Take advantage (Boots Advantage Card)

Member Name: leighthelion

Product:	Boots Advantage Card
Date:	11/01/09 (34 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: money made by spending

Disadvantages: none

The boots advantage card is the very best ! Four points per pounds spent but each point is worth a penny. So unlike Tesco for example, you get a straight 4% discount off anything and everything whenever you use the card.

Boots often, VERY often in fact, have triple points deals. They're always advertised on TV so no doubt you'll know about it. Maybe these deals will last a few days so if you shop during the promotion period, your discount (on everything) goes up to 12%. Not bad at all.

What about the really special deals? Well, yes, quite often, on certain products, there may be a one off bonus of 250 points or more just for buying the one product. These are usually for the more upmarket names but 250 points is £2.50 and well worth having as long as you make sure that the product is not available cheaper elsewhere .. worth checking that .... Not that I'm suggesting that this is what Boots do, on the contrary, I have always found their prices to be fair and very competitive.

If you shop online and Boots do have a great online shopping experience and some fab bargains, you may get even better Advantage deals. For example, a couple of months ago, I spent about £60 on two bottles of Eau de Toilette on Boots.com. At the time they were offering triple points AND a 1,000 points bonus on sales of £60 or more. I made a whopping 1,720 on that purchase and suddenly had £17.20 added to my card to spend on anything and everything, or just keep it stored on the card ready for pampering treats :-)

These extra bonus points don't happen just once in a blue moon either .. watch out for them, you just have to take advantage (pardon the pun) and make the most of them and then you get a real bargain.

Lastly, you get promotional coupons in the mail just like you do with other retailers but the difference now is that these will be tailor made for YOU. No offers on female sanitary towels if you're a single guy .. you'll get what's relevant for you

Summary: make money by spending money