Amazon has made a huge change to a popular freebie scheme – and shoppers are furious

AMAZON is making a immense alteration to a fashionable freebie strategy and shoppers person been near furious by the decision.

The online retail elephantine runs a shopper sheet that rewards radical with money disconnected successful speech for details astir their purchases.

Shoppers tin taxable pictures of their receipts from rival shops via the dedicated Amazon Shopper Panel app.

There's besides a accidental to gain further rewards each period for completing surveys and for enabling advertisement verification.

As it stands, customers gain £5 each period to walk connected Amazon if they upload a full of 10 receipts.

But from time (November 1), shoppers volition alternatively gain 10p for each receipt that they upload, with the maximum they tin gain inactive being capped astatine £5.

While shoppers tin present gain currency for conscionable 1 upload, they present person to upload a whopping 50 receipt pictures to get the maximum reward.

Panellists were alerted to the alteration via a notification successful the app.

It read: "You volition gain a 10p reward for each approved receipt that you upload - nary much receipt minimum and you tin inactive gain £5 per month.

"Receipt rewards volition beryllium periodically updated."

A screenshot of the alteration was shared connected the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group.

Shoppers rushed to remark and stock their vexation astatine the change.

One said: "Oh well, it was bully portion it lasted."

Another social media idiosyncratic wrote: "That receipt ideas is rubbish."

While a 3rd cried: "Pfft I’m not bothering with that anymore then."

Meanwhile, user expert Martyn James told The Sun: "Major retailers similar Amazon are hoping that our absorption connected the upcoming Black Friday income volition distract us arsenic they chopped successful to a fewer miserly discounts.

"But during the cost of living crisis, immoderate effort astatine penny pinching is going to spell down badly."

The Sun has contacted Amazon for comment.

How does the Amazon shopper sheet work?

The Amazon shopper sheet is an opt-in and invitation.

t is lone unfastened to a constricted fig of Amazon customers, who person to registry their involvement and articulation an waiting list.

One you person a notification, customers tin download the app from the app store oregon the Google play store.

To articulation the waiting list, you volition besides request to download the app and you volition beryllium sent an email erstwhile you tin join.

As good arsenic uploading receipts to gain cash, users tin besides instrumentality portion successful surveys and alteration advertisement verification for other rewards.

The magnitude you tin gain per survey varies, but you volition beryllium capable to spot however overmuch you tin gain earlier you instrumentality part.

Enrolling successful advertisement verification - allowing Amazon to spot the ads that look connected your telephone - tin gain you £2 per month.

If you determine the app isn't for you, you tin halt utilizing it anytime.

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