qidco poss being taken advantage of ???

rdouglas

I have used quidco since May 2006 and have gotten (received) cashback of almost £500.

Sky TV: £50
Prudential car insurance: £100
Esure car insurance (when pru 12 months was compted): £75
Lloyds Home Insurance: £120
Talktalk broadband/phone: £32
E2save mobile: £32
Alliance & Leicester loan: £66 (I don't think I even got this loan in the end...)
Various cds: about £20 in total.

I only had one thing that didn't track which was a uswitch energy supplier for £11. So I'm not using them again!

I did start clicking on the smaller things (kelkoo, etc) to get some pennies per day, but to be honest, I can't be bothered with it.

They have limits on these things for a reason. Obviously getting traffic is in their interest. They pay pennies for it. I don't think there is anything unethical about someone clicking to their hearts content to earn the money. If they companies (kelkoo, highstreetweb) found it not to further their goals (making money) then they'd stop doing it wouldn't they?

Burlesque_Babe

Mark_Hastings wrote: »

I used More Than for car insurance and it is only validating £40 not £75 at the moment (payment not due till November). I am therefore also £35 short!Quidco have stated that

"We've looked into this and this amount should be updated to the correct amount before it is paid. So we will put this enquiry on hold until this comes in properly."

I have created a ticket to request that they dont leave it on "hold" as I envisage only £40 coming in and me having to chase the remainder.

i've got an identical ticket in with More Than. They have tracked £50 and it should have been £85, I got the same reply as you.

Also got 2 being chased. £10 for opening an account with HSBC and £50 for opening an Alliance and Leicester account, both of which are now up and running. To be honest I have a feeling neither will come to anything, but hey ho, I haven't lost anything and i've now got access to a 12% savings account.

other than that no problems.

For those looking to find ways of paying off debt, doing click thrus and small amounts each day adds up and over the year can chop a few hundred pounds off credit card bills etc.

Transactionumber

Spikie_01 wrote: »

I have to say this as I've been thinking about it all weekend!! If the person who started this thread (or indeed anyone ese who agree's with them) If you people use pigsback or other sites of the similar kind, then you would be classed as doing the same thing.

My examples are as follows::

Pigsback members, do clicks, 6 a week, 5p each, total a week of 30p for doing something that is just to get money, no other reason.

Quidco Members - Kelkoo, shopping.com, high street web, car source, now you looking at 50p a day, for doing something that you would not usuallly do, total in a week is in ecess of £2.50.

Now, my point being, that if you are using any site like this, incluse ipoints, mutualpoints and others in here as well, as they all work in the same way, they are getting you to do something, to get their ratings up, thats all.

So overall my opinion is, No, I don't think quidco are being taken advantage of, and if you believe that it is, and are a member of any of the other sites, doing to things I stted above, then you are contradicting yourselves!!!

Ok, I think thats all, I may have t post something again later.

Take Care

It took you all weekend to think that ,when other people took a few minutes to say nearly the same thing.
If you actually read my last post I sort of agree with what they are doing but me personally can not be bothered to do it, my own fault and obviously quidco aren't being taken advantage of as they are earning money from it I was not to sure how the operation ran to be honest but it wouldn't be in business if it wasn't making some kind of profit.I look forward to hearing from you in a couple of days take care.

Spikie_01

leachy wrote: »

It took you all weekend to think that ,when other people took a few minutes to say nearly the same thing.
If you actually read my last post I sort of agree with what they are doing but me personally can not be bothered to do it, my own fault and obviously quidco aren't being taken advantage of as they are earning money from it I was not to sure how the operation ran to be honest but it wouldn't be in business if it wasn't making some kind of profit.I look forward to hearing from you in a couple of days take care.

Well if you had read MY previous posts you would know that I can't get online at the weekends, so would therefore know that It took me all weekend as I wanted to say something bu didn't have time on friday, so decided to have a little think about it.

Anyways, let just get on with it, Alot of people who (presumably like yourself and myself as many others) simply don't have the time to do these things, tbh, to do ll these clicks would take up my entire working day, so therefore I don;'t do them, but if I have a slow part of the day and don't have anything to do workwise, I may have a little clickthrough fest...

So Leachy, no hard feelings??? I should of read the whole thread......:rotfl:

Transactionumber

Spikie_01 wrote: »

Well if you had read MY previous posts you would know that I can't get online at the weekends, so would therefore know that It took me all weekend as I wanted to say something bu didn't have time on friday, so decided to have a little think about it.

Anyways, let just get on with it, Alot of people who (presumably like yourself and myself as many others) simply don't have the time to do these things, tbh, to do ll these clicks would take up my entire working day, so therefore I don;'t do them, but if I have a slow part of the day and don't have anything to do workwise, I may have a little clickthrough fest...

So Leachy, no hard feelings??? I should of read the whole thread......:rotfl:

No hard feelings at all sorry to hear about your internet probs hope they are fixed soon ,I would find it difficult for a few hours without the net !!
Your right about the clicks to !!
I am on leave at the mo so I might just join you on that clickfest your going on might aswell earn a few extra pennies as they all add up I suppose!! All the best and sorry for being a little bit sarcastic ! I should of read your posts! Leachy

Badger_Lady

steven504 wrote: »

Yea they are good on small sales but not on insurance, roadside assistance or gambling sites. If they have to pay out more than £10 in commission on a sale it does not track. Use it to get your no spend commission like kelkoo. But find someone else for big purchases.

I've had £312 cashback in the last 2 months. The biggest lumps were:
- Churchill motor insurance £60
- CIC Home insurance £75
- Sky £110

All of these have tracked, and the first two have validated and the first one has been paid.

'Nuff said.

cmrule

No problems with Quidco here. Transactions of over £3000 have tracked for me without any problems.
Long Live Quidco!

steven504

Lucky for those who track unfortunately I cannot query any transactions that have not tracked so lose out with quidco as they don’t always track properly.

BritBrat

bigup wrote:

I think the OP is probably referring to those on here who use quidco to get a few pennies a time to click websites. i can see how that would be taking advantage of the site, but greed gets to everyone :j

I have started clicking links for cash, the way I see it is the site you use must also get cash for our clicks and I always click through 2 times meaning the cashback site must be getting far more than I am so we are all winners.

If they allow it then it must be allowed.

The one thing I dont do is click the same click through twice as I can't be bothered to remember who you can click once or twice, so I just do them all once. Apart from when sites lag and the link never worked.

Diminutive

People using the click throughs on quidco actually help quidco alot. It's called cost-per-click advertising and it's all about marketing, and it works EXACTLY the same way as pigsback. The companies paying quidco WANT people to click on the links. While quidco don't generate profit from the click's themselves unless its part of that person's first £5 of earnings, it does put them in good standing with the advertisers. Advertisers are more likely to throw work quidco's way if they know they get a lot of clicks. If you advertise your website on google adwords for example, for every click that someone does on your advert you can be expected to pay up to £0.34.