What do you peeps use Quidco for?

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Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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Quidco is a cashback site. A friend got me to join it and a gambling site 8 years ago. I had to place £25 (5 x £5) in bets on a virtual horse race and I was promised £50 cashback. All of my horses lost and I never got the cashback. £25 out of pocket. I was reluctant to use Quidco again.

The same friend then got me to sign up to Quidco again this year. Had to make a new account as I lost my old credentials. I was still reluctant as I'm partially sighted and tend to get things wrong. Apparently Quidco has to be carried out by-the-letter. I needed a new VPN so the friend got me to sign up to NordVPN, £90 for 3 years. I used a clean out-of-the-box web browser (Opera), no add-ons or cookies that could potentially mess up the Quidco audit trail. Lo and behold, it worked! I got given £45, so half of my money back from my Nord sign up cost.

I also tried it with Just-Eat, but every time I tried it, it failed. So I'm still not 100% confident with Quidco.

What do you guys use it for? The friend has cars and pets and so he gets the majority of his cashbacks from car / pet insurance policies. I don't have cars / pets, so was wondering what else to use it for. I have for now managed to switch my internet from Virgin Media to Plusnet and my mobile from EE to Three and I should be getting £70 and £60 respectively. I've not got those amounts yet but they are at "tracked" stage. My Just-Eat orders on the other hand didn't get as far as being tracked.
 
Thanks for posting this - just logged in to find I've got nearly £300 waiting to get paid out! Get in! Could really do with that that the moment too.

I've used it for big Amazon purchases, big ebay purchases, new broadband sign ups, car insurange, flights, PC parts (at a competitor), breakdown cover, new mobile phone contracts.

I've had a very good tracking rate using firefox or chrome in incognito mode.

Not used it a lot recently, but got £650 racked up from in in about 10 years.
 
Never buy anything based on the cashback. Treat it as a bonus if it works.

I mainly use TopCashBack rather than Quidco.

I've had over £1,000 back in total with less than £30 that's failed to track.

I would imagine that running ad blocking software, or anything similar, would break the system.
 
Used to be good but now any large sums of cashback invariably don't track properly and you have to chase it up with support who might do something in a 6 - 12 month timescale.
 
I usually use TopCashBack.

I also usually make the purchase in Edge / IE because I don't have any ad blockers etc installed there which probably kill the affiliate links they use.
 
I just use it when i remember, not really think about it and nice bonus when it arrives. It looks a lot but compared to some people its on the low side and this is over like 10 years.

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I use TCB got around a grand back over the last few years, every now and again you need to chase something but it's not a common occurrence in my experience and as long as you didn't overpay just so you could get cashback then it's still just a nice to have rather than a need.
 
We buy most of the kids' clothes from Boden, so that's a regular source of cashback. Otherwise, changing broadband, insurances, other clothes retailers, phones, Ebay and Amazon when they're active. Usually get about £150 to £300 per year, which I tend to cash in during the run up to Xmas.
 
I used Quidco many times and the last two purchases were December last year and both were tracked and just got paid yesterday for these.
 
I've probably got a total of about £100 cashback in years and years of using the site. I often forget to use it also :p

I'm currently waiting on cashback from when I signed up to Virgin Media in August last year... I hope that they've not forgotten about me!
 
I’ve been on Quidco since 2007, £1760 cashback to date.

Generally pleased with very little cashback not tracking, but as above always treat it as a bonus as it isn’t guaranteed. I do kick myself when I order stuff and forget about it though!
 
I used to use Quidco and got to just under £1000 in cashback from them before switching to TCB. I now have about £60 waiting to be taken out and have received over £1000 from them since joining that site.

I have had a couple of failed to track transactions over the years, but 99.9% of them work as planned.
 
I use TCB and never had any issues. Some merchants take aaaages to pay but then again it's a nice surprise when you've forgotten about it. The issue with Quidco was probably more related to the gambling site. Those guys are scam artists for sure and I'm not surprised you never got paid.
 
I use it reasonably regularly for a few small things - Booking.com, annual summer holiday with Tui or similar, airport parking. The vast majority tracks ok and quickly.

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I use it any time i'm moving utilities or tv/internet mobile etc - only one I've had refused was talktalk who eventually paid up and then talk talk gave me a discount on the services as an apology!
I'm about 1k up for stuff I was buying anyway
 
TCB here too, got £155 back on my recent BT Fibre order, basically knocking off a tenner a month for doing nothing.

I think I have claimed about £1,200 since TCB, and only £200 on Quidco before that.
 
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