I just got this e-mail from Rakuten Member Services, and it says I've got a $59 and change cashback balance. In the recent Cash Back Transactions it lists Circuit City and SmartBargains circa 2005 (and that's the top of the list), -both for just a few bucks. This sounds fishy, of course, but I thought I'd offer it for comment.

Note: Sorry about the little glitches, but I can't make them go away, -and I tried.

It is what used to be e bat es.

I thought Rakuten was formally Buy.com

Saw something similar at phatwalletforums.com but for $13.74 and when they went into their account it showed $0.
https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/19810/wtf-rakuten

Rakuten bought out E bates earlier this year and basically replaced the site with their own name. As a long-time E bates user, I haven't really noticed any differences.

It is that too.

Buy.com com was such a scetchy site that was an Amazon wannabe. They had the worst customer service and often didn't ship items that people ordered or refund items that were returned to them. I don't trust them now that they're name is changed to Rakuten. I've used ****** for years but after Rakuten bought them, they don't always add the percentage of sales to your quarterly rebate check total balance.

For some reason I'm reminded of DVD Soon, which was pretty decent for a little while, and then suddenly went topsy. I'd order a bunch of discs, get half, and the other half would be "out of stock". Instead of a refund, they'd give you credit, but you could only use a portion of that credit on any one item, -and the availability of their stock was more and more questionable.

My wife got redirected to a Rakuten site and nearly installed a whole lot of malware before she stopped and called me.

Total scam company