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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 spent...

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

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Good tip

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Genius

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Was it only extra points if you spent £10 and not points per lot of £10 you spent in one transaction?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I'm on a budget of about £20 week personal spending money cos I got defrauded a couple of months ago and I'm trying to get back flush.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 spent...

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

Well in!

Putting me to absolute shame. Also shopped at Sainsbury's today and, once again, forgot my nectar card!

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

Wow that's great OP, I went yesterday never thought to split my shopping up...doh!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Was it only extra points if you spent £10 and not points per lot of £10 you spent in one transaction?"

Yeah if id have purchased my shopping in one go id have gotten the one points voucher.

It could have been 200 points or 5000 points.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 spent...

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

Well in!

Putting me to absolute shame. Also shopped at Sainsbury's today and, once again, forgot my nectar card!"

Mines always in my purse, Sainsburys is the local supermarket so makes sense to carry it on me at all times.

The extra points also works on fuel.. so you could spend £10 on fuel... do the food shop,, go back and get another £10 of fuel.. :D

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 spent...

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

That's brilliant!

I do a similar thing in Boots when they send vouchers for loads of points if you spend your money on this or that... I just buy everything separately and save my points for Christmas

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By *oxy_minxWoman
over a year ago

Scotland - Aberdeen

How much are nectar points worth? As I don't bother with them if they are just 1 point per pound, I do like to collect my boots advantage card points though.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

That's brilliant!

I do a similar thing in Boots when they send vouchers for loads of points if you spend your money on this or that... I just buy everything separately and save my points for Christmas

I told my mum about this and she has got herself £30 worth of points :D

Sainsburys last year also offered a 'double your points' thing closer to xmas where instead of points being worth £10 they would make it £20..

If they do something similar thats £80 i could have got from them for nothing

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"How much are nectar points worth? As I don't bother with them if they are just 1 point per pound, I do like to collect my boots advantage card points though. "

Yes Nectar points are £1 means 1 point.

I shop there loads and often getting vouchers for 300 extra points,, get 80 points if you buy a certain product... They will give out 5 times Nectar points.

Its only because it is my local supermarket i use them loads,, much like others have a tesco clubcard.

Oh and the petrol station is BP and i get points on fuel too.. oh and ebay purchases.

All tots up nicely

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm on a budget of about £20 week personal spending money cos I got defrauded a couple of months ago and I'm trying to get back flush. "

oh man thats proper shit Steve

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i thought you collected one point per pound spent - excluding special things like today - im pretty sure you dont get one pound back per point collected

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i thought you collected one point per pound spent - excluding special things like today - im pretty sure you dont get one pound back per point collected "

ignore me - blonde and senior moment - here -= sign up for nectar point with ebay too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not a spendthrift but I've never taken notice of offers and haven't bothered with a nectar card, as I rarely shop and use Morrisons most of the time.

I know people who have gotten days out with Tesco points.

I have no idea what my Morrisons card gives me.

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

500 points is worth £2.50. You can spend any amount of points in multiples of this.

If you have got multiple vouchers for extra points like the OP has then you can only redeem one voucher per transaction (no minimum spend to redeem). The vouchers for extra points are valid until 30th October.

The amount of bonus points you get on your voucher is completely random. They are giving out vouchers until close of business tomorrow.

(I work for sainsburys lol)

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Was it only extra points if you spent £10 and not points per lot of £10 you spent in one transaction?

Yeah if id have purchased my shopping in one go id have gotten the one points voucher.

It could have been 200 points or 5000 points.

Ah I see, very clever then

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By *uicy jonesMan
over a year ago

near a big hill in s/ shropshire NOT in

Got tonne thrifty nowadays ,

I always buy the 3 for 2 offers and make sure they are all the same price , lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sassy. ..how long are they doing it for please?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What a genius idea OP!

I wish I could be more like you - I'm completely rubbish at saving money in any way shape or form!

I haven't got the patience to do something like that!

I always take the route that takes the least amount of faffing which usually makes it more expensive

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"500 points is worth £2.50. You can spend any amount of points in multiples of this.

The amount of bonus points you get on your voucher is completely random. They are giving out vouchers until close of business tomorrow.

(I work for sainsburys lol)"

So say i have 10 vouchers of points,, i cant redeem them onto my nectar card in one go.. id have to buy 10 items individually?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Sassy. ..how long are they doing it for please?

Till the end of tomorrow.. so guessing 4 or 5pm when they close x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What a genius idea OP!

I wish I could be more like you - I'm completely rubbish at saving money in any way shape or form!

I haven't got the patience to do something like that!

I always take the route that takes the least amount of faffing which usually makes it more expensive

See i went out dead early this morning so i could spend ages on the self service area's without pissing anyone off :D

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 sp

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

Bloody fantastic, well done you x

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

"500 points is worth £2.50. You can spend any amount of points in multiples of this.

The amount of bonus points you get on your voucher is completely random. They are giving out vouchers until close of business tomorrow.

(I work for sainsburys lol)

So say i have 10 vouchers of points,, i cant redeem them onto my nectar card in one go.. id have to buy 10 items individually?"

Yep. 10 vouchers means 10 separate transactions.

For future reference if you do the same thing again you can use the vouchers the same day.

A bit hard to explain on here but if you buy the first £10 of shopping and get a voucher you can use it straight away on the next tenners worth of shopping. You don't have to come back another day. You would just be left with the voucher from the last tenners worth of shopping.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"500 points is worth £2.50. You can spend any amount of points in multiples of this.

The amount of bonus points you get on your voucher is completely random. They are giving out vouchers until close of business tomorrow.

(I work for sainsburys lol)

So say i have 10 vouchers of points,, i cant redeem them onto my nectar card in one go.. id have to buy 10 items individually?

Yep. 10 vouchers means 10 separate transactions.

For future reference if you do the same thing again you can use the vouchers the same day.

That's good to know. I got a

voucher today then noticed I had to buy something else to redeem it.

Thought I'd have to wait till another day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What a genius idea OP!

I wish I could be more like you - I'm completely rubbish at saving money in any way shape or form!

I haven't got the patience to do something like that!

I always take the route that takes the least amount of faffing which usually makes it more expensive

See i went out dead early this morning so i could spend ages on the self service area's without pissing anyone off :D "

Brilliant!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard on the radio that someone got an old pair of trousers out of their boot, tied the legs up and used that to put their shopping in. Saved 5p on a carrier bag.

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

If you are buying gifts for Christmas they should be doing a "double up your points" event too at some point in November. I don't know what the dates are yet.

You swap 5, 10, 15 or 20 pounds worth of points for a voucher that is worth twice as much. You can spend it on specific departments in the shop, such as toys, clothing, electrical etc.

This means your £40 worth of points could buy you £80 worth of stuff. There are some rules though. You can only get one voucher for each department so you can't spend them all on just toys. Customer services in your local store will be able to explain it fully to you when it happens.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"If you are buying gifts for Christmas they should be doing a "double up your points" event too at some point in November. I don't know what the dates are yet.

You swap 5, 10, 15 or 20 pounds worth of points for a voucher that is worth twice as much. You can spend it on specific departments in the shop, such as toys, clothing, electrical etc.

yeah i did that last year.. saved a fortune on stuff. Last day for the points today but i need fuel so will see what today brings x

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

Over here , every $1.00 spent = 1 point , get 200 ponts and exchange them for certain items of groceries or discounts on gas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm not a spendthrift but I've never taken notice of offers and haven't bothered with a nectar card, as I rarely shop and use Morrisons most of the time.

I know people who have gotten days out with Tesco points.

I have no idea what my Morrisons card gives me. "

We had a morrisons card purely for filling up when we had an lpg car, it was surprising how often we got those £5 vouchers back, seemed to tot up a lot faster than the tesco points did where we did our actual shopping at the time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Over here , every $1.00 spent = 1 point , get 200 ponts and exchange them for certain items of groceries or discounts on gas"

There seems to be a lot more coupons and deals available over there.

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By *0tt0nSu3Woman
over a year ago

London

"Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 spent...

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

That's brilliant!

I do a similar thing in Boots when they send vouchers for loads of points if you spend your money on this or that... I just buy everything separately and save my points for Christmas

I used to do that with Boots. I LOVED my boots card. I LOVED it. I used to get all my more expensive makeup from there with my points.

Then I discovered that they pay little to no corporation tax.

That was it for me. I have a rule not to shop in places that pay little to no corporation tax as a result of tax avoidance. (I must admit I can't break the Amazon habit. I need to find alternatives.)

So, in winding down my points. I've got £1.58 left on it. On second thoughts I think I'll just chuck it.

Btw if you get a lot of prescriptions from the doctor, take it to another chemist. Any chemist,but not Boots. The incident of making mistakes in fulfilling prescription correctly is high enough to cause concern. Please Google 'when boots went rogue' and 'Guardian'. It's a long read but worth it.

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By *nequeenslutWoman
over a year ago

rugeley

"Im not flush by any stretch of the imagination but knew i had to do a food shop this morning.

Sainsburys were giving away anything from 200 points to 5000 nectar points with each £10 spent...

I spent 12 mins at the self service scanners paying for my shopping in £10 intervals and managed to get 8000 Nectar points :D

Works out to be £40 towards Crimbo..

Well in!

Putting me to absolute shame. Also shopped at Sainsbury's today and, once again, forgot my nectar card!"

then put it with your phone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If your credit history is decent you can/could get 40k nectar points with their american express card, but only if you get the ad come up on their webpage. Otherwise you get 20k but still not bad. It costs £25 for the year but you earn that back pretty quickly so cancel the card when you've fulfilled the requirement for the points

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thanks sassy ..I did this yesterday spent £33 (split over 3 transactions )and got 3500 points ...I just took my last voucher to customer service to put on

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Thanks sassy ..I did this yesterday spent £33 (split over 3 transactions )and got 3500 points ...I just took my last voucher to customer service to put on

woop wooop! Spent £33 and earned yourself £17.50

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