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A bit more % off with Cashrewards in combination with CARS and CYBER on ebay 20% off for Some IT and Auto Items. 21.5% off altogether.
Sorry, first time poster. Apologies if not posted correctly or duplicated
eBay Cashback with Cashrewards Increased to 1.5%
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LKapitoshka on 14/03/2017 - 10:55 cashrewards.com.au (908 clicks)
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They definitely do not track more expensive purchases. I've said this so many times in the past and have always been told its absolutely impossible and I must be working for other cashback websites LOL. Also the same "its your browsers fault" excuse even though cheaper orders have been tracked. Thanks for posting actual proof of this!
Here is the evidence of my not too expensive purchases not being tracked only 3x $1820 purchase… oh wait, it did.
Those got reverted because the seller refused to sent the items due to their pricing error.
Were all 3 purchases on the same eBay account?
Same account, same invoice, same transaction, same session:
I have used Adblock sometimes in the past and always had my transactions track both large and small, but if they didn't I wouldn't be having a whinge about it because they say to turn your ad blocker off as it can cause issues, so I would view it purely as my own fault, I think you need to take ownership of your error's as opposed to trying to blame them on others.
So much vitriol in general toward someone who has given so much to the community, whose decent efforts and potential were noticed and in a time of personal need was able to find employment in a company who generally offers something back to the community through a few extra mouse clicks.
So true. Why can't people just forgive this company for often not living up to their claims? It makes no sense.
You'll find that a lot of these people hate on anything to do with TA. The same people make a negative or troll comments and the same people will upvote them. Plenty of have commented above.
Chateau, I do see your point of view. I believe rightly or wrongly a lot of self worth comes from your employment. Personally I would be pretty hurt by some of the comments here. TA is only one employee at Cash Rewards, and not the only who has posted here. If you follow comments posted by TA it would be safe to assume that he is making a genuine effort in improving the company.
You'll find that a lot of these people hate on anything to do with TA
You'll also find that many more people will treat him as some kind of royalty and mindlessly + vote based on the poster.
I have nothing against TA or any other member but I have issues with the members who vote (+ or -) based on who posted rather than the deal.
I didn't mean to imply that it was a reason for harassing anyone, just wanted to point out there are lovers as well as haters.
@OzBragain: Indeed. Unfortunately people do it for that exact reason I have said. It's also concerning who has upvoted your comment.
I'm in the same boat on a $700 spend.
Its such a hassle to lodge the claim also.
WOW, so so dodgy!!!
My comment still stands on this company.
Have a read on this thread from more than a year ago - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/217626
Their ebay tracking are so dodgy, it almost feel like they refuse to track some of the higher price purchases.
Stop using ad blockers when you want cashback.
All my high-value purchases track. The most recent was a $747 purchase last week, giving a cashback of $9.71.
So is adblock why im not always getting tracked..
Negative Vote: To let others know about issues with the deal, merchant or product.
There is an issue with this "Deal", this "Merchant" offers a very low incremental in discount which by no possible means in anyone's dictionary can be counted as a bargain and thus does not belong on Ozbargain. The only reason they are is because there is probably some favouritism, like mentioned by others, any other deal offering a 25c saving on a $100 purchase would not even be blinked at.
I hope this satisfies the bias in OzB protecting CR by removing negative votes
Any negative vote that falls into any of these reasons will be revoked by a moderator. Negative votes for any other reason will not be removed by a moderator.
No explanation of the vote
“Not a bargain.Looks like you fell straight into this one. Next time explain it ;)
Phew, for a moment there I was worried. But this guy doesn't know how to actually negative vote.
@maik
In an effort to quash conspiracy theories, I made this recent thread about acting respectfully. OzBargain is a 100% independent site. No bias, no payoffs, no agendas.
We do however have guidelines, in particular, Voting Guidelines that have been around for close to a decade. Your vote "This is NOT a bargain at all…." falls under the inappropriate uses of negative vote and was thus revoked.
Please familarise yourself with the guidelines and let's contribute to a positive OzBargain community. As usual, you can contact me for further discussion.
100% independent. It is because you say it is.
It would be hard to prove, but by this post still standing it would be hard to believe otherwise.If I posted that coles was discounting their sticky tape from $2 to $1.995 would that still stay?
effectively that is what this thread is all about.100% independent. It is because you say it is.
I don't think any response would make you feel differently
If I posted that coles was discounting their sticky tape from $2 to $1.995 would that still stay?
Of course it would stay. Votes wise it would never see the front page.
I definitely agree these CR fluctuations are not deal worthy but based on the voting rules it shouldn't be negged.
Just ignore these deals. There is nothing to be gained getting worked up arguing against them
We spend a good portion of our time fighting against sockpuppeting, astroturfing, etc. 21 deals removed for sockpuppeting last month to keep this site as honest and transparent as possible. No company including Cashrewards pays to post on this site. Moderators are not the arbitrators of what a good deal or what is not, that is the community's job. In this case, 99+ found it useful.
I suggest if you do not want to see these deals, then click the Hide link at the top of this page, then select Hide deals from store Cashrewards.
Please come to the next meetup and you can ask us in person. Feel free to bring a lie detector test, psychic, justice of the peace or whatever you need to put your mind at ease with us being 100% independent.
@neil:
None of those options would work for me."Hide deals from store Cashrewards" - No good. Sometimes there are excellent Cashrewards cashbacks. For example a 10% cashback on Lenovo laptops (a 40 times greater discount than this current deal) and I would like to see these valuable deals. Why should I punish Cashrewards when people are submitting dud deals and sheep are voting on them?
"Hide posts from user <username>" - No good either. I am going to assume that the user has learned from his mistake and won't be posting any more non-deals so hiding his posts will do nothing when a new user comes along and thinks "Wow, a 0.25% discount is FANTASTIC! I'm gonna share it with everybody"
How about this for a solution?
When subimtting a deal, you need to enter in the "common price or the best previous price" and then you also need to enter in the "deal price".
For example: 2 Litre Coke, $3 (common price), $1.50 (deal price) * Note: these figures are made up
The % discount would then be automatically calculated (50%)Each user could then have an option to only view deals that exceed a specific discount.
For example, in my case I could say "Only show me deals where the discount is greater than 8%"If hiding doesn't work for you then simply ignore the deal and find deals that interest you. Again, please don't attack users for posting deals.
I get what you are saying with the % but if you look at the deals on the front page, many don't have a common price. E.G. Bauhn 65" Ultra HD LED TV $899, 40" Full HD $333, Android Media Player $79, BT Headphones $39 @ ALDI 25/3 or Sign up to Velocity (Via Referral Link), Earn 40 Points, and Each Will Earn 1000 Points (up to 20 Referrals). It's a struggle enough to get people to put in a readable title.
Why exactly do you feel the need to click into these deals in the first place, and then proceed to comment… And comment… And comment… On deals that you obviously don't like?
Every time a CR post like this goes up, you put up the same issues, whinge that it's clogging your front-page etc, yet it would take a lot less time to just scroll past.
It's almost like it's become a personal vendetta…
None of those options would work for me.
This site isn't just about you. This is what the site is like, those are the options you've been given. It works for others. Just learn to ignore posts that don't concern you instead of ranting and raving so much. Keep scrolling down. No need to put your voice in everything. Maybe even post a deal to help others.
0.25% increase isn't a bargain, it only serves to promote cashrewards on OzBargain. This behaviour shouldn't be rewarded with upvotes.
This behaviour shouldn't be rewarded with upvotes.
Lol hit the wrong button did we?
Yeah :/ Can't even downvote it now…
Diddums
They should change the voting buttons so there's one for "Not a bargain" … cos it definitely isn't. As other comments have said in the past, a 0.25% discount would "be laughed off the site".
Dunno how it can get as many positive votes as it does already.
here we are again, bargain of .25% on the front page. SMH
I've probably got $200+ back from cashrewards in about 18 months.
This is FREE Money.
No one is putting a gun to my head to buy anything.
I was shopping on ebay/dan murphys before cashrewards and continue to do so. Now I get FREE money in doing so.
Is an extra .25% going to make me by something on ebay. No - but if I was buying something off ebay anyway then great, more FREE money.
If you don't like it don't use it. Ozbargain is turning into Ozwhinge lately (NES Classic etc.)
Well let's start filling the front page with hundreds of 0.25% (do you understand that we're talking about a QUARTER OF 1 PERCENT, right?) deals.
Nobody is forcing us to buy these deals so why not?Because we don't want a site to be full of worthless deals. Spammy deals. Useless deals. If I was walking along the path and spotted a 5 cent coin on the ground I wouldn't even bend over to pick it up.
Because we don't want a site to be full of worthless deals. Spammy deals. Useless deals.
Be the change you want to see buddy. Show us how it's done then, aside from just complaining.
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Well let's start filling the front page with hundreds of 0.25%How about start filling OzBargain with at least one quality post? Maybe one that will gather at least one vote?
You type as if you're the leading authority on quality posts for OzBargain when you haven't given one deal to the community in the past 6.5 years you've been an active member on OzB.
It's the facts.Are you the ozbargain police? People can contribute in many different ways, not just posting deals. Making threads, posting comments and even giving constructive criticism all contribute to this community. Don't be so narrow minded.
Are you the ozbargain police
Nope, just a member like you. Trying to tell people to stop being salty.
Making threads, posting comments and even giving constructive criticism all contribute to this community.
Yes, however I see none of the above. There's a difference betwen giving constructive criticism and whinging.
"try this", "it would be better if you added more information" - good.
"oh what a crap deal" - bad.
See the difference?
I hope that educated you.Haha honey keep trying. People can make comments. You attacking people is against the spirit of sharing. He's made 800 or so posts, i think thats contribution there. So again, stop being so narrow minded. Contribution to this site is not limited to posting deals.
He's made 800 or so posts, i think thats contribution there. - Sleet
Oh?
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0 posts - jelko800 posts?
Mkay.Haha honey keep trying. - Sleet
Keep trying to count too, I'm sure you'll get there..
Contribution to this site is not limited to posting deals.
Anyone can contribute in their own way, even negatively in his/her case…
What a silly post lol. Thats like saying people cant dislike a movie until they have at least contributed to the movie industry by making some movies. Or you cant not like any music unless youre a musician yourself.
Maybe it's just me but the cash back rates just don't seem worth it for eBay even when they add an extra 0.25%…
I just go through Velocity eStore for 2 points per dollar.
I know that when you do the maths on it cash back is probably worth slightly more but at the same time I've never had any tracking issues with Velocity either. So factoring that into the equation I'd rather just get the points and not worry about it.
This is huge. Goodbye $1.30 hello $1.50!
Failed to track high value excuse you did something wrong.
Well if you actually did something wrong it would seem more like a reason than an excuse.
Tracked low value items no problem from the same site.
You didnt really answer my question so I'll assume you did.
Define "high value"?
Define how this is a bargain?
1.5% > 1.25%
If it's +ve voted deals keeping these on the front page for longer than they deserve, then people should be focusing their attention on the people who are giving the + votes rather than the fact the deal may be spam or not …
To put it another way, you know something is dodgy (imo) when a 0.25% deal gets so many votes and hangs around the front page for so long. I'm not a fan of automatically stopping these sorts of posts in the beginning; the community should be able to decide if it's front page worthy or not. It just so happens for now the community sort of can't do that properly as -ve votes aren't allowed for this sort of thing.
I thought we have been over this and yet it keeps making its way back to the main page. Why is 1.5% bargain? Where is the bargain?
It's not even 1.5%. It's a 0.25% increase over the usual discount (which is always there). A quarter of 1 percent.
Well obviously there is 113 people and counting who disagree with you, for better or worse, this site goes by what the masses think, not just yourself. Pretty sure that is an inappropriate use of a neg BTW
Well obviously there is 113 people and counting who disagree with you
Up to 125 now who disagree with you, your message just doesn't seem to be getting through, must admit all the CR haters were pretty late to the party on this one but seems you are back into the swing of things now.
A follow up comment updating of a whopping 12 extra positive voters over a 2 hour period really wasn't required.
Oh wow this is still going? Jesus lolol
It's just a loophole they keep using to advertise on here :/
Except it wasn't a store rep that posted.
@neil
This is beginning to get a bit groundhog day.. I'd like to ask what you guys/gals (mods, dev, scott etc) think about un-expiring deals like this (also like out of stock deals) to save from this banter that seems to divide so many people into tinfoil hat wearers or paid off mobsters.Correctly I should Ask A Mod, but I'm attempting to be a bit more open about this?
Possibly Dev could work on an idea on reinstated popular deals or repeated deals flag like shops that do a regular 10% off sale etc..
Just putting it out there, keep up the good work.
Why people don't understand that this is a community that supports deals and banter in a collective of information when looking for a better deal I don't get…
I think it's the name that people are misguided by.. Ozbargain.Commonwealth Bank is not a bank for the commonwealth of people, more a bank thats run like any other to run a profitable business, yet the name inspires people to invest money in the business to store their money.
The Bargain is just part of the word in the domain but this site outgrew that a long time ago and became a deal and bargain community that grew to be a message board and forum for many like minded people looking to save and or spend a cent.A percentage off or a cent saved might not be everyones thing but I value a cent, a cent can be a lot of money too some, and on this site 1 cent can get you some pretty cool deals delivered to your door occasionally!
In my opinion there's a few possible reasons for the endless negativity these posts get:
- jealousy (of TA's success)
- trolling (as any internet forum brings)
- sheeple voting (once someone says "not a deal" and negative votes, others are sure to follow)
Realistically everyone should be mature enough to just scroll past if they don't care about the deal, but unfortunately trolls will be trolls and will click in just purely to post the same rant they did 3 months ago.
I don't think there's any easy fix to this besides removing comments altogether, and deal posts get treated like announcements. God knows how much better that would be >50% of the time given a lot of the negativity and immaturity that can be seen on this site, especially from those that don't contribute.
In my opinion there's a few possible reasons for the endless negativity these posts get:
*jealousy (of TA's success)
*trolling (as any internet forum brings)
*sheeple voting (once someone says "not a deal" and negative votes, others are sure to follow)You missed the other reason that repeatedly comes up in the endless negativity towards these posts.
This post is not for a 21.5% discount, it's not for a 1.5% discount it's for a 0.25% discount on Ebay from a cash back site.
$1 off a $400 purchase isn't what most people come here for.
You can't seriously try and tell us you believe that if someone posted a CQUARTEROFONEPERCENTOFF deal for Ebay (or Aliexpress, Amazon or any other site) it wouldn't get negged much more than this and be lucky to get more than 10 + votes.
Realistically everyone should be mature enough to just scroll past if they don't care about the deal, but unfortunately trolls will be trolls
The reason I come here to comment on a deal for a quarter of one percent discount is because I don't believe it's in the spirit of OzBargain and would hate for this site to be full of similar minuscule discounts. This is a community site and different members of the community have differing opinions. Claiming anyone who doesn't agree with you do so because they may be jealous, trolls or sheeple looks very much like an attempt to bait a reaction rather than showing your maturity.
Sure there's the argument that 50c is a lot of money. You save 50c here then maybe you go somewhere else you save another 50c…then you have ONE DOLLAR! Then you take your dollar, you go to the dollar store you go buy something else.
Unfortunately most of the people with endless negativity towards these posts tend to see this argument as some kind of joke.
This is not a post by TA and he stopped posting these deals long ago with good reason. Don't get too hung up on one user.
There's no denying some members here don't like TA and will vote based on the poster, this is wrong. If you accept that, you also need to accept that there are members here who love TA and will + vote a deal based on the poster regardless of the content which just as wrong. There are also the vast majority of members here who couldn't care less and place their vote purely on whether or not it's a good deal.
Just because someone has an opinion different to yours doesn't make them a troll.
Just because someone sees a post for 25c off every 10000c as wasting space on OzBargain doesn't make them sheeple.
I don't/wouldn't neg vote a deal over the discount amount, unless the product was cheaper elsewhere. In this case it isn't, so I don't neg vote
Deal doesn't phase me so I haven't voted, but it's still a discount so I don't neg.
Surely that's a simple concept?
No one's disputing the simplicity of the concept and no one's questioned your lack of vote.
Just politely pointing out that because other members don't agree with this being a deal doesn't make them haters, trolls or sheeple. It's not just the members who love the idea of 25c off every 10000c who are permitted to share their opinion and no one needs the silly little cheap shots just for voicing a different opinion.
I'm sure the voting/posting guidelines haven't remained unchanged since the beginning of OzBargain and will likely change again at some point.
Why does everyone get so offended with neg votes and act like its the end of the world? Why even have the option? Lets just remove neg votes entirely and only give 1 option to like/upvote everything, just so we dont offend anyone and then every single deal posted can be a bargain! Lets forget quality of deals and let other pepple decide everything is a deal and enjoy sponsered/affiliated deals and the latest weekly IGA bargain of 9 cents off a can of soup! … Ugh.
But when you use a neg vote it should be because it's cheaper elsewhere, which this isn't. I can understand a lot of people not voting (like me and you) because they're not phased by it, but just because it's a minor discount shouldn't be reason to neg and it's a strange reason.
The summary of most peoples
reasonsexcuses for neg voting is basically 'not a deal', which has never been a good enough reason, yet Mods do allow a bit of extra leeway in these situations.
I feel there is a bit of inconsistency with the way cashback posts are handled. You can not include cashback prices in posts for singular items, but general cashback deals are ok to post?
From the 'title guidelines' - "the price should not include any referral discounts or cashback"
better not -ve else I will feel the full force. thanks OP for this wonderful deal
Cheap marketing move by Cash Rewards.
- They marginally increase the ebay cash back costing them peanuts (If people spend $1 million on eBay through CR the lost revenue is only $2,500)
- They send an email to their remembers informing them of this increase.
- They know at least one person will post it on here and they know if they do it will hit the front page.
- It reaches the front page and loads of eyeballs get reminded about cashback they offer on eBay during a few 20% off sales.
- There will be a boost in people using CR and therefore they earn more dollars. And it all it cost them was 0.25% on each eBay purchase made by a member and the time spent writing one marketing email.
- Repeat the process with another popular retailer (or maybe even eBay again) when the boost in usage of CR is showing signs of slowing down.
The fact that it wasn't posted by someone affiliated with Cash Rewards doesn't matter. It is very obvious what they are doing.
It is very obvious what they are doing.
I thought its a symbiotic relationship though, members get increase of cashback, they get exposure.
Isn't that how marketing works..?
Or are they supposed to be not obvious?
The intent is known.
All businesses have intent to make money.
Does that make a difference to the action? Increasing the amount returned to us consumers?
0.25% increase is not a bargain, it's a marketing tactic.
So how do you define a bargain? A bargain is very much subjective and each to their own. Like they say 'one man's garbage is another man's treasure'. If you don't think it's a bargain then skip over it. Remember this site is used to help each other out. If the OP thinks it's a bargain (and they are not affiliated/associated with the store, etc) then what's the harm? It's better to share it with the community right?
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@Neoika: I personally think TopCashBack is better. Once the cashback in your account you can cash out in PayPal and etc.