Tis the season to be wombling - Tesco & Sainsbury's

maemaesmummy

jo132000 wrote: »

But i'm confused....cause when i've been shopping with my flatmates, i'm the only one with a clubcard so they put their points on my card....surely this receipt thing is the same?

No if that happens it just looks like you have shopped in store with your cc...

you take someone elses receipt to cs (especially if you have already used you cc in store) and it will flag it up...

There are loadsa legit ways to amas huge amounts of points without wombling.

I average 40,000 (£1600 in deals) per 1/4 and never womble... just not worth the risk IMHO

Hizz

Sainsbury's don't appear to be as shrewd with nectar points.

At BP filling station's, if you have a bunkered fuel card (buying fuel at cheaper rate) you are not entitled to get nectar points and when swiped your nectar card does not get points added.

However, most assistants will add the points manually if you ask nicely. It's at the discretion of the filling station owner. These stations are audited for points though!

Points added manually do not qualify for coupon benefits ie. double points on your next X visits to BP.

Then again, nectar points don't carry the same value as CC points.

dervish

Hizz wrote: »

With high value Christmas spends at Tesco and Sainsbury's, picked up (literally) a couple of till receipts from the floor where the purchaser didn't collect their points. Took them to Customer Services and got over 250 points added to my card.

Always worth looking through the trolleys outside!

Public service this, collecting disgarded rubbish;)

Keep Tesco and Sainsbury's tidy;)

How many times must we go over this........?

IT is DISHONEST and maybe even theft...

TGM

Why is it dishonest?

Theft! thats just rubbish...

Hizz

dervish wrote: »

How many times must we go over this........?

IT is DISHONEST and maybe even theft...

Not that I do but is it a similar kind of theft and dishonesty to removing items from your local household waste collection centre, making use of things that others disgarded and saving them from going to landfill?

When I go to the local 'tip' I've always thought it strange that they keep the TV's, computers, Dyson vacuum cleaners etc. separate. Why is this you wonder - it's because they sell them. There are companies that have contracts to pay £5 each for Dyson vac's that are then refurbished and sold at markets, car boots sales in shops etc for upwards of £65.

I've seen signs at the 'tip' where it says that removing items is illegal and could be classed as theft but I don't see a sign saying that your rubbish can be sold. Have you?

I realise that most household waste collection centres are operated by private companies but surely, they must be being paid by the local authority council for refuse services (coming out of our taxes). isn't this profiteering and being paid twice to then sell on the waste?

I appreciate that skip companies operate in this manner by sorting rubbish to be sold...but local authorities allowing it to happen without your consent?

It appears akin to picking up a disgarded receipt within Tesco or Sainsbury's and having the points added to your card!

Debate continues!

TGM

Its quite simple, theft is to take something without payment or consent (loosely).

When you take a few odd points on a receipt to the CS desk, the CSA gives you them on your card. Therefore you are not taking without consent.

Secondly I simply don't buy into Tescos all singing and dancing super duper computer system that flags up 'receipt and club card abusers'. Of course unless you are hammering it for 1000s per week. IMO this is just myth and scaremongering to keep the customers in line as it were.

If a customer has had his/her card taken from them, just for a few points off some feral receipts blowing around the car park. It not because of the system, its through a Jonny Jobsworth Tesco employee who has made it their mission to chase it up.

Secondly the Copper who was busted for club card fraud a year or two back. He was A) self scanning fraudulently feeding the machine blank pieces of paper C) He stuck bar codes onto his key fob so he could scan quickly

Even then he racked up enough points in Airmiles to do London to New York half a dozen times before anything was done. And better still, Tesco has still the same computer system in place because it would have cost too much to change.

The moral of the story is, if you shove a few extras on your card, from one or two feral receipts you'll never get wrong unless A) you get greedy or bump into a jobsworth.

dickieg

Just reading through this thread and people saying its theft by having other peoples points put on their card are probably right, but the people who they are robbing off surely would not object to them having the points as they themselves have broken the law by dropping litter, which can carry a big fine if caught probably costing them more than their points give away

fuzzgun19

maemaesmummy wrote: »

I average 40,000 (£1600 in deals) per 1/4 and never womble...

You must spend a hell of alot then!!

I'm lucky if I reach 3000 points per quarter!

And that's WITH wombling.

barmonkey

maemaesmummy wrote: »

The Security at Ts moniter the trolley and car park area and cashpoints for people picking up receipts and takin into CS

in our store you are lucky if you see the lazy git get off his stool let alone go outside to the car park

Coupon-mad

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

You must spend a hell of alot then!!

I'm lucky if I reach 3000 points per quarter!

And that's WITH wombling.

Those of us that accumulate that many points (and there are quite a few people who do I'm sure) probably spend less than most of the rest of you.

The trick is - put simply - to exploit any extra points opportunities to the max, for a start, and maybe paying part of your bill each time with Money off Coupons as well. So no, we don't actually spend a lot and don't need to womble.

When I used to womble quite a bit, I got one of the warning letters once 'we've noticed a high number of manual points adjustments, please phone us, do you have a problem with your cc' etc... I didn't phone them of course!:D

Now I only womble when I find a biggie (over 50 points) and make sure I put the points on a card that I DIDN'T use at a till the same day as the date on the receipt. Check your own receipts to make sure you don't make this mistake with the date - it's pretty obvious otherwise that you've not forgotten your card that day - oh and my other advice would be don't get the same points added twice, and don't bother with small amounts.

dervish.....please get a life..........Merry Christmas womblers!!!:T