'You can get double value on your points at Sainsburys,' Husband said yesterday morning just as I was about to go shopping.
I looked at him blankly.
'You can convert some of your reward points to vouchers for twice the value.'
I still wasn't absolutely sure what he meant or that he'd got it right - it seemed very generous - but I said I'd check when I got there.
Sure enough he was right. Only two catches: the vouchers were only valid for certain goods; and it ended at 4.00 pm that day.
I swapped £50 of reward points (loyalty points that I'd been collecting for years) for £100 of vouchers. Then my problem started.
I had to spend all £100: they didn't give change or refund points. I must have spent a good (or bad) two hours wandering around the clothes, Christmas decorations, gifts (but not edible), books, toys, housewares before concluding this was going to be difficult.
In the end I had to buy myself two jumpers to take the value up. It was tough but someone had to bear the brunt. (I'm lying: the two jumpers were the first things I put in my trolley.)
But as I explained to Husband when I came home it meant I got £100 of stuff 'for free!'
'Not for free,' he said. 'For £50,' he said.
'No, because that wasn't real money.'
Wish I'd known about the offer earlier then I could actually have bought something that someone might want. Teach me not to read giant signs all over the shop.
2 comments:
The most annoying point is that you have to spend "all" of it in one go . Right now I wouldn't have a problem doing that . Need things for the house Oh OK and a couple of jumpers hahaha but you still had to spend to get the first points !!
I try to discipline myself not to spend money to "save" money. Ideally, I should have let them keep the extra points rather than spend more. However, if the jumper was really handsome....
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