£4.50 cashback NO SPEND - Loophole on Tesco Free Sim EXPIRED

jezza2412

TehJumpingJawa wrote: »

Did anyone actually get paid for this?

My Quidco transactions that initially tracked at £0.00 (as they should) have just changed to 'Paid' at £0.00.
They completely skipped the 'validated' at £4.50 stage

No enquiries permitted either; oh well.

nanatopsy wrote: »

Yes, Me too

Me three...

tryingto

Yep, me too. I asked Quidco about it and they said there was nothing they could do. Totally get it says they don't take enquiries, but surely they must be paying some people out. Hope it isn't a case of no-one getting paid the advertised cashback.

Honkycat

Mine paid out ok.

supermezzo

Mine paid out this morning.

bignred05

mine paid out to :beer::beer:

on a side note, I also got paid out on the 02 sims (twice) :j:j

bugeyed

If you followed the instructions to activate the sim correctly then the cashback will be paid. I enquired with Quidco about the failure rate on these sims paying cashback and they said that only those that didnt activate their sims according to the instructions will not get paid.

If you feel that you did activate your sim card as per the instructions (i.e dial out on it - even to the free number in earlier links) then raise a Quidco enquiry and point this out.
The enquiry payout will take time.

Personally, I have now been paid all cashback on all the sims in this thread (and twice on most due to sending them to the OH). Most only went in my bank this month and one is due to be paid at the end of the month. But, all confirmed.

As Martin often warns, not all cashback gets paid. Sometimes this is the fault of the claimant but all too often it's the fault of the companies that the retail company use to give the cashback. I have had arguments with Quidco over this and received 'discretionary' payments. Although I did get paid (two big payments too - not the sims), I was told at one point as an excuse that the cashback industry wasn't regulated. Following this abysmal excuse, I contacted my MP about the regulation and it is currently being dealt with by the chancellor of the exchequers office. So we will see if they can actually do something about regulating the industry and ensuring that promised cashbacks are paid correctly.

I will revisit this thread from time to time and post any news about this on here.

tryingto

I definitely activated correctly but no cashback from Quidco. They said there is nothing that can be done about it (and they were aware that I had activated).

TehJumpingJawa

Yeah, I activated my Sims in exactly the way described.

I guess the reason might be that I ordered 2 through Quidco(£4.50 ea), and 2 through topcashback(£4.20 ea).
As Tesco permitted 4 free sims per address, I figured that was the best way to maximize payout. (and at the time of registering i'm fairly sure quidco allowed 2 sims per member, not the 1/member it now states.)

Just checked topcashback, and oddly i've been paid for 3 sims and have 1 outstanding. (despite only 2 being tracked initially!)
Looks like topcashback have stolen quidco's cashback

Oh well, I still got paid for 3 out of the 4 sims - good enough :T