Automatic Refund Alert - Save Money Shopping at Your Favorite Stores
Get cash back and ensure you always get the best deal with Edison Mail’s free Refund Alerts feature.
Edison Mail’s automatic Refund Alerts is like having a bargain hunter in your email app, offering an effortless way to get money back from purchases you’ve already made.
Works with popular retailers including Best Buy, Costco, Gap, Nordstrom, REI, Target, Staples, Nike, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and more.
Download Edison Mail on iOS or Android. and opt-in to the free Refund Alert feature
Chances are high that you’re among those who’ve gone online for your shopping in 2020. By the end of 2019, about 13% of retail purchases were made online, but by the end of 2020, that figure rose to 20%. That means every $1 out of every $5 spent on retail is now spent online. This marked shift makes sense, with social distancing in place and many retailers at limited capacity (if open at all), shoppers have simply found it easier and more convenient to shop online. A study from Edison Trends, Edison Software’s research arm, showed that Cyber Monday 2020 was the biggest online shopping day in U.S. history.
But so much online shopping can really start hurting your wallet. In behavioral research startup OpenUp’s analysis of shoppers, the firm discovered that people tend to spend twice as much money online as they think they have. The study concluded that online shopping is simply designed to pull you in and get you to spend more than you expected.
Now retail therapy isn’t a bad thing, we all do it and it has actually been shown to improve your mood when you’re upset. But what doesn’t help with your mood is purchasing an item only to see that it went on sale the very next day. According to WalletHub, the top financial resolution of 2021 is to save more money, and losing out on sales like this is certain to ruin any New Year’s resolution to save more cash.
This is why Edison Mail created Refund Alert for avid — or even occasional — online shoppers. This free feature, and one of our personal favorites, was created to get you cash back with no effort on your part. Available for both iOS and Android, all you have to do is switch on the monitoring in the app and select the email accounts you’d like it to monitor and send Refund Alerts to when a price drops. Once you do that, you just sit back, relax, and shop online as you normally would.
Edison Mail’s Refund Alert works with your favorite retailers like Best Buy, Costco, Gap, Nordstrom, REI, Target, Staples, Nike, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and more. If you make a purchase at one of these merchants, the app’s Refund Alert feature will keep an eye on the price of that item. If the item drops in price by more than a dollar, you will receive an alert with a pre-filled email you can send to the retailer to get money back for the difference. It’s really that simple to make sure you’re always getting the lowest price possible for your online purchases.
This feature, first launched in mid-2019, has been lauded for its money saving abilities by personal finance guru, Andrea Woroch, in publications like Yahoo Finance and Huffington Post. So what are you waiting for? Sign up for Refund Alert today and start getting some cash back from your shopping.
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