ipoints - what do you spend yours on?

slonik

Hi, I've built up about 8,000 ipoints and am wondering what to spend them on, and would appreciate your tips on what rewards represent best value.

So far I've found
- £30 vouchers from M&S etc for 8,300 points (£1 = 277 points)
- £30 leisure vouchers for 6,050 points (£1 = 202 points, so better value but these aren't valid at many good places as far as I can see)
- £10 Odeon voucher for 2,000 points (£1 = 200 points, but these aren't valid in any central London cinemas where we live)
- books from Amazon (seems to be approx £1 = 240 points if you assume postage is free)
- case ofwine from Laithwaites 8,700 points (£1 = 156 points, so seems the best value but then I could probably get much nicer wine for less with some cunning Tesco deals).

pabenny

Nothing - because ipoints are pants.

Vouchers are the most useful reward - or if you don't have enough points, 2150 will get you a CD for up to £10 from 101cd.

ipoints is one of the crappiest cashback sites out there:
- The earnings rates are poor - for example shopping at Boots earns you 5 points per £1 spent - less than 2%, whereas rpoints would give you 3% and quidco 4%.

- you've got to earn a lot of points before you can get anything worthwhile back

- the value of points is devalued from time to time and the number you need to redeem increased. (It used to be able to get a £10 amazon or M&S voucher for about 215 points (2150 on the new scale). Now you need to accumulate nearly 4 times as many but you only get three times the voucher value.

- you can't get your rewards as cash.

cdodd

i am having the same debate with myself as OP between boots vouchers and leisure vouchers although leisure vouchers are apparently "scaling down" so i don't know how much longer they will be valid however a "free" meal at pizza hut always goes down well !