| Product: |
pinkcashback.co.uk |
| Date: |
09/07/07 (336 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Fast earning and easy to navigate
Disadvantages: At first look it appears to be PayPal only for payments
I am an avid fan of shopping reward (cash-back) sites, I will join them, try them and if I feel they are more effort than the reward they give, then I will not bother and move on to another or return to an old favourite.
One of my favourite parts of these sites is the offer of free money. Well it is not strictly free, but for a few clicks of a mouse, a few searches via whatever the required site and hey presto a few pennies are added to my account.
Basically all of these sites can be broken down into various sections,
Daily clicks - money is earned by doing searches, nothing more to it
Buying online - visit a shop by going through the Cashback portal and earn a percentage of what you spend in cash.
One time offers - You sign up to offers and get paid a fixed amount of cash.
Referral - If someone joins through your referral you get paid a fixed amount.
The latest one I have tried is called pinkcashback, this is one I had never heard of before and I tend to be quite cautious with Cashback sites that are new to me.
However as this site is now owned and run by a company called Only Option Media, which is a company that I have heard of. They also run another cashback site that I have been using called British Rewards and I am happy to say I have been paid out on more than one occasion. Therefore with that in mind I have no doubt that any money earned on this cashback site will be paid.
At the time of writing this review daily clicks add up to 29p per day, so from joining it will only take 35 days to reach the pay out of £15 including the £5 for joining and that is without any referrals (50p per referral) or sending ecards through Devil cards (10p) or eCards (17p) both of these can be done numerous times to individual emails.
This is the free money part of the site I am talking of and does not include any purchases being made through the site where additional money is gained for example 2.2% cashback on purchases from CDWOW, 3% from ChoicesUK, 1% John Lewis, 13.75% TrendMicroUK, Asda 1.3%, BT Shop 1.4% to name but a few, also some offers have fixed amounts of cash for example apply for an American Express card and get £5.50.
The site itself
Home Page
This has a central part that has five steps
1, Join now
2, Start shopping
3, Make a purchase
4, Cashback added
5, Cash sent out to you.
To be honest that in a nutshell sums up a Cashback site
On the left of the page you will find the shop categories (this includes the link to the Daily Clicks), I am not going to list them as there are so many, but I will give you a taster of what is on offer.
All Offers, Adult offers, Auction Sites, Charities, Computers, Finance, Flowers, Gifts, Hobbies, Holidays and Travel, Mobile Phones, Motoring, Pets, Recruitment, Surveys.
I am sure you get the idea
On the right is the log in (usual username and password), below that is the offer of the week and finally a section that shows the latest offers.
At the very top of the page is a bar with clicks to Home, Available Offers, Help and Contact us
At the very bottom of the page is a bar with clicks to Home, Contact us, Help and the terms and conditions
The contact us link is interesting it has the usual
For Customer Support please call:
+44845 052 1137
Alternatively, you can email:
selina@onlyoptionmedia.com
Message on MSN:
selina@onlyoptionmedia.com
Or write to:
Pink Cashback
Only Option Media Ltd.
2nd Floor
145-157 St John Street
London
EC1V 4PY (UK)
What is more interesting however is a click that allows you to get live online help
The Help section contains Frequently asked questions and links that take you to join, the contact page, terms and conditions, customer support as well as link so you can join PayPal (more about this later in the review).
Once signed in a few changes occur the section for signing in now has My Account, Update Profile and Logout.
The bar at the top now has Home, Offer History, statement, Withdraw via PayPal (again more about this further into the review), Tell a Friend, Help and Contact Us.
Offer History and Statement are very nearly the same, both give details of the offer, the date and the amount, The history lets you know if they are approved or pending, the Statement tells you the running total any referrals, the joining bonus and deducts any pending PayPal payments.
Withdrawal by PayPal, simply has the amount you request (must be a minimum of £15) and the email address for the payment to be sent.
Tell a Friend, this is very easy simply put in the persons name and email address, I have done this and I got 50p for making the referral, the person gets the full £5 for joining. I am not going to use this review to tout for business, however any messages left for me from anyone wishing to join will be treated fairly.
How good is the site?
To be honest I have found it incredibly easy to navigate my way round, there is no jargon all in all visiting this site is quite pleasurable (some other sites could take note). I use these sites mainly for daily clicks (these give you pennies for doing searches on various sites).
How to do the daily clicks
For those who might not know how daily clicks work I thought I would add this to the review
Step One - join a site that hosts daily clicks (in this case pinkcashback)
Step Two - Sign in/Log In
Step Three – From the home page click on the link marked “Daily Clicks”
Step Four - Read the details about an offer, for instance “Swoop IT” says “Swoop a bargain with Swoopit.co.uk, earn cashback per click on a result. (max. 1 per day)”, what that means is click on the link, then undertake a web search using the portal your now in then click on a result that it gives you. End result 4p earned.
Step Five – Repeat this for the other Daily Click offers
It is worth noting that when you successfully click on a link, you will see a redirection page that appears with a tracking number.
If however you see the redirection page without the tracking number, you will not be able to progress onto the daily search site, you will see a message telling you that you have already visited that site within the last 24 hours. If you have then wait until the time has elapsed and try again.
Pluses
With a lot of these types of sites your account is not credited for clicking activity for a set period of time, some sites it takes a few days, one that I joined does not credit you for two months.
However Pinkcashback credit your daily click actions instantly. This is really good news as it means you know precisely what you have earned straight away.
Because of the vast array of daily clicks and them being instantly credited, it takes very little time to reach the £15 threshold for payments.
The age to join this site is only fourteen, this is much younger than most of the sites that are in existence.
Minuses
The first one is more of a niggle, it is the site is not only named pink, it is pink, when I say pink I mean pink, very pink.
The second is payment is only via PayPal, now my first thought is that is not a problem, sure I don’t receive the whole £15 due to PayPal fees, but as it is money nearly for nothing that is not a real issue. However you need to have a PayPal account to get paid.
Further you need to be 18 to have a PayPal account, yet you can join pinkcashback from 14, so would a 14 year old who joins pinkcashback have to wait four years before being able to claim a payout (could you imagine the size of the payout).
So before I wrote this review I contacted the guys at only option media and asked them about this age anomaly and the fact that other people may not have or indeed want PayPal accounts, the response was very positive,
“Drop an email to Selina when you’re making a withdrawal and she will make a payment by Amazon GV, Firebox GV or a Cheque for you”
Overall
I have found using this site a very positive experience, yes I do find clicking on cashback a bit tiring at times, but this site feels so much easier than a lot and add the ease of navigation along with it being run by a company that I trust and it has to be a huge thumbs up from me.
Summary: A great site for doing daily clicks and cashback purchases, even if it is very pink.
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Stroody - 26/10/07 Comprehensive write up - Lots of aspects covered, very informative - A well deserved crown :) |
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