It will help but not make you rich (linemypocket.co.uk)

Member Name: sit2020

Product:	linemypocket.co.uk
Date:	24/08/07 (201 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great on referral earnings

Disadvantages: Limited payment options

I have lost count of the amount of websites that offer cash for either making purchases through the website or by visiting selected sites (again through the website) and carrying out daily searches to earn cash.
Most of these have an offer or incentive either to get you to join or for you to make referrals. Before I write about LineMyPocket I should add that it has become a lot harder for these companies to attract members since the overhaul in the way spam emails are treated. Yes they can pay for advertisements and they may have some limited effect, but by far the best way of attracting new members is by word of mouth. So you will find more of these sites offering better incentives for joining and/or referring LineMyPocket is not alone in doing this, in fact they have gone for making an incentive to both. More about this later in this review.

What is this site like?

Once signed in you are presented with the homepage, at the very top of the page are the following links

Post An Offer - They say this is under beta test, if you find a bargain and tell LineMyPocket you will earn a10% bonus of any Cashback other members earn via the link. The form is easy to complete although they do require a lot of information, I have not tried this but it is another earning opportunity.

Refer a Friend - I will go into this in detail further in the review.

Help - A lot of websites have a “Help section”, but very few go into as much detail as LineMyPocket have done, they have split this section into various sections (all of which some users will find not only very useful but in some cases invaluable), these sections are; The Basics, Earning Cashback, Troubleshooting, Reporting of Cashback, Making Withdrawals, Customer Support Enquiries and Posting offers. Each of these have subsections that to be honest are too numerous to mention.

Sign out - This simply logs you out (incidentally this is the same place that you click on to log on in the beginning.

Below this are a further seven tabs (I will try to explain what these have as briefly as possible)

Home - This link simply takes you back to the homepage.

Retailers - Here you can search for retailers in a number of different ways, either Alphabetically, Popularity, A - Z sorting, Newest First, Highest (£) or Highest (%). The last two are highest cash earnings and highest percentage of Cashback per pound spent.

Latest Offers - This page shows new retailers added to the site, recent Cashback changes, new voucher codes other time limited discounts.

Top Offers - Here they list some limited time special offers that are proving popular with other users. This page is updated daily,

Discount Vouchers - Here you will find a selection of special offers where you will get extra discounts on top of percentage offers, always worth a look before placing an order with a retailer.

Easy Cash - This is one of the links you will find yourself using on a regular basis, it opens a further set of links. “Free Trials and Freebies” (here you find errr free trials and offers from various companies, this is always worth a look), “Daily Cash” (this is the one you really want, clicking on it opens up a page with the current daily clicks, at the time of writing this review they add up to a total of 28p per day)

My Account - This takes you to your account where you can see what you’ve earned, how and when. Also you will see what is pending and what withdrawals you have made. At the bottom of the details is how much is available, if it is more than £5 confirmed cash then you will see a blue “Withdraw” link.

Other parts on the home page include;

Retailer Categories - This puts the retailers into some sort of logical order Insurance, Electrical, Food and Drink etc.

Recent transactions - This shows you the last couple of transactions that have been credited (or pending) to your account.

Tell Us What You Think - Another nice touch, you have a choice of four headings with a select button beside them, they are “I can’t find something”, “It’s not working”, “I Like” and “I don’t like” then you have a box to add comments and below that a submit button.

Suggested Offers - Has a selection of offers the LineMyPocket think may be of interest to you.

New Retailers - This is a list of the last ten retailers to join the LineMyPocket scheme.

Top Offers - This simply gives a taster of five top offers, if you click on them you will see further details about each specific offer.

Finally at the bottom of the page are the following;

Cashback Online Shopping - Takes you to the homepage.
Special Cashback Shopping - Takes you to the Retailers page.
Discount Code - Takes you to the Discount Vouchers page
Promotion Codes - Also takes you to the Discount Vouchers page
Sitemap - As the name suggests it is a sitemap.
Terms and Conditions - Lists the member’s terms and conditions
Privacy - Gives their privacy policy.
Business Enquiries - This is the link if you want to promote them or are a retailer who wishes to be part of their network.

So how does this work?

This has four main ways in which you can earn and/or save money.

First it is a Cashback site. What you need to do is sign in to LineMyPocket, then follow a link to your chosen site, order your goods from the site in the normal way. This transaction should be tracked for you and you will be credited with an amount of cash, this can either be a fixed amount or a percentage of your total spend.

Second are vouchers that offer further incentives for you to shop with selected retailers.

Third are daily clicks (see daily cash payouts below)

Finally the fourth way of earning is the referral program, more about this further in the review.

What about payout rates and what types?

They have two ways for the user to get a payout, one is via paypal and the other is my favourite Amazon vouchers, you can also donate to charity if you so wish. The minimum payment is a mere £5 (which when compared to other sites is a very low threshold) however payments can only be in increments of £5

What are the Daily Cash payouts?

I will not pretend that they have the most options when it comes to daily earnings, however they do appear to keep the same select amount of daily offers (this does fluctuate both up and down), At the time of writing this review the daily cash back amounts total to 28p per day (Carsource 5x2p, Kelkoo5p, Lycos 1p, Shopping.com 4p and The Highstreet Web 2x4p).

Do they pay?

Well the short answer to that is yes. Probably of more interest is they pay a lot quicker than a lot of these types of sites. To me this is very important as I do not feel as if I have been left in limbo and will mean I am happy to continue using them.

What is the referral program they offer?

This is my favourite part of this site; they offer both the person making the referral and the person who signs up a straightforward £5. Yes you have read that correct both parties get a cool fiver. It is very easy as well, say I am referring you, all I need is your email address and then I go to the referral section and use their automatic email generating bit, input your email and bang off it goes to you, one slight word of warning, always check if you have a junk email filter in case that is where it ends up.

Now if you’re like me you are probably thinking whoo hoo easy cash. Well yes it is but it does have a catch, although catch is probably too strong a word. I mistakenly thought that the £5 would be credited to both accounts straight away (now I think of it this would have led to the company being inundated with fraud as people created email addresses then joined LineMyPocket and claimed the free five pounds and vanishing leaving a company that would probably end up going bust). So what is required is for the person referred to earn over £25 of confirmed cashback (as opposed to pending) and then the £5 bonus is automatically credited to both accounts.

The maths at the present rate of daily clicks alone is as follows 28p per day is £1.96 per week, so it would take 13 weeks to accrue £25.48 and then get the 35 bonus.
Now that may seem like a long time, but it is free money. Think of it this way is you were told that you could have an extra £30 in time for Christmas, would that seem more interesting?
If you take part in some of the offers then this timescale would be reduced further. For instance the free registration pages alone add up to a staggering £8.17 and if you participate in some of the offers that require you to pay when you join this can go beyond £20, that would reduce the time to earn the extra £5 by weeks.

I have referred a couple of people, but as yet they have not reached the £25 earnings, so as yet I have not seen the amount go from pending to confirmed. It was extremely easy for me to refer these people all I needed was their email address and I sent them a ready made email. I could have sent people my referral link and let them put that in the relevant box during the sign up process but found the email a much easier and more convenient way.

Any downsides?

Only two downers and both are niggly little ones, first they tend to have very few daily click offers (although this does vary). The other is you can only claim payouts in multiples of £5.

Overall

I use this site on a fairly regular basis, I am confident that I will always be paid. Granted they are not the most prolific when it comes to daily clicks and there are a lot of companies clamouring for the same space in the market. However because they are an established company, I will use them. The referral scheme that they operate is quite a generous one and I would rate it third out of all the referral schemes that I have come across.

One further word of advice, it is worth making sure you delete your cookies and temporary internet files before and after visiting sites like this. Hopefully by doing so it will ease the company in tracking your reward and ensure you do get paid. You can either do this through internet options on your browser or by getting a small program that does it with one click.

This website is operated by Internet Rewards Limited, Registered in England, Company Number 05522548. Registered under the Data Protection Act, Registration Number Z929383X

Summary: One of many daily cashback sites, great referral scheme not too many daily clicks at the present.