Quidco and it’s cash back website brethren are just about the best things ever. Yes, even better than Deezer, which gives you free music – Quidco gives you free money for buying stuff off the Internet.
Here’s one example. You want to sort yourself out with a new phone contract and you’ve narrowed it down to one on the Orange network. You quickly log on to Quidco to check if Orange are offering any deals, and oh look – they are currently offering an incredible £150 back per contract!
Of course, it’s not uncommon for mobile phone websites to offer cashback but it doesn’t stop there. Any time you are thinking about ordering off a website, it’s always worth tapping the retailer’s name into Quidco to see what they are offering. Sometimes it’s a small percentage, other times it’s a fixed sum – but it’s always worth having.
All you need to do now is click the link to the Orange website and purchase the contract in the normal way. Now you won’t get your cash back immediately and it can take months to appear. But as soon as the cash back has been validated by Quidco (using a clever tracking system) you can rest easy that the money is coming at some point. And hey – it’s free cash, why complain?
Most people will be wary about signing up to one of these websites because they are rightly suspicious when things seem too good to be true. You will ask yourself why anyone would want to give you money for something you were going to buy anyway!
But it starts to make sense when you look at it from the retailer’s perspective. Cash back websites are just another form of advertising and when you consider the huge amounts of money spent on marketing by the big firms, you will see that it actually makes sense for everyone.
Quidco charge a yearly admin fee of £5 – but if you don’t earn £5 (very unlikely if you use it regularly) you pay less. You can send your earnings to your bank account through BACS or Paypal, and there’s no minimum earning requirement. Simple.
Give it a try by visiting www.quidco.com
Other top cashback sites that I haven’t used but might give you a better deal than Quidco include:
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13 November, 2008 at 3:45 pm |
Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.
19 November, 2008 at 10:04 pm |
Sounds like a good service, thanks for the suggestion!