Travelling On

rtandon27

We don't use the 2x either! - Too much plotting and planning required!:rotfl::rotfl: Well done for persevering KC! You are always so great at getting the most out of your freebie points! (Thinking SB & y0ug0v as well!)

I took out the net@rcredit card a couple of years ago & we put most of our everyday spending on it & then pay it off in full at the end of the month - gets us extra points & a couple of free grocery shops a year! (mostly because of my train fare!)

Gutted that they changed their petrol provider though as the closest one to us (also best prices) is the previous provider, so no more bonus points from that.:(

BP did however start up their own points program & today we got our first cash out - 5 pounds at @m@zon in just over 6 months - not as good a payout as nect@r which got us about 7 to 10 every 6 months but still something for our regular spending!

Karmacat

Thanks RT! It's the first time I've done this, actually, and I won't be doing it again - ending up with a kilo of my moisturiser is not what I wanted! I'll put it in the freezer, actually :rotfl:

I was left with a real sense of how manipulative it is: I'd have been prepared to buy a nice port, since you can have one glass and thats that. But ... the 75cl bottle was £9, and within the scheme but not enough to buy. The litre was £11, so I could use the voucher and pay £1, but it *wasn't* in the scheme. That level of cynical pricing just makes me explode they can e[STRIKE]xpletive deleted [/STRIKE] on their scheme. If I'd been working at some pressies like Cheery had, then that would've been fine, but I wasn't, and I didn't have many vouchers either. Sigh ... Back to using every £2.50 on pasta :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'm like you with the nectar points on the cc and pay off every month - sorry they've mucked you around with the petrol though, very distracting.

Cheery_Daff

Sorry to hear you had a faff with the double up event too! But I'm right vexed about your Nivea moisturizer- that exact same thing is one of the things they made me take out because they said it didn't count!! :eek: :rotfl:

I likely won't be doing it again either. For us it meant a 'free' £60 and as I hadn't done any Christmas shopping it was worth it to get me started. But the range of stuff was really quite limited, and mostly not really what we would have bought given free reign. Not complaining as it's done half my Chrostmas shopping!! But yes, definitely a faff and I'll likely start spending points on normal stuff now. We only had so many as we've literally never spent any before :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Also as it happens, we also ended up with a bottle of port - but what I'd actually been trying to buy was a gift set with several mini bottles in (that a member of staff scanned for me and said was 'very probably' in the scheme). That cost £5, but when they eventually worked out it didn't count we ended up replacing it with an actual bottle and having to pay the extra as we were then over the voucher amount. By that point I'd been at the till for half an hour and had 3 members of staff and I couldn't be bothered swapping anything else and just wanted to leave! : o

Karmacat

Poor you, Cheery! With that number of points, you had a *lot* of options - but as you've described, that means ages and ages to figure things out. Since I only had £10 *after* I'd doubled up, my options were limited. Sorry to have got the Nivea moisturiser! It was described as "soft" - I buy basic Nivea when I buy it, but I was losing the will to live. I have you to thank for me even trying it, since I remembered you saying about it


Totally agree about how limited the range is - it doesn't look it when you read out the categories, but there's detailed specifics each time that narrow it down. I think they've done themselves a disservice with this promotion - and if I get a survey, I'll tell them. No holds barred this time :rotfl:

themadvix

Oh dear I managed to buy what I wanted (and some small chocolates) - but I did keep asking members of staff if it would work and they kept giving me weird looks! And I saw that port set Cheery - it should definitely have been in the offer - it was sat with the Christmas gifts! :mad:

Karma, I'd never think of keeping something like moisturiser in the freezer - what a good idea!

I'm not sure I'd bother again with the N3ctar stuff because it was so stressful (and calculations were necessary), but at least I got what I needed from it.

Karmacat

I'm glad you did, madvix - happily I think all of us are at the stage when we can choose what offers we do, and scrap the ones that don't bring us joy (or some such ) and this one ticks those boxes.


Right - its "pack the computer" time see you all later!

greent

I double up £10 to £20 and bought some socks for me, PJs for DD and a Xmas-sy (reduced) candle - I didn't double it up until I'd found something I wanted. I, too, however, spent far too much time on it!

Karmacat

Hi greent - yes, I'd forgotten that, stuff like bedsocks was a possibility, but I have a million (my mum's, actually!). This wasn't actually a particularly good time of year for me to do it, either - might be different in summer, or even spring. Interesting that it took you ages as well!

Well, here I am in grey and rainy London ... one cat has retired to my bedroom, the other hasn't moved from the armchair where she spent the night they take such a lot of looking after :rotfl: not :rotfl:


I have iplayer, Amazon TV and Netflix at my disposal, as well as the whole of London - off to play for a bit now.

themadvix

They may not take much looking after but the peace of mind your being there offers for their human parents is invaluable (she says as a neurotic house cat owner, currently being climbed all over by needy cats!)