Fatcheese - new 100% cashback site - earn £5 per referral (fatcheese.co.uk)

Member Name: Ric!

Product:	fatcheese.co.uk
Date:	15/04/09 (175 review reads)
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Advantages: Daily recurrers, no spend offers, reliable tracking, active administrator on forums

Disadvantages: £5 yearly fee. You have to have a separate sign-up to the forums

Fatcheese is a new 100% cashback site. The principle is simple. You sign up to http://www.fatcheese.co.uk/signup and then use their links to visit all of your favourite online retailers. You make your purchase with the retailer as you would normally do. The retailer pays Fatcheese a commission and they pass 100% of it back to you as cashback! What's in it for Fatcheese I hear you ask? Well they retain the first £5 of the cashback that you redeem once per year. A small fee to pay when you can potentially earn hundreds or even thousands of pounds back every year.

The site is easy to navigate. Once logged in you have a series of simple navigational options along the top of the screen. These include: HOME, SHOPS, VOUCHERS, TELL-A-FRIEND, FORUM, HELP.

Every page has side columns with features that, for example, enable you to search the shopping categories and review the hot tips of merchants with offers on or who have increased cashback rates etc. There is a also a drop down menu to navigate you to your statement, to update your profile, to the refer-a-friend page, to submit a ticket (to submit queries and claims for any missing cashback), and to redeem cashback. Cashback can be redeemed once you have an awarded balance of £1 or more (transactions change from 'pending' to 'awarded' after 2-3 months - this allows for time for fatcheese to be paid by the merchants in case any transactions are declined or reversed for example). You can currently get paid by PayPal, Moneybookers or BACS.

HOME
From this page you can view your recent account activity, read the news bulletins and update your notepad with things to do.

SHOPS
In this section you can access the lists of online retailers where you can earn cashback. You can search by shopping category or by A-Z list, and you can filter search results by the cashback they offer in terms of £ or %.

VOUCHER CODES
Using voucher codes can sometimes make you ineligible for cashback. This is occasionally the case if a voucher code has been issued to a specific limited market and thus using the code affiliates the transaction to them. However many codes can be used without affecting your cashback. In this section you will find 'official' voucher codes or promotional discounts that can be used without affecting your cashback. Fatcheese is a very new site and at the time of writing has only been launched for one week, so I expect this section will develop as time goes on.

TELL-A-FRIEND
You can earn £5 for every friend that your refer to Fatcheese who goes on to earn £5 cashback themselves. This is a launch offer and the amount will go back down to £3 per referral at some point.

FORUM
The forum is obviously in its infancy at the site is new. However so far it seems that the site admin are active on the forum and have been quick to answer member's questions about Fatcheese.

HELP
Does exactly what it says on the tin! There is a FAQ section here.

The site is very pleasing on the eye. The colour scheme of green, yellow and grey is easy on the eye. Pages are fast loading.

For those of you that like 'no-spend' offers then you will not be disappointed. There are numerous no spend offers on board already and more are appearing on a regular basis. There are currently also 67p of 'daily-clicks' - but of course this is subject to change as these type of recurring earners tend to come and go.

Tracking has been very reliable for me. I have 35 transactions from 9 different retailers on my statement just from the first week and all have tracked without problems.

There are many other cashback sites out there, but Fatcheese offers:
- 100% cashback
- a forum to discuss offers and which, so far, has seen an active administrator helping new members
- a generous £5 per referral scheme
- no spend cashback offers and daily recurrers
- reliable tracking

It's got to be worth a punt! Sign up at http://www.fatcheese.co.uk/signup

Summary: 100% cashback with reliable tracking