wombling in tesco - what's safe

Morty_007

vincenz wrote: »

Have got to admit, wombling is taking money saving too far, and it has degraded the kids TV program, sort of like freddy and AIDS

Oh !!!!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Discodee

Oh Mark for goodness sake mate, lighten up. I've tried to lighten the mood here but you seem so uptight about it. You sure you don't work for tesco?

This world we live in is getting scarier by the day. I worry about what my kids are growing up to be part of. I worry about what sort of partners they will bring home. I worry about what dangers they'll encounter when they start going out alone. I worry about alcohol, drugs, boys pressurising my daughter for sex. I worry how they will ever afford to buy their first home. I worry about all the pollution they have to breathe in day in day out. I worry about the state of our NHS, how on earth there'll be room to treat us soon with the influx of immigrants and I despair at the yob culture in Britain today where decent people are frightened to intervene in an argument for fear of being stabbed to death, pensioners are mugged and raped, paedophiles roam the streets and drug addicts will rob their mother blind, never mind anyone else.


So please, don't get so upset about people picking up a few clubcard points. It'll be stopped sometime soon anyway so I am making the most of it while I can. Don't let it worry you. If you want to crusade about something, do something worthwhile. I mean I wish I could get mobile phones banned and people who drive short journeys and leave their car engines running when their car is stationary fined heftily. But that's cos my kids are breathing in all the cra* day in day out. Crusade against that. It'd be helping children out. That's worthwhile.

Discodee

vincenz wrote: »

Have got to admit, wombling is taking money saving too far, and it has degraded the kids TV program, sort of like freddy and AIDS

Oh wibbly wombles, I went to press the quote button to put PMSL, and I hit the thanks button by mistake! :rotfl: :eek:

Discodee

So I try a little Freddie

I've gone identity mad


I could be brown I could be blue I could be violet and sky.....

diamond_dave

Last week I picked up a 5p off a litre of petrol voucher which had been left in my trolley and I used it when I bought petrol. Was I a wombler? I dont think so. And for all those people who are complaining about these Womblers, why do they think that using the Daily Mail book voucher is any different? Please dont be a hypocrite.

Triker

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

Both of these posts demonstrate that you don't understate how the Clubcard scheme (or any loyalty scheme) works.

The receipts don't have any value. The receipts aren't like "bearer bonds" which have value for anyone who happens to scavenge them. The receipts are merely evidence of the transaction that the customer involves has undertaken.

Tesco don't give away points when they issue a receipt. They give away money or goods or services when the points are redeemed.

The idea that points are "floating around" ready to be claimed by womblers is rubbish. Points only exist when they've been added to a clubcard account.

So wombling involves stealing money (in the form of discounts/goods/services) from Tesco. It's that simple.

Points do NOT belong to the person who paid for the goods. They belong to Tesco unless they are claimed by the Clubcard holder who spent the money. They are not transferable to your friend/your bin man/your wombler.

Ok because you said so, I won't do it anymore.:rolleyes:;):D......promise.:p

MarkyMarkD

Let me be clear. I don't care if people womble or not, apart from wanting them to recognise that they are defrauding Tesco and therefore it's wrong.

I don't work for Tesco or any other supermarket for that matter.

I'd prefer the Clubcard scheme to continue as a benefit to legitimate customers, and it's a shame if the scheme gets diluted or tightened up because of wombling-type activities.

Coupon-mad

on 31.3.08

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

I've said what I want to say on this thread. quote]


Have you quite finished now?:D

The only point I would be interested in hearing your response to, would be whether you think the person who used the Petrol money-off slip they found was also 'defrauding' Tesco?

To me there is no difference, it's all OK if these bits of paper have been discarded, unless they are points coupons with a surname/individual details on which are a bit more dodgy for others to use (BTW they will work with any clubcard).

elisamoose

Staff and customers at a store who saw someone collecting other peoples reciepts might think they are looking for credit card details etc and might take it further .It is one thing to explain to this board why you do it but quite another to have to talk to the police !

Discodee

I found one in a trolley the other week for 25 points when you buy bread with someone's name on it and use it! lol. I also do a lot of swaps on our forum for points coupons with names on and so far have used plenty no probs. (Fingers crossed)
A muslim friend of mine who doesn't drink sends me her wine ones, which is great too.

And last yr I was standing at customer service putting wombled poitns ob when the woman in front of me flashed a 400 points when you buy children's stuff at me and asked "Do you have children, can you use this?"
Do bears poo poo in the woods Mrs??? The CS woman said, Oh you can't use it if it has her name on it.
I quickly took it, smiled sweetly and said, oh well, i'll try anyway. LOL