Free Mars Bar (merge)

Kazzajr

rachel.jones88 wrote: »

does it take any credit from you when they text you??

Taken from shopandscan website

*Standard network rates apply to send texts and all texts and offers received from SHOP SCAN SAVE are FREE of charge.

mcroodi

Im interested in this - but whats the catch?.. am I right in thinking that we only pay for the text if we take up a particular offer by taking the phone into the shop and scanning it? Apologies for sounding dumb.

Does anyone know roughly how many texts they send you in a month? Are the offers all food related?

mcroodi

Right.. ive found the answer to my own question.. just read the FAQ section of shopscansave.:rolleyes:

thepearce

thepearce wrote: »

Yep.

http://www.shopscansave.com/how_to_use.htm

I think the trick will be finding a participating store who knows anything about it. I'll find out this avo.

So far, it's as bad as I expected. Tried 4 paypoint shops and none of them knew anything about it. Somerfield gave it a scan and then shouted for a supervisor......so I left.

cwp500

thepearce wrote: »

So far, it's as bad as I expected. Tried 4 paypoint shops and none of them knew anything about it. Somerfield gave it a scan and then shouted for a supervisor......so I left.

dont believe it will be totally free. there will be some sort of subsidiary charges somewhere at some time.

BritBrat

thepearce wrote: »

So far, it's as bad as I expected. Tried 4 paypoint shops and none of them knew anything about it. Somerfield gave it a scan and then shouted for a supervisor......so I left.

So who eat the MARS bar?

chris5668

Okay, after 5 shop visits and a phone call to ShopScanSave I finally managed to get my free mars bar!
(and will be going back tomorrow with my family's mobiles)

Before scanning your mobile voucher the marchant needs to prime the yellow paypoint machine, they should do this with a barcode they were sent by ShopScanSave but none of the shops I visited had any idea about the scheme let alone which barcode to use.


If this is the case get them to press the 'TV Licence and other' button on the paypoint machine.
This should bring up a menu with a 'ShopScanSave' option, get them to press it. The merchant may need to type in a store pin number or personal authorisation code.
The machine should now be primed to accept ShopScanSave vouchers.

Now when they scan your barcode from your phone (or enter the number just below it on the text message) and then scan the Mars bar a receipt should print. When this receipt prints the retailer has just been paid by ShopScanSave and you can get your free Mars bar!!!!

So it's not quite as easy as the advert shows but hey, a freebie is a freebie and this is a great use for all your old sims

Hope this helps!!!

Love the site btw,

Chris

liam191

chris5668 wrote: »

Okay, after 5 shop visits and a phone call to ShopScanSave I finally managed to get my free mars bar!
(and will be going back tomorrow with my family's mobiles)

Before scanning your mobile voucher the marchant needs to prime the yellow paypoint machine, they should do this with a barcode they were sent by ShopScanSave but none of the shops I visited had any idea about the scheme let alone which barcode to use.


If this is the case get them to press the 'TV Licence and other' button on the paypoint machine.
This should bring up a menu with a 'ShopScanSave' option, get them to press it. The merchant may need to type in a store pin number or personal authorisation code.
The machine should now be primed to accept ShopScanSave vouchers.

Now when they scan your barcode from your phone (or enter the number just below it on the text message) and then scan the Mars bar a receipt should print. When this receipt prints the retailer has just been paid by ShopScanSave and you can get your free Mars bar!!!!

So it's not quite as easy as the advert shows but hey, a freebie is a freebie and this is a great use for all your old sims

Hope this helps!!!

Love the site btw,

Chris

lol...that was a great read, i'll try in my local shop in Chester 2moz...the ppl behind the counter are old so they prob dont even know what a mobile phone is so it doesn't look promising....lol

liam191

It works a treat, the lady even knew how to use it, scanning the phone didnt work but entering it my personal number under it did!!! woop woop!!

ShopScanSave_Company_Representative

Hi all,

Martin's Money have pointed me towards this thread in the hope that I can answer some of your questions and concerns.

Apologies to anyone who has had difficulties in redeeming their Free Mars Bar or any of the other offers available this week.

SHOP SCAN SAVE and PayPoint have worked tirelessly to educate retailers and all 15,000+ retailers were sent training packs explaining the service and how it works. It has come to out attention that some of these packs did not arrive or were not read by the correct member of staff. We have a rapidly increasing 32,000 members, so this appears to be a minority of stores.
We are doing our best to visit all the stores personally and over 2000 London stores have been manually trained and the rest of the UK is being worked on.

Please let us know ([EMAIL="customerservices@shopscansave.com"]customerservices@shopscansave.com[/EMAIL]) if you have visited a store which would not accept your mobile voucher, along with its name and address and we will speak to the store and train them as quickly as possible to allow you to redeem. If you prefer, let us know beforehand visit and we will pre-empt your visit with a training call.

In the meantime details of how to redeem for the retailer can be viewed at
http://www.shopscansave.com/How_to_complete.htm

In summary - feel free to print the short instructions below which the retailer can use to redeem.

To redeem a SHOP SCAN SAVE mobile voucher:

1. Press FIRST TIME TV LICENCE AND OTHER
2. Press SHOP SCAN SAVE
3. Press OFFER REDEMPTION
4. Scan or manually enter the customers mobile barcode ID
5. Scan the products on offer
6. Press ENTER
7. Press CONFIRM

The terminal will then dial the server to check the validity of the offer and print a voucher showing the amount to discount. 5-6 seconds.

The retailer should be aware that they should keep this for their records and that PayPoint will reimburse this amount straight into their account. It is viewable on the Z Report etc.

Thank you for your understanding and we do apologise for any inconvenience some of you have encountered.

Feel free to e-mail [EMAIL="customerservices@shopscansave.com"]customerservices@shopscansave.com[/EMAIL] or text 62111 with any other feedback. :T

Andrew Gradus
Retail Services
SHOP SCAN SAVE

P.S.
On joining you will receive 3-4 texts shoing your personal barcode and offers.
Following this you should receive 2-3 text messages every 3 weeks or so
You are NEVER charged for receiving these messages and can opt out at any time.

Get saving now
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