Guilty of Idiocy: MoreRebates.com

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As you all know, when things are good – I tell you and when things, quite frankly, stink – I’ll tell you. Such is the case with MoreRebates.com.

When our rela­tion­ship started, it was good. We went through our hon­ey­moon phase with me test­ing their pro­gram and actu­ally lov­ing the fact that they give rebates for sites that might not be on the typ­i­cal cash back path. Well, as you know I main­tain more than one blog and I use one spe­cific host­ing pro­gram for them that I ADORE called Host­ga­tor. When I saw that I could get cash back from Mor­eRe­bates for Host­ga­tor, I was thrilled. There was no fine print of a “one time only” deal and I used them for two sep­a­rate blogs that I moved from Blog­ger. Both times I had cash back cred­ited accordingly.

Well, after log­ging in one day to check the cash back per­cent­ages for a store since they aren’t listed on EVRewards.com, I noticed that one of my pur­chases was miss­ing – namely the first Host­ga­tor pur­chase.   Curi­ous as to why the higher priced host­ing pack­age was not listed (which they get a big­ger com­mis­sion on), I imme­di­ately emailed them to find out what the heck was going on and heard NOTHING. I fig­ured it was a com­puter glitch and made a note to cal­en­dar it to check it in a cou­ple weeks and, again, same sit­u­a­tion. The rebate was STILL miss­ing and now I was really heated. I imme­di­ately emailed them AGAIN and still heard nothing.

I waited a week and checked it again, and while I received a check for one of the rebates, the other rebate was nowhere to be found. I not only emailed them but their par­ent com­pany Val­ueClick (which has some seri­ous lit­i­ga­tion prob­lems) and, like before, heard nothing.

So here’s the issue – you have a cash back com­pany that basi­cally, from my obser­va­tion and expe­ri­ence, appears to pick and chooses what “cash back” they will pay and, not only that, they still charge Host­ga­tor for the refer­ral, but my fave host­ing com­pany gets screwed in the process. How fair is that??? It’s not.

So, if any of you have an issue with them and I referred you, I’m so sorry. Fact is, I had no idea that they were shady and I’m remov­ing any ban­ners from them from my site and they will no longer be on my “Cash Back Tuto­r­ial.” Please check your rebates from them with an eagle eye and, if any are miss­ing, def­i­nitely let them know. I can’t promise that they will respond because from my expe­ri­ence, they seem to either ignore or not answer the hard ques­tions but def­i­nitely call them out on any mistakes.

Mor­eRe­bates – quite sim­ply, we’re done!

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