Get lots of nectar points fast

NectarCollector

Edit: Turning this thread into a blog of how and where I collect my nectar points, just to show they build up faster than you might think. - Note I do not own a car, nearly all of my points come from a weekly sainsbury's shop or from shopping online via nectar.com/eshops or other sites that a nectar card can be registered to.

Working in a nectar point giving petrol station, I very often hear from some customers that "nectar points aren't worth anything".
Whilst individually 1 point is normally worth the equivalent of £0.005 (or 0.5p), people are most often mistaken about the length of time it takes to accumulate a meaningful number of points and the amount of money needed to do so.

Deleted much of this 1st post as I recently found the MSE website relating to Nectar cards: I must have read it ages ago and forgotten! Please go there to find out more, I will simply use this top post as a summary of my Nectar point challenge.

from 9/1/16 I now have a 'focus project' eye tracking device for my pc which monitors where my eyes are looking at the screen, and therefore which adverts I am looking at more. 500 points for setting it up, and 1000 points a month for using it! All for just using my computer as normal.

Nectar balance summary: (will be updated every weekend after my weekly shop - online bonus point coupons used are included in the following week as they are not awarded at the till on day of purchase)

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Figures taken from my weekly Sainsbury's till receipt (Nectar point balance before weekly shop)
Week 0: 2721 nectar (£13.60) (total just before week 1 shop)
Week 1: 2765 nectar (£13.78)
Week 2: 3678 nectar (£18.39)
Week 2.5: 3693 nectar (£18.47)
Week 3: 4654 (£23.27)
Week 4: 4789 (£23.95)
Week 5: 6248 (£31.24) no shop this week, total taken from nectar website
Week 6: Hols
Week 7: Hols
Week 8: 9129 (£45.65) - see post as to why I gain 3000 points whilst I'm not even here!
Week 9:

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Example:

Sainsbury's recently sent out money off vouchers to nectar card holders, £4.50 or £6 off when you spend £30 or more (coupons individually dated for 5 consecutive weeks). If you normally spend this much and shop at Sainsbury's then that's £4.50 / £6 off a week right there. Also using all 5 coupons will give you a further 500 bonus points.
Lets face it, it's not hard to spend that much money in the last few weeks up to Christmas and New Year if you buy presents (DVD's / games etc) and alcohol!

Ok, so far we have spent the minimum of £30 and we get £6 off, and at least 600 bonus nectar points.
So far that's £24 for 630 nectar points (£3.15 in rewards)

Under normal circumstances (no vouchers used) It would take a spend of £63 to get that many nectar points!

***Tip: If you have a bonus nectar points coupon for an item and you see it in Sainsbury's reduced (because it's near the end of it's shelf life/damaged etc) you will still get the bonus points on the reduced item because Sainsbury's don't use generic price reduction stickers, they print out reduction stickers specific to a product.

630 points... That isn't including the bonus points for items that I selected via mycoupons that I would've brought anyway: bacon +40 points, mini chicken fillets +60 points, duck crown +150 points (not an everyday purchase, but after seeing the coupon suddenly decided to have duck for Christmas instead of turkey!)

Those 3 product specific coupons brings my total Nectar points up to a whopping 880 points (worth £4.40) for a single weeks food shopping spend of £24. Or just over 36 nectar points per £1 spent!
Oh and I almost forgot... by paying with my Sainsbury's credit card I get double points).
£44 spent,
910 nectar points total
worth £4.55!

After a year of similar spending/online coupons that's quite a sizeable fund to spend - but personally I wait until Nectar offers the chance to double up points for vouchers for days out/meals/store departments and use my nectar points to buy Christmas presents without spending any extra money at all!

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Week 2:

Spent 350 nectar on a code to claim a free drink at Caf! Nero next time I'm in town

+396 nectar: Shopped online at Argos last month, brought myself a PS4 on Black Friday for £199.99. Points just updated as statement date passed

+128 nectar: Brought train tickets from gwr.com where I have my nectar card registered.

New coupons loaded from mycoupons.sainsburys.co.uk ready for my weekly shop at the weekend

-£6 when spending over £30
-76p brand match
-£1 Clover printable voucher
+600 nectar when spending over £30
+50 nectar Curly Fries 750g
+40 nectar on Stuffing ( got to have some with xmas dinner)
+80 nectar Toffee Pecan Roulade 420g

Shop total = £35.80-£7.76 = £28.04 (35 points + 810 bonus)

(still waiting for +150 nectar coupon to validate from last week, website does warn it can take up to 10 days)

Previous Nectar Balance: 2765
Balance after shop: 3678
Bonus points to be added later +810

Week 2.5: Xmas alcohol shop! (no nectar points on spirits)
£28.20 spent

Previous Nectar Balance: 3678
Balance after shop: 3693
Bonus points to be added later +810

MarkFromCornwall

NectarCollector wrote: »

Whilst individually 1 point is normally worth the equivalent of 0.005p,

Don't you mean 0.5p ?

NectarCollector

MarkFromMullion wrote: »

Don't you mean 0.5p ?

ah, I worked it out in pounds, but the maths is still the essentially the same.

£0.005 or 0.5p

NectarCollector

Points awarded since last shop:
+4: BP
+141: sainsbury's credit card
+500: bonus points available via nectar website/app to employees registered with nectarvipcolleagues website (had to opt in to receive the bonus)
+2 BP
Online coupons:
+600 nectar when spending over £30
+50 nectar Curly Fries 750g
+40 nectar on Stuffing ( got to have some with xmas dinner)
+80 nectar Toffee Pecan Roulade 420g

Points spent:
-500: Argos offer on nectar app, spend 500 points to receive 1000 points later, brought 2 packs of chocolates for 50p + 500 points

Week 3 Points summary (1 mini shop + main shop)
Spent £4.70
+40 nectar in-store coupon
Previous Nectar Balance: 4608
Balance after shop: 4652

Spent £25.10 (after -£6 voucher + -£1 Covent garden soup voucher)
Previous Nectar Balance: 4654
Balance after shop: 4686

Bonus points not yet added to this weeks shop will be mentioned in next blog entry

PasturesNew

I don't spend enough in relevant places to ever accumulate more than £2.50/year. Then I struggle to spend them due to their restrictions, rules and criteria. e.g. tried to spend them once and got "this is not your home store" - no, I was 200 miles away trying to buy my mum an easter egg!

For most food I check the Sains price of it's much higher than other supermarkets and where I actually buy those goods .... Sains is my nearest supermarket, I go there once a month and spend £3-5 at a push. Pushed the boat out last week when I bought some fish in sauces at £2 on a jolly whim.

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PasturesNew wrote: »

I struggle to spend them due to their restrictions, rules and criteria. e.g. tried to spend them once and got "this is not your home store" - no, I was 200 miles away trying to buy my mum an easter egg!
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I believe that if you are not at your local store and you wish to spend points you can go to customer services and ask them to print a paper voucher out for the value of points you wish to use which will be accepted at the till

Websites which I shop at regularly to gain points:
Ebay (nectar card registered to account)
GWR (for train tickets - nectar card registered to account)

(shops via nectar.com/eshops link)
Argos (pay online, collect at store)
Rakuten
Game
Currys PC World
Justeat

There are also lots of others which I don't shop at

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Week 4

Points awarded since last week:
+3 eBay brought phone battery £3
+96 eBay (quadruple points nectar app/website promo) brought trenchcoat for Inspector Gadget costume £24
+4 (milk run)

week 4 shop summary
Spent £24.11 (After £6 voucher deducted), +33 nectar
Previous Nectar Balance: 4789
Balance after shop: 4822

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Week 5

Exciting news, about a month ago I applied for 'the focus project' today I received my eye tracking device for my PC and as a result of setting it up and completing the 1st excercise I will be awarded 500 points in around 4 weeks time. For using the eye tracking device regularly I should gain 1000 nectar points per month.

+2 BP
+2 BP
+2 BP
+29 BP
online vouchers used 2 weeks ago over Christmas finally got added to my total now Nectar are back at work!
+600 (£30 spend)
+60 Sainsburys homestyle chips
+40 Sainsburys mince pies
+50 Frozen Pizza (goodfellas thin margarita)
+60 (£30 spend)
+70 Corned Beef 6 slices

Week 5
Nectar Total (no shop): 6248

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Week 6



+500 Cant remember what this was for, but it's on my statement!
+500 for using all 5 vouchers sent to me in the post before xmas (£6 off £30 spend)
+1000 (think this was the reward for spending 500 points in Argos in December)

Week 6
Nectar Total (no shop): 8248

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Week 7

No shop this week

Credit card paid: 114 points

Nectar Total (no shop): 8362