@Bwoltjer look at it this way. For much of spring and summer LY Ibotta offered a quarter cash back for Butterfinger with a maximum credit of 5 units a transaction, ergo $1.25 maximum cash back. BTW Walmart was the only place where you could partake of this deal, but anyway Butterfinger is just 88 cents apiece there. Ditto all that for Baby Ruth bars for a shorter engagement just last fall, but that's just another story for another day
Anyway let's say you're just starting out with Ibotta and all you do your first month is partake of the exclusive at Walmart Butterfinger offer every day the offer is available to you. In the real world most offers become available again a minimum of 2 days after completion, but just for the sake of illustration let's get goofy.
Your first day in Ibotta is the first day of a 31 day month and every one of those days the Butterfinger at Walmart deal is available. Remember Butterfinger is 88 cents apiece at Walmart and you get a quarter cash back with a maximum allowable 5 units a transaction so for your first Ibotta deal you buy 5 Butterfinger bars at Walmart. You spent $4.40 and got $1.25 cash back.
Now let's say you get to do the same thing over again daily for the next 30 days like rinse and repeat. Over 31 days you would have spent $86.40 with $48.85 cash back from Ibotta.
Could you then imagine having a buddy doing the very same thing YOU'RE doing to earn Ibotta cash back but he didn't have Ibotta or any other cash back app? Your buddy merely SPENT $86.40 but you INVESTED that same amount and got $48.85 in return
