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MSE News: Over 40% of cashback site users don't get paid

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"More than four in ten online shoppers hoping for a rebate have not received payment, a study shows ..."
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I've earned over £2000 in the last few years from cashback & although I've had to put in a few claims, they've always been awarded in the end although some have been a bit slow coming through, which I think is more down to the merchant that the site.
Sites I'd recommend are Topcashback, Fatcheese, Getpoundsback.
Not sure where there got the data about least complaints about Cashbackkings, they have had numerous problems over the last couple of years which is well documented in the cashbackkings forums.
The article claims that "over 40% don't get paid" based on the fact that 41% make a complaint. However, 37% of them don't get a rebate..so, 63% do! If 63% of the 41% do get paid after raising a query then 15% of cashback site users have not been paid for a transaction made through a cashback site...
Now, given that the average quidco member has been paid £262 ( taken from quidco site) the average user has made quite a lot of transactions...Even if the average was 10 transactions that gives a 1.5% chance of having a transaction not tracked or paid...
Statistics eh! :rotfl:
Agreed - very misleading article. MSE News should be clear, not sensationalist and not misleading, just like the rest of the wonderful MSE site.
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If I make a purchace I go through either
TopCashback (honoured DGM payments) have a fair pay policy
GetPoundsBack (honoured DGM payments, customer service exceptional, have a forum
Fatcheese (honoured DGM payments) cashback guarntee, brilliant CS, have a forum
and all pay out when they have your money
As for the rest I wouldn't trust with a purchace cashback,
If they can't even track the daily clicks and no spends what chance have you got with a purchase
I don't believe for a minute that 41% people never got paid ANY cashback from cashback sites.
Sometimes there are glitches, more to do with merchants (who refuse to pay out and are then dropped) then with the cashback sites as such I think, but that claim I simply do not believe.
Occassionally have to chase them but so far not failed to receive a penny.
I think MSE is NOT :mad: giving the best advice to consumers at all, in this instance.
If for example, you follow Martins links and click through MSE to change energy supplier you might get a bottle of champagne or £30.
HOWEVER if you use the comparison sites yourself, work out the best deal, clear your cookies THEN switch through Quidco or Topcashback or whoever you could be well over a hundred quid better off!!!
Martin says that he has made a lot of money from the site, if that is the case why does MSE continue to hand out such self serving, poor advice that makes the MSE site wealthier???
Just how much does MSE make from these click through links????
I may have lost the odd pound or 2 whilst using switching websites, I have however benefited to the tune of HUNDREDS of pounds by ignoring MSE's bad (and self enriching) advice...
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