Iceland bonus card Xmas offer: top up £100 get £120 to spend

Stuart_W

The Iceland Bonus Card Christmas bonus is back.

Top up an iceland bonus card with a total of £100 by 3rd November.
An extra £15 bonus will be added by 24th November
The usual £5 bonus will be added (£1 for every £20 saved) too - always about 3 to 4 minutes after toppping up in my experience, but they say allow 24 hours.
You have until 24th December to spend the extra bonus.
The promotional bonus is always spent first off the card so one shop will do it.
Works online or instore or a mix of the two for both tops ups and spend.
The total £100 top up can be in little bits between now and 3rd Nov or one lump.
Iceland bonus card works as a payment method so can be combined with other promotional discounts such as 10% pensioner discount or online offer codes.
As the bonus card can be topped with a credit card (online or instore) offer can be combined with an interest free credit card so you get the bonus but don't actually pay in advance. I have just got the HSBC purchase card (20 months 0% purchases) with £28 quidco cashback. Previous used past iceland bonus card offers with M&S and Sainsburys Bank 0% credit cards.  
You don't need to have spent all the credit by christmas - just the £15 bonus. If you topped up £100 today, spent £20 on Christmas eve, you would still have £100 left on the card to spend next year if you wanted. Works more like a gift card than a traditional loyalty card in that sense, any balance remains active from 24 months after last use - not last top up - so there is no real time limit in that respect. Even if you just pop in to iceland every few months for milk and nothing else it will keep working. Can also use via the app in store, don't need phyisical card if that floats your boat. Also works fine online only if you never go near a store. 
Also - if you shop online go via quido for an extra 1% or sometimes 2% - still works if you pay with a bonus card, but does't work anymore for bonus card top ups to get it twice (it used to!!)
Think that's everything covered!

fatbelly

Thanks for this. It's £20 of free stuff from Iceland. Not to be sniffed at

Rosa_Damascena

fatbelly said:

Thanks for this. It's £20 of free stuff from Iceland. Not to be sniffed at

I don't see what Iceland has going for it. Its piled choc-high with UPF (which we knew to be rubbish before the term was coined) and crucially is now no longer cheap. It might have a few good offers in the run up to Christmas but I would struggle to spend £10 there much less £120. Yet Richard Walker's media profile would suggest his brand is virtuous.

To each their own.

molerat

Also find them expensive for most things.  Only worth it by topping up the card with £20 to get the £1 added and using my 10% oldies discount then being selective on what I am buying.  Also, despite Richard Walker's claims, their customer service is abysmal.  Raised an issue in June over a simple failure that could have been sorted in store if the supervisor could have been bothered and finally got it sorted in Sept after contacting the CEO

thriftytracey

I had a wander around Iceland the other day and was pretty shocked at the huge amount of ultra processed food on offer.  £20 is not to be sniffed at but I believe Tesco are doing the same offer.

iggyboo

Does there have to be £100 total by the date or can you have added £100 within the offer period but have already spent some? So since the offer came out I know I have added £100 but then did a shop and spent some so no longer £100 on there? Thanks

MSE_James

I got an email confirming I'd added enough to my account to qualify.

(NB as mentioned in another thread the cut-off date has been put back to 6 November)

Vaux

Do you just flash the digital card at the scanner in store to use the credit, or is it more complicated than that? 

MSE_James

Yes - at a staffed checkout tell the cashier that you want to redeem your savings (ideally before they press the button for a credit/debit card payment).

(My branch has done away with the optical scanners on the customer side, so you may have to hand your phone to the cashier)

You can also spend Bonus Card savings at self-service tills if your store has these.

MSE_James

My £15 bonus has now been added 

fatbelly

MSE_James said:

My £15 bonus has now been added 

Well done James. Make sure you spend it by 23 Dec

I've no idea why people are sniffy about Iceland. I use it weekly for eggs and milk (at 10% over-60s discount) and take advantage of their offers, e.g they are currently doing packs of Quorn mince at £1.25