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Amazon New Cashback: Electronics 5%, Baby, Office, Beauty, Health, Household & Personal Care 7.5%, Rest up to 10% @ Cashrewards

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Amazon New Cashback: Electronics 5%, Baby, Office, Beauty, Health, Household & Personal Care 7.5%, Rest up to 10% @ Cashrewards
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Store Reptightarse on 17/10/2020 - 07:30 cashrewards.com.au (1266 clicks)
Last edited 17/10/2020 - 07:34

Hi all. Five new categories effective immediately. Always check the cashback table prior to any purchase, as rates and category eligibility can/will change regularly without notice. Please stay safe and enjoy :)

Full list of rates (changes in bold):

  • Amazon Devices 7% 10%
  • Apparel 7% 10%
  • Jewellery 7% 10%
  • Shoes, Handbags & Accessories 7% 10%
  • Automotive 6% 7.5%
  • Baby Products 0% 7.5%
  • Beauty 0% 7.5%
  • Health, Household & Personal Care 0% 7.5%
  • Home 6% 7.5%
  • Luggage 6% 7.5%
  • Office Products 0% 7.5%
  • Premium Beauty 6% 7.5%
  • Sports & Outdoors 6% 7.5%
  • Watches 6% 7.5%
  • Wine, Beer & Spirits 6% 7.5%
  • Electronics 0% 5%
  • All Other Products 0% (Camera, DVD & Blu-Ray, Home Entertainment, Home Improvement, Kitchen, Lawn & Garden, Mobile Phones & Wearable Tech, Musical Instruments, Pantry Food & Drinks, Personal Computing, Pet Food & Supplies, Physical Books, Physical Music, Tools, Toys, Video Games).

Amazon terms for cashback:

  • Check cashback table prior to purchase, as rates and category eligibility can/will change regularly without notice.
  • Cashback is ineligible on purchase of vouchers, gift cards, kindle unlimited, audible, mobile apps, subscribe & save items, prime subscriptions, and all categories/products listed at 0% cashback.
  • IMPORTANT: Ensure your Amazon cart is empty before clicking from Cashrewards, as items added prior to clicking will not earn cashback. Items must only be added to cart after clicking from Cashrewards.
  • Purchases paid with gift cards are eligible for cashback.
  • When using a valid coupon code or Amazon credit (applicable only on items sold by Amazon AU), cashback is calculated on the net amount after the value of the coupon code or credit has been deducted.
  • You must return and click through from Cashrewards to Amazon every time you make a new transaction/purchase.
  • Cashback is paid on eligible purchases, excluding delivery, taxes & GST.
  • Pre-orders are eligible for cashback only if the item is scheduled to be shipped within 60 days of purchase.
  • Watches category excludes smartwatches & fitness trackers (ineligible).
  • Category product inclusions & exclusions are solely at the discretion of Amazon, not Cashrewards. Electronics includes (but not limited to) Bluetooth Speakers, Bluetooth Head & Earphones, Stereo Components, Speakers and Other Electronics. It excludes (but not limited to) TVs, PCs & Accessories, Printers, Projectors, Musical/Recording Equipment, Blu-ray Players, Game Consoles, Mobile Phones & Accessories, Soundbars (which may fall under different categories).

Common question: Why are my Amazon purchases showing declined? You've almost certainly purchased from a 0% category. Don't forget to refer-a-friend for $15 each. Tip: add your code to OzB’s randomiser. And check out our Help Centre & Contact form here for any questions or issues.

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  • a1234my on 17/10/2020 - 07:38

    Too early?

  • andresampras on 17/10/2020 - 07:49

    does it matter who the seller is, or do these all apply as long as you're buying from the Amazon AU site?

  • CEO Rachel Jake on 17/10/2020 - 08:06
    +5

    Electronics are back?? Not bad, just need Video Games back and i'll be happy or at least happy for an OzBargainer.

    • furythree on 18/10/2020 - 00:05
      +3

      yeah 5% a week after prime where i just bought 1.5k in stuff

      how convenient of them

  • ClaudeVL on 17/10/2020 - 08:20
    -3

    Why make it so complicated to get cashback…eg cart has to be empty! This is to catch people out so they don't have to pay the cashback…if you are going to be so sneaky about it you might as well not offer casbacks! So hard to determine the eligible category in Amazon so can't they even offer 1% for all other categories?

    • ethan961 on 17/10/2020 - 08:35
      +12

      Empty cart is generally to ensure the sale is attributed to the right affiliate - or in other words, it's a technical requirement, not just an artificial hoop to jump through. So yes, it's probably better for them to pay cashback on orders they get money for, it's not a charity operation. As for the rest of the categories, it's Amazon that chooses to pay 0% on them.

      Edit: just save things to wish lists instead of adding to cart, then it's easy to find again when you go to use a cashback provider.

      • pinkybrain on 17/10/2020 - 09:10

        instead of adding to wish list….

        can't you just add to cart
        then click save for later?

        open the cashback link
        Then go to the cart and move the item back to cart

        • ethan961 on 17/10/2020 - 10:06

          Possibly, I don't know how that interacts with the affiliate tracking. Have you done that before? I just use wishlists as they're not part of the cart in any way plus it works for Aliexpress and eBay (watch list) which don't have the same sort of save for later feature.

    • keejoonc on 17/10/2020 - 09:05
      -6

      There always is one. If you don't like it, don't use it. No one is pointing a gun at your head to use cashback sites.

      • Ebany on 19/10/2020 - 12:05

        one or two who comment, many many more who don't but still believe this Cash Back stuff should be shunted to forums. It's a generic type of discount which is susceptible to small inconsistencies causing, in my experience, failure more often than success. Even the Dell website will give a "cashback" value near the sale price of an item, Amazon just seems to be luck of the draw.

        When groups (Techfast for example) advertise on here they actually have good deals on a few specific products, they're not giving 7% off Intel CPU's, 2.1% off i3 CPU's with exclusions, 0.7% i5's with some exclusions, etc.

        Having followed these deals thinking they must be great (since so many people up vote them) I've spent thousands through Amazon instead of the local companies I'd normally purchase from and actually felt ripped off most of the time when majority of the cashback failed. Now I feel they're a scam, even been wondering if OzBargain get kickbacks for each purchase like TA must.

    • lonewolf on 17/10/2020 - 12:34
      +2

      I understand the carts part although not sure all sites have that requirement. But I do agree the eligible category requirement is pretty crap. Its constantly changing as well as you are never guaranteed it falls into the category you think it will. Much better if they just had a universal and lower %cashback than the way they do it.

      • [Deactivated] on 17/10/2020 - 21:07

        The reason they do it is because Amazon doesn't pay affiliate commission on all categories. So if they give you 1% in a category they have a 0% affiliate commission in, they have to pay out of their own pocket. Do that for high value categories (like Electronics) and they're on a fast track to bankruptcy.

        • lonewolf on 17/10/2020 - 22:29
          +1

          Yes I know they are only following what they have agreed with amazon, but I am saying they should try to negotiate it or come up with a better system. Even if the app itself can tell you on the fly for the items but that would be impossible I think.

          • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2020 - 18:11

            @lonewolf: Except they neither agree with nor negotiate anything with Amazon. The Amazon Affiliate Program is a "take it or leave it" system where Amazon tells you what categories are worth what percentages, and you like it. As to showing you the cashback, that's impossible as Amazon doesn't know that their Affiliate (Cashrewards) is giving you 7.5% on Health, Household and Personal Care, they only know that they are paying their Affiliate 8%.

            You'll also note CR doesn't pay cashback on some categories (e.g. Video Games) which Amazon does pay commission to them on.

          • ChillBro on 19/10/2020 - 04:16

            @lonewolf: I've suggested this to CR before too. Surely it can't be too difficult to give you an estimate cashback rate via the chrome addon or app when you're on a product page.

  • Pargain on 17/10/2020 - 08:21

    Is there a way to know pre purchase what category a particular item is. For example Xiaomi H3 air purifier?

  • mr_asstight on 17/10/2020 - 08:28
    +15

    Where were you during prime day?

  • JustNotGod on 17/10/2020 - 08:30
    +3

    Too late 😒

  • DryScissors on 17/10/2020 - 08:35

    Is oculus quest 2 considered electronics?

    • jamba on 17/10/2020 - 09:57

      Its considered video game unfortunately.

      • Mistredo on 17/10/2020 - 15:03

        How can you find what category items are?

  • THICKnSLOW on 17/10/2020 - 08:35
    +3

    Commiserations to the Cashrewards staff who have to deal with countless enquiries about missing cash backs, lower than expected cash backs. Too complex for those spending the money, and those who sort the payments.

    I really feel for them, as they have been extremely helpful with me in the past. I wish them well.

  • pinkybrain on 17/10/2020 - 09:11
    +6

    Anyone think this change in cashback is due to how poor the amazon prime day AU sale has been?

    • Skramit on 17/10/2020 - 09:44
      +1

      Nah. Probably just the marketing boffins at Amazon HQ keeping themselves busy. Imagine all the meeting required to make these changes.

      • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2020 - 18:25
        +1

        Amazon didn't make these changes. During Prime Day, Amazon was paying 5% to their affiliate, Cashrewards Pty Ltd, on any Electronics purchase that tracked to their affiliate ID: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com.au/help/operating/sched… - while they were paying you 0%. Right now, Cashrewards gets 5% on any Video Games sales, while you get 0%.

        This sort of thing is how Cashrewards can stay in business while paying at or sometimes above the commissions they get on everyday sales.

    • worrierwan on 17/10/2020 - 11:20

      I didn't think it was bad. I bought >$300 stuff + the front page of ozbargain on that day continuously changed the whole day

      • pinkybrain on 17/10/2020 - 12:24
        +2

        I think prime day sale has been meh after the first year..

        Hardly found any lightning deals that grabbed my attention..

        The first year had xbox one s, ps4 pro etc.. that were real bargains..
        Even the home appliances were quite good deals and that was not part of prime day etc….

        Nowadays prime day is just mainly about their smart home products

      • lonewolf on 17/10/2020 - 12:29
        +1

        front page of ozbargain kept changing because people kept posting all sorts of junk / back in stock items… I agree, the first prime day sale was great and ever since then its been downhill. this had to be the worst year in my experience. So much junk / standard pricing, the best deals were still only decent deals. And with the amount of junk posts ozbargain gets these days sometimes people miss out on seeing the actual bargains.

  • MS Paint on 17/10/2020 - 09:31
    -4

    dupe

    • PlagueistheCheap on 17/10/2020 - 09:36
      +4

      Not a dupe, that's shop back. This is CR.

  • OfTheOverflow on 17/10/2020 - 09:46
    +2

    Video games or bust.

  • Iamnotcheap on 17/10/2020 - 09:48

    What does a Nintendo Switch fall under? Is that eligible?

    • jamba on 17/10/2020 - 09:58

      Video game. So not eligible

  • popsiee on 17/10/2020 - 10:04

    Prime day wiped out my giftcards quota for the month .
    Would have fired with anything in toys but no cigar : (

  • Aussieboiitoii on 17/10/2020 - 10:25

    What a reward

  • turkz1 on 17/10/2020 - 10:32

    Trying to work out if this is Electronics or Camera based on the Amazon listing. Seems to be in Electronics. Can anyone chime in? https://www.amazon.com.au/Fujifilm-Mirrorless-Digital-Camera…

    • 2dogs on 17/10/2020 - 11:01

      If you look above the photo on a computer you'll see the category listed ie. Electronics 5% cash back

      Electronics›Camera & Photo›Digital Cameras›Compact System Cameras

      Hope this helps

      • PlagueistheCheap on 17/10/2020 - 11:06
        +3

        It's not always accurate. Ive been through this with other devices that fell into office for example but were considered electronics. Amazon isnt so upfront with its categorisation.

      • 2dogs on 17/10/2020 - 11:19
        +1

        Plague is correct, the enigma that is Amazon has excluded cameras, even though they are a subset of electronics,
        So to misquote the Soup Nazi, No Cash for you!

      • turkz1 on 17/10/2020 - 11:32

        No cashback on cameras 🙁

  • porterble on 17/10/2020 - 10:52
    +4

    Its becoming a lottery as to whether Cashback is approved or not. Only two of four of my prime day transactions were tracked, and both were declined. No more detailed reason given than 'terms were not met.'

  • cashby on 17/10/2020 - 11:10

    I just cancelled my orders from prime day and re-ordered. they werent on sale then but im hoping they fit under the 5% for electronics.

    • popsiee on 17/10/2020 - 12:40

      Cool obviously you aren't concerned being banned !

      • cashby on 17/10/2020 - 14:34
        +2

        banned from what?

  • djmm on 17/10/2020 - 11:19
    +1

    Is the most certain way to track is to go to cashrewards site, go to shop link from there, and then purchase?
    Im pissed off my 800 dollars ebay transaction didn't get recorded

  • Danzerman on 17/10/2020 - 11:21

    anybody know if this category is inlcluded
    Camera & Photo : Computers, Components & Accessories : Computer Accessories : Blank Media

  • kypermaster on 17/10/2020 - 11:28

    Would it work for oculus quest 2?

    • Morven on 17/10/2020 - 11:36

      No. Video game category, not electronics.

  • organamisms on 17/10/2020 - 11:36

    It excludes (but not limited to) TVs, PCs & Accessories, Printers, Projectors, Musical/Recording Equipment, Blu-ray Players, Game Consoles, Mobile Phones & Accessories, Soundbars (which may fall under different categories).

    God damn it.

  • Bigredkeg on 17/10/2020 - 11:55
    +4

    Cash back via Amazon is so buggy and non transparent that I don't even bother anymore. There has to be a better system.

    • lonewolf on 17/10/2020 - 12:32

      yeah, I would much rather they had 1 or 2% on everything rather than the way they do it. Its just a waste of everyones time as its never guaranteed it falls into the category you think it does and they keep changing the cashbacks of the category.

  • Wiser on 17/10/2020 - 12:10
    +2

    During prime day sales this Mob declined every transaction.

    • Store Reptightarse @ Cashrewards on 17/10/2020 - 14:01
      +1

      As per bottom of OP:

      Common question: Why are my Amazon purchases showing declined? You've almost certainly purchased from a 0% category.

      • oyozzieoy on 18/10/2020 - 21:48
        +1

        I've purchased 3 different items from the same prime day sale, I'm 100% sure they are not from 0% category, they all are declined.

    • LlamaLlamaLamp on 17/10/2020 - 20:19

      What were you buying?

  • 0power on 17/10/2020 - 12:58

    Does anyone know if PC cases are eligible? Some cases I've found fall under both electronics and computers categories.

  • samfisher5986 on 17/10/2020 - 13:12

    Which category would something like this come up as? https://www.amazon.com.au/Shoulder-CornerArmor-Protective-Th…

    I would assume "computers" which means its not counted.. :(

  • rokufan on 17/10/2020 - 13:52
    +1

    Does it include purchases from Amazon UK and US via amazon.com.au?

  • SF3 on 17/10/2020 - 15:28
    +1

    Purchases paid with gift cards are eligible for cashback.

    👍

  • CalmLemons on 17/10/2020 - 18:18

    meh. right after prime day.guessing that was intended?

  • Shiny Mew on 17/10/2020 - 21:23
    +1

    Why do toys almost always never attract cashback?

  • alexshel on 18/10/2020 - 08:07
    -8

    I won't be using Cashrewards anymore. Amazon on their site have different category names and my last cashback transactions were declined, as Amazon category "Clothing, Shoes & Accessories" is not listed on their site. Instead they have two categories "Apparel" and "Shoes, Handbags & Accessories".

    I had to dispute the declined transactions I made 28 September, with lots of emails back and forth to explain the issue and to repeat my arguments more then one time. As a result, it was resolved as a "one-time courtesy" and "transactions have been credited out of pocket by Cashrewards".

    My order was partially paid by gift cards, but the final tracked amount and chaback bonus was based on amount excluding gift card payments.

    Not sure if this rule "Purchases paid with gift cards are eligible for cashback" is new or existed before.

    Beware!!

    Example product from "missing" category:
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Ababoon-Nightwear-Perspective-Slee… (open in a desktop browsers to see category name)

    Handbags are also part of "Clothing, Shoes & Accessories" category, e.g. https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07J5D8N3L

    Never had such issues with Shopback.

  • lomie on 18/10/2020 - 09:50
    +1

    Can anyone confirm if camera lenses fall under Electronics? On Amazon, it is, but is it also for CR?

    • alexshel on 18/10/2020 - 21:02
      +1

      You will be surprised when your cashback transaction gets rejected by CR, like it happened with me. There is not guarantee, it's a lottery. Read my negged comment above.

    • oyozzieoy on 18/10/2020 - 21:53
      +2

      yea mate, there is no guarantee. this whole cashback things from these rewards sites is becoming a joke. looks like they are only interested in stealing personal information and sell it to marketing companies to fill their pockets.

    • keejoonc on 19/10/2020 - 12:43
      -1

      Categories are determined by Amazon, not CR.
      If it's under Electronics on Amazon, it is under Electronics.

      • lomie on 19/10/2020 - 13:36

        I'm seeking clarification based on the responses here

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