tesco voucher use. HELP!!!!! (long)

Timmne

OP this isn't directed at you - he accepted them, you agreed. cool.

HOWEVER - I think this needs to be a bit of a warning to me and everyone else that we need to stop ourselves, even given the opportunity, spending OTT on coupons. We all do it, but there's going to be a point where Tesco get VERY tight and stop accepting them altogether.....

I think training is so bad sometimes though, some CA's will encourage you to keep handing the coupons over, without knowing they'll get severely rollocked afterwards (and they do, believe me!)

albacore1854

No different to handing over dodgy £20's if you ask me.

The cashier probably faced a miserable Christmas on the dole too.Not sure if they can dock wages for something like this.

Ultimately excessive coupon useage, Rnr's etc punish everyone, prices rise, and the loopholes get plugged, and we all end up worse off. Now if Mr T wants to start actively persuading all its low profit customers to go to the other supermarkets then fair play.

LittleBill

... scuse me for hijacking this thread ... but ZippyB' .... please empty your inbox .... it must look very untidy .... :^)

crocker

My question is,were you given the letter instore or was it posted to you?

Check to see if you have not mislaid some receipts from T.

I get singled out from time to time verbaly and lay low sometimes just visiting the store and buying nothing.On other occassions I go loaded with coupons and buy the product to see if I am being surveyed.

It not unknown for me to hang about and get noticed only to shop with coupons and catch them out when an employee challenges me.

Lay low.Use what you have in the pantry,shop at the small greengrocer,make a bun or two.

Time passes

rickshaw500

the letter was posted in a hand written envelope

can you explain what you mean by mislaid some reciepts?

sarahg1969

albacore1854 wrote:

No different to handing over dodgy £20's if you ask me.

Not at all. Counterfeit money is illegal. Presumably the vouchers that the OP handed over were the real thing? The SA made a mistake. No doubt he has been in trouble for that, and I really do sympathise with him. However, it is NOT the OP's fault.

He was not attempting to mislead the SA in any way. He simply offered to pay for his shopping by way of vouchers, which the SA (presumably wrongly) accepted.

Personally, I wouldn't have the balls to hand over so many vouchers, but if the SA accepted them, and indeed asked for them, then the OP has not defrauded, or attempted to defraud, anyone.

He has simply paid for his shopping with pieces of paper that have little monetary value.

DRAGON-SLAYER

As Tesco get their money back on manufacturer coupons I'm wondering whether these are Somerfield or Asda coupons, which I don't believe they get their money back on? As has been said they accepted the coupons therefore they've accepted your method of payment and you've done nothing wrong. However I can see a manager being annoyed if they're coupons they can't redeem.

If you don't plan on visiting the store again the near future then I would ignore the letter but if you do want to shop there again I would ring the store and ask why did the cashier say he'd accept all the coupons if that was against the store's policy. You could always ask a partner or a friend to ring on your behalf.

Don't panic, it's not fraud to hand over coupons as a method of payment.

sarahg1969

And if you DO want to agree to a meeting with the store manager, then why not suggest he comes to visit you, so you are on more confortable territory, and maybe have a friend with you?

albacore1854

fraud
–noun 1. deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.

sarahg1969

albacore1854 wrote:

fraud
–noun 1. deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.

Exactly. So where is the fraud in offering to pay for your shopping with vouchers? I really don't see where you are coming from.

Presumably, if you were handing over fake £20 notes, you wouldn't tell the SA they were fake? You would be passing them off as genuine? Now that WOULD be fraud.

However, the OP, as far as I know, has not either used fake vouchers or passed the vouchers off as something other than vouchers.