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redspottedhanky.com
by madeindevon
www.redspottedhanky.com
Redspottedhanky - a rather odd name I would say - is predominantly an internet train ticket service, where you can book tickets for trains up to three months in advance at a discounted price.
To book your tickets, you must firstly do an online search on the redspottedhanky account and chose ... your journey, route and time of travel, when you have made your final decision then you confirm your order and pay for the tickets, you can either make payment via your bank debit card, or if you have any credit on your RSH account, then you can use the vouchers that you have stored.
How do you get vouchers for your account? This is where RSH is either absolutely wonderful and amazing, or a total let down. One way, which is totally straightforward and has not been known to let you down, is to transfer your Clubcard vouchers into RSH. This is a brilliant way of using your Tesco Clubcard vouchers - as via the Tesco CC site, you transfer your vouchers form clubcard to RSH, which doubles the value.. so £10 of clubcard vouchers is worth £20 of Redspottedhanky credit. Absolutely brilliant!
The Sunday Telegraph is known to release codes for Redspottedhanky too - the newspaper usually announces in advance that on a particular date they will be releasing "x" thousand codes - so on that particular Sunday you dash out quickly and buy the newspaper (or spend a bit of time on the internet googling to see if the code has been posted online) and you enter the details into your account.
Certain Facebook sites are also known to release codes for RSH - the most recent one being Travelodge, who like the Telegraph released codes worth £10. You have to be very quick with these codes though, as only a certain amount of thousand credits are available - and as the saying goes - when they're gone, they're gone. Unfortunately though, recently when the Travelodge codes were released, the people that had suceeded in getting ths £10 credit onto their account have all had them removed. This, we are told is due to people abusing the RSH site and opening up multiple accounts for themselves in fraudulent names - it is a shame that there are people out there that have ruined this fantastic giveaway. RSH are looking into it at the moment, and we are hoping that they will investigate the accounts and re-credit the accounts of genuine people.
When you have purchased your tickets online, you can either arrange to have the tickets posted to you, by signed for delivery, at a cost of £3.95 or you can state which train station you would like to collect your tickets from, and with the booking reference number you are given, you are able to collect the ticket from the machines at your nominated station.
To collect your ticket, you need to put your bank card into the machine (this is to verify your identification) and then tap in your reference details, your tickets are then dispensed.
My summary is, if you are an avid code collector, it is quite possible to collect around £50 worth of free travel, with the various codes throughout the year - and as long as the codes are not withdrawn, this is absolutely fantastic.
I hope that people do not abuse this site and that RSH find a way of keeping a check on genuine accounts, as frankly I am a big, big fan.
My son is at university in London and we live on the South Coast, he has been collecting the RSH codes and has managed to come home on various occasions in the last year at next to no cost at all - he books tickets when they are at their cheapest, at unsociable times, and manages to buy single tickets a couple weeks in advance of travel for as little as £7.50!
Long live Redspottedhanky !
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