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Cashback website

Imagine you're going shopping with your mom and she buys a lot of things. When you get home, you notice that some of the money she spent magically comes back to you! That's sort of like what a cashback website does.

A cashback website is like a special shopping website where you can buy lots of things online, just like you normally would. But, when you buy something through the cashback website, you actually get some of your money back as a reward!

Here's how it works. Let's say you want to buy a toy from an online store like Amazon. Instead of going directly to Amazon, you first go to the cashback website. The website tells you that if you buy the toy through their website, they will give you some money back once the toy is delivered to you.

So, you click on the link to Amazon through the cashback website, and buy the toy just like you normally would. After a few days, the toy arrives at your house, and the cashback website sends you a message saying "Hey, we noticed you bought something from Amazon through our website – here's some money back for you!" and they transfer some of your money back into your account.

The amount of money you get back is usually a percentage of what you paid for the thing you bought. So, if you bought a $10 toy and the cashback website promised to give you 5% cashback, then you would get $0.50 back as a reward.

So, to sum up – a cashback website is like a cool way to get some of your money back as a reward for buying things online through their website, instead of buying things directly from the original online store.