(EXPIRED) Slide Not Currently Available On TopCashback

Update 7/18/22: It’s now been a month since TopCashback stopped offering cashback for Slide. I’d previously speculated that this was a decision made by TopCashback seeing as Slide seemed to be having reporting issues.

TopCashback appeared to fix the remaining mistracked transactions in the last few days, so I’d been hoping that Slide would make a return to their site. I submitted a ticket to TopCashback to ask about this and received the following reply:

It is up to Slide to want to offer cashback through us again as the offers are from the retailers who pay the cashback to us, we just pass it on to our members once received, but if we do see them come back with some offers we’ll be sure to get them straight back on site.

I figured that maybe the person replying hadn’t been aware of the reporting problems from Slide, so I replied with the following:

Thanks for your reply. They’re still available via other shopping portals, so I’d assumed that it was TCB’s choice to not offer cashback right now due to the reporting issues you’d been having with Slide (e.g. $500 purchases were showing up as $50,000 purchases).

I received a prompt reply from TopCashback, but sadly it’s not good news.

I understand where you’re coming from as we were having a few tracking problems with Slide and they were being worked on, but ultimately they have dropped from our site from their own choice, rather than any action taken by ourselves.

I found it surprising that it has indeed been Slide’s decision to remove TopCashback from their affiliate program. It was initially a strange decision seeing as TopCashback is probably the most established of the shopping portals that Slide had been featured on previously.

There is one potential reason I can think of for this decision by Slide, but it’s pure speculation on my part. Some people have reported having significant tracking issues with TopCashback in recent months. That’s never been a massive problem for me because 90%-95% of my Slide purchases via TopCashback have tracked, but some people have reported 0%-10% tracking success with TopCashback which is appalling. After switching over to the Dollar Dig shopping portal instead, many of those people have had near 100% tracking.

I’ve no clue why there’s such a difference in user experience for some people. As a result of those issues though, it might be that TopCashback was having to submit such a significant number of disputed transactions via the affiliate program that Slide decided it wasn’t worth their time and/or hassle dealing with those commission payout issues when other shopping portals don’t seem to have those same problems.

Again, that reasoning is my speculation, but I can’t think why else Slide would stop including TopCashback in their affiliate program seeing as Dollar Dig offers the same cashback rate as TopCashback did before their removal.

In the evening of June 15, 2022, TopCashback stopped offering cashback when tapping through to Slide and buying gift cards. They didn’t give a reason as to why, nor any indication as to if and when Slide might be back on the shopping portal.

I didn’t publish anything immediately as I’d hoped it would only be a short amount of time before Slide returned to the site. However, It’s now been more than 24 hours, so I thought I should publish something to explain why this has likely happened.

I suspect the reason TopCashback has (hopefully temporarily) pulled Slide is because of some glitchy transaction reporting. That reporting has resulted in some absurd entries for people who’ve bought gift cards from Slide via TopCashback in the day or two leading up to when Slide got pulled.

Slide’s reporting to TopCashback appears to have moved decimal places a couple of places to the right. For example, if you bought $500 gift cards, Slide appears to have reported those as $50,000 transactions. As a result, the 4% cashback TopCashback was offering meant $50,000 gift cards would earn $2,000 cashback.

Someone at TopCashback presumably saw some people’s accounts suddenly having $50,000+ pending cashback and investigated a bit further. I’m therefore assuming that TopCashback stopped offering cashback for Slide until the reporting issue is fixed, because the longer this went on, the more hassle TopCashback would have fixing everything on their end.

In the meantime, there are other sites offering 4%+ cashback for Slide like Dollar Dig, Max Rebates and RebatesMe. I’ve had good experiences with Dollar Dig tracking, but none of my transactions have reached the payable stage and so I can’t wholeheartedly recommend them yet.