Does Quidco always give the best cashback?

exel1966

humfer wrote:

Rpoints also have a cashback promise to match the likes of quidco. Thats the reason I stay with them, as they don't have an annual charge and can pay cashback direct into your bank account and not via paypal, etc

QUIDCO offer payment by BACS Transfer direct to UK bank accounts OR via Paypal !

comicmankev

I used to use Greasypalm but moved on to Quidco quite rapidly after seeing how much more you could get. HOWEVER, I have made a few large transactions recently and found they did not show up. I made the usual claim and was told I was succesful but would only receive 50%! This would put the back down to the likes of GP and has put me off massively. I never realised the only paid 50% of you have to make an enquiry!

I think this is terrible really, cos if they enquire, and get the payment, why should they only pay out 50%?

koru

comicmankev wrote:

I used to use Greasypalm but moved on to Quidco quite rapidly after seeing how much more you could get. HOWEVER, I have made a few large transactions recently and found they did not show up. I made the usual claim and was told I was succesful but would only receive 50%! This would put the back down to the likes of GP and has put me off massively. I never realised the only paid 50% of you have to make an enquiry!

I think this is terrible really, cos if they enquire, and get the payment, why should they only pay out 50%?

Quidco do warn on their site:
"Although the vast majority of transactions are tracked successfully, the network currently responsible for this merchant has decided to only pay 50% for any successful enquiries on missing transactions. We have expressed our dissatisfaction to the network and are doing everything we can to improve this situation."

So you are right to be annoyed, but not at Quidco. They are passing on all the money they receive. The 50% is being withheld by the network that pays out the incentives on behalf of the merchants.

Personally, I haven't yet suffered this problem with Quidco. As I understand it, tracking problems are often due to cookie confusions. I try to avoid this, by having one browser that I only use for Quidco purchases and no other browsing. I delete all cookies from that browser regularly. So if I visit a site from Quidco there should be nothing to interfere with the tracking.

koru

Tharweb wrote:

True, but only fair to point out that they take the first 500, to match Quidco, in awarding Highest Cashback claims. As I found out the first time I claimed

So you might as well use Quidco in cases where they give higher cashback. Why bother with the hassle of having to invoke the price match?

If Quidco offer the best deal, I would rather reward Quidco, because they are the ones who as a matter of policy are paying out the highest rewards. Rpoints are trying to pay you less, whenever they can get away with it, which is a business model I don't really feel like rewarding.

Price matches are usually presented as meaning:
"We're so confident that we are the best deal that, in the unlikely event there is a better deal elsewhere, we will happily match it."

A more honest phrasing would usually be:
"We know that we are not the best deal, but we think you are probably too stupid to shop around, and if you don't we will happily rip you off. If you do shop around, however, we will reluctantly match the price the other more competitive retailer offers, as long as we can't wiggle out of it under some get out clause (like it having to be in stock at the other retailer). But we will only do that for you; we'll keep offering the poorer deal to all our other customers and we'll keep claiming that it is the best deal."

hilary1

We all go for the site that pays most for whatever we want to buy on the day.

As already said, why waste time chasing a price match when you could just get the highest in the first place.