£140 of Virgin wine for just £60 - special combined offer

stormCat99

Hi,

Virgin Wines have a 'WineBank' where you put £20 per month into an 'account' and each 3 months they top up with £20, so you get £80 for £60. Not amazing really as you can get £20 Virgin Wine vouchers anywhere.

However, there was an offer in yesterday's Times, where you get a £40 Virgin Wines voucher (to spend by 28th June) if you sign up to the WineBank, meaning for £60 (3 months at £20 that you pay in), you get the £20 they top the WineBank up with plus £40 voucher, so £120 for £60 of your own money.

It gets better. I followed the link from The Times (www.virginwines.com/40times), and it asked me to put in the voucher details for the £40 (as I can't post vouchers on here, I've put details on the Vouchers forum here). I couldn't see how you sign up to the WineBank though, so I went back to the homepage and on the right hand side is an offer - sign up to WineBank and get £20 credited now, then pay in your £60 over 3 months, and then get the usual £20 credited to your account.

So I have now signed up to WineBank, and for just £60 of my own money, I will end up with £140 to spend on wine which I think is pretty good

Hope all that makes sense, it's hard to explain properly! Don't forget 10% cashback if you go via Egg (although not sure that will apply to the voucher portion of your spend?)

thomasbentley_2

would not let me use times voucher with wine bank voucher?
tb

stormCat99

Just an update on this. I got the £40 voucher and £20 WineBank credit as per the above, but then logged out and went in via the Egg cashback link. At that point the £40 voucher disappeared and I only had £20 credit...so I started again with a new account, but this time once I had the £60 credit, I completed my order on the same screen and it worked ok.

I suspect that the 10% Egg cashback is only on any actual cash you spend anyway, so the voucher part of the spend won't qualify, so you're not losing much.

scottgreenwood

Regarding egg card - t and c

"12.10 Customers with an Egg credit card who normally receive cashback for placing orders will not be entitled to any cashback for orders bought partially or wholly using WineBank balance, and the collection of monthly payments will also not generate cashback. "

??

stormCat99

Looks like they've got themselves well covered there then!