Play £5 vouchers updates

golfyboy

previous thread had "run its course" ???

where do some peoiple get off? This is a current, live issue and some pranny just shuts it down, For what reason exactly?

Get a life and let people discuss what they want they feel is of relevance to the subject of saving money, vouchers etc.

Hrrmph!

monkeyjug

!!!! I am going to email them and see what they say

the*dark*one

I ordered 9 items yesterday around 1pm, out of those, 5 have been posted today and the remaining 4 are still ‘processing’.

7 items were over £10 (4 posted)
1 item was over £20 (posted)
1 was £4.99 (posted)

:beer:

edit: make that 6 posted now

dervish

This is what PLAY are doing:

They are authorising any order where the £5 voucher does not make up more than a third of the value of the product.

You will notice that the high valued products are being shipped while those people going for freebies or only expecting to pay a quid or so are still waiting.

|As for the previous thread being closed - do you really think this topic shows us or this site in the best light possible? CYou cant blame management of this site to be alittle concerned with some peoples' actions...

monkeyjug

Frogling wrote:

Are you sure they have actually taken the money out, and haven't just requested the money be held by your bank or credit card company? I've had this happen before where a company have 'reserved' the full amount of money for an order from my account, but then have only taken the discounted amount out. Does that make sense?

How would I know whether the money is on hold because the actual amounts have been taken off my balance?

abijanzo

I wonder if it isnt just the sheer volume of orders they recieved yesterday that is holding things up at the processing stage.

abijanzo

dervish wrote:

This is what PLAY are doing:

They are authorising any order where the £5 voucher does not make up more than a third of the value of the product.

You will notice that the high valued products are being shipped while those people going for freebies or only expecting to pay a quid or so are still waiting.

|As for the previous thread being closed - do you really think this topic shows us or this site in the best light possible? CYou cant blame management of this site to be alittle concerned with some peoples' actions...

This simply cant be the case as I have said I have had 5 orders posted all for less than £5 so £0 to pay. Nice theory though. I dont think that MSE is being put in a bad light because of this...I think the previous thread was just prone to going off topic and the moderator was just tidying up.

kool-mumma

dervish wrote:

This is what PLAY are doing:

They are authorising any order where the £5 voucher does not make up more than a third of the value of the product.

..

I disagree, it is random.

Some people have had many free items sent out while others are waiting for items to be dispatched that had a balance to pay.

As for me I have had one item dispatched with £7.99 balance to pay. The other seven, three of which required no money, have not been dispatched and the account is "Suspended".

It seems to be more like the luck of the draw

pippa_h

dervish wrote:

This is what PLAY are doing:

They are authorising any order where the £5 voucher does not make up more than a third of the value of the product.

You will notice that the high valued products are being shipped while those people going for freebies or only expecting to pay a quid or so are still waiting.

|As for the previous thread being closed - do you really think this topic shows us or this site in the best light possible? CYou cant blame management of this site to be alittle concerned with some peoples' actions...

This is not true for me. It was mainly the higher cost items that were cancelled.

Karnam

Here is my situation. I applied for one genuine code which was emailed to me and then saw the 'universal' codes on the mse forums on Wednesday night. I ordered most of my things Wednesday night at around midnight, before the codes were spread across other forums on Thursday afternoon. I let a few people know about this and yes they ordered things too. I attempted to do the MS thing but asking myself if I would buy the things if they were at full price, before I bought anything. I hope my info helps others, as you have all helped me!

on my first usual play.com account which I've had since 03
I ordered 10 things. 8/10 of these had a balance to pay but this was nominal and tiny ranging from 49p to 19.99. I used 9 'universal' codes and one unique code that I recieved myself. Half of these orders were posted today according to my email, however when logged into play.com it still says 'processing'. I'm not too worried about this as I figure the website simply needs to catch up, maybe its the xBox360 launch slowing things down. The money has yet to leave my bank account but the amount has been 'reserved' ie. play.com have applied to HSBC for the money, although it needs a few more days to go through. One of my 'processing' and not yet posted items is Martin's Money Diet book, which I'm concerned about as surely it wouldn't be in the 'processing' ie. dispatch stage before it's release date? Another of my 'processing' but not yet dispatched yet items is Risk - Star Wars Edition which is out of stock. Again this is processing but surely it wouldn't be processed until they had more stock in?

on my second brand new play.com account made to abuse this promotion
I made 5 orders on this account. 4/5 of these had a balance to pay but this was v v small as these were all books for uni, so the prices to pay ranged from 0 to 2.49. I used 5 universal codes on this account. According to my email 3/5 of these have been posted today, although when logged onto the play.com website they still say 'processing'. Again I'm not too worried as I figure the website just needs to be updated by the stock room people. I'm not sure if the money has left my account or not as my credit card can't be checked online (stupid halifax online banking!!)