Amazon has made a huge change to a popular freebie scheme – and shoppers are furious
Date: 2024-10-31
AMAZON is making a huge change to a popular freebie scheme and shoppers have been left furious by the decision.
The online retail giant runs a shopper panel that rewards people with money off in exchange for details about their purchases.
Amazon is making changes to its Shopper Panel and customers are unhappy[/caption]
Shoppers can submit pictures of their receipts from rival shops via the dedicated Amazon Shopper Panel app.
There’s also a chance to earn additional rewards each month for completing surveys and for enabling ad verification.
As it stands, customers earn £5 each month to spend on Amazon if they upload a total of ten receipts.
But from tomorrow (November 1), shoppers will instead earn 10p for each receipt that they upload, with the maximum they can earn still being capped at £5.
While shoppers can now earn cash for just one upload, they now have to upload a whopping 50 receipt pictures to get the maximum reward.
Panellists were alerted to the change via a notification in the app.
It read: “You will earn a 10p reward for each approved receipt that you upload – no more receipt minimum and you can still earn £5 per month.
“Receipt rewards will be periodically updated.”
A screenshot of the change was shared on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group.
Shoppers rushed to comment and share their frustration at the change.
One said: “Oh well, it was good while it lasted.”
Another social media user wrote: “That receipt ideas is rubbish.”
While a third cried: “Pfft I’m not bothering with that anymore then.”
Meanwhile, consumer expert Martyn James told The Sun: “Major retailers like Amazon are hoping that our focus on the upcoming Black Friday sales will distract us as they cut in to a few miserly discounts.
“But during the cost of living crisis, any attempt at penny pinching is going to go down badly.”
The Sun has contacted Amazon for comment.
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