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How many accounts can you have with online shopping firms?

I have read on here how people make so many different email accounts to sign up to Asda/Tesco etc to take advantage of their introductory offers such as free delivery.

My question is, is there a limit to how many accounts you can set up? Can they ask for the saved money back?

I notice Tesco are doing a free £10 off £50 shop to new customers, could you sign up three/four times for example and use this offer or can they track it or cancel orders?

Thanks

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  • Some people have had there fingers burnt in the past when they were given a discount they were not entitled too, its called fraud. They may be a disclaimer ie one account per household for example or new customers only
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,649 Forumite
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    edited 19 October 2011 at 5:48PM
    The discounts you get can only be used once or thats the theory anyway so its possible its 1 account per houshold. If you have a relative then you could use they're address to create a new account and use a secound valid discount. Ive never tried it though.
  • cambermam
    cambermam Posts: 787 Forumite
    ironman1 wrote: »
    I notice Tesco are doing a free £10 off £50 shop to new customers, could you sign up three/four times for example and use this offer or can they track it or cancel orders?
    I've done this a (ahem) 'few' times. I was even cheeky enough to ring up and ask them to put my clubcard points altogether. They did.

    I had about 12 accounts in total, some were grocery, some were clothing, some were entertainment.
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