Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Cashback Websites [Draft article]

Updated 01/01/2007 @ 17:43

Here is a quick guide to cashback websites:

Cashback websites are websites which primarily pay the user every time they shop online. They also pay the user for certain online activities including search, downloading programs/toolbars, registering for products etc.

The user process is as follows

  1. Signup/Login to cashback website
  2. Search for online shop/product
  3. Click link to shop/product
  4. Purchase item (or carry out activity) during current session
  5. Purchase is tracked automatically on cashback website account
  6. Cashback website pays out.

I use the following sites (in order of preference):

Quidco
Rpoints
Greasypalm
MutualPoints

Quidco pays the highest rates and are very reliable. If the merchant is not on Quidco then pick the site which offers the next highest cashback. Note that there are many other cashback websites you may want to check out (see post below) but the above ones are the ones that I have used.

[to add: easy money, bonuses, mobile phones, gambling, tips e.g. clear cookies/cache etc]

It is possible to make between £1.52 and £2.24 per day just by doing searches for the above cashback sites. It has been claimed that one can make an estimated £300/month by using multiple cashback websites as described in this post on MSE. To maximise tracking success one needs to clear ones cache before returning to a merchant.
(if you find any more daily clicks please leave a comment so I can update the list)

Quidco:
8p The High Street Web (2 per day)
10p Kelkoo (1 per day)
10p shopping.com (up to 3 per day but unreliable tracking)
4p Carsource (3 per day)

Rpoints:
10p Search Anything Credit Cards (4 per day)
5p Kelkoo (1 per day)
4p The High Street Web (3 per day)
2p Carsource (4 per day)
1p Lycos search (multiple searches possible max~8)

Greasypalm:
5p shopping.com (2 searches a day but unreliable tracking)
4p The High Street Web (2 per day)
2p Carsource (2 per day)

MutualPoints: (1point = 0.67p)
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1point for MutualPoints search's (5 per day)
8points PriceRunner (5 per day)
8points Searchtheinternet (2 per day but unreliable tracking)
10points Kelkoo (1 per day but unreliable tracking)

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