Quidco? Can someone tell me how it works?

frenchy0312

frenchy0312

frenchy0312

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Hi, ive heard good things about quidco and noticed a lot of online retailers i use are eligible for cashback on it. Im just wondering how it works? do they build up a certain amount of cashback on your account before they release it to you? How is it given back to you? In the form of vouchers? Cash? How often can you withdraw the cashback?
Thanks
 
Been a Quidco user for the last few years, nearly received £400 back!

You are paid monthly via BACS, you can set a limit on the minimum payout for each month. You can also use Paypal but there is a maximum limit of £50.

How it works is that, you search for an etailer that gives you cashback, click through to the etailer while on quidco and purchase away, within a few hours to a few days your purchase will be tracked on Quidco, once tracked it can take upto a few months before it is verified and paid to Quidco to be paid to you.

Pretty easy to use, but they charge £5 fee per year which is deducted from your balance, an alternative is Topcashback which is as good and has no fee.
 
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Quidco are complete cowboys. They never tracked my orders and refused to help me get me money. They charge a £5 fee from you too.

Use topcashback instead - no fee and I have never had any problems with order tracking.
 
I'm a TopCashBack man as well - I find they have usually got higher commissions for the things I tend to buy, have excellent customer service, and don't charge the £5 a year (although to be fair this isn't exactly much money!)

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Anyone use this for grocery shopping?
Just wondering how it would work and does the cashback outweigh the extra cost of home delivery?
 
Scubascorpion said:
Anyone use this for grocery shopping?
Just wondering how it would work and does the cashback outweigh the extra cost of home delivery?
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As it's a percentage, it would depend how much you order :)

Unless you're ordering a LOT of food, I doubt it. However, if you can bump the cost of delivery down through Quidco or TCB, the convenience might make up for it!
 
I also registered for the high street retailers Quidco thing; I'm receiving cashback for a pub I visited on Monday evening! :-D It's great that Quidco isn't just limited to online retailers.
 
daelo said:
But if they were on quidco/topcashback it would draw a bit more marketing?
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That's true. However, lets imagine that the amount of money OcUK would "lose" on the affiliate scheme is £500 (in reality I expect it would be considerably more). If they feel that they can get better publicity and marketing through that £500, it makes no sense to put themselves on Quidco or to run an affiliate scheme.

To me, the likes of Quidco are generally poor marketing for companies like OcUK, Tesco etc. Any company who puts themself on this website and will have customers buying regularly from them will lose money on every sale they make to Quidco customers. If OcUK were on Quidco, I would use them through Quidco for every purchase I make through them. Tesco lose x% of every sale they make to me due to their presence on Quidco. They aren't gaining my custom, I would be buying from them regardless, but they are losing money.

Companies from whom the same customer buy less frequently gain more from sites like Quidco (which is why you tend to see insurance companies, mobile phone operators etc giving much higher percentage cuts). If I sign up for an 18 month contract worth £500 from O2, and they give me back £80, they are still gaining £420 over 18 months. They won't be losing this money every time my bank account is debited - I buy once, and then will not be returning to them through Quidco again for 18 months.
 
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