Quidco - cashback offers change when logged in

Ant555

Ive never really noticed before but does anyone know if Quidco 'tailor' offers to users?

For instance, I happened to notice yesterday that British Gas Homecare is offered at £100 cashback if I am not signed in at all but £80 if I sign in as myself.

No problem really, just wondering.
Thanks

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Could it be the figure quoted when not logged in is the maximum payable whereas when you log in you see the amount payable relevant to your membership type (basic or premium).

Ant555

Thanks - I think its a quirk as if I do a search when logged in then I get a result that says £80, but if I go direct to the Quidco British gas link then the exact same purchase is £100  cashback https://www.quidco.com/british-gas-homecare

Strange, no problem, just something ill be wary of in future

grumbler

Ant555 said:

Ive never really noticed before but does anyone know if Quidco 'tailor' offers to users?

For instance, I happened to notice yesterday that British Gas Homecare is offered at £100 cashback if I am not signed in at all but £80 if I sign in as myself.

No problem really, just wondering.

This is very common and understandable. They don't want to pay both you and quidco.

FaceHead

I think this is a quirk of the cashback amount being changed, rather than quidco doing anything clever.

Logged in users seeing the actual amount, and the not-logged-in version of the website potentially being a cached version which doesn't reflect the latest cashback amount.

I see exactly the same behavior of log out: £100, log in: £80. I can see the £100 if I then go 'back' to the £100 version whilst logged in, but it jumps to £80 when I refresh the page.    

If it's £80 once you're logged in, and you can only get cashback by signing up, it's not some clever segmentation of customers but just a recipe to irritate people - and therefore I can't imagine it's deliberate.