Freebie Successes by Letter / Email - What have you recieved? (merged)

COrd

I'm a student so I love a freebie! Having read some of this thread I've realised how easy it is to get a few freebies from companies just by sending them a small email of commendation! I tried it out yesterday and have already had some small success...
Emailed options saying how much I liked their hazelnut hot chocolate, they replied and said they'd send me some samples of their new range this morning
Emailed Douwe Egberts this morning commending them on one of their coffee blends, hopefully will receive a reply soon, fingers crossed!
Emailed Muller complaining that their cherry yoghurts were not very cherryish, we'll see what happens with that one

ocemeer

Just sent two genuine complaints - 1 ref quorn suasage rolls -really vile and the other some snack a jack thing that didnt taste quite right, we shall see. Much prefere sending compliments to companies though dont seem to get anythign but a thankyou oh well.

wushyboo

Zazzle wrote: »

I complained about my Cadbury Creme egg as it was all chocolate, no Creme and recieved a £2 voucher in the post. Hopefully they accept it at Poundland where a box of 3 eggs is only £1. 6 eggs for the price of 1!

I've also had great sucess with sample requests recently and have pretty much recieved stuff in the post everyday recently. The best companies I have found so far include L'Occatiane, Monu, Green People and Elemis. I used to subscribe to Glossybox but have been trying to cut down on my spending so there was a sample shaped hole in my life that has now been filled thanks to a few emails.

A box of 6 creme eggs in asda are £2!!!

junkiefree

Zazzle wrote: »

I complained about my Cadbury Creme egg as it was all chocolate, no Creme and recieved a £2 voucher in the post. Hopefully they accept it at Poundland where a box of 3 eggs is only £1. 6 eggs for the price of 1!

I've also had great sucess with sample requests recently and have pretty much recieved stuff in the post everyday recently. The best companies I have found so far include L'Occatiane, Monu, Green People and Elemis. I used to subscribe to Glossybox but have been trying to cut down on my spending so there was a sample shaped hole in my life that has now been filled thanks to a few emails.

A box of 6 is £1.52 in sainsburys!!!!

junkiefree

Had an email saying £3 of vouchers from gu are on there way, a pedometer from tesco, senadone toothpaste, full sized garnier hand cream, a free book from
Reed.co.uk, £3 Cadbury voucher, £5 tesco mail rewards voucher

epiclastsong

COrd wrote: »

I'm a student so I love a freebie! Having read some of this thread I've realised how easy it is to get a few freebies from companies just by sending them a small email of commendation! I tried it out yesterday and have already had some small success...
Emailed options saying how much I liked their hazelnut hot chocolate, they replied and said they'd send me some samples of their new range this morning
Emailed Douwe Egberts this morning commending them on one of their coffee blends, hopefully will receive a reply soon, fingers crossed!
Emailed Muller complaining that their cherry yoghurts were not very cherryish, we'll see what happens with that one

Im a student aswell and Ive gone mad sending complaints and compliments! I emailed pringles and told them their s&v pringles tasted horrible and Im getting a voucher in the post. Waiting on replies from boots, starbucks and walkers :P

COrd

epiclastsong wrote: »

Im a student aswell and Ive gone mad sending complaints and compliments! I emailed pringles and told them their s&v pringles tasted horrible and Im getting a voucher in the post. Waiting on replies from boots, starbucks and walkers :P

Let me know how you get on with that since my last post I've had my options hot choc samples and a lovely little bag full of samples from l'occitane - they really went overboard! So I'm very pleased with that! Also had samples from elemis and a £5 voucher from garnier!
Still awaiting reply from Muller about a complaint - bit disappointed that I've not had a response yet but I'm hoping they're writing to me instead of replying to my email! Has anyone else written to Muller and had problems hearing back?

kittywight

wrote to fox's (emailed on sunday) to say how much i enjoyed their products

got 4 x £1 vouchers through letterbox this morning

bunnywunny

emailed tesco to say that my 2 year old trampoline had a leg snapped off the net in the wind and they sent me a brand new one as a gesture of good will
new one 120£ and old one 75£ so good deal

dipashah

I wrote to Sacla to tell them how much I love the Dallagio sauces (bought with coupons few months ago), and they sent me £3 coupons in the post. I thought that was the end of it - but I got an email the other day to say I had won the competition of consumer email of the month so they were sending me a surprise in the post....an italian recipe book arrived yesterday! Wonderful and more than I ever expected! And all their responses have been personalised rather than just a generic template. They have def gained themselves a loyal customer in me!