Free Vouchers To Start Again

mhendo

Spending anything over £100 will get you just 1x £10 gift card.

best thing to do is buy the sofa in one transaction, use the £10 voucher from that and buy the microwave for £59 and still receive a £5 voucher for spending over £50

Johntea

Do this

Ask to purchase £420 of gift vouchers in 4 seperate transactions (Tell them to process £105 of gift vouchers/gift card each time). Assuming they haven't changed the T&C from last time you will then get £40 of gift vouchers from doing that.

Then use the gift vouchers you have just purchased to buy the items, put those through seperate too (so get them to do the settee, and then once a receipt has been done for that get the microwave). £15 more vouchers.

If I've worked it out correctly you should end up with your items plus around £55 of free gift vouchers by the end of the whole thing to spend whenever you want (Technically you can use some of them to pay for the items but I'm going to confuse myself if I start going on about how to do that!).

But be prepared for the cashier to say "No" or get really annoyed with you (Best going in at a quiet time). And make sure you thank them!

janthemum

Last year when this offer was on I ordered a dining table and chairs for about £140, I ordered it on line; i was given a delivery date and sent £10 in vouchers, but then cancelled my order, and didnt ask for vouchers back. I thought they may send an SAE for me to return them but they didnt.....so I spent them, I feel a bit gulity now.:o

Mack_3

Right

I've read through the t+c now and its changed somewhat;

The gift vouchers are only going to be valid untill June, and the cashier will be prompted automatically when the sale is over £50/£100.

You can no longer buy giftcards to claim your free voucher, the till will state to issue one, but the briefing for staff clearly states that under no circumstances should it be issued, the staff are instucted to press cancel, so if you want to try your luck you best hope for a dopey cashier that doesn't realise.

Also one key change is the additon that the stores can choose to withdraw the offer at anytime, basically if they think you are trying it on they can turn round and say right your not having any free vouchers, sorry. Its no longer a god given right.

Whatever the hell you do, don't buy your items off quickpay, the process for issuing that is mental, only supervisors will be able to issue giftcards for transactions from quick pay, by a drawn out process on the tills only accessable with the relevant key. .

The same applies with transactions as usual, the staff won't break them up for you but the company have no issues, with multiple tansactions, as long as you sort it yourself.

Thats the main points, the same thing applies for refunds you have to give the gift card back, or the refund will be deducted £5/£10.

SomeGuy_2

Just to clear two things up:

Mack wrote:

You can no longer buy giftcards to claim your free voucher, the till will state to issue one, but the briefing for staff clearly states that under no circumstances should it be issued, the staff are instucted to press cancel, so if you want to try your luck you best hope for a dopey cashier that doesn't realise.

You can buy £100/£50 pounds worth of EGC and claim a free tenner/fiver promo ECG so long as your method of payment is not: Paper Argos gift vouchers, Argos Electronic Gift card/s or Argos promotional vouchers. Everything else should be fine.

HOWEVER the T&C's now state if Argos think you're trying to exploit our goodwill we can withdraw the offer... So yes, you can still try to exploit the loophole but it's going to be more hit and miss as to if you'll get any success.

Mack wrote:

Thats the main points, the same thing applies for refunds you have to give the gift card back, or the refund will be deducted £5/£10.

Just to point out that if you get a refund because of a faulty item you do not have to return the EGC or take a reduction in the amount refund.

Oh, and for the love of GOD don't try and claim a gift card through "Quickpay" unless you have oddles of time to kill...

SomeGuy.

Johntea

I would rather try it on for the extra £10 I can gain from doing it...

Ethical question for those who actually work at Argos:
Would YOU tell me to !!!!!! off if I tried the little trick mentioned

SomeGuy_2

It would really depend on my mood. All the T&C's say is that we have the right to refuse not that we must refuse, so I guess it depends on how subtle you are when you go about it.

I'll do one lot of £100 EGC's per customer most likely, but no more.

SomeGuy.

Johntea

Another tip from the Johntea "How to get as much as possible out of the gift voucher promotion" book

If your store has the order slips with the 20p charity tickbox at the bottom, make sure you tick it if your purchase is £49.99 or £99.99. Then you get a free £5 voucher and a free £10 voucher respectively.

And you support charity too. A few MSE'rs giving 20p and the charity will be millionaires before you know it!

Make sure you point out the fact you have opted to give the donation as the staff seem to think it is invisible most of the time!

cazzy6208

i usually agree to break transactions up for customers so they can get more than one free voucher (or if its a regular and i like em i might very occasionally suggest it lol if theyre spending loads). but it depends on if they just ask, or if they tell me to do it as if i have to (y'know..in that way that some people do!)

as for the 20p charity thing, i always ask the customer if it was actually them that ticked the box, because on more than one occasion we've had kids in going round ticking it on all the selection forms!

the other thing a lot of people do to get the price up to £50 or £100 (a lot of em here dont like giving to charity cuz they get nothing out of it) is they buy an extra for their itmes..such as batteries, scart lead for stuff like set top boxes, or blank dvd's for dvd recorders etc.

pavlovs_dog

light bulbs are another cheap but useful way to push you over the min. spend limit