Quidco / Topcashback - What are your views?

azibux1

azibux1

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Hi,

Just wondering, has anyone used websites like Quidco and topcashback?

Are they completely free?

The concept seems too good to be true ... Hmmmm
 
I use Quidco and have had the following back from them and paid into my account.

Total confirmed & paid cashback
£131.82
Total tracked cashback
£0.63

Not totally free, Quidco take the first £5 you earn in that year as a fee and the rest gets paid to you directly. Some retailers do take an absolute age to action the cash back.
 
Too much hassle and too many pitfalls for what you get back. The big deals there are discounts you would normally obtain anyway - you take their mobile phone offers and you get a bad contract but nice cashback, for example.

Your mileage may vary, but it's a pain in the backside and to me not worth the effort.
 
The Halk said:
Too much hassle and too many pitfalls for what you get back. The big deals there are discounts you would normally obtain anyway - you take their mobile phone offers and you get a bad contract but nice cashback, for example.

Your mileage may vary, but it's a pain in the backside and to me not worth the effort.
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It depends though, I don't use it for the deals. I just use it when I'm buying the odd bits like holidays, using regular shopping sites and ebay. All adds up after a while.
 
The Halk said:
Too much hassle and too many pitfalls for what you get back. The big deals there are discounts you would normally obtain anyway - you take their mobile phone offers and you get a bad contract but nice cashback, for example.

Your mileage may vary, but it's a pain in the backside and to me not worth the effort.
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Simply not true. Before you buy something, you check if it's on quidco/tcb and if it is, you click through. What's hard about that?

The mobile phone one isn't really true either, I got £181 cashback on a 12 month mobile phone contract. My deal works out at getting the phone and 12 months of a very high end plan (900mins, 750meg internet, unlimited texts, euro data allowance, etc etc) for less than the phone would've cost sim free when I bought it.

Currently got £141 tracking for a new Virgin Media cable install, as well. I don't expect that to be paid until september at the earliest, but that's fine, it's effectively 4 months free service!
 
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I've used them before but generally can't be arsed these days. Not hard, exactly, but it's a hassle to scrape back some pennies here and there.
 
l0wther said:
Used Quidco to get breakdown cover. Took 8 months to get £20 cashback. Not worth the effort.
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What was the effort though? Provided you actually budget long term for your money rather than expecting it week to week, it's a bonus that comes back to you later, why does the wait matter?
 
Hxc said:
Simply not true.
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As I said your mileage may vary. I've bought and furnished a flat in the last year and there's nothing that I could have got better through Quidco. The mobile phone deals I looked at were horribly expensive, and everything they bombarded my email account with was overpriced rubbish with high markups.
 
Hxc said:
What was the effort though? Provided you actually budget long term for your money rather than expecting it week to week, it's a bonus that comes back to you later, why does the wait matter?
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I don't know how you value your time, but I'd imagine it took over an hours effort in that 8 months to get the 20 quid.
 
The Halk said:
I don't know how you value your time, but I'd imagine it took over an hours effort in that 8 months to get the 20 quid.
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Unless there is a problem with the transaction, which is rare, all you have to do is have clicked through the link, and the site does it all for you. Where is my hours effort?
 
Hmmm mixed views from everyone then.

I don't really mind having to wait (as in the above example) 8 months to get £20. Like HXC says, a bonus is a bonus, even if you have to wait

I like the idea as long as it is entirely free which no one has confirmed? I assume it is ... ?
 
The Halk said:
There was a problem with mine as well, I got my £25 eventually but again it took over an hours effort.
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I've had nothing but flawless transactions with all I've used and my stats are over £500 claimed. It takes time, yep, but I budget annually, so I don't really care when I get the money back.

Topcashback is entirely free and almost always better than quidco. They will always match quidco's best offers if you post in the forum, too. Quidco take your first £5 you earn each year.
 
Hxc said:
What was the effort though? Provided you actually budget long term for your money rather than expecting it week to week, it's a bonus that comes back to you later, why does the wait matter?
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The sites are good, but just not for me. It's one of those things where you end up spending more because you see all of the deals and think "oh that's a good offer". I was supposed to get my cashback within 8 weeks, sending 2-3 emails to QuidCo asking what they were doing was not worth the effort.

I'll use it again in the future for something like insurance etc but wouldn't be bothered with anything else, can usually find better deals out there anyway.
 
I budget over long periods too, but it's not the time it took, it's the effort I had to spend to get it back.

I'll say it again that your mileage may vary, for me it's not worthwhile at all. Insurance was more expensive through cashback sites, gas/electricity was more expensive through the sites that offered cashback for switching too.

I don't know what's different with what you buy compared to what I buy, but I've spent a small fortune in the past year, and I've gotten prices down to the bare minimum - but I've not been able to make savings with cashback sites.
 
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