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

TGM

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

Now that's funny. Look out the store is getting emptied but never mind the has spotted Mrs pick a piece of in the

Hizz

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: TGM - good effort:beer:

maemaesmummy

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.

No I actually spend less than I ever have on supermarket shopping... with clever combining of points coupons I have paid £12 and come away with 5k in points on one shop (on several occassions)

I also use mocs to great effect...

maemaesmummy

TGM wrote: »

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.

You are right most peoples problems originate at store level for whatever reason... run in with cs, mocs, wombling whatever all it takes is someone there to flag it up with the security manager and hey presto... points gone..

I am not scaremongering it has happened to me and several other people too..

Ultimately everyone will do what they feel comfortable with and its great whilst you are getting away with it not so good when a points balance of over 12000 disapears overnight.

PrincessPinky_2

Just some advice, if you are doing this, only do it on receipts that are paid with cash, as if you get someones points on a receipt and they have paid with debit/credit card and lose or have the card stolen, all these actions are taken into account, when trying to find the loss of cards.
Just a kind word of advice!

Hizz

PrincessPinky wrote: »

Just some advice, if you are doing this, only do it on receipts that are paid with cash, as if you get someones points on a receipt and they have paid with debit/credit card and lose or have the card stolen, all these actions are taken into account, when trying to find the loss of cards.
Just a kind word of advice!

Appreciate that note. Not sure who'd follow it through though wouldn't imagine that the banks are permitted to have such information?

maemaesmummy

Somebody added pts on via a wombled receipt paid via a stolen credit card because they were linked to their cc all details were passed to the card issuer who inturn contacted the Police...

Not worth the trouble IMHO...

Hi Hizz....

You been over to PTS yet?

MMMxx

fuzzgun19

maemaesmummy wrote: »

No I actually spend less than I ever have on supermarket shopping... with clever combining of points coupons I have paid £12 and come away with 5k in points on one shop (on several occassions)

I also use mocs to great effect...

How the hell do you do that??

Please give me examples, as that seems Wayyy to good to be true!!!!

And what is mocs?

LittleVoice

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Money Off Coupons

scottishfreebiehunter

Had to put my tuppence worth in here.
Wombling has made me:D:Dnever heard or seen anyone doing it before though good on you if it works.
People are to busy to notice what others are doing and Fraud come off it the goods are all paid for and as been said they can always say no.
A friend of mine has no Tesco CC and gives all her reciepts to her mum for her card and been doing so for years so basically could class her as a wombler also.