Tesco vouchers (is this a scam?)

katypetal

Hi, apologies if this has been mentioned before.Yesterday my boyfriend went to do some food shopping at our local Tesco's, he was standing behind a woman who had at least £50's worth of shopping, she handed over a load of vouchers and her shopping came to £3.50!!He enquired with this lady and she said all she had done was print off some vouchers online, she said it doesn't matter if your buying the item the vouchers is for as long as the store stocks it you get the discount???I thought nothing of it but a guy I work with came into work saying he just purchased £60's worth of stuff at tescos used some vouchers and only paid 50p!! Has anybody else heard this? apparently some people are seliing these vouchers too!

nilrs

yes i have heard of this i think over on the discount codes board at the top there is a thread with printable discount vouchers/codes. and if memory serves me right it is all over on there.

kim

scottishchick27

I sometimes use a voucher to pay for shopping even if I haven't bought the item. Nowhere I shop would take all that vouchers though, the maximum is usually 10% of your total shop.

ralphy

i've spent 20 minutes waiting behind someone once in tesco paying for their shopping with vouchers, they had about £93 worth of shopping and she bought out a clear plastic wallet full of vouchers and proceeded to use them all to pay for it... her final total to pay was about £6!!!!!!

i couldn't believe it, i spoke to the checkout guy and he said you can use any vouchers to get money off your shopping even if you don't buy the actual product, so ever since i've been collecting every voucher i can get my hands on and using it to pay for my shopping!!!!

i've seen a few people doing the same

jenniewb

depends where you shop- at my local Tescos, they check every voucher with each product- they also call over the manager if your using more then one coupon. Becomes a pain when everyone in the queue has a voucher of some sort!

Some Tesocs are like that, others are more lax, but if the store are unable to get their money back on the vouchers that are handed in, they will change the way they accept them and if they accept them. Its otherwise known as voucher abuse.

Some stores I have heard only accept one or two vouchers per person.

Good2go_2

surely this is illegal ??? sounds very much like fraud/obtaining property by deception to me ???

FloFlo

jenniewb wrote: »

depends where you shop- at my local Tescos, they check every voucher with each product- they also call over the manager if your using more then one coupon. Becomes a pain when everyone in the queue has a voucher of some sort!

Some Tesocs are like that, others are more lax, but if the store are unable to get their money back on the vouchers that are handed in, they will change the way they accept them and if they accept them. Its otherwise known as voucher abuse.

Some stores I have heard only accept one or two vouchers per person.[/QUOTE]

Then they need to be retrained, Tesco policy is that they accept 2 coupons the same for each product you actually buy and one of each coupon if you haven't bought the item.

This is a nationwide Tesco policy that head office will confirm if contact them, but as ever some store staff make up their own rules.

Before anyone discusses my shopping habits I don't use money off coupons.

~~Diane~~

I don't use coupons anymore and when I did I only used them if I bought the item. I had £5 off a box of soap powder once that was sent from the company, the till girl would not take it and called the duty manager over and she said no, it was clear I had bought the soap powder, the box was big enough. I phoned head office when I got home and explained what had happened, they apologised and said the voucher should have been taken considering I had bought the product and sent me £10 off my next shop.

The shop was Asda by the way

bargainlover08

I use vouchers and was told by customer services in my local Tesco that they will accept up to a third of the value of your shopping in vouchers for items you have not bought. The rule seems to vary between stores, some will accept more and some will only accept 2 coupons.

Mrs_Thrify

Gosh, I am going to try this next time I visit Mr. T ' s.

h007

julie_d wrote: »

Gosh, I am going to try this next time I visit Mr. T ' s.

lol me too!!!!