Get 30 Nectar points (19 Avios) per £1 at eBay TODAY

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• BJ says:

  14 Feb14 February 05:17

  Perhaps it’s too late to register already. I got his but will tryvagain later:

  “We ran into a problem and can’t activate the Nectar bonus offer.
  Please try again later.”

  Nectar-avios autoconversion didn’t work for me last night; anybody else?

  • Travel Strong says:

    14 Feb14 February 05:33

    Same message.

    The last two more minor bonus offers did not work either (after activating seemingly successfully) – the checkout never shows an uplifted amount, and there seems to be no reason why. Chasing with nectar does not appeal, and I am sceptical of success today.

  • Travel Strong says:

    14 Feb14 February 05:39

    Hmm, when clicking to Show Details in the nectar app it states “Click ‘Activate now’ from 12-1pm on Tuesday 14th February to activate the offer”, so seems this is not a register in advance situation.

    • BJ says:

      14 Feb14 February 06:18

      I’l give that a try thanks. My Nectar Ebay offers over past year have only been about 50% successful requiring me to chase the other half. I now ignore anything offering less than 1000 bonus points.

  • Nectar collector says:

    14 Feb14 February 12:22

    You can only activate between 12 and 1

• Roger says:

  14 Feb14 February 06:09

  Can Dyson experts recommend any vacuum please assuming purchase from Dyson eBay outlet will qualify for this offer.

  On my app there is no option to opt in to this specific offer yet.

  • BJ says:

    14 Feb14 February 06:23

    Most in my family have ditched Dyson for Shark finding it is much better. Personally, I’m still using a Sebo I got back in 1996 and it is still superb.

    • Manya says:

      14 Feb14 February 07:11

      Also prefer our current shark model to the previous dyson.

  • Travel Strong says:

    14 Feb14 February 06:31

    Suspect ‘anything but a dyson’ will be the most common response to this 😂 After years of dyson use I was surprised how much better a basic Vax from curry’s has performed (flawless for many years now)

    • JDB says:

      14 Feb14 February 08:42

      I don’t know anything about hoovers, but someone who does once told me of Dyson products “quirky but no worky”. Certainly their extraordinarily elevated price bears no relation to the objective performance data, so you just need to be happy to pay the extra for the brand/look.

  • Can says:

    14 Feb14 February 07:24

    I like Dyson. Got the battery replaced by a knock off Amazon battery. V7 is the oldest model, I would get a newer one

  • TimM says:

    14 Feb14 February 07:38

    Similar experience to the others.We never found the Dyson to work better than the previous Hoover but was considerably more expensive. It was replaced by a cordless Bosch model which picked up two loads immediately after cleaning with the Dyson! Chalk & cheese.

    • TimM says:

      14 Feb14 February 07:40

      “no better”

    • Phil W says:

      14 Feb14 February 11:17

      You probably need to keep a cleaner home if you are leaving that much chalk and cheese on the floor!

  • DevonDiamond says:

    14 Feb14 February 08:21

    Shark bought via their eBay worked on Black Friday hope that helps!

  • Andrew. says:

    14 Feb14 February 09:08

    Sebo Felix.

    It’s an absolute workhorse, made in Germany and they use bags that can be cleanly dropped in the bin rather than have to deal with cleaning out “bagless” filth.

    (No matter what the ads say, it’s a mess.)

  • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

    14 Feb14 February 10:22

    I would recommend people take out a Which subscription if interested in the performance and reliability of hoovers (or indeed any other consumer products) rather than relying on random online advice. From a brief scan of Which’s testing & feedback it seems that Dyson (12 ex 14 reviews are best buys) perform better in their tests than Shark (7 ex 12 are best buys & one – WandVac WV361UK- is rated a ‘Don’t Buy’). Shark is rated much better for reliability however.

    • Rhys says:

      14 Feb14 February 10:40

      There’s an Amex offer on Which? subs too.

    • Can says:

      14 Feb14 February 11:04

      that’s exactly what I did last year and I really love Which, too

    • TimM says:

      14 Feb14 February 11:06

      Some people read the Which? reviews, follow their advice and report back in a forum, such as this.

      I don’t know what “12 ex 14” and “7 ex 12” mean. Which language is it?

      Which? always have their testing methodology and stick to it. However they are always testing brand-new goods and do not reflect years of ownership. That is where decades of experience of different competing products comes in. That is not “random”. Random is rather difficult to achieve – much harder than a Which? product review.

      Regardless of the technology, all are designed to fulfil a purpose. Ignore the hype and the as-new comparisons and instead look at the long-term results.

      • JDB says:

        14 Feb14 February 11:44

        The test environments used by Which? and also industry standard tests are often hopelessly artificial and however hard they might try to avoid this, the figures often simply don’t reflect real life use, ageing or reliability. I doubt it’s quite at VW levels, but some manufacturers are apparently quite adept at getting good ratings from various organisations. While these testers can sometimes identify real dogs, the top buys often don’t tell the whole story. Experience teaches one that, particularly for mundane products, functionality almost always wins over hype and fancy design. I can’t say I often get into conversation about household appliances, but on the occasions I do, one hears a lot of negative Dyson stories and that isn’t even from people in the south who really hate him for buying farmland all over the place.

• Skywalker says:

  14 Feb14 February 06:41

  “We ran into a problem and can’t activate the Nectar bonus offer.
  Please try again later.”

  Both mine and P2 coming up with the same message.

• Alex G says:

  14 Feb14 February 06:57

  @BJ

  “Nectar-avios autoconversion didn’t work for me last night; anybody else?”

  Me too

  • BJ says:

    14 Feb14 February 07:07

    Thanks, I’ll just wait to see if they fix it then.

  • Julie Bissett says:

    14 Feb14 February 07:49

    Didn’t work for me either and can’t find anywhere to register for this offer.

  • zapato1060 says:

    14 Feb14 February 10:15

    Manual conversion worked for me last night.

• Bill says:

  14 Feb14 February 07:09

  Will this only work for UK sellers and delivery to UK addresses ? My account is a UK one however been considering a particular purchase from a Germany-based seller to my French address.
  Will this qualify ?

  • vol says:

    14 Feb14 February 09:12

    Try it and see 🙃

• SecretSquirrel says:

  14 Feb14 February 07:21

  I don’t see anymore even any advertisement on eBay for this and the links do not show any reference to 30x offer?

  • To dare is to do says:

    14 Feb14 February 08:12

    There’s a big pink banner with it all on my eBay app.

• Can says:

  14 Feb14 February 07:23

  I thought all you need was to link your accounts prior

  • SecretSquirrel says:

    14 Feb14 February 08:11

    Now showing again on my eBay home page but no activate offer just you need to link nectar.

• Ash says:

  14 Feb14 February 08:00

  Too late for me as well “ran into problems” shame but least it stops me buying more rubbish we don’t need

  • Peter says:

    14 Feb14 February 09:49

    or “too early”, wait 2 hours..

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