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How To Buy BCS Championship Game Tickets CHEAP
By Max | December 8, 2008
Is your team in the BCS National Title game? Perhaps you would like to buy tickets to another bowl game. After my team Penn State beat Ohio State, their remaining schedule looked pretty easy, so I went ahead and purchased some title game tickets. Unfortunately those seats were quite expensive, ringing in at around $700. I found a way to save a boatload of money on these seats using MSN Live search cashback. Here’s how…
Step 1:
Go to www.live.com and search for “bcs championship game tickets”.
Step 2:
This search will yield some sponsored links, one of which will hopefully be for ebay tickets. Click that one.
Step 3:
Clicking the sponsored link will bring you to ebay’s website. From here you should find the tickets you wish to buy and click the “Buy It Now” option to purchase them. If there is a little yellow dollar sign icon next to the auction listing, then you’ll know it is eligible for Microsoft cashback. You must use Paypal and “Buy it Now” to pay for the tickets.
Step 4:
Register for a Microsoft Cashback account. You may already have a Live ID which you’ll then use to create a cashback account.
Step 5:
Check your ebay mail inbox. It may take a couple hours, but you should soon receive an ebay message concerning the cashback for your purchase. The message will look like this:
The ebay message is how you link your livesearch cashback account to your ebay account. Once Microsoft knows that you have completed your purchase then they will credit your cashback account. I got my rebate through paypal. The rebate is instant if the item you are ordering cannot be returned. Otherwise you will have to wait 60 days.
After up to a day you should check your Live Cashback account to make sure that your rebate has been awarded. The percentages vary from day to day. When I bought my tickets, you could get 25% back, but at the time of writing, only 8% is available. If I were you I would wait to see if that goes back up. Also you can use this procedure to buy practically anything from ebay.
There is a limit to using cashback. You may only earn $2500 in total. Also there is a $200 limit per transaction. Since tickets are so expensive, if you want to go with a friend, the best strategy is to find an ebay auction where there are several tickets listed for for sale individually. An auction like this will have a listing title that appears something like this: “1-8 BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TICKETS MIAMI 1/8/09″. This means you can buy any number up to eight tickets and they’ll be together. Buy one for yourself and have a friend use his own cashback account to get a second ticket. My friend and I found a listing we liked and emailed the seller to see if he could relist the auction as two individual tickets so that we could both get the discount. That worked pretty well too.
Also if you want to buy my tickets from me, send me an email since my Nittany Lions are headed to the Rose Bowl instead. 
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