Sigh. All good things must come to an end and unfortunately one such thing is Dollar Dig’s higher cashback rate for gift card purchases in the Slide app.
At the start of April, they increased their Slide cashback rate from 4% to 6.5%. At the time, TopCashback was offering 6% cashback and so I’d stuck with TopCashback seeing as it was only a 0.5% difference and I’d had good experiences with TopCashback.
That changed soon after as TopCashback reduced their rate for Slide purchases to 4%. That made Dollar Dig’s 6.5% cashback rate much more enticing, so I’ve used Dollar Dig ever since then.
Unfortunately that 6.5% rate appeared to drop to 4% at midnight ET on April 30. That’s a big hit because it means that with the recent death of PayPal Key, the most cashback existing Slide users will normally earn is now 9% – 4% from Dollar Dig or TopCashback and 5% from Slide (1% for preloading with a credit card and 4% when buying gift cards). It’s still possible to earn a total of 10% cashback by preloading Slide with a debit card, but that’s not going to be as useful for many people seeing as it means you won’t earn credit card rewards, meet signup bonuses, etc.
Hopefully May 1 brings us a higher cashback rate for Slide on some other portal.
Maxrebates raised its Slide rate to 4.4%, but I have not tested.