will cashbacks continue?

thephantom_2

Hi ,
Many cashback companies have gone bust or nearly so. Mobileshop, clickmobile and dialamobile are all defaulting on the cashbacks. I feel more and more such companies will go bust and punters will lose their money. Most of the companies mentioned have been in business for some time but now seem to be going belly up?
Your comments?

mobilejunkie

There are lots of crusades against some of the companies with the worst practices AND against the networks; THAT is more likely to drive dealers into the ground than anything else. Self-fulfilling prophecy comes to mind... Orange has pulled from about 100 dealers recently and there are other moves resulting from all the pressure. Personally, except in the case of the most fraudulent companies who are only around for a few months or a year or two I would much rather use other means to obtain my money if necessary - so what you suggest won't happen and I can continue to accumulate loads of nice phones and totally free minutes, texts and even internet access. Far too many people jump in with far too little research and make some very basic errors time and again and then complain when they get stitched up. I can't sympathise with them - they pay for me! However, when they then complain and get really angry sometimes the resulting waves do more harm than good. It has to be a balance but I fear (as with the recent pulling of 08 numbers from cpw when they were inundated for months with calls from people not believing they were still included in bundles) - people will hound these companies and the networks until there ARE no free deals. Others say no-one gets something for nothing and if it's too good to be true it is. Again, they are sceptics who don't know how to play the game. No-one FORCES people to get these deals; if they go rushing in with their eyes closed , then so be it.