John Lewis Card £40 in points offer

Stuart_W

I received an email offering me the John Lewis credit card with a £40 points offer, £20 for signing up and £20 for at least 3 shops in Waitrose of £50 or more in the first 60 days. No idea if this is a personalised offer or generally available.

I am far from a regular Waitrose shopper, but presumably I can use the card to separately make 3 x £50 gift card purchases in Waitrose and the offer will still work because the credit card will just see three transactions at Waitrose won't it?

Did something similar with the Sainsbury's Credit Card a while back for £80 in Nectar points. 

Any JL credit card holders tried this?

elsien

There’s normally some terms and conditions saying what you can or can’t spend the money on. Is there no link to those on the email? 

Brie

likely to be the usual something like "not valid on gift cards, tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets, stamps or baby formula".

why they always include baby formula is a mystery to me.  maybe it discourages more natural feeding?  Can't imagine it matters that much as baby's need to eat something and whether it's directly to the baby or via the mother who cares.

WillPS

Brie said:

likely to be the usual something like "not valid on gift cards, tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets, stamps or baby formula".

How would NewDay know what you've purchased? They only see where you've spent/purchased, not what you've purchased. Rewards are normally conditional on merchant or MCC.

Brie said:

why they always include baby formula is a mystery to me.  maybe it discourages more natural feeding?  Can't imagine it matters that much as baby's need to eat something and whether it's directly to the baby or via the mother who cares.

Because it's illegal to promote it: https://www.babymilkaction.org/ukrules-pt2a

Stuart_W

WillPS said:
How would NewDay know what you've purchased? They only see where you've spent/purchased, not what you've purchased. Rewards are normally conditional on merchant or MCC.

This is my take and there is no reference in the T&Cs, I just need to "spend £50 or more in three separate transactions" so I can't see why the gift voucher plan wouldn't work. Just interested to know if anyone else has actually done this or if there is any secret skulduggery that prevents this.

I will report back on here if I experience issues.

elsien

Regardless, whether you’re getting a bargain again or not, If you don’t shop in Waitrose that often do you really want £150 worth of gift cards?
Only buy them if you would spend them anyway. 

Dazed_and_C0nfused

elsien said:

Regardless, whether you’re getting a bargain again or not, If you don’t shop in Waitrose that often do you really want £150 worth of gift cards?
Only buy them if you would spend them anyway. 

Pretty sure the gift cards being purchased wouldn't be for Waitrose.

Like most supermarkets these days they no doubt sell gift cards useable at a large range of other organisations.

Stuart_W

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

Pretty sure the gift cards being purchased wouldn't be for Waitrose.

Like most supermarkets these days they no doubt sell gift cards useable at a large range of other organisations.

Got it in one there. Will be spending the gift vouchers in Argos not Waitrose. The free vouchers I get will then be used for Christmas presents at John Lewis.

WillPS

One fly in the oinkment - do Waitrose sell third party branded gift cards? I can't remember seeing them before and I do tend to keep an eye out for them for exactly these sorts of opportunities. That said, I only have a Little Waitrose nearby.

Waitrose will certainly sell gift cards which can be used at John Lewis tho.

Stuart_W

WillPS said:

One fly in the oinkment - do Waitrose sell third party branded gift cards? I can't remember seeing them before and I do tend to keep an eye out for them for exactly these sorts of opportunities. That said, I only have a Little Waitrose nearby.

Waitrose will certainly sell gift cards which can be used at John Lewis tho.

Yes, I have a history of buying gift cards in my local Waitrose. It's a way to get free parking in my local town centre, a £10 spend in Waitrose gets a refund on the parking ticket. Buying a gift card works for this, and is better value than actually shopping in Waitrose! I'm not sure it is in the spirit of the car park refund scheme, but it works (for now!). Do exactly the same in Sainsbury's in a neighbouring town.

Gerry1

Buying Royal Mail stamps can also trigger spending thresholds, although I'm not sure that Waitrose sell them.