They basically can do what they want anytime they want. This is something the cheerleading noobs for these types of sites don�t understand.

I made some purchases from walmart.com when mrrebates/aa shopping mall had dropped their rate to 1%/1 point.

At the time bigcrumbs showed 2.4%. Both purchases posted, but they posted with 0.8% cashback.

They said they will contact walmart but haven't heard anything back. I'm also not so sure this is walmart's problem, seems like they were late updating their site to the new rate walmart is paying but they should honor it. It's quite a bit of $$ difference too.

I'm seeing Amex GC. It says that shipping is free and that there is 1.6% cash back. Is this usual? Seems too good to be true, unless I'm missing some catch.

Also do these cards have a fee?

Usually you either get a code to remove the fee or to remove shipping. They may still have a trial free shipping program. It's a good deal if you can liquidate the cards. There are many people still doing it even though you can no longer use them at the mint... "cheerleaders" "noobs" whatever QL wants to call em... people are still buying them and liquidating them without a problem.

With 1.6% cash back, there is actually no cost for this right?

No cost, the site just gets a commission from Amex and they pass a % of the $$ on to you. The only cost would be either shipping or the fee, one of which you can use a code remove. There is a whole thread about it, but they can no longer be used at the Mint for coins.

bigcrumbs is huge scam. Made purchase and didn't get credit for it. Submitted missing credit inquiry and it's been 3 month now and NOTHING.

In the meantime, never had ANY problems with mrrebates. Avoid BC

Your poor experience with BC denotes them as a "scam"? If someone has had nothing but superb experiences with them, would that similarly denote them as the best company in the world?

Perhaps if you post the details of your issue someone here could help. Many merchants take 3+ months to fully post purchases and BC might not have information for you yet, as a result?

I've gotten back over $2000 from Big Crumbs. I have no problem with them!!

OMG CC you are such a cheerleader NOOB. Of course people with referral links are going to try to scam members into getting free money!

I would not classify them as a scam but they do seem to have more problems than other sites. You are their mercy and there is not much you can do about it.

HA! Rah rah! Big Crumbs is the best!!!

The additional credit was later posted to my account in separate transactions before enough time had passed that I would have been allowed to file a request for credit. I don't know exactly how bigcrumbs noticed, but I am glad they were able to fix the problem in time so I didn't have to ask officially.

Sorry for forgetting to post an update about this earlier. I have updated my previous message.

You were one of the lucky ones. Many got screwed and only received $8 instead of $48 for each order.

In defense of Big Crumbs here is what I went through:

Placed 4 separate $500 GC orders in rapid succession on 3/5/11. This is when giftcards.com was first changing all their payout ratios to be a flat amount rather than a % and there were all sorts of issues with the various shopping portals.

The credits did not post within 24 hours (as they usually did) so I was worried about there being some sort of issue. I waited a week and then emailed BC letting them know they had a linking issue. They responded saying they didn't think so and to just be patient.

BC changed the payout ratio to be flat rather than a % at some point during this waiting period.

I emailed cust service asking if they would be honoring the % rate advertised at the time of my purchase despite the fact that my credits still hadn't even posted. They said yes.

I eventually filed missing credit inquiries after the proper amount of time ahd elapsed. I was eventually credited $2 per order.

Filed yet another missing credit inquiry, this time disputing the amount credited. I was eventually manually credited $10 per order bringing my cashback to the proper amount of $12 per order (I have a feeling giftcards.com did not pay BC this amount, I think BC did the right thing and decided to eat the cost here...no way for me to know this of course but that's my gut feeling)

So at the end of the day it took nearly 2 months to get everything I was entitled to but at the end of the day BC did the right thing