This question is the most essential concept which helps you understand how URebate works, include our website and URebate Wizard application. When you shop at our partners' site, you are required to login and visit/browse the online store by click one of the web links provided at www.urebate.com or "apply magic" from URebate Wizard. This action is required by our partner to receive a specific web requrest from our website or the URebate Wizard application to identify your profile. Due to the complexity of the technology implemented here, we give a nick name to this required transaction: URebate Magic.
Why do I need URebate Wizard?
URebate Wizard is a very tiny program and it can run silently on your PC, we may forget to apply the "URebate Magic" when we shop
at Target or other partners' online stores due to the very tiny rebate amount, maybe a quarter, or other reasons. But our Wizard program will
reminds you whenever you are browsing our partner's store by pops up a tiny window at right corner for 5 seconds. Besides this, you can check your rebate
status, our recent "Hot Detals" and the whole stores list. Now, you don't need go to our website at all, this tiny program just like any Messenger (MSN, Yahoo,
AOL) gives you a lot of convenience to your online shopping saving plan.
Is URebate Wizard a spy ware?
URebate Wizard is not a spy ware!!! It does not write anyting to your browser or any other sytem component. It is a client side software only displays information from your browser or URebate central system.
Does URebate Wizard impact my computer's performance?
URebate Wizard is a very tiny program and it does not do any complicated transactions/calculations. If your computer can handle any Messenger (MSN, Yahoo,
AOL) , of course, this tiny application won't impact your system at all.
I got run-time error on my Windows XP Home computer, what should I do?
Microsoft Windows XP Home is not a stable operating system and even Microsoft recommends the users to upgrade to Windows XP Pro. Unfortunately, we don't fully support this application running on Windows XP Home. But you still can place orders via www.urebate.com
