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Full marks for reviewing and updating the article Martin.
Whilst most forum users may be aware of sites like Quidco there may be many people getting the email discovering this for the first time. I hope the cashback sites can take the extra volume .
Some people take a bit of convincing (that you can make money for free or be paid more in cashback than an insurance policy costs) but this article should give extra credibility as well as visibility.
Where I work everyone in my team is now a fully-fledged quidco member and most have over £100 already.
...and a rinky-dinky-doo to you too.
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Does anyone know any thing about a site called mycashback, registered with
them about 2 years ago,but now can not get any cash Back from them and they Do not respond tried every way to contact them but don't get any reply,( HELP)
Does anyone know any thing about a site called mycashback, registered with
them about 2 years ago,but now can not get any cash Back from them and they Do not respond tried every way to contact them but don't get any reply,( HELP)
Oh dear, it's not just me then!
I've been collecting cashback with them for about 3 years and now I've tried to claim it I'm experiencing the same as you, no cheque and no response to emails.
Their website is still running which concerns me, I assume they're still being paid by the merchants/networks for transactions that they have no intention of paying out.
As an aside, as someone new here, should this be in it's own thread?
I have a question about booking hotels using Quidco (or other cashback sites) through expedia, accorhotels, sheraton, etc.
Is it possible to get cashback on all bookings or only prepaid ones? What happens if you book a hotel on the site, but payment is made at the end of your stay?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I must be the last person in the world to discover cashback sites...
I find it very usefull as it saves me lots of time and I always get the best deal. I buy quite a lot of good online, rather than the shops, just so I can get the cashback.
What it does is, search the most popular cashback sites for the amount of reward it gives. The info seems to be upto date, so it must search the cashback sites everytime a new search is done.
Hello,
I have a question about booking hotels using Quidco (or other cashback sites) through expedia, accorhotels, sheraton, etc.
Thanks.
Do you mean you make a booking but don't pay at the time of booking?
My recent experience booking Travelodge hotels with Expedia is that I've had to provide credit card details to Expedia but the money is actually taken when I give the hotel my Credit Card.
In this scenario the booking still tracks okay through Quidco.
I had built up some cashback on greasy palm over several months but then a couple of weeks ago it sent me an email asking me to re-register and all my previous cashback suddenly disappeared apart from the £2.50 it gave me for re-registering! I've closed my account there now. Will try Quidco or Topcashback. Hopefully they will be more honest with my cashback.
Most of the sites that offer 100% cashback take an admin fee from your arnings, typically £5 a year. Doesn't take alot to work out that 10,000 members a year = £50,000 - imagine Quidco must have over 100,000 users by now, half a million pounds a year !!! I wouldn't mind make that a year
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Originally Posted by bluetomato
actually it doesnt surprise me. i cant see how these sites make money as they claim to give 100% to user.
Here is a transcript of a purchase I made through Greasypalm was just wondering if anyone else had had similar experiences not getting their cashback for either prudential or just from Greasypalm at all.
Date: 23rd Apr 07 Time: 10:11 AM From: Member Attachment: NO
Missing Cashback
Retailer: PruHealth Date of Transaction: 19th Feb 07 Order Value: £23.44 Order Number: 809267510 Order Details:Date: 25th Apr 07 Time: 1:51 PM From: Helpdesk - Emma
Message: Hi Christopher,
We are awaiting the retailer to validate this transaction, once they have then the cashback will be added to your account, thank you for using GreasyPalm.
Message: Hi, is there any estimate on when this will be as the purchase was 4 months ago and this ticket was submitted 2 months ago. Thanks Date: 26th Jun 07 Time: 1:55 PM From: Helpdesk - Fiona
Message: We are waiting for this transaction to be validated by the retailer, as soon as they have done this the cashback will be added to your account. We can only apologise for the length of time that this is taking and we will try to speed it up for you. Thank you for using Greasypalm.
Regards, Ernie FortuneDate: 20th Jul 07 Time: 9:52 AM From: Member Attachment: NO
Message: Well it's now been almost 11 weeks which is quite literally a ridiculous amount of time, surely its a matter of contacting prudential and a simple yes or no statement being made as to whether I made the purchase. Date: 20th Jul 07 Time: 12:35 PM From: Helpdesk - Fiona
Message: Can you provide your policy number to speed this process up. Thank you
PS How would you like to earn a £0.20p bonus and never miss out on any cashback again? You can with Rebate Catcher™! Date: 2nd Aug 07 Time: 11:45 PM From: Member Attachment: NO
Message: My policy number is 80926**** Date: 3rd Aug 07 Time: 11:31 AM From: Helpdesk - Fiona
Message: We have now contacted the retailer and asked them to investigate your missing cashback for this transaction.
Please allow up to 90 days from today for a manual credit to be added to your account, though we will try to get this resolved as soon as possible we are reliant on the retailers responding to our requests and some take longer than others to process our queries!
As soon as the retailer confirms that cashback is due we will credit the funds to your account.
If the cashback is added to your account and you're not told on this ticket please please let us know.
PS How would you like to earn a £0.20p bonus and never miss out on any cashback again? You can with Rebate Catcher™! Date: 4th Nov 07 Time: 5:00 AM From: Helpdesk - Fiona
Message: We have had the retailer check this missing cashback claim, unfortunately we have been unsucessful in recovering your casback.
The retailer has not paid us for this transaction and therefore we in turn are unable to pass this on to you.
We are very sorry about this decision but unfortunately there is nothing further we can do in this case to claim your cashback, as the retailer's decision is final.
Evening, Greasypalm have contacted me this week to say that since the last time I was paid they now pay by bacs and have asked for my account number so they can pay me directly into my bank account.
Hi, I'm new to this forum
Until I came on here I'd never even heard of cashback sites. Sounds too good to be true! My only experience so far is that I switched my electric supplier through energyhelpline and so far it has been 8 weeks since my supply switched over and still no cash from them (they said it would be 4-6 wks).
Is it a common occurance to either not get paid at all or for payment to be late? Are some safer to go through than others?
My car insurance is due at end of Dec and I was hoping I could save some money on this, but didn't knnow whether to rely on cashback amount before deciding on best deal.
Hi
Another first posting! I've been using cashback sites a little while and have had pay outs from GreasyPalm without any problem.
However I'm also having a problem with the Prudential - their Home Insurance hasn't tracked through TopCashBack. I'm still waiting to hear whether they will pay out.
Being cynical does anyone else wonder if the Pru use the site to advertise then as it's their decison whether to pay commission decide not to pay it - thus getting their customer (cos by then it's too late to cancel the policy) and saving on the commission payment?
I was going to look at their car insurance deal but on the basis of CTodd84s' experience and my own I think I'll look elsewhere!
Hi
Another first posting! I've been using cashback sites a little while and have had pay outs from GreasyPalm without any problem.
However I'm also having a problem with the Prudential - their Home Insurance hasn't tracked through TopCashBack. I'm still waiting to hear whether they will pay out.
Being cynical does anyone else wonder if the Pru use the site to advertise then as it's their decison whether to pay commission decide not to pay it - thus getting their customer (cos by then it's too late to cancel the policy) and saving on the commission payment?
I was going to look at their car insurance deal but on the basis of CTodd84s' experience and my own I think I'll look elsewhere!
Sounds like it hasn't tracked because I've recently bought home & contents insurance separately via http://www.getpoundsback.co.uk from Prudential & Churchill - total £198.45, cashback of £145 (£75,£70) & it was reported next day.
Has anyone else seen GreasyPalm's new offline cashback? You can register your cards so you can get cashback when you shop in the highstreet, there's only a few retailers so far but they say more are coming.
I'm going to try it out at Superdrug tomorrow see how it goes.
Hi
Another first posting! I've been using cashback sites a little while and have had pay outs from GreasyPalm without any problem.
However I'm also having a problem with the Prudential - their Home Insurance hasn't tracked through TopCashBack. I'm still waiting to hear whether they will pay out.
Being cynical does anyone else wonder if the Pru use the site to advertise then as it's their decison whether to pay commission decide not to pay it - thus getting their customer (cos by then it's too late to cancel the policy) and saving on the commission payment?
I was going to look at their car insurance deal but on the basis of CTodd84s' experience and my own I think I'll look elsewhere!
i bought car insurance with the pru through quidco and it tracked quite quickly. It took about 3 months to get the money though.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination
Has anyone ever used www.giveortake.com ? They seem to be very generous in their cashback on certain things. For example if you join up with bt total broadband through them, they will give you £50!!!!!! They take the first £5 of any cashback you earn in a year but after that it is all yours!!!
You can also opt to give all the cashback you earn to charity if you want.
I've signed up for Quidco and the balance is going up nicely.
However, I've read somewhere else on MSE that you need to get rid of your cookies every so often so that when you visit a site (ie not your 1st time) thorugh Quidco you will get the credit - or something like that.
Any advice? I'm confused (doesn't take alot does it?!)
i currently just want to make a few quid using the cashback sites by using search engines like kelkoo etc. but I don't fully understand what i need to do, can somebody give me an example of a search that will get me "points" on rpoints? and what sort of products/stores i should click onto in order to get these points?
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