Get 150 Clubcard points per £50 Amazon purchase with 3V cards

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• Paul says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:03

  Are there any any central London stores with consistent availability? I’ve never seen 3Vs on sale!

  • colibob says:

    8 Aug8 August 13:31

    Yes, lots.
    No, I won’t tell you cos then i won’t be able to buy them 😛

• avidsaver says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:08

  Does anyone know if Anglian Water accept them?

  • SingingDwarf says:

    8 Aug8 August 07:11

    Yes they do.

    • avidsaver says:

      8 Aug8 August 07:13

      Great! Thanks SingingDwarf. Do you know how many you can use in one session?

      • SingingDwarf says:

        8 Aug8 August 08:22

        I’ve only ever tried two at a time, online.

        • avidsaver says:

          8 Aug8 August 08:51

          Thanks again. Will give it a go.

• Alex says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:22

  Sky take 4 per month without any problem. I done 6 at first and all were refunded. Virgin Media wouldn’t take them last time I tried.

  • Col A-B says:

    8 Aug8 August 08:26

    That’s excellent to hear about SKY. I’ll now get onto it.

• Tariq says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:22

  Interesting! Been looking for a way to pay for TV Licence by Amex as it’s due very soon…! I take it that you need to have their ‘Savings Card’ to be able to make split payments from separate cards?

  • James says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:22

    Yes, I called them and they provided a savings card within a few days, no problems using 3v now

  • Trevor says:

    8 Aug8 August 12:57

    You need to have at least 3 months validity on your TV license before they’ll issue a savings card, but if you are too close to expiry you can’t get 3 months anyway fast – direct debit will slowly creep up, and you can’t pay a lump sum in advance without paying the full annual bill. However, you can get a payment card anytime, and while they provide a payment plan, you can pay any amount at any time, and you can pay this with 3V.

    • Tariq says:

      8 Aug8 August 13:09

      Thanks Trevor, I had this conversation with them this morning – my licence fee is due in 3 weeks time! 🙁 I will call back and ask for the payment card to be set up rather than the savings card and then start bashing away at it… 🙂

    • Sully says:

      9 Aug9 August 11:08

      Simply not true.
      I applied for my first TV licence and savings card at the same time.

      • Trevor says:

        10 Aug10 August 15:59

        “Simply not true” – really? I’d say my frustrating experience speaking to multiple people in multiple departments via multiple phone calls over multiple days and each stating the same rule doesn’t seem like “simply not true”, and when one person finally said I could get one, I still didn’t actually have 3 months credit (tho it had increased through some direct debit tricks), yet I still actually received the payment card (which I was pleasantly surprised to find worked just as well, despite advice to only apply for the savings card). And it would seem Tariq’s experience above matches mine, while the landing page about the “TV Licensing savings card” does explicitly state “Please note you must currently have a valid TV Licence.” So maybe you should share your experience/luck (which is what a forum/blog is for) but not try to invalidate other people’s experiences, or organisational rules that have been enforced, based on your own limited knowledge – there’s a pretty good chance we don’t make this stuff up! You also don’t explicitly state that you didn’t pay for your new license upfront at the time of application, in which case if you did you immediately had 12 months validity and your experience is invalid.

• Alan says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:31

  They never seem to have gone away from the stores up here in Scotland, although they’re definitely less appealing now the NS&I route has gone! One of my 4 didn’t activate yesterday, thankfully with there being lots on the shelf I just grabbed another one (that worked) and took all 5 away – easier for me to work out which one didn’t activate than for them! Already got a big credit with Sky so probably the Amazon route next!

  • Phillip says:

    8 Aug8 August 07:36

    On one occasion last week, apparently the servers were down and none of them would activate. Had to go back the next day.

• Zoe says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:31

  Kenwood Travel have been taking them. You have to ring up to make a payment and after I’d done a few I had to speak to a senior guy to convince him I wasn’t money laundering. 80 more cards and our Barbados hotel for half term will be paid for 🙂

  • Erico1875 says:

    8 Aug8 August 08:38

    Sunshine holidays take them too..
    I would think most travel companies such as travel republic and on the beach etc would take them too.

    • BP3 says:

      8 Aug8 August 08:44

      Interesting. Got £600 to pay Sunshine and I never though of 3V!

      • Sideysid says:

        9 Aug9 August 06:07

        I wouldn’t bother – I did this earlier in the year. Managed to do a few payments over the phone, but then they started kicking off, saying they would ‘investigate’ the payment method (and accused me of money laundering).

        In the end I just paid the fee to join the 3Vs up, and payed off the balance online (as £50 is their minimum transaction). And that’s also the end of my custom after several years of holidays with them.

        • Andrew S says:

          9 Aug9 August 07:46

          Did you clearly explain what you were doing? Every time this has happened to me the “fraud” dept has been in laughter and wished me well…

• Phillip says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:34

  Personally, I haven’t stopped seeing them all year. In small batches but I use 4-5 different Tescos in Hertfordshire and they’re almost always stocked.

  Highstreetvouchers now unfortunately charges £1 for vouchers making a batch of £25 cost £26! It’s a shame because you were able to get M&S, Waitrose and allsorts of other vouchers. There was something amusing about shopping in M&S or Waitrose knowing you’ve earned Clubcard points for it.

  O2 still accept them but only up to 2 of them online. You can use more if you make a phone payment.

  • Phillip says:

    8 Aug8 August 07:40

    I hadn’t realised TopGiftCards existed. Thanks for pointing it out Raffles! Will do the trick!

    • craig says:

      8 Aug8 August 11:58

      I used 3V cards for Sainsburys and Asda giftcards from TopGiftCards and found that after my 2nd purchase they no longer accepted any new cards.

      Just to add to the list, as well as Skype and Amazon, I pay Ovo energy and Southern Water using 3V cards. I was also using them for O2 but they now are no longer accepted.

  • James Ward says:

    8 Aug8 August 08:11

    When did the £1 charge start? I ordered (yet another) batch of John Lewis vouchers just last week.

    Like you, I enjoy earning 300 CC vouchers every time I spend £100 at Waitrose!

    • Head for Points says:

      8 Aug8 August 09:12

      I thought High Street Vouchers brought in the charge and then dropped it quickly after negative feedback?

  • N says:

    8 Aug8 August 08:17

    I’ve just checked the HSV website and can’t see any mention of a £1 charge.

    • Phillip says:

      8 Aug8 August 09:29

      I last noticed it 2 weeks ago. So it sounds this has changed again – great! I did get the automated email asking why I hadn’t completed the transaction so here’s to someone listening to feedback!

  • Bsuije says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:02

    Are the John Lewis vouchers paper ones?

    • Sully says:

      8 Aug8 August 10:47

      Yes

• Zoe says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:34

  If after next Thursday your child has a place at Uni and has hall fees to pay it will be worth checking if they work with 3V.

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