Topcashback: Get Cashback From Shopping Of Friends Who Don’t Use Portals

Topcashback offers the ability to send your friend a link to a merchant which will track their shopping cash back to your portal account. It’s gives anyone the ability to have their own ‘affiliate link’ of sorts and to get paid for someone else’s shopping. I’d recommend making it clear to your friend that you’ll be gaining from this, and that they can make their own to portal account, if they choose, for their own gain. (Portals offer nice refer-a-friend bonuses, so you can stand to gain that way too. 🙂 )

This feature can be highly useful for someone helping their friend make a large purchase, when the buyer won’t be using a shopping portal anyway. Simply generate a deep link which will take them directly to the retailer, they’ll shop as normal, and the cashback will be deposited into your portal account.

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I’m not sure if this is new or it’s always been there, but I don’t recall bumping into this feature before in any of the major shopping portals.

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Ali
Ali (@guest_1429808)
August 22, 2022 07:07

What’s with all the whiny comments here. I’ve never had an issue with TCB and their customer service has always been fast to reply. Nobody beats their rates. This is a pretty neat way to earn CB when you want to post a deal on forums.

neiku
neiku (@guest_1428618)
August 19, 2022 21:57

TCB is the best portal due to its unbeatable rates. The only caveat is it doesn’t track. If you submit tickets, your account may be shut down.

Darlene
Darlene (@guest_1428597)
August 19, 2022 21:07

there’s now one gigantic ad at the top of DoC which is quite annoying.

Lok Hang Wong
Lok Hang Wong (@guest_1429344)
August 21, 2022 11:33

That’s not new

Aki Das
Aki Das (@guest_1428527)
August 19, 2022 18:56

Should add it to the “Top 10 ways to loose a friend list” for 0.55c cashback that wont track.
Something are better not monetized like Doc does not shill credit cards and now i am his friend if they ever need my help.

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon (@guest_1428466)
August 19, 2022 16:56

Did you join Amway, but still have a couple friends left? Save money on Christmas cards this year by using this simple link!

John M
John M (@guest_1429137)
August 20, 2022 22:41

What are Amway and Christmas cards? Those are all boomer words

Guy who buys stuff
Guy who buys stuff (@guest_1428459)
August 19, 2022 16:38

Just force your soon-to-be-former-friend to pay you in cash and you’ll do the shopping for them. That way you get CB from your portal of choice, CC points, and one fewer friend to have to send holiday cards to.

George
George (@guest_1428414)
August 19, 2022 15:11

What’s the point if TCB won’t even track for you, let alone your referrals? This is a lose-lose scenario for everyone.

M&M
M&M (@guest_1428380)
August 19, 2022 14:26

Just a reminder, in case anyone forgot about last year’s HBO Max f*ckery, that TCB should be renamed PITA. Stay away from this “cash back” portal. I was a new sign up, clicked the affiliate link Doc posted, brand new HBO subscriber, used the same email address for both TCB and HBO, the purchase tracked, I had to submit a ticket anyway and follow up several times, etc. That is all to say I jumped through every hoop they made me jump and it still took MONTHS for them to pay up. But only the cash back from the deal, I never got the $30 from the DoC affiliate. Which sucks because I know that means DoC din’t benefit from my sign up. I haven’t used them since!

EastsideBK
EastsideBK (@guest_1428641)
August 19, 2022 22:47

You do know that re the HBO deal TCB was actually the good guys here, right? HBO refused to honor the original terms they agreed to with TCB ( HBO clearly didn’t think that one thru) but TCB paid out regardless to people including myself. Look…I get the constant complaints about TCB’s tracking issues (though YMMV as I haven’t had any issues unlike BeFrugal where nothing ever tracked for me) but please give credit to TCB when credit is due like for the HBO deal.

atexit8
atexit8 (@guest_1428648)
August 19, 2022 22:55

BeFrugal stinks.
I signed up and made one or two purchases and gave up.
It wasn’t worth it.
TCB, MyPoints, and Swagbucks all have some tracking problems.
I still use them.

sg77
sg77 (@guest_1429182)
August 21, 2022 00:50

I just had the opposite experience. For hoka.com, TCB didn’t track, but BeFrugal did.

Dugroz Reports
Dugroz Reports (@guest_1428302)
August 19, 2022 12:46

I could see this being useful for, say, an older relative who rarely buys things online, but you’re helping / guiding them in a one-time online purchase of something large enough to make it worth while.

TB
TB (@guest_1428288)
August 19, 2022 12:33

What’s the point when TCB isn’t even gonna track lol
And you pretty much have no recourse since you can’t submit a claim for your friend. Seems like this is a way for TCB to scam you out and take the whole commission for themselves.

M&M
M&M (@guest_1428413)
August 19, 2022 15:11
  TB

Couldn’t agree more with your point. See my comment about the HBO Max deal.

TB
TB (@guest_1428461)
August 19, 2022 16:39

How about no