Tesco Anti-wombling - New Policy

llol_slim

Perez wrote: »

At the end of the day, whether it's legal or not to actively look for receipts that others have dropped and claim back the points, it's a bit skanky isn't it?

as VeryTrying said, passing judgement on different people..

Let me put this to you:

I think I have my maths wrong here, but the theory is there.
Someone spent £250 in tescos, thats 250 points, worth (i think) £40 in deals (say for a meal in a restaurant).
The charity i work for, the weekly spend in tescos is around £500 (paid in cash) imagine picking that reciept up.

Still feel skanky?

How about a scratchcard on the floor? Scratched off with £40 on it? Would you feel skanky picking that up, or would you feel lucky? One of my friends recently picked up a scratchcard with £500 on, found it in the street. No joke. He didn't feel skanky, nor did we call him skanky.. we called him a lucky something!!

withabix

llol_slim wrote: »

Someone spent £250 in tescos, thats 250 points, worth (i think) £40 in deals

Your maths is a little bit optimistic there!

£250 spend = 250 points = £2.50 to spend in Tesco or £10 in Deals

We have approx 22000 points this quarter so far = £880 IN DEALS

NONE WOMBLED. BUT I HAVEN'T SPENT £22000 IN TESCO EITHER!

If Tesco actually managed their car parks better, collecting trolleys, taking baskets back to the door and picking up the rubbish in the car park there would be no wombling.

So, do Tesco solve the problem by keeping their car park tidy? No, they penalise the wombles who do it for them. Seems rather unreasonalbe to me.

dmg24

I imagine that it would be classed as 'obtaining property by deception', with the property being the points awarded (property does not need to be tangible).

I did wonder about it coming under 'obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception', but this has much narrower criteria.

CCCele

I wonder if they will do something similar with the online discount codes they offer. After all, these are often issued to specific people rather than to the general public. Using one that has not been given to you is no different to using someone else's receipt.

Stompydebs

i consider it RECYCLING,, lol!

VeryTrying_2

dmg24 wrote: »

I imagine that it would be classed as 'obtaining property by deception', with the property being the points awarded (property does not need to be tangible).

Agreed. This definition would most probably also apply to those who use discount codes which haven't been issued to them personally by the supplier. It's very much a case of where, personally, one draws the line - until, that is, Tesco choose to take somebody to court over it!

Edit: Oops, sorry CCC - you type faster than I think. Still, great minds think alike!

g_attrill

dmg24 wrote: »

I imagine that it would be classed as 'obtaining property by deception', with the property being the points awarded (property does not need to be tangible).

I did wonder about it coming under 'obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception', but this has much narrower criteria.

I agree with this - although it does come down to the wording of the terms and conditions about retrospective points, although I suspect they would say something like "You may claim points for your previous purchases on production of your receipt".

Also if you walked up to Customer Service and said "Can I have the points for these? I found them in the basket as usual" there is clearly no deception involved. To cover this, they could just get their staff to ask "Were these your purchases sir/madam?" every time.

Agent_C

I have never wombled, but once I was in the queue behind a woman who had just spent £350 and didn't have a clubcard, so she turned round and asked if I had one! :j

£3.50 worth of vouchers = £14 in deals - went nicely towards the Eurostar tickets I'm saving up for. The SA didn't seem to mind. I didn't feel skanky, just lucky!

beetplek

I always pick up disgarded reciepts, the ones with barcodes on get taken to the CS till and I ask them to put them on the cluncard, i never say that the reciept is mine, nor the clubcard. And the reciepts without barcodes are ones I put in the bin. Everyone wins.

dmg24

beetplek wrote: »

I always pick up disgarded reciepts, the ones with barcodes on get taken to the CS till and I ask them to put them on the cluncard, i never say that the reciept is mine, nor the clubcard. And the reciepts without barcodes are ones I put in the bin. Everyone wins.

By handing over the receipt and asking them to put them on your card, you are implying that you bought the goods, and there is clearly intent there. It is a criminal act.

Not sure whether I agree with it or not, but the law seems pretty clear on the topic.