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Buying it on credit doesn't mean that that's the only way you could buy it. I buy everything on credit, and I've paid about $50 total in interest in 10 years of doing so, a number far outweighed by the hundreds of dollars of rewards I've redeemed.
Now, obviously the bank wouldn't let me do this if not for the fact that people as a whole pay more in interest than they redeem in rewards, but that doesn't mean that any given individual does.
Not only interest, but the transaction fees. The financial institutions make big money on the transaction fees, and generally the rewards are less than the transaction fees, so they can't even possibly lose money on the deal.
This is pretty much what I do. I get cash back and have a very good credit score because of it. I usually pay it off completely every month. If for some reason I dont/cant I pay enough such that I do not have to pay interest. So yeah, free money! It doesn’t really make sense to use debit over credit (assuming you are financially responsible)