So how do I spend nectar points then?

skunkwerx

Been collecting them for a while as I fill up at bp, and now I have like £56 worth of points. 

Can you spend them on fuel? 
Or guitars? 

If not I’ve wasted my time... lol! 

not_the_dj

Sainsbury’s sell beer and wine. Problem solved. 

Whitecat

You can convert them to eBay vouchers, and buy guitars that way...

John_P

Whitecat said:

You can convert them to eBay vouchers, and buy guitars that way...

That how I use them as well - just link your nectar account on the Ebay site and claim the vouchers.     
But you can just ask to use them at the till in Sainsburys.  

Phil_aka_Pip

So long as you're happy that some marketing outfit somewhere knows what you spend, when, and what on. Every man has his price.

Fretwired

Phil_aka_Pip said:

So long as you're happy that some marketing outfit somewhere knows what you spend, when, and what on. Every man has his price.

I'm with you Phil ...

You wait .. go to A&E .. "Mr Fret .. do you live with anyone? No .. oh dear .. according to your Nektar points it looks like your buying too much booze and bad food .. no treatment for you .. go home and die and save the NHS some money".

:-) :-)

skunkwerx

Phil_aka_Pip said:

So long as you're happy that some marketing outfit somewhere knows what you spend, when, and what on. Every man has his price.

They’re welcome to. Couldnt think of anything more boring for the poor bastards than watching my retail calibre pay check get spent on diesel and beans the first week of each month lol. 

Then again I live in Greater London and use the internet, so if ever I buy a bunch of semtex I reckon someone scarier will know about it. 

richardhomer

I save them all year and knock them off my Christmas shop.

Guitar_Slinger

Me and the missus started collecting them when we moved in together over 20 years ago and for the first few years, blew them on  our Christmas shop.  Then we didn't bother spending them for years, except maybe once on cinema tickets, but it wasn't that much of a good deal.

When we had over £250 worth I was worried about losing the cards and some scrote spending the lot on booze.  So as we had a toddler at the time, the points went towards an IPad, for his edu-macational purposes.

Guitar_Slinger

BTW, from the start, I wanted to spend htem as we got them to reduce the food bill.  For some reason, the wife didn't and wanted to hoard them instead.

EricTheWeary

Do they have any offers? Some of the Tesco ones are quite good ( 3 for 1 means we can pay most off of our eurotunnel crossing). I’ve had a Nectar card for years , I bought a portable telly from Argos with the points once but that was years ago so there must be another few quid on it by now. 

Guitar_Slinger

IORC the wife spent Tesco points on stuff where the points were doubled up.  AFAIK, Nectar didn't do that, which is why she didn't spend them.

Philly_Q

I've got nearly £500 worth.  I'll use them one day.

Apparently you can use them for things like flights and family days out, but I don't really do any of that stuff.  I've been told that you get better deals using them for offers than just taking cash off shopping.

skunkwerx

Aye I’ll have to have a hunt around then. 

Spending on ebay might be a good shout though.. 

Alterlifeson

I've got about £20 quid at the moment. Usually end up realisign how much I have and using them to pay for that weeks food shop. The offers you get in the post aren't too bad either. Just for the sake of swiping the card each time i use sainsburys, it soon adds up!

proggy

You can spend them in Argos, probably best not to buy one of their guitars though, better off getting a kettle or something.

EricTheWeary

Guitar_Slinger said:

IORC the wife spent Tesco points on stuff where the points were doubled up.  AFAIK, Nectar didn't do that, which is why she didn't spend them.

Ahh, shame. The Tesco offers are pretty good. 

Bellycaster

I usually wait until I've amassed £2.50 (which takes about 6 months) Then you can ask the cashier to deduct that from your Shopping. Whoooopeeeee!

prowla

The idea of converting them to ebay is a good one - thanks for that, I've got £50 worth just now!

Last time I spent some, I bought a Microsoft tablet in Sainsbury's, just to see what it was like; it turned out to be rubbish!

Incidentally, I'd accumulated some Tesco points too and some went towards a new TV (to replace my ancient Panasonic plasma) and the rest went towards a meal out, where you get 4x face value in vouchers. However, Tesco are just downgrading their Clubcard points, so they're nowhere near as good.

Whitecat

Guitar_Slinger said:

IORC the wife spent Tesco points on stuff where the points were doubled up.  AFAIK, Nectar didn't do that, which is why she didn't spend them.

Sainsbury’s sometimes does double or even triple nectar offers in-store. You have to queue up at customer service to get a voucher for the specific category you want to spend them on, and they issue a paper voucher. So every 500 points would add up to £5 or £7.50 worth of discount. 

Fine if they have something you need, but the “categories” were a little bit limited if I recall - eg, you could get a voucher for wine, but it had to all be Taste the Difference wine. 

57Deluxe

/\ they doing that now. You get Nectar at the fuel too but you can't redeem them on fuel, only in-store for groceries/housewares/clothes/booze/electricals.

B4 Xmas they had a Bonanza Weekend where for every £10 spent on anything you got a win of min 200 but up to 10000 points (additional to your purchase related points). I got 3500 altogether but in the autumn one got 5000. This equates to useful ££.

500 points to redeem £2.50 and prorata upwards.