EagerLearner's Guide to Free Daily Cashback - Part Deux!

Diffusion

£500 +

The_Golden_Turd wrote: »

Reading this thread two questions spring to mind: Are you all really making all this money for nothing?? and why to the sites keep paying if you are not buying anything??

I have just requested a guide from the Eagerlearnier so hopefully that will explains things a little more, I juist don't understand why these companies keep paying you do click on links??

It's not money for nothing. It's money (at about the minimum wage) for about 20-30 minutes of our days doing something that's relatively boring.

My best guess (and it is a guess) is that the money comes from the various different search engines wanting to (artificially) inflate their traffic statistics so as to convince retailers to pay more to list their products with them (either up front or via commission). Once lots of retailers are on board and you have a one-stop shop, that in itself might generate genuine traffic that leads to genuine sales.

And my next guess, judging by how useless some of the search engines are, is that it's not working very well because the retailers realise that the traffic via the sites isn't generating sales. BuyCentral, for instance, have next to nothing on their site!

Anyone else have any theories as to how it works?

bristolleedsfan

Fatcheese have added ComparisonStreet 2p x 2 :j

moi

£500 +

Diffusion wrote: »

Anyone else have any theories as to how it works?

Essentially it's another form of advertising.
Companies pay for tv adverts, press adverts, leaflets etc., & they also pay for traffic to their sites (by way of sponsored links, like you see at the top of Google results or similarly 'sponsored' links on all these shopping portals we click)

Retailers pay kelkoo (Yahoo!) or Pricerunner (several pence), who pay networks (a few pence), who pay affiliate cashback sites (a couple of pence), who pay us (even less pence).

I agree with your guess on why some comparison sites are pathetic.

Diffusion

£500 +

moi wrote: »

Essentially it's another form of advertising.
Companies pay for tv adverts, press adverts, leaflets etc., & they also pay for traffic to their sites (by way of sponsored links, like you see at the top of Google results or similarly 'sponsored' links on all these shopping portals we click)

Retailers pay kelkoo (Yahoo!) or Pricerunner (several pence), who pay networks (a few pence), who pay affiliate cashback sites (a couple of pence), who pay us (even less pence).

I agree with your guess on why some comparison sites are pathetic.

No idea though why retailers would agree to paying per click through rather than per sale (i.e. the traditional form of cashback - paying commission to affiliates out of the profits from the sales they generate). Bizarre that Amazon, for instance, doesn't bother with cashback sites but is willing to pay a couple of pence per hit for completely useless traffic to their website.

bristolleedsfan

Cascade Compare 2p x2 also now on Fatcheese I notice :j

Diffusion

£500 +

bristolleedsfan wrote: »

Cascade Compare 2p x2 also now on Fatcheese I notice :j

However BuyCentral, BuyCentral Freebies and StopLikeSearch are gone, so that's 5p less overall even with the new ones.

3dogsandsomefish

bristolleedsfan wrote: »

Fatcheese have added ComparisonStreet 2p x 2 :j

Many thanks for getting this -and so in effect also Cascade Compare - added BLF (your referral on the FC forum refers). :T

Now to see if they come up on GPB after your referral there as well!

slick_detective

Over £150 per year

millymoomoo wrote: »

Morning!

Can anybody tell me how long Cashbackchief take to update clicks please. I maybe just too used to other ones updating after 24hours but nothing has tracked on CBC for me since I started it on Saturday:(

Oh and I can't get pricedigger to track on any sites at all?

Am I just being impatient?:o

Thanks

cashback chief used to update my cascade compare clicks the minute i'd do them but they haven't done recently from the 29th of april and no other clicks have appeared so i'm wondering as to why it's taking ages to update when usually cascade compare does immeaditely i thought cascade compare was automatic or something and i haven't done anything different apart from doing the shop4me clicks 23 times as opposed to 2 as a previous posted stated(i used to do only 2 as i thought it was 2 on all sites if shop4me and we all shop are the same thing so i missed out on a few quid there).

Diffusion

£500 +

slick_detective wrote: »

cashback chief used to update my cascade compare clicks the minute i'd do them but they haven't done recently from the 29th of april and no other clicks have appeared so i'm wondering as to why it's taking ages to update when usually cascade compare does immeaditely i thought cascade compare was automatic or something and i haven't done anything different apart from doing the shop4me clicks 23 times as opposed to 2 as a previous posted stated(i used to do only 2 as i thought it was 2 on all sites if shop4me and we all shop are the same thing so i missed out on a few quid there).

Same on my end insofar as nothing tracking since 29th April with either Chief or Cascade, not even the CascadeCompares (which, as you say, seem to normally track automatically).

I can assure you that it's not the 23x shop4me's causing any problems, I've been doing those for months with everything tracking fine. I imagine it's probably just something to do with the Bank Holiday weekend...

mark1966

£500 +

Diffusion wrote: »

Same on my end insofar as nothing tracking since 29th April with either Chief or Cascade, not even the CascadeCompares (which, as you say, seem to normally track automatically).

I can assure you that it's not the 23x shop4me's causing any problems, I've been doing those for months with everything tracking fine. I imagine it's probably just something to do with the Bank Holiday weekend...

Louise who does the updates is on holiday till 10th may so there will be no updates until then.

Ref cascade compare.....chief rick stated over on the cascade/chief forum that this would no longer be an automatic instant tracker any more.