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Description: CouponCabin (www.couponcabin.com) is the home of more cash back and faster payments. Think of us as your partner in cash back in that we only get paid when you do. Over 99.8% of all orders are seamlessly paid, but if a store doesn’t pay us for an order, for any reason, we will not be able to credit your cash back. CouponCabin doesn’t have many rules, but the rules we do have are in place to ensure our members get the maximum amount of cash back possible. It’s important to note that only one account per computer network or household may claim offers marked for “Members Only” or “New Members Only.” We are very passionate about saving money, and as shareholders, our team of Customer Success managers is always willing to help in every way possible. Please understand that CouponCabin does not tolerate profanity or threats of any kind and will never provide financial compensation in exchange for the removal of reviews.
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Ebates does not have any of these exclusions. Which makes me think, that even if you use a promotion code, even if you open a new browser before submitting your order... blah, blah, blah, they still get their cut (for "referring" you. But they make it extremely hard for you to get your portion.
I feel like I've been scammed.
Honestly, the only time I ever shop is when I have promotion codes to use, so I guess I wouldn't qualify for most of the offers. I guess couponcabin is just not for me, unless I'm willing to pay full price, and then 3 months later get cash back.
The only reason I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1 is because I feel like the website has potential if they got rid of some of the exclusions...
I see "Ryan" responded. Ive already been in touch with Ryan and customer service before I posted this review. Here is what Ryan said in his last email to me..."This process can take as long as 90 days in some cases depending on policies of the store in question."
So you have not disputed my claims at all. Only confirmed them. I am not going to email you again because its a giant waste of time. YOU SHOULD NOT ADVERTISE SOMETHING YOU CAN"T FOLLOW THROUGH ON OR CONTROL! This is why people should know your site is bad.
UPDATE... I just emailed their customer service again at 2 months post purchase. RYAN replied that (all the sudden) they have now eard from newegg, and somehow they did not receive credit for the order. Somehow I got credit from marketing channel? (Not true)... oh and also they couldnt find a click from my purchase? (Not true). Again... STAY AWAY from this site. ATTN REATAILERS... you too. I would not partner with this company as all they do is frustrate customers... your customers.
Update: What will you do if you want to introduce a friend to use Coupon Cabin? You gotta log in and show him what kind of cash back deals are offered through the site, how to use it and then walk that person through account creation. I don't see the reason why my friend account was locked, then unlocked but with no new member offer or cash back processed to his account. Anyway, since it is hard to use your site, I went ahead research and use a different cashback site with my friend. Thanks for the experience.
There will likely very quickly pop up, as you can see with every other review similar to mine, the same canned response from Coupon Cabin. Sad
On Sunday, September 2,2018, I received an e-mail from CouponCabin informing me that the first 8 who clicked through would be offered $100 off a $100+ purchase at homedepot.com.
I monitored the time closely and at the appropriate time, I clicked through and was successful at obtaining the offer.
I had been looking for a lamp, so after a period of time, but prior to the offer's expiration, I found one that I wished to purchase. I clicked through the link several times to ensure that it was active.
I also read the fine print carefully. Disable ad blockers: check. Make sure cart is empty first: check. Home delivery only, no in-store pick-up: check.
Purchased the lamp and everything seemed fine.
On Tuesday afternoon, September 4,2018, I attempted to login to CouponCabin to ensure that the offer had been processed properly. However, I was unable to login.
When password resets didn't work, I contacted the company. I was very quickly offered the following message, which made zero sense to me.
Hello, Brad.
Our security system has identified your account (*******@xxx.com) and multiple computer networks that your account has accessed (including but not limited to Internet Protocol address: as severely violating the terms and conditions of CouponCabin's cash back program. As a result, your account has been permanently closed and the cash back has been forfeited.
I asked for a further explanation but have not received one to date.
Meanwhile the lamp has been ordered and shipped. Not only is CouponCabin reneging on their $100 off of $100 offer, but they've closed my account, confiscated any cash that was in there, and refused (so far) to tell me why this action was taken.
I've recommended CouponCabin to many people, including to my girlfriend at the time that I "qualified" for this offer. Makes me feel kind of dumb for going out of my way to recommend them. Frustrating, annoying embarrassing and unwarranted.
I'll continue to update my experience and hopefully I'll get some resolution. But for now, I've got an expensive lamp on the way that I'm not even sure will be here before I leave for China, and now I have to hassle/fight/argue with CouponCabin and I don't think I did a thing that was wrong.
Let me also add, this is a very poor way to treat established customers. Deactivating their accounts without explanation and reneging on promises. If there's an issue, it should be politely discussed/explained. If there's a legitimate problem, make sure the customer understands the issue. If CouponCabin have a reasonable explanation, be reasonable and understanding. Treating good established customers in this way is a poor business practice, and I suspect that even the principals at CouponCabin would agree with this.
Coupon cabin has accused me of offering insults. I ask, "What insults"? That's completely false. Do I consider their actions to be rude, unwarranted and potentially fradulent? Yes, absolutely.
Let me also add that I am a former police officer. Imagine that you are a good citizen and I arrest you. You ask why you are being arrested and I ignore you for the most part, but then I say, "You have been identified as severely violating the law!". You say, I haven't violated any law! What are you talking about? What law?!" I again reply, "I have identified you as severely violating the law!" When you press further, I say, "Please read the Penal Code. You have severely violated the law!". You say, "But what law? What are you accusing me of? Where do I look?" And I then tape your mouth shut.
That's what you did, in essence by refusing to give me a straight answer to my questions and by blocking my IP address and blocking me from Facebook. Did you consider something really wild like... responding to the questions/concerns in a reasonable way?
Look back at my e-mail messages and you'll see a common theme. I asked, "What did I do? I have no idea what you're talking about". And you'll also see that there was no specific reply by your company. Just ambiguity.
Good customers are hard to find. Good customers who go out of their way to refer you business are even harder to come by. When you have a customer for years, treating them in such a poor way and simply closing their account, without notification or discussion, when they a long-history of using your service without issues, is not an acceptable practice.
A better way to handle it would have been to not close an account and say, "According to our records, your CouponCabin account may have violated our Terms and Conditions for the following reasons. We understand that you might not have been aware of this, but it is important that you not use more than one device (or whatever). Future violations of our Terms and Conditions may result in the suspension or closure of your Coupon Cabin account, and neither one of would want that. We appreciate your patronage and loyalty. Feel free to contact us with further questions or you may simply refer to the link which fully details our Terms and Conditions".
Do you see how that accomplishes the same thing, keeps your customers (mostly) loyal and happy, and doesn't annoy people to the point where they're writing unflattering reviews? Do you see how it completely changes the tone? Not only that, but you actually make more money instead of having to fight with irritated former customers like me.
P.S. I'm getting these replies from "Good old Sam" over at CouponCabin who falsely stated that I've been sending them "offensive insults". Well, you deserve them, but I don't recall making any. Perhaps you can share them, Sammy? He also states that they "will not provide financial incentives in exchange for removing negative reviews. Not asking for "financial incentives". Just asking them to honor their commitments, communicate effectively and reasonably with their customers, and to treat them with respect. CouponCabin failed on all counts and continues to fail with their ridiculous self-serving replies. Hey Sammy, here's a better idea. Look in the mirror and change your rude, anti-consumer and counterproductive policies.
On Jan. 15th, I received an email telling me that I could no longer receive money via Paypal transfer. CouponCabin detected what they called "unnatural activity," but they could not explain what this was, nor did they determine that it was a violation of their Terms and Conditions. All they would say was that it happened and there was no way to resolve it. Detecting an issue is one thing but saying that it was impossible to ever resolve and therefore I would need to accept payment via paper check from henceforth is another, and it smelled fishy to me. They said their T&C covered this, but I could not locate such a passage, and they wouldn't point me to it or explain it. I accepted their resolution of paper checks, but I also said that this transparency issue concerned me and it may constitute a legal issue. They immediately closed my account. I received this message:
"Given your desire to seek legal action, we feel that the best course is to close your account and issue a final payment for the cash back you have pending. This is usually a ten-day process, but based on your note, I will escalate this to our Chief Financial Officer so we can get a final payment processed within the next 48 hours.
Sincerely,
Sydney K.
Customer Success Associate
CouponCabin team member since 2014"
Any further contact with CouponCabin has left me with this message:
"The Customer Success team is no longer able to provide assistance for this issue. For additional information regarding your account or CouponCabin's Terms and Conditions, please contact us in writing at the address below. Please include your return address and allow 30 days for our written response.
CouponCabin LLC
Attn: Legal Department
1319 119th St., 2nd Floor
Whiting, Indiana 46394
You may review CouponCabin's Terms and Conditions by visiting the URL below:
https://www.couponcabin.com/terms/
Michaela S.
Vice President of Customer Satisfaction
CouponCabin Team Member since 2015
CouponCabin shareholder since 2016"
Based on my interactions with Sydney K., it is clear that they never viewed anything I did as a violation of their Terms and Conditions prior to mentioning the potential legal issue. It was the mention of a potential legal issue that got my account closed. Sydney K. Even said, after my account was closed, that I was still due the money that I earned while a member. And yet, here it is, Feb. 23rd, and I have yet to receive payment.
It's clear to me that they have decided to not process my payment, which is a violation of their own Terms and Conditions, and want to make it as difficult as possible for me to chase down my own money in the hopes that I won't bother, thus allowing them to keep the money owed to me. This is a devious business practice that, in my opinion, amounts to theft. CouponCabin does have an email address for their legal department (*******@couponcabin.com), and I have sent multiple requests to them for payment, but my requests have been ignored. Now I will have to spend more time and money sending them a letter via certified mail asking them for the check they should have already sent. And if they ignore that, I will have to wait a bit before filing a suit in Small Claims Court, which they will probably not even bother attending knowing that the judgement will go against them, so they might as well waste my time before sending me the check I'm owed. It seems to me that it is just a matter of time before this company's shady dealings catch up to them. I would not be surprised to read about them being hit with a class action lawsuit sometime in the future. Avoid this company at all costs. It's just not worth it.
If you have had a similar experience with CouponCabin, you might consider filing a consumer complaint. You can do so with the Illinois Attorney General's Office here:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/filecomplaint.html
The FTC here:
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1
And the Better Business Bureau here:
https://www.bbb.org/consumer-complaints/file-a-complaint/get-started
I've already filed complaints at all three. If anyone can think of another place to file a complaint, let me know. Also, I'm considering writing letters to the companies that do business with CouponCabin. We click through CouponCabin in order to make a purchase at places such as Target and Walmart, and presumably these merchants provide CouponCabin with a referral payment based on the amount we purchase, a cut of which is supposed to be shared with the people making the purchase. However, if CouponCabin is screwing over the purchasers, the merchants may reconsider doing business with CouponCabin.
I opened my account with Coupon Cabin when CouponCabin initially started; I cannot provide the correct year because they closed my account without a reason. Two days ago, I noticed I could not log in into Coupon Cabin (see attach) and that I had agree two previous time to provide what they demanded without questioning. Often, I had problems because they refused to pay earned discounts. I let go of those funds because they make it extremely time consuming to argue for the monies owed. Now, I am asking what is still unpaid by them to me, and they are stating they are not going to tell them unless I send them a picture of my DL and my personal address. I can see this as a realization they want more of my personal information to sell, and getting rid of people that are too costly to them which it is their prerogative. I just want to know the amount of monies Coupon Cabin owes me. Of course, I will not be using them again. I warn everyone planning to use them or currently using them they may encounter the same outcome in the future and you cannot do a thing about it. Hopefully they do it to enough people so a class action suit can be filed.
The fabulous save $250 on $250 type deals are extremely limited - open only to the first 10 to 25 people who claim it, AND that's only if you haven't used too many other member deals in a rolling 30 day period.
I realize they are a smaller business and are trying to spread around their cash back deals to be fair, I get that. But it makes for a frustrating shopping experience. One that's easy to skip when there are other coupon sites that offer cash back options and also pay promptly.
Use Coupon Cabin for their coupons - that really seems to be their niche, but don't hold your breath for a timely cash payout.
Didn't mind, I thought oh well but the fact that they are so shady they just deactivate your account when you didn't even get the new member cashback they deactivated you for really tells you something. Honestly, stick with Ebates.
Per customer service response, we were never informed of violating any rules. In fact, the only contact I personally had was to see why I did not get the new member offer and I was informed a member in my household previously used an offer so I went on with life. My sister had contact and was informed more than one person in a household could have an account. We were given NO warning at all that we needed to only have one account. I'd love to see the proof you have of when we were given any type of warning regarding the accounts. If we were actually informed to simply use one account, we would have, no problem but you guys are blatantly lying to make this review seem false. I'm glad we were able to see how horrible this site is early on, i'm just sad we gave you any business at all by using you for cashback instead of Ebates.
The best advice I received was to first sign into a particular store's website that I want to shop at, load the cart with my purchases, then close out of that window and sign into CouponCabin - only then clicking through CouponCabin's link to the store's website in order to finish my purchase, while making sure that I do not browse or click on any other site until I had finished the purchase.
For the limited time offers that occasionally appear, I've found it useful to save a screenshot of the coupon before clicking through, just in case I need to back up a claim (the coupon's information will not be available after clicking through).
I've used CouponCabin to book hotel rooms and get 1-2% back on those purchases, though in every one of those cases I had to report missing cash back and it took 2+ months before the hotel confirmed to CouponCabin that I had indeed made the purchase through the CouponCabin website. A bit annoying, but at least all the follow-up happens without additional input from me, once I send in the first report.
All in all, it can occasionally be a little bit of a hassle, but I find it enjoyable and worth a little bit of my time. In the last six months I have received $32 from CouponCabin, with cash back claims ranging from 5 cents to $10, for small purchases up to about $50. I have avoided purchasing any of the items that are advertised directly on CouponCabin, so cannot speak to that portion of the site. I've also noticed that a fair number of the deals reported on CouponCabin are merely sales or deals that have nothing to do with CouponCabin itself, so it's important to notice and sort those out when tallying what CouponCabin is going to hand out as cash back. Still, it seems like the majority of online retailers (sans Amazon) that I shop at provide at least 1% cash back if you buy through CouponCabin, so I go ahead and grab my 1% whenever I can!
Well, at the end of February, I sent a letter to their legal department (mailed via certified mail and signed for in early March) detailing the situation. I provided proof that I was owed money and requested that they send me a check. I'm sure that it will surprise no one to learn that I have received no response at all. I contacted customer service again to explain that although I followed their instructions, I did not receive the promised reply. Again, I am sure that it will surprise no one to learn that I have received no reply to that message either.
Clearly, this company has made it their policy to close accounts for various reasons and not pay money that was properly earned. This would be like getting fired or laid off from a job, and your former employer refused to pay the money you earned from your last paycheck until your termination. I expect that they are banking on people giving up trying to collect and not bothering to sue them even if it's clear that they'd win. I expect the merchants CouponCabin refers members to would not be terribly pleased to be associated with this kind of behavior.
I was looking at their app in the Google Play store, and I noticed that a reviewer named Kyle relayed a very similar story to mine at around the same time as my initial experience. I would say that if you've had a similar experience with this company that you should go and write reviews for their apps as that will probably reach a lot more people than web reviews.
Update: Sam's canned statement below, stating that "when accounts are identified as trying to get around these rules, we have no choice but to close those accounts," only proves my point, and just goes to show how this company operates and treats its honest customers. Once again, I did NOT violate any terms or conditions, but CouponCabin doesn't even care to investigate the matter or try to make things right. If CouponCabin falsely accuses you of trying to "get around the rules," then you're automatically guilty of these false claims, and the company will proceed to seize your cash back and shut down your account, as you can clearly see here. If this has happened to you, my suggestion is to contact a lawyer and get the authorities involved, as this is criminal behavior. To those who are considering signing up for CouponCabin, don't! There are plenty of other reputable cash back programs out there that won't falsely accuse you of committing "violations," only to mistreat you when you try to get the matter resolved in a civil, decent matter. Do yourself a favor and AVOID CouponCabin like the plague.
$100. I spent it according to all the rules. Received a confirmation
Email showing I was receiving it so thought all was well. After I
Received my order and had used it I just happened to look at my account
And it showed my coupon had been reversed. No explanation. I followed
All the rules and CouponCabin said they couldn't do anything--it was up to the
Vendor. Couldn't contact vendor themselves or give me the contact
Information to contact them. Meanwhile I'm out a $100 that I didn't
Plan on spending. Don't trust them!
Their response means nothing. I followed EVERYTHING to a T. Even got an acknowledgement that it was accepted and then reversed. I contacted Walmart and they said it was Coupon Cabin. Also since I questioned their integrity my account was deleted on Coupon Cabin. I got a private message from another customer that the very same thing happened to them. Very frustrating!
If you are new to cash back offers online I highly recommend signing up to CouponCabin for the great offers they always have daily, and best of all great support of their team when you need it.
I heartedly recommend them and will let all my friends know about this site.
R. S.
Notice how Marcus responds to all claims that Rules were violated but doesn't explain how or why they were violated-What is there to hide CouponCabin? Seems like an easy way to put blame on someone with no explanation. What rules did I go around when I've used your site once for one reward? I click a link that leads to a website were I make a purchase then your suppose to uphold your side of the agreement. Again slowly so you may understand-How did I supposedly violate the terms of the agreement? I will contact CallawayPreowned to let them know your not paying out rewards.