Black Friday: Cashback site Quidco goes TITSUP* on payday Quidco, the cashback site, has gone TITSUP amid a push to encourage British consumers to engage in the US-imported Black Friday sales fest. The business operates by transferring third-party commissions (gained via its affiliate network) which retailers pay to referrers, on to its own members while taking a cut itself. But …
Yeah, it really doesn't make sense here. In the US, it's a sale to clear out the Thanksgiving stock ready for the Xmas deliveries here. We don't have a holiday here at that time so there's no holiday stock to clear out. It's just another scam with a few good deals to get the punters in to spend money on some tat that's marked down by 5%, if that.
Spot on.
Take Amazon for example;
you get an email saying XXX is now £yyyy.
You click on the link. Do you get taken to XXX? Like hell ypu do.
One item took me almost 10 minutes of scrolling to find. I just gave up and didn't buy anything.
My spend on Black Friday? £223 on three tonnes of Topsoil and Compost. I was going to buy it anyway but got 10% off and free delivery for ordering in yesterday.
In general, Black Friday is a con trick. Bah Humbug!
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