M&S Paper Gift Vouchers - very soon will be invalid

Stuart_W

As an incentive bonus with a savings product in 2013 I received £100 in paper M&S Gift vouchers (what everyone used to produce before Gift Cards were a thing). These paper vouchers are different to gift cards in that they have NO expiry date.

Finally got round to spending some of them this summer but still have one of the £25 paper vouchers left.

I was informed at the checkout that paper vouchers will no longer be accepted after 30th September 2025.

Having checked on their website, this does appear to be correct. Not sure if a retrospective expiry date can be added to something that didn't have one, but probably somewhere in the T&Cs they can do what they like.

M&S stopped issuing these in 2012 and partner promotions stopped soon afterwards (so I was already in the tail end of these when I got mine in 2013)

It's highly unlikely there are many of these left knocking around but worth anyone else being aware to spend or lose out. Before the deadline you can exchange for a gift card - which at least gives you 24 months to spend rather than a few weeks.

twopenny

Interesting.
I'm guessing (never wise 😉) that this doesn't apply to the points vouchers they send for expenditure with their credit card.
If so that's for the bin.

flaneurs_lobster

twopenny said:

Interesting.
I'm guessing (never wise 😉) that this doesn't apply to the points vouchers they send for expenditure with their credit card.
If so that's for the bin.

If it's preferable (and you have an M&S online account) you can opt to have your rewards paid digitally rather than a paper mailing.

Stuart_W

No, this is nothing to do with the reward vouchers, it is the gift vouchers that you used to be able to buy, that were replaced with gift cards. Not been on general sale from M&S since 2012.

Also offered as incentives and rewards for various things.

They look like this:


They will no longer be valid after 30th September 2025.

Doc_N

Stuart_W said:

As an incentive bonus with a savings product in 2013 I received £100 in paper M&S Gift vouchers (what everyone used to produce before Gift Cards were a thing). These paper vouchers are different to gift cards in that they have NO expiry date.

Finally got round to spending some of them this summer but still have one of the £25 paper vouchers left.

I was informed at the checkout that paper vouchers will no longer be accepted after 30th September 2025.

Having checked on their website, this does appear to be correct. Not sure if a retrospective expiry date can be added to something that didn't have one, but probably somewhere in the T&Cs they can do what they like.

M&S stopped issuing these in 2012 and partner promotions stopped soon afterwards (so I was already in the tail end of these when I got mine in 2013)

It's highly unlikely there are many of these left knocking around but worth anyone else being aware to spend or lose out. Before the deadline you can exchange for a gift card - which at least gives you 24 months to spend rather than a few weeks.

Thanks for that - very useful. Another opportunity to cheat customers!

frogthedog

twopenny said:

Interesting.
I'm guessing (never wise 😉) that this doesn't apply to the points vouchers they send for expenditure with their credit card.
If so that's for the bin.

just so you know these reward vouchers have an expire date printed on them. always best to make a mental note and use before it expires