First TopCashback forces Quidco to go free, now TopCashback starts charging a fee

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• Sinizter says:

  6 Jun6 June 07:43

  The Sony model of business. Undercut everyone else until they just can’t keep it up. Then up your prices.

• Flashware says:

  6 Jun6 June 07:49

  According to comments on the blog, it’s supposed to be £12.50 for referrals with the Plus account. Some of the banners on the site indicate that also, however when you go to send out a referral (when updating to the Plus account) it is still only showing £10.

• Rob says:

  6 Jun6 June 07:57

  Thanks. I wrote this yesterday afternoon and I couldn’t find it anywhere at that point.

• James67 says:

  6 Jun6 June 08:17

  Takke, apologies for going OT but could you update us on your 3V NS&I experience please. The original blog entry is too old to reply.

  • takke says:

    6 Jun6 June 08:26

    No problem. The account has opened successfully and within about 3 working days. No ID was required. Two transactions have been approved and I have £50 in my account, but looking at their T&C’s, money can only be withdrawn 7 working days after the payment has gone in. So if it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve forgotten my password and had to request a new one, I should have been able to withdraw the money out by now. But I’ll let you know (hopefully on Friday evening) if I can in fact withdraw.

    • James67 says:

      6 Jun6 June 09:28

      Ol thx, good luck with it.

      • takke says:

        11 Jun11 June 18:22

        I’ve just received my first bank payment from NS&I, so this works fine as a method of taking money out from the 3V cards. It’s certainly a lot easier than the Royal Mint method!

      • Ed E says:

        12 Jun12 June 15:16

        Well done Takke!

    • tangey says:

      6 Jun6 June 09:59

      you might find when it comes to it, they insist on refunding back to the card, even though their T&C talk about paying into a bank account.

      I had the above happend with charles stanley. They took 6 cards for payment, but when I put in a request to withdraw, they insisted on putting the money back on the cards, for “money
      laundering” reasons.

      • takke says:

        6 Jun6 June 10:15

        Yes, that may happen. We’ll see.

  • Ed E says:

    6 Jun6 June 11:50

    Hi James,
    I did the same and after I sent back a signature the account opened fine and I put just over a grand in as I found more 3V cards.
    After the 7 days, I have transferred most of that into Premium Bonds as I like the safe gambling option and randomly I won £50 in this month’s draw (from old bonds, not the new ones!).
    I just now went through the process to withdraw some of the amount in my Direct Saver and it ONLY gives you the option of withdrawing it to your nominated bank account, I went all the way but for the last click and it was fine.
    This is what I will keep doing for any more 3V cards I can find and also the normal fee paying Visa ones when I have vouchers.

    • James67 says:

      7 Jun7 June 11:35

      Thx Ed, presumably sometime later the pb can be cashed in also in such a wsy as to avoid refund to 3V?

      • Ed E says:

        7 Jun7 June 12:59

        Yep,
        Any of the products you have with NS&I can be cashed out to your nominated bank account in the same way, I only kept it in as I was planning to save some money anyway and 3V cards were just good timing. There is no way on their website to refund to a debit card and you do not have to link one to your account either, only a bank account.
        I am sure I will win one of the £1,000,000 prizes soon… it was so nice to get an email from ERNIE, even if it was only £50 this time.

• James67 says:

  6 Jun6 June 08:25

  Thx for the tip 🙂

• takke says:

  6 Jun6 June 10:15

  You can donate some to charity or tips to bring it down, but you can’t split between Tesco and another payment method such as Amazon afaik…

  • David says:

    6 Jun6 June 12:38

    To be clear – we are talking about splitting sums earned from a single merchant.

    • Trevor says:

      14 Jun14 June 12:39

      For anyone confused by the option to donate, note that in order to see “Make a charity donation or leave a tip”, you need to enable the option under:

      My Profile -> Account details -> Account Settings -> Donations

• John Trops says:

  6 Jun6 June 11:29

  Ok, I get all that. But currently, the bonus is up to 10% depending on the previous month’s earnings. Does that mean then we could be looking at potential bonuses of up to 14%?

  • Rob says:

    6 Jun6 June 11:34

    No, those bonuses are scrapped I think

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