​Hi Jack,

Since Quidco is marketed at non-business customers/members and the majority of your merchant partners are linked to their non-business websites, then why are you still calculating your cashback rates based on the net value (excluding vat) of purchases?

I could only imagine it is to exaggerate the cashback percentage or in the case of these similar promotions to confuse some members in to believing they still qualify if they purchased the lesser amount.

There is no other plausible explanation.

Regards,

Quidco member

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Yes, but the cashback rate is negotiated between Quidco and the merchant.

Practically all items sold by all merchants charge 20% vat (excluding mainly food sales, children's clothes, insurers), so it is unreasonable to apply the method for the minority of merchants who sometimes sell at less than 20% vat on the majority of merchant sales that always charge vat.

If for example a merchant wished to offer 6% (£6) on a £100 (net sale) and the item is listed everywhere on their website as £120 (incl vat), then why state it is 6% cashback and not 5% of £120 (also £6)?

2 options:
6% cashback (small-print stating excl vat)
5% cashback (far easier for the member but doesn't look as good)

Obviously the only reason is that the 6% option looks much better.

has anyone's previous £10 tracked? mine hasn't spent £39.99 too.

Ps if any mods can improve the links then feel free to.

Voted hot though they've upped the spend to £50 now.

£50 spend, remember the VAT disclaimer (even though it usually doesn't apply).

has anyone's previous £10 tracked? mine hasn't spent £39.99 too.

Thanks for the heads up op!

they have to be confirmed first don't they? Otherwise they could pay you the £10 then you could return it within 14 days.

Mine tracked but the £10 bonus cashback will be offered once this tracked cashback becomes confirmed. So it's a matter of waiting :disappointed:

@thewongwing101 @julieallen @vassy4u

Thats a bummer WW1, fingers crossed the claim results in your favour.

I had it in my head the confirmed bit was showing as tracked but the 14 day return bit makes sense. :wink:

the item I purchased would be good for £30 but £40 a little high. seems a long time to wait on a hope quidco remembers this incentive. didn't even take a screenshot of offer.

I thought the £10 was paid within 72hrs?

Same here, Zalando and CDKeys (on different offers) both tracked, but no mention of the bonus. Waiting for the cashback to be confirmed will take a while :disappointed:

Not their best week...

I spoke to Quidco about this and apparently once the initial % has paid they will apply the £10 then as it comes from them.

The other offer was £25 - was on sometime last week.

Hi all,

With this promotion please read the t's and c's before going ahead with your purchase. Cashback isn't paid on VAT and delivery so your purchase needs to be £50 excluding VAT and delivery fees.

Your bonus will be paid to your account as a separate transaction within 72 hours of the smaller amount of cashback that tracks in being confirmed and available for payment.

Kind Regards,

Jack
Quidco Company Representative

Just thinking aloud..... this brings the Game PS4 Pro deal down to £339. mmmmm

Spent £40 at Argos on this deal, didn't track. Previous Argos for a few pence did a few days ago. My stuff will be returned and I'll buy again on Amazon which is cheaper.

Iam not sure whether this is mean or generous of quidco. their website was down all day on black Friday. the biggest shopping day of the year.

Does anyone know if I use this £10 bonus will I still get the %7.7 cashback from argos as well? Or If i use this bonus I will miss the %7.7 cashback? Thank you.

Tried this last weekend on the previous offer (£59 spend) and the Disney Store cashback hasn't been confirmed / tracked yet. Have submitted a claim. :disappointed:

****, bought an Elite controller from Argos yesterday, albeit with GoW4 for free so I don't feel too bad

Doh! Spend £450 at Argos last night :/

That's a shame, just ordered from Argos via Quidco yesterday, :-(

As long as it tracks at £25 or above. If tracking says £24.99 or less you won't qualify.

So we talking a £60 spend to be £50 exluding VAT now? why muddy the waters in this way, jeez

Does anyone know if I can use this bonus on 3 separate orders? Or it's only one £10 bonus per Quidco account? Thanks

Just got 10 quid offer activated thanks op

So what this SHOULD say in the title is £10 cashback on a minimum of £60 spend excluding delivery.... I wish it had mentioned the vat in the title as I only spent £50 in game!

​Hi Jack, maybe you can help me? I'm normally a TCB typa-guy but as Quidco had a whopping 11% on purchases from Lego store I thought I'd give it a try. made 2 purchases and 100% clicked through Quidco to make them. when I checked 2 days later nothing has tracked and when I try to make a claim I get a message saying I haven't clicked through to any retailers at all! so I haven't even been able to put a manual claim through. What would you suggest I do next?

​Hi Jack,

Since Quidco is marketed at non-business customers/members and the majority of your merchant partners are linked to their non-business websites, then why are you still calculating your cashback rates based on the net value (excluding vat) of purchases?

I could only imagine it is to exaggerate the cashback percentage or in the case of these similar promotions to confuse some members in to believing they still qualify if they purchased the lesser amount.

There is no other plausible explanation.

Regards,

Quidco member

Why not just include VAT in the price quoted and exclude from the terms and conditions.

The delivery fee is understandable however I feel that the VAT part is just deceiving. Whilst it's the consumer's responsibility to read all the terms and condition it merely preys on those who don't, which as I'm sure you're aware are many!

Spent £90 at Zavvi at 2am. :disappointed:

Yes, Good if Quidco tracks; Three buys in the last week, Only one track, No response from Quidco on other two.
Topcashback just as bad.................Losing faith.

You could have went through TCB and put in a Highest cashback claim.

The £10 will be added when your cashback is confirmed status. Normally it takes several weeks to 3 months to reach this status.

It is because many of the retailers pay them based on the net cost, not gross.

It probably would have been nicer for these promotions if they just said spend £30 and £60, however. And if they wanted to contend with delivery then add a fiver no top as well or something.

The £10 will be added when your cashback is confirmed status. Normally it takes several weeks to several months to reach this status depending on the retailer. In some cases, the retailer will reject your cashback so you will end up with nothing.

Spent £32.94 for the £25 spend at Argos four days ago & still no sign of the £10.

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Yes, but the cashback rate is negotiated between Quidco and the merchant.

Practically all items sold by all merchants charge 20% vat (excluding mainly food sales, children's clothes, insurers), so it is unreasonable to apply the method for the minority of merchants who sometimes sell at less than 20% vat on the majority of merchant sales that always charge vat.

If for example a merchant wished to offer 6% (£6) on a £100 (net sale) and the item is listed everywhere on their website as £120 (incl vat), then why state it is 6% cashback and not 5% of £120 (also £6)?

2 options:
6% cashback (small-print stating excl vat)
5% cashback (far easier for the member but doesn't look as good)

Obviously the only reason is that the 6% option looks much better.

I think but may be wrong as only on goods home delivered T&C excludes Fast track pay on line click and collect and reserve pay at store ???

you have to wait several weeks to several months for cashback to be Confimed

With Argos, it takes 3 months (1st March 2017) according to the estimate on my tracking.

I read it wrong. I thought it was 72 hours after the cashback tracks but it's after it's confirmed.

Like several others here, my Argos purchase on the last day the extra £10 was offered didn't track at all; approach this offer with caution.

Does this include Argos items if you collect your order in-store? T&Cs aren't clear

Fast track is included- where you seen fasttrack not included?

If you pay online normally it counts

£50 min spend is fine as long as the merchant reports the spend including VAT, most merchants do this. I know Game reports your spend excluding VAT though so would need to spend £62.50 there.

Toys R Us reports your spend including VAT so only have to spend £50 there, not sure about the others.

Can someone explain me something. When I buy Xbox One from Argos for 199.99 I should get 10 pounds bonus + 3.3% cashback?

Can I use this offer if I also did the spend £25+vat one from Thursday?

Sorry but was trying to bring a good deal to everyone's notice. Have amended the title in the light of comments but please read the thread for more information

Hi, In order to qualify for this offer:

could I reserve item at argos online with a reference number and pay at store today?

OR I have to use fast track to pay online today and collect later this week?

Thanks

You have to pay online as Argos do not give cashback on pay at store reservations.

Many thanks, I would pay on line today use fast track and get it tomorrow after work.

Thanks OP

At a minimum they should have listed what the actual customer spend is needed at each retailer to qualify for the promotion in the t's and c's if it's not consistent e.g. Game £62.50, Toys r us £50 etc

Decent spend offer but let down by not being transparent.

Would this work for pre-orders?

Have read about someone complaining on social media about raising the issue with Advertising Standards Authority around the misleading advert
Keep your screen grab (screen shot) on the older advert that did not have the excluding VAT and delivery and raise complaint with Quidco and if required go via Small Claims Court

If you're buying Lego, then maybe just spend £75 to take advantage of the £20 Lego Gift Coupon. Then you're definitely over the £50 barrier and you'll get the £10 bonus back, plus the £20 coupon to spend after (I think) Boxing Day.

does anyone know can I use gift card?

Hopefully they will take the feedback on board when devising future promotions. For what it's worth I dont think there is any bad intentions e.g. they didn't have to run the promo, but probably hadn't thought it through properly. Won't be in their interest to create complaints etc

So what's the minimum spend at Argos to get this please?

Argos report values including VAT, so £50

Couldn't agree more Chanchi! You only know if the merchant reports with or without VAT after it tracks so you've got no way of knowing what you need to spend, unless you've bought from there before! I only know Game reports without VAT as people mentioned it in a previous bonus thread. I bought from Toys R Us and they definitely report including VAT. Anyone bought from the other merchants recently?

Cheers mate

Also agree, don't believe any bad intentions, just covering their own backs for merchants who report excluding VAT. Must be a better way of doing the promotion though.

Quidco been sending out deceiving emails for years nothing changes once you read the small print most offers are not as good as they first look in the emails etc.

Yes it should be made more clear by Quidco but people taking them to court is a bit out of order. They are more of a honest, generous and fair company than Topcashback who are regularly denying genuine cash back for many!

​Oh please, the small claims court for £10

Ooh that will be the legendary TCB denying genuine Cashback claims for customers for Financial Services i.e Bank Accounts, Loans, Insurances etc and then it ws found out that the supposed declined Cashback was actually received by TCB from Merchant/Affiliate and NOT passed to the customer. Those types of cashback have a legal backing, unlike having declined cashback from Tesco or Asda. As more and more of those cases kept turning up we stopped using them after that.

But have to agree that these Offers from Quidco are misleading, they highlight in Bold Font onscreen and email that spend £25 or more to receive incentive bonus, likewise £50 or more for this offer. If you want to be more specific then an asterisk clause next to the minimum spend amount with small print just below will cover it, not hide it in T&Cs when the VAT issue doesn't apply to every merchant.

i want a ps plus but not sure what to add, any suggestions?

Looks like the party is over anyway.
"We have reached the maximum opt ins for this promotion"

​No. I spent £35 and it hasn't tracked yet! :disappointed:

Expired:
We have reached the maximum opt ins for this promotion.

That's a bit cheeky, they had a timer on it counting down until midnight when it was meant to close - was going to make orders later when kids in bed :/

Also for those waiting for tracking, note that its for purchases of £50(also looks like pre vat) and over i can see from terms and conditions, wanted to see what the max amount of opt ins was but no mention of that.

It will probably track in a few months time when your cashback is Confirmed status.

**** was going to put an order in for this

Tracks in minutes to hours or at most it may take a day or two

I am talking about the £10 bonus, not the normal cashback.

Expand to see original question by nosely

damn I missed out AGAIN! Anyone reckon it might be on again tomorrow? Wanted to order a ps4 slim

Second time in a row they've lied about it running out at midnight. Suppose I should have learnt my lesson the first time and done it before 11pm...

It is still running, you had to redeem the offer before all the maximum number of opt ins was reached but after redemption you had/have until 23:59 to click through from Quidco and make an order. They reached the maximum number of opt ins over six and a half hours ago or before 5pm.

I was buying a chest freezer it satiated free delivery on Argos page then when I made a new account got to payment/delivery page delivery was £8.95 bloody rip off

Just checked how long it took for my last tracked cashback from zavvi to go from tracked to confirmed...I'm a premium member on Quidco, cashback tracked on the 3rd of October and was confirmed on the 19th November so looks like it could be a long wait for quite a lot of people...suspect that Quidco may even be hoping that a lot of people will have forgotten about the extra £10 offer by the time their cashback is confirmed and as a result won't notice if they don't get it...I took a screenshot of the offer showing that I'd opted in so I had evidence to back up any possible future claim....

Do think it is really underhand of Quidco as well to say spend £25 (offer that was on earlier in the week) or £50 (as the latest offer was) and get £10 cashback as most people will think they just have to spend that amount to get the extra cashback as that's the amount that's emphasized in their advert and won't read the T's & C's and realise that it excludes VAT or delivery...thankfully I read the T's & C's and noticed and what I was ordering at £31.99 was just over the magic threshold including the VAT anyway.

I opted in. Can I still use it today?

Im avoiding these now, neither of my previous £10 have shown up and been a few days. Have to say Quidco has really gone the way of topcashback and is far worse than it used to be with tracking.

Have you even read any of the other posts? ​It has already been mentioned many times that the £10 would only appear 3 days after the transaction progresses from being "tracked" to "confirmed".

This would usually take several months.

However if you mean that your transaction does not even appear as "tracked" then you should submit a manual claim.

You won't see your £10 bonus until 72 hours after cashback has been paid.

Not after it has tracked or not imeadiately but 72 hours after it has been confirmed/paid to you.

In other words, you won't see your £10 bonus for about 3 months if at all.

Quidco were quite clear on this imo but the whole VAT thing has been a bit sneaky.

Same here - bought through Argos on Black Friday - Quidco said visit has been recorded when I clicked through, but no cash back has tracked, and again I cant raise a claim as Quidco suggests I havent clicked any retailers??

I am having to manually claim through the Quidco Support team :disappointed:

Was this just before the Quidco server went down?

No, mine hasn't either. I spent £100 on a TV at Curry's on 19/11/2016. My cashback has tracked at 83p. The other £10 has mysteriously not been included...

I had a problem with an Argos transaction too. Did one on Wednesday morning which tracked no problem and then another (for the same item) on Wednesday afternoon when the £10 bonus was available and it didn't track. It had recorded my click though and have now put in a claim. Hopefully it will be ok because I've cancelled the first order.

Please see the terms and conditions - there is no mystery about why it's not included.

any good suggestions what to buy? lol I've bought plenty over last few days from different places.
Argos hmm nothing that I really need. I wanted the hive bulbs but they are blooming out of stock on all the stores.
Thinking maybe go for the seagate 4Tb drive hmm

All cashback bonuses from quidco and other sites take around a month to show up. If they don't then you raise a claim. I have had £10 cashback from quidco in the past, it was a bit of a hassle trying to get it and it did take a while but in the end I did get it. Infact I ended up getting £20 as they messed up somehow but I wasnt going to tell them that :smile:

Wish game was on the list :disappointed:

Oh, Sorry spent it all on Friday via TCB while Quidco was down....

I logged into Quidco but there is no mention of £10 Extra cashback on £50+ spend at Argos.

Argos cashback terms and conditions state that cashback won't be paid on fast track orders unless stated, so is the £10 bonus only eligible on home delivery orders?

I allready claim the 10£ offer 4 days ago for 25 spend.now I clicked the link...again!!! 10£ off when you spend 50£...Cashback will be tracked if I pay online and collect instore?

And how much I need to spend? I want to buy a blu ray player and amazon fire stick..final price is 61.98£

​Try thru this link fromt the deal

​Yes..until tonight 23.59.59

Debenhams cashback seems to only be available in-store so you can't get the £10 bonus?

Its at least £60 (£50 plus £10 VAT) so if its more than £60 you are okay, though delivery not included in that price either.

So if you aren't paying for delivery you should be okay.

Though try to ignore those that reckon 20% VAT on £50 is £12.50, they are somewhat a little confused with maths

Where does it say that? I'm assuming once the offer is activated, if you pay £60 (excl delivery) you'll be eligible.

Quidco scam. They advertise the £10 cashback but you will never get it paid.

If I spent £59.50 will,I qualify for the £10 bonus?

Is there anything cheap in Debenhams for £1 help

Sheridan face cloth is down to 1.20 :smiley:

Just gonna buy two Amazon Fires on Argos via Fast Track. Plus some batteries, this takes me over the £50 threshold. Are they, Quidco, still paying cashback on Fast Track purchases with Argos?
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated before midnight lolz :stuck_out_tongue:

Reading all the comments on here, I see too many contradictions. Maybe people need to start leaning on Quidco a bit more, telling them to put it out there in plain English. I see TCB are paying dividends on their FastTrack orders to Argos, it's written up nicely.

My bad, just checked. But the Quidco layout is not helpful. When you click opt in and then start shopping it displays the Debenhams in-store link. You have to scroll down to get the Debenhams online link or search for it.

Did they start up again? Seems like people keep missing it, but of a weird promotion. Hope people get all of theirs tracked, I'm sure it's just taking a while because of Black Friday etc

You have until midnight this evening my friend. I since, when going from Quidco to Argos got my question answered via a pop up window, telling me payments would be paid on Fast Track orders pre-paid

Yeah fair enough, I saw what you meant when I clicked through. It highlighted five or so retailers up the top (incl Debenhams in store) but then had dozens of non-inclusive stores underneath. Confusing, but I guess the original t&c's should hold. I ended up getting some (already discounted) fragrance, which helped because the TR32 code couldn't be applied to it. Cmooooon Quidco, make these track!!!

Snap, purchased the NowTV box (Digital TV version) and nothing has tracked ... going back today!

Hello @WillyW & @speric,

You can get any untracked purchases manually tracked in by raising a claim here: https://www.quidco.com/new-enquiry/

This will get that showing in your account, in your claims tab here: https://www.quidco.com/activity/claims

We will then have the claim processed and keep you informed of their progress via the notifications on your account.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Quidco Company Rep

Quidco down again just before i wanted to use the £10 bonus offer why do maintenance at 11pm and the offer ends 11.59pm just wait or did quidco have to pay out to many tenners ?

Mine is down as fracked from when I spent £39.99 on the 23rd (the offer was £25 plus VAT then). No sign of the tenner...

Quidco is owned by the same dude who owns this website. I dont think there's much lost ground to make up!

anyone got this £10 bonus tracked in their account yet??

I got paid £10 today.

Thanks OP.

Kind regards