12 Free Bottles of Wine loophole with Smile

thepearce

I've just received an email from smile (I'm already a customer of 6 years). It seems they are repeating the previous offer whereby if an existing customer recommends a friend then both customers, new and old, will get 12 bottles of wine free (apart from the £4.99 delivery charge).

If, after reading the posts in this thread, and reading all the terms, you are interested in the offer I'll happily forward you the email (first 3 people) if you PM me. I know MSE doesn't encourage / permit some swapping (of info) between MSErs but this is just an email....if for this reason, or any other this post is not allowed then Mods.....fire away and feel free to remove it.

Though I wouldn't be able to offer you anything in return (problems swapping details) I would be happy to donate some money to a charity of your choice and email you a receipt.

I think this is ok but happy to ammend / remove if it's not.

Hello MR <snip>
Recommend a friend to smile by forwarding the below e-mail onto them, and both you and your friend will get 12 bottles of wine each if they go on to open a smile current account by 16th December 2005 +

It's easy too, you can recommend up to 3 friends (meaning you could make up to 36 bottles of wine) by forwarding the below message onto your friends, not forgetting to mention how great it is to be a smile customer.

Thanks
smile

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Your friend has sent you this e-mail to you because they don't want you to miss out on the great rates and award winning customer service that they get with their on-line bank, smile.

Not only that, but they thought you'd be interested in getting 12 bottles of wine!

Basically, if you open a current account with smile by 16th December 2005, then both you and your friend that sent you this e-mail will get 12 bottles of wine each †.

To make sure you get your wine, you'll need to enter your special offer code when you apply: <snip>

Visit http://friends.smile.co.uk now to apply by 16th December 2005 – it's easy peasy.

And just in case you were wondering what else you might be missing out on with your current bank:

3.3% AER (3.25% gross) on every penny when you're in credit
£500 fee-free overdraft, to help out when you need it
a dedicated team to make switching simple and hassle-free
24/7 control over your account
the only on-line bank with an ethical policy.
You don't have to take our word for it either, since a massive 93% of our customers would recommend us to their friends! *

Thanks
smile

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The legal bit

AER (Annual Equivalent Rate): the rate equivalent to having your interest paid and compounded on an annual basis. EAR is the equivalent annual rate. Gross is the rate of interest payable before income tax is deducted. Interest is calculated daily and paid into your smile accounts monthly. Interest rates are variable and correct as at 01/10/05. Credit facilities are provided by The Co-operative Bank p.l.c. (Registered No. 990937) of P.O. Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP, are subject to status and are not available to non-UK residents or anyone under 18 years of age. We reserve the right to decline any application.

As part of the The Co-operative Bank, smile is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (121885), subscribes to the Banking Code and is a member of the Financial Ombudsman Service and Office of Fair Trading (006110)

+ wine offer terms and conditions

smile recommend a friend wine promotion ends 16th December 2005. All current account applications must be applied for by 16th December 2005. Wine qualification upon first credit transaction of £1500 minimum by 31st January 2006. Wine redemption code will be dispatched by no later than 14th February 2006. A delivery charge of £4.99 is payable upon order of wine. This offer is only available to customer who are residents in the UK. This offer is not open to previous or existing customers of smile. This offer excludes CIS and Co-operative Bank staff. smile has the right to withdraw the offer at any time.

* Nunwood customer research, October 2004.

This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee and is strictly confidential. If you are not the addressee, please do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any of its attachments. Instead please email it back to the sender and delete the message from your computer. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free and The Co-operative Bank accepts no liability for changes made to this e-mail (and any attachments) after it was sent or for viruses arising as a result of this e-mail transmission. Any unauthorised reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. The Co-operative Bank may intercept any e-mail or other communication which you send to or receive from smile via the Bank's telecommunications systems for certain permitted lawful purposes. By so corresponding you also give your consent to Bank monitoring and recording of any correspondence using these systems. The Co-operative Bank p.l.c. is registered in England and Wales, number 990937. The registered office is at PO Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP.

At smile we want to give you the opportunity to choose how you'd like to be contacted by smile. To change your preferences, visit http://preferences.smile.co.uk/unsubscribe.aspx

purplepatch

thepearce wrote:

I've just received an email from smile (I'm already a customer of 6 years). It seems they are repeating the previous offer whereby if an existing customer recommends a friend then both customers, new and old, will get 12 bottles of wine free (apart from the £4.99 delivery charge).

I've got that email too today, and that's after my husband applied for an account last week to get the 12 bottles!!

I've emailed them pointing out that I've already recommended someone and quoted the code and asked if there's any chance I can have some wine too.

Won't hold my breath though.

chalkybear

Ditto about the repeat offer. 36 for the account holder if they get 3 people to open an account and 12 for each person who opens an account.

Still can't persuade my wife to open one.

Quite happy to forward the email to anyone who wants it if that's allowed.

Anyone with a conscience out there? Take a look at who your bank does business with!

Sorry, that's my own version of shameless marketing!

Glug, glug! :beer:

catlady

So, I completed the application, transferred £1500, have received pin number, cheque card and cheque book, but no mention has been made anywhere (apart from the first page of the Smile form) of free wine!
Have I done something wrong, or has anyone else found this to be the case?

erb

catlady

Look at the terms and conditions of the wine offer at the bottom the page HERE. You will get a voucher for the wine by the 28 Feb o6:j .

nixie_2

£4.99 for 12 bottles of wine sounds a bargain to me, seeing as you're lucky to get one decent bottle for that in the shops - I can't believe anyone is moaning about it!!

Now, enough moaning ... on to my main point. If anyone is seriously thinking of changing bank accounts I would recommend Smile. I have just opened an account with them as I was fed up with my high-street bank charging me the earth. I decided to look into an internet bank and chose Smile as the best of the bunch (the free wine helped of course, and I'll be saving a lot more than £4.99 in bank charges!!!!). I hardly ever have any money in my account after all the bills come out, so a lower interest rate isn't really an issue with me as I only get about 1p a month if i'm lucky anyway!

They deal with everything for you, including transferring all your direct debits etc, within a couple of weeks. My previous bank wouldn't do that for me when I opened their account and I got in a right old mess changing everything for myself.

catlady

erb wrote:

catlady

Look at the terms and conditions of the wine offer at the bottom the page HERE. You will get a voucher for the wine by the 28 Feb o6:j .

Thanks Erb, I had seen that but was just concerned that there was no mention of the wine in any correspondence.

purplepatch

nixie wrote:

£4.99 for 12 bottles of wine sounds a bargain to me, seeing as you're lucky to get one decent bottle for that in the shops - I can't believe anyone is moaning about it!!

Now, enough moaning ... on to my main point. If anyone is seriously thinking of changing bank accounts I would recommend Smile. I have just opened an account with them as I was fed up with my high-street bank charging me the earth. I decided to look into an internet bank and chose Smile as the best of the bunch (the free wine helped of course, and I'll be saving a lot more than £4.99 in bank charges!!!!). I hardly ever have any money in my account after all the bills come out, so a lower interest rate isn't really an issue with me as I only get about 1p a month if i'm lucky anyway!

They deal with everything for you, including transferring all your direct debits etc, within a couple of weeks. My previous bank wouldn't do that for me when I opened their account and I got in a right old mess changing everything for myself.

Nixie - when you send a secure message to Smile how long does it usually take them to reply? I (well, husband did typed by me!) sent one on Monday and again on Wednesday, and still no response. Chased again today. Starting to annoy me slightly as other banks I use respond withing 24 hours. I sent an email to the general contact us email address and got a terse one line email sent back saying that they will respond as soon as they are able!!

nixie_2

purplepatch wrote:

Nixie - when you send a secure message to Smile how long does it usually take them to reply? I (well, husband did typed by me!) sent one on Monday and again on Wednesday, and still no response. Chased again today. Starting to annoy me slightly as other banks I use respond withing 24 hours. I sent an email to the general contact us email address and got a terse one line email sent back saying that they will respond as soon as they are able!!

I've only had to send one message so far, but I got a reply the next day. Thy were also very helpful and friendly when I called them this morning, which makes a change from my previous banks.

Spinner

Has anyone received their wine yet, and is it any good?