quidco - some sneaky affiliates not paying out

Ickle_Maisie

Has anyone taken out Direct Line car insurance through Quidco? When I click the link it takes me to the direct line home insurance site where I then have to navigate to the car insurance page. I don't want to risk taking out the policy through this way and missing out on £100 cashback!

Shokami

siren13577 wrote: »

I took a home insurance policy with Barclays as it was going to be the cheapest after £95 cashback and after waiting and waiting I emailed Quidco and was told to chase it up with Barclays themselves, I mean what am I supposed to say to Barclays when I ring? I did raise a query but it's been pending since last year. I thought Quidco would at eat contact them on my behalf as they got something for solicting my business but no chance. Not too happy about that but in principle and when your transactions track it's a good site.

I have had the same problem with a Barclays contents insurance. The cashback was supposed to be £125, and when I raised an enquiry, I even quoted the policy number. Told that enquiry is 'closed' so I assume that I won't get my cashback!!:eek:
Extremely peeved, cos I wouldn't have gone with Barclays if it hadn't been for the cashback.
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Nadia

getmeoutofhere wrote: »

I ordered a mobile phone from dialaphone via quidco hoping for £50 cashback. They called me with a query about my address details (our lane has no numbers - only names). I then found that the quidco tracking showed payment "declined".

I then cancelled the order and placed another via quidco with carphonewarehouse, hoping for cashback again. I then find there is a problem with the order and I ended up ringing them. It turns out they needed to do the credit check again, and I was given another ref number.

No doubt this cashback will be declined!

Quoted from Quidco's dialaphone page: "Please read the following before proceeding:

This merchant may report initially as "declined" and then change to "tracked" when the order is confirmed. This can take over six weeks."

So when your tracking for dialaphone showed as declined this was not due to the phone call you received but is normal with all transactions with them (maybe to make sure that people won't cancel after receiving the cashback).

I bought a contract phone from dialaphone through quidco last January. The tracked transaction showed as declined for the first 6 weeks then it changed to tracked and has changed to received last week. Now I await £50 to reach my bank account next week :j .

HTH

mustafa_say_ving

Shokami wrote: »

siren13577 wrote: »

I took a home insurance policy with Barclays as it was going to be the cheapest after £95 cashback and after waiting and waiting I emailed Quidco and was told to chase it up with Barclays themselves, I mean what am I supposed to say to Barclays when I ring? I did raise a query but it's been pending since last year. I thought Quidco would at eat contact them on my behalf as they got something for solicting my business but no chance. Not too happy about that but in principle and when your transactions track it's a good site.

I have had the same problem with a Barclays contents insurance. The cashback was supposed to be £125, and when I raised an enquiry, I even quoted the policy number. Told that enquiry is 'closed' so I assume that I won't get my cashback!!:eek:
Extremely peeved, cos I wouldn't have gone with Barclays if it hadn't been for the cashback.
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This is just terrible , I feel for you . I went through quidco in March for my insurance with Barclays the £125 showed as tracked less than 24 hours later, it was validated about a month later and is now showing as received.

Did you take any screen shots when you did the insurance?


I really hope you manage to get this sorted as £125 is a fair amount of money to be messed about over!

I do think that with the Barclays cash back if it's not tracked within 48 hours I'd be tempted to cancel the insurance( as you do have a cooling off period), then try doing it again through quidco ,taking screen shots as you go .

halia

I went through quidco as well for lloyds insurance, tempted to cancel it now as it was only cheaper when cahsback was taken into account. Nothing is showing up on my quidco yet and its been 3 weeks.

geordiescouse

Hi, My Lloyds TSB transaction (March) is showing as validated does this mean I will defo get paid? I ask because it originally said I should be paid out in April, this has since changed to May and there is only one day in May to go!

hunsbury0

siren13577 wrote: »

I took a home insurance policy with Barclays as it was going to be the cheapest after £95 cashback and after waiting and waiting I emailed Quidco and was told to chase it up with Barclays themselves, I mean what am I supposed to say to Barclays when I ring? I did raise a query but it's been pending since last year. I thought Quidco would at eat contact them on my behalf as they got something for solicting my business but no chance. Not too happy about that but in principle and when your transactions track it's a good site.


I also have Boots and Unibet pending since last year, so it's a bit annoying and feels like no one is doing anything to chase this up

Quidco are useless at chasing claims- all you get is a standard email that they chase them once a month.
I had one claim outstanding, but Quidco would not take any notice the emails that I sent, they only replied with thier standard reply" We chase outstanding claims once a month" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the first & last transcation that I made with Quidco.
I now use Rpoints who are reliable. Their cashback is less than Quidco, but they will also match Quidco, if you apply for a match. You will have to do this for all transactions, but they are hasle free & provide good service.

maverickangel

I took out car insurance with Lloyds TSB thru quidco last year, and did get my cashback eventually - I had to raise a query with quidco, who took it back to lloyds, provide further information, back to lloyds and so on. I took out the insurance in June 2006 and recieved the cashback Jan 2007. I think sometimes you just have to be persistent.

I've gone through one of the other insurance offers on there this time for my car insurance renewal, so will see what happens with that one.

jamichi1

hunsbury0 wrote: »

Quidco are useless at chasing claims- all you get is a standard email that they chase them once a month.
I had one claim outstanding, but Quidco would not take any notice the emails that I sent, they only replied with thier standard reply" We chase outstanding claims once a month" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the first & last transcation that I made with Quidco.
I now use Rpoints who are reliable. Their cashback is less than Quidco, but they will also match Quidco, if you apply for a match. You will have to do this for all transactions, but they are hasle free & provide good service.

Topcashback are really good at chasing merchants unlike Quidco who seem to be bad at tracking as well.

jeppy

Snoopy_rules wrote: »

I have had 3 separate orders for woolworths declined. They all tracked ok. When it came to paying they have declined them all. I think its something to do with there rubbish computer system. I collected all 3 orders from instore, but 6 months on there system still shows them as waiting to be collected. As if I would pay and not collect!!!

I had this problem too