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How to find out if you're owed a refund: Paribus



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How to find out if you're owed a refund: Paribus

I just come across Paribus by a friend who recommended it to me. The way it works is, it scans your emails and looks for receipts from big online retailer stores like Amazon or Target etc. Then it compares the price you paid with the current price of it. If there has been a price drop on that product since you purchased it, you then get a refund.

It's free to sign up to Paribus, you have to give it access to your emails obviously. Then they look out for price reductions on any thing you have purchased from their selected merchants and retailers. Then when there is a price drop, Paribus will contact the store for you and get a refund for you. Apparently.

If they are successful in getting you a refund, they do keep 25% as a "success fee". But you get to keep the rest obviously including the item you actually purchased. Again, "apparently".

Their merchants include giants like Amazon, BestBuy, Newegg, Staples, Target, Bloomingdales, Gap, Walmart, Macy's, Apple and several other merchants.

And you'll have to check out their terms of service. Although the strange thing is, their TOS page doesn't load for me in Firefox. Maybe it's just a browser bug I don't know but I'd really like to see their terms of service and find out more about how they work.

Has anyone here used Paribus before?

Do you know of any similar services like Paribus?

Thanks!

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Lynne
That sounds a little suspicious to me to be honest Mike. If I got contacted by Paribus when I had my online store telling me I have to refund people because I am now having a sale or I have maybe dropped my prices for some reason I would have told them to stick it.

Surely an online store can drop their prices? Imagine going down to your grocery store and insisting they refund you for items that are cheaper than they were when you bought them.

I don't follow how this can be right?



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Cristian
I never heard of such service, sound very wearied. Of course prices will drop, they drop all the time. Just look at the price of a brand new iphone 7 now and compare it with the price the same phone will have 2 years from now, it would probably be half of what the price is now.
That means everyone that bought at the original prices should be refunded?

Paribus it surely bets on some kind of fine print in Amazon's terms of services, I bet you can ask for the refund yourself without Paribus's help, but I still don't fully understand what are the terms of getting a refund in the first place.



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