Comparison

GreatCanadianRebates vs Rakuten

GreatCanadianRebates and Rakuten both land on Depends.

GreatCanadianRebates

Depends

Confidence: Medium

A free Canadian cashback portal worth adding as a secondary channel, not your primary . users report missed payouts and account closures.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Join if you shop online often and can shrug off occasional missed tracking . it's free and often pays.

GreatCanadianRebates versus Rakuten
Compare	GreatCanadianRebates	Rakuten
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Canadian online shoppers	Frequent online shoppers at big chains
Who it's not for	Anyone depending on cashback as reliable income	Anyone who needs cash back to reliably track . it often doesn't
Privacy	No confirmed breach in reviewed sources; one Reddit thread questions a possible hack, and BBB shows no accreditation.^⁵	2021 US breach notice on file; recent CVEs hit sibling products (Viber, Kobo, Send Anywhere), not the cash-back portal itself.
Support quality	Complaint pages and social apologies; unresolved cashback claims	Multiple complaints about disputes and slow resolution.
Public sentiment	Bloggers praise the free coupon-plus-cashback stacking, but Redditors repeatedly report missing cashback and account closures.^¹	Longtime users report reliable payouts, but a loud minority complains about slow, missed, or disputed cash back.
Biggest gotcha	Missing cashback is the recurring Reddit complaint . track every transaction and file claims^²	Cash back can take months to pay and sometimes never tracks; the top complaint across review sites.¹⁵