"Reestit Mutton" <NOBODY@NOWHERE.IN.PARTICULAR> wrote in message
news:4550850f$0$8723$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> Hi guys,
>
> It's been a while since I've been on here - I've been working like crazy
> at developing my website back-end further while continuing to manually
> edit the database contents. It's become a real juggling act.
>
> For anyone that is interested, the wee man has started to walk only in the
> last week or so, although his vocab is still limited to seemingly random
> single-syllable sounds.
>
> Anyway...I felt that it was about time that I made an appearance to let
> everyone know that One Stop Phone Shop has changed their cashback
> schedules as of 31 October.
>
> The old schedule was as follows:
> (1) a small automatic payment after 3 months (optional)
> (2) remainder in THREE parts, claimable after 4, 8 and 12 months.
>
> The new schedule is as follows...
>
> 12 month deals (low cashback value):
> (1) a small automatic payment after 3 months (optional)
> (2) remainder in THREE parts, claimable after 6, 9 & 12 months.
>
> 12 month deals (the vast majority of them):
> (1) a small automatic payment after 3 months (optional)
> (2) remainder in FOUR parts, claimable after 6, 8, 10 & 12 months.
>
> 18 month deals:
> (1) a small automatic payment after 3 months (optional)
> (2) remainder in FIVE parts, claimable after 6, 9, 12, 15 & 18 months.
>
> It seems that every man and his dog is slowly increasing the number of
> cashback payments to be claimed.
>
> I have emailed someone inside E2Save to ask if they intend to follow
> suit - I'll report back the results of that enquiry when I receive a
> response.
>

Had an online chat with someone from Mobileshop.com today re my (late!)
cashback. He claimed that the networks have revised the way they pay the
dealers, i.e. they get the money later now. Cashback over a longer period
would seem to suggest that this is what is happening.