq.com/howto.html
Hopefully that helps, and hopefully you’ll find plenty more ways to save a little extra $$ in 2010 with your book and with Cashbaq.
Happy Holidays,
Casey (Cashbaq Team)
I’m in….I like to get the books early in the season, but I doubt they would have been of much use to me anyway, so this makes them a great time to get ‘em.
So if I order the Entertainment book through Cashbaq and DO NOT order the book for 2011…hitting the No Thanks button…will I get $5.00 bonus for signing up plus extra $6.00 savings if I order thru them? And will I initially pay $19.99 for the book and get a check eventually from Cashbaq for $11.00?
yes, you will be billed $19,99 for the book. and as noted above by casey, you won’t get instant credit for it on your cashbaq account. it takes a day or three for it to show up. and you’ll have to wait a couple of months to get a check. (how it takes so long to cut a check and mail it in this day and age is beyond me.) but you will get $11 in the mail.
even if i have to wait to get my cash,as i did last year with the former live.com cashback program, it’s totally worth it to me. i ordered two books, and if you’re interested in coupon trading, follow my link above to the yahoo group for trade posting. you might as well have three coupons for your favorite restaurant instead of just one.
Darn it. I ordered two books through Ebates before reading all the comments here. Do they have the same deal or am I just getting the $5?
Amanda – You should get a sign-up bonus if youa re new to Ebates plus the $6 for the book.
But not two $6 discounts as I would have gotten through Cashbaq? =(
I just ordered one! It sounds too good to be true, so I won’t really believe it until I have both the book and the Cashbaq check, but here’s hoping!
Thanks SO MUCH for this tip, Carrie!
I haven’t used cashbaq, either, but programs like these are legit, and while Carrie can’t guarantee everything…she can’t control a company going bankrupt….if she recommends something, I have found that it’s a legitimate operation.
And as a rule, $20 for the book at this point in the year, delivered, is a good deal. So even if there was no cashbaq check in a couple of months, you got a good deal on the book.
I took ordered a portrait from Canvas People when Carrie posted the discount that you could get from Cashbaq.com. I placed an order through Cashbaq, but my account never got upated to credit my order from Canvas People. Cashbaq is a complete SCAM. I placed my order on 12/6, and I still haven’t received my portrait from Canvas People yet. You don’t get the money they promise you. Cashbaq has no phone number on their website to actually call someone to ask questions and talk to a real live person. I am very disappointed with Cashbaq and I will NEVER use it again.
Carrie… have you had the same problem with Cashbaq? I used Cashbaq after your recomendation, but I haven’t had a good experience with it. Will never use again.
i have received my $12 credit for ordering two happenings books, although it is still listed as “pending,” although i’m not sure what would be pending. they have record i ordered two books. as is the case w/ these programs, they seem to want to make you wait forever to get that cash back. it shows that i ordered the books on dec. 15, and lists a payable rebate date of march 15, three months later. that’s ridiculous. i didn’t buy the books with money i couldn’t spare, obviously, but it seems rather excessive to draw it out for three months. i thought two months via live.com was bad enough last year. but assuming i get my check by the end of march, i can’t complain with the deal i’m getting on two books.
I ordered 2 entertainment books earlier this year through cashbaq. Waited the mandatory 3 months and their website shows the check was sent out Nov 20. Today 3 weeks later, still no check. I’ve put in a ticket a week ago and have had no replies yet. Cashbaq is not living up to its promises. No more cashbaq for me.
The same exact thing happened to me. I put in several tickets and still have not heard from them. Quite upset. I wish there was a number I could call, but they don’t have a number on their website. I’m never using them again and I’m going to keep bugging them till I get my money. They say “they care.” yeah right.
Cashbaq is iffy at best. I know of at least 20 folks who are in the same boat with the November check sent that never was. The info on cashbaq is:
77Blue
David Lewis (domain@77blue.com)
+1.3104556723
Fax: none
9854 National Blvd.
Suite 107
Los Angeles, CA 90034
US
but the number goes straight to a voice mail and nobody will return your messages.