ktg said:We're all waiting to hear if someone gets a confirmation from MSLiveSearch that the CashBack is confirmed on their purchase...I think folks are losing sight that the way it works with eBay, showing you the Cash Back during purchase, is the exception, not the rule with MS Live Cash Back, as it is with every other Cash Back (or points or miles) site I've ever used. You're always taking it on faith the money will show up, and usually it does.

For anyone that ever uses FatWallet CashBack, this is no different. Same 'blind faith' needed after clicking through.

Numerous people did this 4 months ago with the Magazines.com deal with 70% off live.com CashBack and we all got paid. Emails came a few hours to a day later, minutes for some people.

ok thats what i figured...thanks

MrLateNite said:For anyone that ever uses FatWallet CashBack, this is no different. Same 'blind faith' needed after clicking through.

Numerous people did this 4 months ago with the Magazines.com deal with 70% off live.com CashBack and we all got paid. Emails came a few hours to a day later, minutes for some people.

Actually it IS different. With FW CashBack at least there is an appeal process with a legitimate followup on FW's part when something goes wrong. With MS Live CB it is totally based on luck if you purchase will actually get posted to your Live CB account and even then the merchant can nullify it for any bogus reason they choose and MS will do nothing.

i purchased something from Altrec a while back, no banners or anything but it worked and i was paid. youll just have to trust it.

Where does it state that Ipods are excluded? I was thinking of buying one...thanks.

Try target for the PS3 they are also doing 20%.

SUB said:You guys are aware that you can contact Live Customer Service if your order doesn't show up:

http://search.live.com/cashback/faq#faq11

This is the same as FW or any other link-thru CashBack site.

Yes IF MS Live CB actually answered and investigated your missing transactions via that email address. However this is NOT the case. It usually takes 2-3 weeks to get an answer and even then it is a canned automated response. They use to have a live chat feature on that page but it took 4-5 hours of waiting in queue to get a rep and then they still provided the same we are looking into it response so MS removed it from the MS Live CB site. Bottom line MS Live CB is great as long as everything works. However whne somethign goes wrong you are SOL with no chance of getting problems addressed letalone resolved.

so even if i do get an email notification from MS Live confirming my purchase, it still has a possibility of getting "lost in transition" after i try to redeem it? and by the time i finally realize that i will not be getting my CB, it will be too late to return the product...

cnIsfg said:Yes IF MS Live CB actually answered and investigated your missing transactions via that email address. However this is NOT the case. It usually takes 2-3 weeks to get an answer and even then it is a canned automated response. They use to have a live chat feature on that page but it took 4-5 hours of waiting in queue to get a rep and then they still provided the same we are looking into it response so MS removed it from the MS Live CB site. Bottom line MS Live CB is great as long as everything works. However whne somethign goes wrong you are SOL with no chance of getting problems addressed letalone resolved.

yeah that couldn't be further from my experience. The "canned automated response" is an email letting you know that your inquiry was received, which is then followed by a real person.

I got a response within 24 hours.