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8Cashbackguide.org helps UK customers save money online
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Posted: 8th September 2008
Tags: cash back, plugins
Posted in Technology Rants and Raves
Comments: 2 Comments »
I just wanted to drop a quick post to my UK readership about CashBackGuide a great site I found the other day. I have recently got into using Cash Back sites when making online purchases. The concept is a simple one, these site are registered as affiliates with the online stores you use and by visiting them before you make a purchase, they get an affiliate fee for redirecting you to make the purchase. Rather than keep this fee, they pass it on to you (taking a very small cut themselves). Cashbackguide offers a really nice clean interface that allows you to enter a retailer and check who offers cash back for that retailer, for example you could search for Amazon.co.uk and it will return a list of Cash Back sites that provide cash back, and how much they offer.
But this is not the killer feature! – The guys over at Cashbackguide have created plugins for both Firefox and IE called Cashback Guardian and basically if you visit an online store that has a cash back scheme, it will notify you before making a purchase and notifying you how much cash back you could get.
I think this is a great use of technology that helps save a few pennies and well worth a look.
Comments below..
I really like the sound of this cash back guide and it seems to work really well.
I always use http://bestshopguide.co.uk/ to do my online searches, but this site would work well along side. Could mean I get a good price PLUS some cash back!
Thanks so much.