Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 3

davemorton

karlie88 wrote: »

Agreed. Just pointing out that there is a (small) element of ambiguity with this promotion.

Anyway, I'm going to break the ice...

...has anyone managed to do more than 5 transactions on the same debit/credit card?

Having caught up with over 1000 posts I noted that some of you did a maximum of 5 transactions a few days ago. Was that because your 6th attempt was unsuccessful?

Someone mentioned that you can do more than 5 i think. :cool:

pacifica9

karlie88 wrote: »

Agreed. Just pointing out that there is a (small) element of ambiguity with this promotion.

Anyway, I'm going to break the ice...

...has anyone managed to do more than 5 transactions on the same debit/credit card?

Having caught up with over 1000 posts I noted that some of you did a maximum of 5 transactions a few days ago. Was that because your 6th attempt was unsuccessful?

And correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't UK contract law state that any ambiguity should be seen in favour of the party that didn't write the contract?

michaels

Tried to switch leccy from oftm to Scottish power a week ago. Today got an email saying switch cancelled as SP do not recognise my current supplier. In the last week the cheapest fix has gone up by 150 quid. I know others have much greater challenges but I am annoyed

aau1

karlie88 wrote: »

Agreed. Just pointing out that there is a (small) element of ambiguity with this promotion.

Anyway, I'm going to break the ice...

...has anyone managed to do more than 5 transactions on the same debit/credit card?

Having caught up with over 1000 posts I noted that some of you did a maximum of 5 transactions a few days ago. Was that because your 6th attempt was unsuccessful?

I just did 5 per transaction so that it looked like I was booking weekly travel and incase the site crashed and I'd wasted time filling my basket

pacifica9

michaels wrote: »

So I can't see that buying items with the intention of returning them which is permitted under the store t&c which probably specifically say returns within x days for any reason are acceptable is fraudulent either?



The only thing I would note is that morally buying all these tickets may push prices up fro those who do need to travel on a service or in the extreme even prevent them buying a ticket or a train that eventually runs half empty.

You mean like all the trains I've been on recently where "we apologise that due to staff shortages there are no seat reservations in place today"

aau1

pacifica9 wrote: »

And correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't UK contract law state that any ambiguity should be seen in favour of the party that didn't write the contract?

There's not much ambiguity in this part of the contract you enter into when you register with their site:

All FirstGroup companies reserve the right to:

(a) withdraw at any time any Nectar points that were granted by FirstGroup:
(i) in the case of any fraudulent activity;
(ii) in error - as solely determined by Nectar and/or FirstGroup (for example if the Nectar logo was mistakenly displayed on the view item page of an excluded item);

They could still take everyone's points back :eek: but at least we can point to their own small print in the email now

davemorton

aau1 wrote: »

I just did 5 per transaction so that it looked like I was booking weekly travel and incase the site crashed and I'd wasted time filling my basket

That is soooo organised of you, I would not expect anything else. :beer:

pacifica9

davemorton wrote: »

That is soooo organised of you, I would not expect anything else. :beer:

I wouldn't be surprised if he was organised all the way to May. :rotfl:

aau1

pacifica9 wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if he was organised all the way to May. :rotfl:

Steady on! :eek:

karlie88

aau1 wrote: »

I just did 5 per transaction so that it looked like I was booking weekly travel and incase the site crashed and I'd wasted time filling my basket

Ah ok.

Just to inform others, when I tried a 6th transaction on the same card it wouldn't process. I also checked with my bank to see if a block had been put in place but they said no. They said and I quote: 'you seem to do a lot of small transactions - £2.50 at Boots, £5 at Superdrug, £3 at Wilko'. :rotfl:

Another credit card worked fine though on the Guinness site.

To the MSE team (if you're reading): the terms on Guinness state '1,000 Nectar points applies to all GWR Advance Single fares booked via link above' as highlighted in screenshots above. Just following terms of the promo...we're all :A:A:A