$10 Uplifts
The Topcashback promo to get $10 per gift card sold on Raise.com is officially over. We can still earn $1.50 on gift card listings, including listings of $50 and above.
We’re now seeing the cashback has now been uplifted from the initial showing of $1.50 to the full $10, as expected. In July, it took them a couple weeks to pull through; this time we got it on the September 2. Good job!
Topcashback Time Zone
For a while now, we’ve been noticing in the Topcashback confirmation emails that the time they report is off by a number of hours from our time in USA. After tracking it for a while, it became clear that Topcashback is using UTC/GMT, which is 4 hours ahead of EST and 7 hours ahead of PT. This is likely because Topcashback is based in Britain and they use their time zone for all calculations.
If you want to track your Topcashback confirmation emails, you can just notate the time of each listing and calculate the confirmation email minus 4 hours for East Coast folks. Or minus 7 hours for West Coast folks.
There’s no other way to track it since the order number which shows in the Topcashback account doesn’t appear anywhere else in the Raise emails or in the Raise account, as far as I can tell.
$10 Promo Time Zone
Topcashback did not uplift any of the transactions made after midnight British time. In my Topcashback account, all transactions made after 8 pm EST are showing as being September 1 transactions and were not uplifted from $1.50 to $10.
As of just before 2 am EST, the $10 promo was still showing on the Topcashback site. Most likely, it showed until 3 am EST which is midnight PT. I expected to get cashback even for the 2 transactions I did after midnight since the promo was still showing on the Topcashback site. I assumed it would go until 3 am EST which is midnight PT.
I certainly didn’t dream that they would use British time to stop the promo, despite the fact that we’re on the USA site, and despite the fact that the promo was clearly showing based on our time zones.
All told, the promo was great, but it’s important to keep in mind for the future how Topcashback calculates time.
