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10% Off For Onvia through Pointclick is active NOW
- Thread starter dynamix
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flylikeaneagle
Member
I think you guys are missing the point on the point click 10% off retail. I have been using pointclick since the start. To get the percentage off you need to have money in your account. My example was, I placed an order for a cpu chip and a hard drive. My account had enough to cover my purchase of $357. I submitted the expense to point click and they will cut me check for the $357- $1 for proccessing but they will only subtract $357 minus the 10% from my purchasing power.
major_major
Member
you don't need money in your pointclick account to get 10% off, and you certainly don't need to stay up all night waiting for Onvia to show up on the pointclick site. Just make your Oniva purchase directly from the Onvia site, then fill out the reimbursement form on Pointclick.
Nightwatch
Senior member
You can use PointClick for Onvia whether the link is there or not. All you have to do is submit a reimbursement request after your purchase and PointClick will rebate you %10.
flylikeaneagle
Member
"You can use PointClick for Onvia whether the link is there or not. All you have to do is submit a reimbursement request after your purchase and PointClick will rebate you %10"
Have you ever received a 10% rebate check from pointclick?
Have you ever received a 10% rebate check from pointclick?
This is brand new Off pointclick network...
Apparently it is their "renewed" terms of use ...
<< In order to be reimbursed for purchases, you must make purchases from Web sites within the PointClick Merchant Network after linking to the Web sites through PointClick. >>
I guess you HAVE to go through the websites to be reimbursed for purchases from now on.
And the've changed the policy of reimbursement submittance from 90 days? to 10 days, to 5 days now..
I guess it would be 5 hours submittance rule a month from now.
eRr
Apparently it is their "renewed" terms of use ...
<< In order to be reimbursed for purchases, you must make purchases from Web sites within the PointClick Merchant Network after linking to the Web sites through PointClick. >>
I guess you HAVE to go through the websites to be reimbursed for purchases from now on.
And the've changed the policy of reimbursement submittance from 90 days? to 10 days, to 5 days now..
I guess it would be 5 hours submittance rule a month from now.
eRr
Midnight Rambler
Diamond Member
It's pointclick dot com that is banned. Not sure why either.
Richard Berg
Senior member
Onvia is still down for maintainance! :|
FunkmasterT
Senior member
how long does it usually take to see the reimbursement in your balance?
my friend and i bought each bought a P3 700e on sat morn. he bought his before i did when the onvia link showed up. right after he purchased and i logged in it was gone.
thought it was okay, so purchased anyway. however, his account shows a balance of $22.30 and mine shows nothing.
any ideas?
-FMT
my friend and i bought each bought a P3 700e on sat morn. he bought his before i did when the onvia link showed up. right after he purchased and i logged in it was gone.
thought it was okay, so purchased anyway. however, his account shows a balance of $22.30 and mine shows nothing.
any ideas?
-FMT
Point Click.com is a banned word because it is a "paid-to-surf" website, not to mention that they built their original membership base through a referral program that some here tried to exploit....
Since 26 May when Pointclick last made major changes to their Terms of Service (TOS), they have not *enforced* their requirement to make purchases through their website while the merchant is an active "Get-Reimbursed" site. Seeing as how they've been gradually restricting both how you can "earn" money as well as get reimbursed with that money you've already (supposedly) "earned", I fully suspect they'll begin rejecting reimbursement requests starting in August based on their most recent update to the TOS on 18 July. They're getting increasingly "user unfriendly" as the greed factor continues to gain momentum....
In addition to the Pointclick statement from above from their TOS, the following was added in the most recent update on 18 July:
There is a 5 day expiration on reimbursements. Reimbursement requests will only be honored for 5 business days after a purchase is made (5 business days from the date of the purchase date included on the merchant confirmation email). The purchases must be made while the merchant is an active member of The PointClick Network (found in the categories with a "get reimbursed" status).
For those of you that use Pointclick for more than the 10-percent reimbursement, it's time we all begin voicing our objection to their increasingly restrictive TOS. Here's just a brief overview of the changes since the beginning of the year:
- lowered maximum you can "earn" per day from $35 to $10 (23 Jan) to $5 (04 Apr)
- eliminated the ability to "cash-out" - in other words you have to buy something in order to receive the money you've "earned" (04 Apr)
- reduced cash value for each pointclick site visited from .08 to .05 (04 Apr)
- reduced the number of times a pointclick site could be visited and credited from three-times per day to once per day (26 May)
- reduced reimbursement period from 30 days to 15 days (26 May) to 5 days (18 Jul)
Here are a few reference messages:
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=105143
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=115290
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=143948
Since 26 May when Pointclick last made major changes to their Terms of Service (TOS), they have not *enforced* their requirement to make purchases through their website while the merchant is an active "Get-Reimbursed" site. Seeing as how they've been gradually restricting both how you can "earn" money as well as get reimbursed with that money you've already (supposedly) "earned", I fully suspect they'll begin rejecting reimbursement requests starting in August based on their most recent update to the TOS on 18 July. They're getting increasingly "user unfriendly" as the greed factor continues to gain momentum....
In addition to the Pointclick statement from above from their TOS, the following was added in the most recent update on 18 July:
There is a 5 day expiration on reimbursements. Reimbursement requests will only be honored for 5 business days after a purchase is made (5 business days from the date of the purchase date included on the merchant confirmation email). The purchases must be made while the merchant is an active member of The PointClick Network (found in the categories with a "get reimbursed" status).
For those of you that use Pointclick for more than the 10-percent reimbursement, it's time we all begin voicing our objection to their increasingly restrictive TOS. Here's just a brief overview of the changes since the beginning of the year:
- lowered maximum you can "earn" per day from $35 to $10 (23 Jan) to $5 (04 Apr)
- eliminated the ability to "cash-out" - in other words you have to buy something in order to receive the money you've "earned" (04 Apr)
- reduced cash value for each pointclick site visited from .08 to .05 (04 Apr)
- reduced the number of times a pointclick site could be visited and credited from three-times per day to once per day (26 May)
- reduced reimbursement period from 30 days to 15 days (26 May) to 5 days (18 Jul)
Here are a few reference messages:
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=105143
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=115290
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=143948
Let's have a rational discussion of this. First of all I would love to go back to the days when I could "earn" $35 a day in cash or $70 in purchasing power. I, however, "knew" back then that it couldn't last very long. My definition of being greedy is that if they (PointClick) are making money and they want a larger share of the pie and give us the users a smaller piece. Are you saying that's the case (that PoinkClick is or, going a step further, has ever been making money)? There may be a couple of small PTS companies that are making money, but even AA's losing a ton of money.
hkchan - My "gripe" with PointClick hasn't solely been their increasingly restrictive TOS, but how they've implemented their TOS (unannounced changes hidden within various sections of their website), the continued poor operation of the website (although the amount of "down for maintenance" has been reduced considerably), failure to get-reimbursed (paid for what I have "earned"😉 on a daily basis for 5-12 sites PER DAY, and failure to fully enforce the TOS (such as in allowing the 10-percent discount for purchases not made in accordance with the TOS - for which PointClick loses referral money on).
Look at how they "upped" the number of subcategories from roughly 40 to now over 70. Of those 30 new "subcategories" NONE actually contain ANY new/additional pointclick "Get-Reimbursed" sites, but you can bet that they're receiving banner-ad revenue for each banner that pops-up when you're searching those new subcategories for the "Get-Reimbursed" sites. Whereas before you could reach the daily maximum amount in under two (2) hours, now there's not even enough pointclick sites to reach the $5 daily maximum even if you're on PointClick ALL DAY LONG!
And how about the "Sign-up Bonus" program - has anyone actually received "credit" for the sign-ups they've done? I haven't. Now that you cannot earn $5 per day, it's impossible to track when they're actually paid, plus many of these are not credited until 4-6 weeks AFTER they're earned. That's one hell of a "float" period.
So what was the point in reducing the reimbursement period from 30 to 15 and just this past week, to 5 business days? When Pointclick changed the reimbursement period from 30 to 15 days on May 26th, I was immediately locked-out of a reimbursement for my prior purchase through Onvia.com that was less then 30-days on the 25th, but more than 15-days on the 26th. Pointclick effectively screwed me out of that reimbursement. Had they pre-announced the (upcoming) change in TOS, me and others could have submitted our reimbursement requests before this happened - but they've continually elected to simply employ new TOS without notifying the membership upon which they're ultimately dependent.
I agree that their prior daily maximum amount of $35 was "excessive" - but it was their choice to offer that incentive as a means of rapidly building a user-base, upon which they built their vendor-base (much as Paypal did before being purchased by X-dot-com). My bitch is with their website's failure to award *me* money for sites I've legitimately clicked-on within the TOS, and then to ignore my messages to that effect. It has been my experience that they've either ignored such messages in the past, or responded "....there's nothing [we] can do...."
Just look at their (PointClick's) terms of service under the upcoming "Sidewalk Shops" promotion to sign-up small businesses (http://www.pointclick.com/sidewalk/signup/index.jsp). They're losing money because of how they're employing their business plan (Amazon.com business model), not because their (current) TOS is so out-of-line. Look at the advertising rate they're charging versus the "other" sites listed in their chart. Furthermore, this new "Sidewalk Shops" promotion is setting the stage for reducing the 10-percent "Get-Reimbursed" discount by setting-up a "side" program using a 5-percent rebate level. Based upon their past actions, I'd venture to say we'll see the 10-percent discount reduced to 5-percent for ALL purchases by the beginning of October, if not sooner.
Look at how they "upped" the number of subcategories from roughly 40 to now over 70. Of those 30 new "subcategories" NONE actually contain ANY new/additional pointclick "Get-Reimbursed" sites, but you can bet that they're receiving banner-ad revenue for each banner that pops-up when you're searching those new subcategories for the "Get-Reimbursed" sites. Whereas before you could reach the daily maximum amount in under two (2) hours, now there's not even enough pointclick sites to reach the $5 daily maximum even if you're on PointClick ALL DAY LONG!
And how about the "Sign-up Bonus" program - has anyone actually received "credit" for the sign-ups they've done? I haven't. Now that you cannot earn $5 per day, it's impossible to track when they're actually paid, plus many of these are not credited until 4-6 weeks AFTER they're earned. That's one hell of a "float" period.
So what was the point in reducing the reimbursement period from 30 to 15 and just this past week, to 5 business days? When Pointclick changed the reimbursement period from 30 to 15 days on May 26th, I was immediately locked-out of a reimbursement for my prior purchase through Onvia.com that was less then 30-days on the 25th, but more than 15-days on the 26th. Pointclick effectively screwed me out of that reimbursement. Had they pre-announced the (upcoming) change in TOS, me and others could have submitted our reimbursement requests before this happened - but they've continually elected to simply employ new TOS without notifying the membership upon which they're ultimately dependent.
I agree that their prior daily maximum amount of $35 was "excessive" - but it was their choice to offer that incentive as a means of rapidly building a user-base, upon which they built their vendor-base (much as Paypal did before being purchased by X-dot-com). My bitch is with their website's failure to award *me* money for sites I've legitimately clicked-on within the TOS, and then to ignore my messages to that effect. It has been my experience that they've either ignored such messages in the past, or responded "....there's nothing [we] can do...."
Just look at their (PointClick's) terms of service under the upcoming "Sidewalk Shops" promotion to sign-up small businesses (http://www.pointclick.com/sidewalk/signup/index.jsp). They're losing money because of how they're employing their business plan (Amazon.com business model), not because their (current) TOS is so out-of-line. Look at the advertising rate they're charging versus the "other" sites listed in their chart. Furthermore, this new "Sidewalk Shops" promotion is setting the stage for reducing the 10-percent "Get-Reimbursed" discount by setting-up a "side" program using a 5-percent rebate level. Based upon their past actions, I'd venture to say we'll see the 10-percent discount reduced to 5-percent for ALL purchases by the beginning of October, if not sooner.
Hey as it turns out, surprisely I basically agree with all the "gripes" that you have. There are things like the "Sidewalk Shops" that I'll check out because of your post. I knew it was there but didn't think it was relevent to me.
You also complained about PC's failure to allow a 10% discount only if the user actually clicked through PC. On your prior post, it sounded like you complained about it getting increasingly restrictive.
You also complained about PC's failure to allow a 10% discount only if the user actually clicked through PC. On your prior post, it sounded like you complained about it getting increasingly restrictive.
Guys, I've received my orders from Onvia (actually Ingram Micro) in one day and before they updated my order status to shipped.
Try using "Tracking by Reference Number" at UPS.com. Use your Onvia order # as the reference #. Put in your zip code, a range for the shipped date and USA for the country.
What states are the drives being shipping to? Ingram Micro has hundreds of them in their warehouses in CA, FL, TX, TN and IL (no info on their PA warehouse). If you live close enough to one of them and you order early enough on the day, you should get it the following day.
Try using "Tracking by Reference Number" at UPS.com. Use your Onvia order # as the reference #. Put in your zip code, a range for the shipped date and USA for the country.
What states are the drives being shipping to? Ingram Micro has hundreds of them in their warehouses in CA, FL, TX, TN and IL (no info on their PA warehouse). If you live close enough to one of them and you order early enough on the day, you should get it the following day.
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