Quidco advertises itself as the UK’s #1 cashback rewards site, with over 5 million members. It offers cashback for over 4000 retailers and brands including (but not limited to) M&S, Tesco, Amazon, Dominoes Pizza and Groupon. On average, its members receive £280 in earnings every year.
I’m going to show you how you can beat that.
Most of what Quidco offers comes in small amounts. If, pray tell, you’re shopping in the ‘real world’ that people keep telling me about, you can earn in-store cashback. Halfords (6%), Debenhams (2%), Vodafone (3%) and the Body Shop (5%) are among the many retailers that offer this feature. To get started, simply make an account, and head to the High Street Section (see below). Register your payment card, then, whenever you use that card in any of the stores you’ve activated, you receive cashback!
You can also earn cashback on purchases made online. Quidco is useful for saving a little extra when you’re planning a trip (Hotels.com, booking.com, trainline & more) or a night in (Just Eat, Hungry House & more). In fact, if you’re buying anything online, it’s worth just checking Quidco first to see if you can save a bit of cash; chances are you can.
Aside from the little things (I’ve earned cashback from Just Eat, Cineworld, Currys, the list goes on…) I’ve found the best source of earnings to be the Gambling Retailers.
As an example: Ladbrokes Sportsbook offer £50 for depositing and betting £10. Now, when you sign up, most of these gambling retailers like to bombard you with bonuses, deposit deals and the like. You need to decline them all. If you accept, you’ll likely be hit with withdrawal blocks until you’ve wagered, say, 40 times your bonus amount. We don’t want that – we want to keep any winnings from our little wager!
Take screenshots as you go in case Quidco doesn’t correctly track your progress. I recommend a screenshot on your registration confirmation, your deposit, and your bet/purchase.
Upon depositing your required amount (in this case £10), you can do what you like with it – as long as you stay within the Sportsbook. You can either be clever about this, do your research etc., or just place a bet on any old game. Of course, you could lose, but losing doesn’t matter; we’re not gambling here. In this example, if you lose, you’re still £40 up on your deposit thanks to your Quidco cashback. You won’t get it for a couple of months, of course, but any bank that offered me 400% interest over the course of around 70 days would have me knocking their doors down within minutes! If you win, congratulations! You get your deposit back, plus your winnings, and then your £50 cashback once your offer has confirmed. That’s pretty impressive.
I can’t stress enough that you double-check the terms and conditions of every offer before you click through to the site. Occasionally, Quidco won’t track your offer correctly and you’ll need to prove you’ve done everything the retailer asked of you. Take screenshots as you go, make sure AdBlock is off (Quidco does warn you about this), and you should be fine.
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