Choice Vouchers Gone Bust - Spend Now

Tomthumb

Not much of a bargain here then!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/50-CHOICE-HIGH-ST-GIFT-VOUCHERS-FREE-POSTAGE_W0QQitemZ6601058986QQcategoryZ109197QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Snoopy_rules

I do surveys for a company called tns global who pay in choice vouchers. I have about £12 of them. Just contacted tns and if I return my vouchers with my details they will exchange them. They have even given me a freepost address.

rchddap1

Good news snoopy_rules. Still waiting for a response from IPSOS. Sigh.

Yorkielass

I've just checked my ipsos account as I ordered a £10 choice voucher recently. The points seem to have been added back to my points total and the choice vouchers have been taken off rewards - have emailed to check I have got the points back. Thanks for alerting me to this.

rchddap1

Just received an email from IPSOS saying that they are going through the accounts, cancelling the vouchers orders made in January and crediting the relevant number of points back.

elisebutt65

Which ones are these?? As I have a few Love 2Shop ones from GFK surveys?

Shiggaddi

I had actually put bids on ebay, to try and get these vouchers for less than the face value in the past

All my bids were always outbid as some people would pay 99% of the face value, but I still have £15 in my wallet which I had for a while.

I then had 4 e-mails from people all telling me that choice had gone bust, and not to bid on them.

I also seen that someone put a 1 day auction on ebay to sell some vouchers, put on a few hours after the announcement.

Also, some of the higher bids on the lots I was bidding on were retracted and I am now the high bidder on some of the lots. I have contacted the sellers of both lots, informing them that the voucher company has gone bust, and they're now worthless, and asked them if they would cancel my bid.

If they don't action my request, then I won't pay if I am the high bidder, as I informed them on the situation, and if they don't remove the auction, they're willingly selling goods that are worthless.

Anyway, with the pricewaterhouse announcement, it might be that someone will buy out the company and then start honouring the vouchers. Anyone who obtains vouchers in the meantime at vastly reduced prices would be taking a risk that they are buying something worthless, or it could be that they would be worth the face value at some point in the future.

The question to ask, is if a major customer of choice didn't pay their bill, has this same major customer not paid for high street vouchers, leisure vouchers and other multiple retailer vouchers!!

lushkat

Just been to Woolies and they are refusing to accept them

seekaywun

Farepak now has an announcement up about the situation with the Choice vouchers

http://www.farepak.co.uk/choicebulletin.asp

they are offering to replace all their customers Choice vouchers which is a load of my mind and probably many others too! Bought vouchers for Christmas and had planned to use the few left for slipping in birthday cards.. looks like it will be High Street ones now...

scoobylou_3

Wilkinsons not taking them now either